03-21-2021, 08:48 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: NC
Posts: 596
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Originally Posted by Earl
Not necessarily a ‘deal’, but an interesting listing for an Estes/Mattel Starlab boxed kit, but apparently marketed originally overseas in the Netherlands.
I have never seen an Estes kit in any form with a Mattel logo on the kit as well.
Listing link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Starlab-vi...AAOSwsqdgVwU n
Anyone ever seen that me of these (or similar) before?
Earl |
I had a chance to buy this before it was posted. I wrote someone at Estes enquiring if they were ever a part of Mattel, but I mistakenly said Revell ! Anyway he replied saying they were a sister company once, etc. I replied saying i meant Mattel. I’m sure he’ll reply this week. Cool kit, but I didn’t want it now. I have the bagged one, which is sufficient.
Also, these kits were specially made for a different market then, which was common... like the many Estes and Centuri kits boxed, which normally would have been bagged.
Still, I await to see to What Degree, if any, Estes was a Part of Mattel ?!
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