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2023-Estes Discontinues 5 More Kits
I was in my local hobby shop yesterday, and they told me that their main distributor notified them of 5 more discontinued Estes kits. They are:
#2169 Dragonite #2452 Athena (still available in the #5304 launch set) #7283 MAV (currently in the Estes warehouse sale) #7297 Mars Leaper (we all knew that would happen) #7301 Green Eggs (surprising, but still available in the #1718 bulk pack) In good news, Estes is asking distributors to place initial orders for #9722 So Long, which generally indicates release by late February or sometime in March.
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Good riddance to all of those except the Green Eggs.
If they want ideas for new kits, they should look through any catalog from 1967 to 1987.
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Saw the Green Eggs OOP coming because I purchased BT-65 parts recently. One of the tubes arrived crimped and I attempted to get a replacement. Estes told me that there aren't anymore BT-65 tubes available and that they won't be getting anymore. I did get a refund for the tubes and couplers that I ordered, which I got to keep. That sort of telegraphed what was going to happen next. Many of those E2X type rockets seem come and go, don't they?
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Yes. Plenty of kits during that time that had sales figures that kept them in production for more than a few years.
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Oh! Green Eggs has become one of my favorites — it's a real workhorse for all kids of payload experiments (say, testing four altimeters at once, for example). My first one was destroyed on its 36th flight by a D12 CATO. The replacement is "out for delivery" as I type this. I will have to get at least a couple more while I still can. I wonder if this "no more BT-65" business is another fallout from the changes at the Euclid/Paramount paper tube company. It seems odd that Estes would have developed those blow-molded parts for the Green Eggs/Olympus if they had known the basic body tube would become unavailable.
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It does seem odd. The contraction in product diversity foreshadows something. Not sure what, but something...
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I think this will become an ongoing issue in the future. Possibly certain body tube sizes will no longer be available.
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Maybe Estes needs to buy their own tube factory like they did the Goex black powder factory.
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Huh, that was interesting. During the vNARCON Manufacturer’s Forum Ellis Langford was asked about BT-65 tubes/kits (I believe by you Bernard) and unless I heard/saw incorrectly Estes isn’t discontinuing the tube or the kits.
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