Does anyone know, who purchased this tooling after Lindberg changed hands?
Simple reply and please stay on coarse.
A company called Round2 has the rights to reproduce the old Lindberg kits, among others. They are located in South Bend Indiana. …
Haven’t seen any news about them doing the old Mini-Lindy line though …
Mark.
I think Round2 purchased the molds, but many years ago I asked the folks from Lindberg if they would ever run them again and they seemed doubtful. I can’t remember the exact reason, but it had something to do with how the molds were designed. Either they were very large or required too many different colors to be cost effective.
It would very neat if they reissued them as some type of collector item, but would enough folks be willing to pay what they may cost at today’s prices?
Oops…sorry about repeating some of the same info. It was posted while I was writing mine.
Jim
The Mini Lindys weren’t bad, but there were only two or three that were close enough to HO scale to be use-able. By todays standards, they are crude at best.
Mark.
Well, yes, most weren’t to scale. But still, for thirty nine cents they included decals and an interior. I still think some of the autos look pretty decent for what they are/were, which are miniature model car kits. We used to modify them to fit on our Aurora Thunderjet slot cars since they made a lot of autos that weren’t available anywhere else.
http://www.87thscale.info/images/MiniLindy29_FordCobra.jpg
Jim
Sure, they were 39 cents back in the '60s and '70s, but they’d probably be $5 or $10 each now. Would that still be a bargain for the trade-offs involved?
And they did make great slot car bodies. I recently found a stash of old cars, including a Mini-Lindy Corvette Sting Ray I kitbashed. Heavy on the bash!
Eric