Terrible Box Art

[magicmustang]

On 2/25/2022 at 10:49 PM, Oldcarfan27 said:

 

 

Why did ERTL even bother, did anyone even buy these things?

Oh, I bought this one just for the decals. The rest went into the trash.

[Oldcarfan27]

32 minutes ago, magicmustang said:

Oh, I bought this one just for the decals. The rest went into the trash.

My point exactly!

[alan barton]

On 2/26/2022 at 2:03 PM, Oldcarfan27 said:

From the ERTL "kitchen floor series", with the ever desirable distorted angles, badly finished details and the occasional wide track tires.

Honorable mention goes to this one for false advertising - putting an original annual on the box with an atrocious retooling inside. The kit would never even come close to looking like this!

I'll take your kitchen floor series (absolute gold right there) and raise you a factory concrete wall!

How can someone look at this layout and go "yeah, baby, that'll have 'em queueing up in the aisles!"?

The kitchen floor series of the Deuce coupe was pretty el blando but the concrete wall series took it to a new low in lukewarm dishwater. 

Not to be outdone, they did the tub. 

I sincerely hope that the person who built the box art tub is not on this forum and if they are I apologise in advance for what I am about to say but FOR SCREAMING IN A BUCKET!   Who on earth takes to a relatively well moulded and detailed 1932 Ford Phaeton with an angle grinder to ensure that every single trace of detail is removed, glues the lights on so far back that you can't even see the other side and then compounds it by forgetting that even though they were  emulating the pastel/monochrome/ smoothy era style, they should paint the frame black so that the stance looks even higher than the poorly rendered suspension made it to start with?   "Yum yum yum,. this will be the best-selling revision we ever did, Wilbur!"

Yep, I bought one but man, I was so scared to think that maybe AMT/Ertl had actually revised the model to look like the box art.  Fortunately they didn't.

It's OK, I've calmed down.  It's just a hobby.  They're just plastic toys.  I'll be fine in the morning.  No, really.

 

Cheers

Alan

[paul alflen]

I remember wanting the Flower Power car after My brother and I saw it at Murray's Auto Supply before Christmas ( they sold anything and everything at Christmas time) My brother wanted the Jolly Green Gasser by Amt. (out at the same time?). My mother told us she would buy them, but we wouldn't get it till Christmas. I remember all the "flower power" stickers on  Volkswagens back then (1969-1970?). I thought that the flower power car (AMT 1936 ford) was Cool, as I was a young 10 year old?, hipster! LOL.I didn't know who Michael J Pollard was back then! And didn't care! I just wanted the kit! That terrible box art is what sold me!

Edited February 28, 2022 by paul alflen
Grammer

[Oldcarfan27]

11 hours ago, alan barton said:

Yep, I bought one but man, I was so scared to think that maybe AMT/Ertl had actually revised the model to look like the box art.  Fortunately they didn't.

You're so right. I bought one, not because of the box art which I couldn't stomach, but because a friend showed me his and I liked the phaeton body style. 

Everything about this box is wrong. Sanded off details, 4x4 tread tires, radical roof chop and boring graphics on trendy paint job. Very 80s, for sure.

Not to be all negative, but compare it with previous issues... Now these inspire me to build!

Edited March 1, 2022 by Oldcarfan27

[MPi-KM]

On 2/27/2022 at 7:28 PM, magicmustang said:

Oh, I bought this one just for the decals. The rest went into the trash.

I've never seen one, are they that bad?

[Oldcarfan27]

2 hours ago, MPi-KM said:

I've never seen one, are they that bad?

Look at the boxes, the kits are not any better! At least it's truth in advertising, you can see exactly what it is that you're getting. 

From what I remember, they were extremely simplified with rudimentary details and large wire axles. Bodies were boxy and very inaccurate. Decals were probably the best part.

The irony was that Monogram issued their kits at around the same time and blew ERTL's efforts totally out of the water!

[magicmustang]

8 hours ago, MPi-KM said:

I've never seen one, are they that bad?

The one piece curbside chassis was sad, wheels and tires were unusable, body was Palmerish and the front windshield- flat with railroad tracks molded in for braces ???

Edited March 2, 2022 by magicmustang

[slusher]

6 hours ago, magicmustang said:

The one piece curbside chassis was sad, wheels and tires were unusable, body was Palmerish and the front windshield- flat with railroad tracks molded in for braces ???

 
Railroad tracks that is strange…

[magicmustang]

1 hour ago, slusher said:

 
Railroad tracks that is strange…

See for yourself.

[The Junkman]

It didn't help that those AMT NA$CAR kits came out at the same time/in response to Monogram's initial efforts.  A direct comparison found AMT's effort to be....unworthy.