Although we have not yet received their 'Official' New Product Announcements, Spark's 2014 Catalog has been circulating online for the past few days.
You can view or download a pdf file of the complete 2014 Spark Catalog
HERE.
But perhaps the most exciting news from Spark is that they intend to produce our customers' All-Time #1 Most Requested
"Please Do This In 1/18 Scale" Mod
el: the Lowenbrau Porsche 962.The model will be produced in the winning 1987 24 Hours of Daytona configuration. Although we do not have any accurate release date information as yet, we recommend you get on the advance order list asap if you want one. It could be the most popular 1/18 piece Spark has ever produced!
The proposed 1/18 Formula One offerings have been uploaded to the
Online Shopping website
HERE along with some of the other more interesting subjects.
There are scores of classic LeMans, Formula 1, Formula 2 and Rally cars in the 1/43 scale section of the catalog along with some pre-war Classics and race Transporters. We've uploaded more than 100 of the 1/43 items to our
Online Shopping site and will add more over the next few weeks.
You can access Spark's forthcoming 1/43 scale offerings
HERE, or all listings from the 2014 Spark Catalog by clicking
this link or entering
14scat in the search engine box of our
Online Shopping site.
If you see something in the Catalog that isn't listed on our website, just give me a call at
800.722.8630 or
drop me an email and we'll reserve it for you.
Since many of these models won't appear for a year or three, we haven't listed prices on the new items as yet. Due to changing currency rates and labor costs, we've seen across the board increases in most products produced in China over the past few years. Good news if you want to move manufacturing back to the US, bad news if you're a model collector.
Having said that, we've been informed by the US Distributor that there will be a price increase - effective immediately - on all future shipments of Spark models. Our price on all new 1/43 scale models will be $79.99. New 1/18 will be priced between $199.00 and $208.00.
Don't shoot the messenger!
We'll be back by the weekend to tell you about CMC, Schuco and others.
- Paul
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