The Diecast Zone · Model Car Club Since 1994
Diecast Collector Forums
Eight forums, every scale, and thirty years of shop talk — new arrivals, restorations, reviews, and the finds you won’t see posted anywhere else, with the full archive back to 2002 restored and searchable. Free to Register.
8Forums
195,000+Topics
1,276,000+Posts
10,000+Members
Notifications
Clear all
18/06/2018 8:28 am
Response from Acme re: GMP 1:24 GTO moulds/tooling
Today, I received a response from Bekah Panyard at Acme to my query to them regarding the use of GMP moulds/tooling for the GTO line:
"Unfortunately, Acme did not inherit the GMP molds and does not currently own them.
As far as we know, there haven't been any plans on acquiring the 1:24 GTO tooling, so I don't know if these will ever be produced."
If this is the case, my curiosity is piqued as to what happened to the tooling.
18/06/2018 9:34 am
Well, at least the guy didn't say 'They no longer exist.'. I wonder...
...if there are other, GMP 1:24 toolings that survive?
18/06/2018 9:40 am
Bekah, is Tom Long’s daughter.
19/06/2018 1:06 am
Though I could never claim to have even a remote idea of how the mints handled their molds and the rights to them, it would appear that with the way things went down in China a few years back with Danbury Mint, that there weren't any safety or protective measures whatsoever in place to assure that they had control of their molds.
Seems, and again let me express that I know nothing of how their agreements were structured, that China just held every trump card with regard to how or what they could do with the cars/molds that were produced in China.
And considering that 1:24 die-cast was such a huge percentage of Danbury's bottom line, it just seems odd that they would not have had a back-up plan.
I mean, I think it's pretty safe to assume that any business that doesn't have a "Plan B" in place to assure that they are able to survive in a disaster or crisis, is doomed.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
19/06/2018 6:08 am
As much as we can hope, it doesn't sound promising we'll ever see anymore 1/24 from anybody other than M2 and cheaper makers. Sounds like precision 1/24 is dead.....sadly.
21/06/2018 5:34 pm