JNH (Australian importer) News 2004

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- March 29, 2004 at 12:52 am #10731
  PandaBear
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  JNH are the local importers for the Compact-CharG range…
  or at least “were”. :p
  
  They seem to have discontinued all previous CCGs, both
  series 1 (the 2 GTRs & 2 S2000s) and the series 2.
  
  For 2004… they’re only doing Italians! 😯
  
  They allowed me to take a picture, so here’s the 2004 lineup:
  
  I think this time round they haven’t bothered changing anything.
  They’ll be called “Super Bit Char Gs” and come with 1.6 motors.
  
  Expect them to appear at the usual Oz haunts after July.
- March 29, 2004 at 12:58 am #34878
  brendan
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  awsome! and my birthday is in july.
  
  Edited by – brendan123 on 28 March 2004 20:01:03
- March 29, 2004 at 3:11 am #34873
  micro_Amps
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  I was wondering if anybody went to the Melbourne Toy Trade Fair.
  See any other goodies Panda?
  :)uA
- March 29, 2004 at 3:39 am #34874
  Kerosene
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  I borrowed a pass and had a look around today.
  
  Was the JNH stand ‘protected’ by some nerd behind a counter? Some guy stopped me from going in there.
- March 29, 2004 at 4:40 am #34875
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  Was the JNH stand ‘protected’ by some nerd behind a counter? Some guy stopped me from going in there.
  
  yea, some new rule they had… previous years they didn’t bother.
  This year they asked if I held a trade a/c with them, when I said
  I didn’t Mr Counter Guy went off and found us an escort to take
  us around. No harm… at least I had his attention the whole time
  (which is better than at a lot of the other stands..!).
  
  Revised rule this year too: “no photos without stand owners’ permission”,
  which is better than previous silly “absolutely no cameras”.
  Saw that sign on Friday, -hey- remembered the camera today.
  
  Naturally the *only* stand that said no to photos was silly Tamiya.
  Not that they had anything even remotely NEW on the stand, all they
  had were the stuff released earlier at Nuremburg & the ‘Net is
  already full of those cars’ photos. :clown:
  
  Everyone else, any publicity is good publicity. 🙂
- March 29, 2004 at 4:42 am #34876
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  See any other goodies Panda?
  
  For matters red-n-blue-stars, also see
  this TAMIYACLUB forum thread
- March 29, 2004 at 4:59 am #34877
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  Honestly, we should not speak ill of Mr Counter Guy.
  Let’s call him “Chris”. 🙂
  
  After we finished with the SBCG and were trying to
  get out, Chris was back at his post. He grabs us
  and drags us back in, now to the other end of
  their large stand… and points out:
  
  This thing can run on land with 4 little 2″ wheels.
  Its about 12″ square.
  
  However the wheels can also flip up-n-over onto
  the deck and the thing now floats, has 2 props
  at the rear. There are 4 cavities on the top deck
  that accepts the road wheels.
  
  Chris winks and tells us with a straight face that
  the 4 wheel cavities was the perfect size for
  couriering VB cans to the pool… :p:p
  
  Damned this guy is a great salesman! 😀
  
  At the same Funtastic stand, last year’s award-winning
  Edge Hovercraft has spawned a little brother.
  Edge uses 2 fans to power & steer, mini Edge
  uses 1 fan and rudder panels.
- March 29, 2004 at 5:39 am #34872
  Kerosene
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  Naah. ‘Chris’ sucks. I asked if I could just have a 30 second look.
  
  Chris : “Sorry Sir.”
  
  It’s only toys! And don’t call me ‘Sir’ nerd!
  BOO! :dead: 😀
- March 31, 2004 at 7:19 am #34867
  Kerosene
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  I went back today and picked up one of the new Aerobird Xtreme planes for a bargain price. Can’t wait to smack it into a tree 👿
- March 31, 2004 at 3:46 pm #34865
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  Naah. ‘Chris’ sucks. I asked if I could just have a 30 second look.
  Chris : “Sorry Sir.”
  
  Well obviously he didn’t believe you were a true “buyer”.
  
  Were you carrying a 200-butt chequebook?? :p:p
- April 3, 2004 at 9:22 pm #34789
  z-beam
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  any clues to how much they’ll be charging for the local releases of the sbcg?
  
  lucky f*ckers!
- April 3, 2004 at 9:23 pm #34790
  z-beam
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  did you see a cute girl showing devil sticks?
  
  one of my mates from school….
- April 6, 2004 at 6:30 pm #34764
  dgs73
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  i’m with z-beam… how much, and also when will JNH be releasing them on a now suspecting market?
- April 6, 2004 at 10:03 pm #34761
  PandaBear
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  From all indications, the small boxed 3 should be around the same as the old BCGs, and the big boxed 2 would be about 40-50% dearer (RRP say $50 & $80?).
  
  Timewise I think they were talking a June/July intro (meaning you’ll see it on the kiddy TV hour) and they’ll start shipping soon after for the xmas leadup.
- April 7, 2004 at 1:10 pm #34752
  dgs73
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  thats not too bad… cant wait till they appear…
- April 8, 2004 at 5:48 pm #39748
  peteWah
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  dgs you are just going to have to wait mate???
  :D:):D
- April 8, 2004 at 11:24 pm #34496
  z-beam
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  or go over to toyeast!
  
  22.50 us for the basic ones and 37.50 for the triple packs!
  
  yeah and they got the skyline history (black sbcg) set for 27.50!!!
  
  beats the hell outta waiting, and paying more for it!!!
- April 9, 2004 at 6:39 am #34487
  PandaBear
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  How much is postage & handling? blackeye:
- April 9, 2004 at 9:14 pm #34453
  z-beam
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  not cheap but it gets to you in perfect condition!
  
  still would work out better than buying them locally.
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