Re: Ertl 1:18 KITT new release?
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:43 pm
Excellent, it looks like ypu cut into the tops is that right? (was distractedby the lady on the bonnet)
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Normal frontlights? What do you mean?Josch Schulz wrote:Hey Guys
That was a bad buy There is no new relese coming from ERTL and I bedder should listen to you guys. Today I got my car and it has the normal frontlights. I dont like my car, its so nasty that I can give it away to somebody. I wish I never had sell my car with the orange frontlights. I miss my baby right now very bad. Ive somebody here has a orange frontlights Version one, mayby he can arrange that he can have mine and I get his. That is bad, Its Friday the 13th
Cool!! Looks like they've changed the engine to fit in with what we saw of KI2T's turbo injection in the pilot for the new series!msKEN wrote:Actually the new version that has popped up on ebay looks like a pilot/1st season model. (Unless its some kind of custom job but he was selling 40 of them when the auction started.)
It has a different fictional turbine engine, turn signal covers, fog light grills, and they fixed the rear glass to be correct like the real car instead of that stupid black frame around it. So apparently they released two versions.
Are you talking about a more recent release? My KARR certainly has a yellow scanner. It might not be the perfect shade, but it's certainly not red either.KnightRiderKR wrote:No the 1:18 joyride KARR does not have a yellow scanner, they left the scanner red. Sh-t even Aoshima didn't get it right they have KARR's scanner being orange.
I don't know how many releases they did but I know the aoshima karr has an orange scanner, that car you put the sensor in thats sold seperately. Can you provide pics of your KARR?daroga wrote:Are you talking about a more recent release? My KARR certainly has a yellow scanner. It might not be the perfect shade, but it's certainly not red either.KnightRiderKR wrote:No the 1:18 joyride KARR does not have a yellow scanner, they left the scanner red. Sh-t even Aoshima didn't get it right they have KARR's scanner being orange.
I sure can. Just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing. You were saying that the ERTL / Joyride 1:18 KARR doesn't have a yellow scanner?KnightRiderKR wrote:I don't know how many releases they did but I know the aoshima karr has an orange scanner, that car you put the sensor in thats sold seperately. Can you provide pics of your KARR?daroga wrote:Are you talking about a more recent release? My KARR certainly has a yellow scanner. It might not be the perfect shade, but it's certainly not red either.KnightRiderKR wrote:No the 1:18 joyride KARR does not have a yellow scanner, they left the scanner red. Sh-t even Aoshima didn't get it right they have KARR's scanner being orange.
So, the thinking is that it's the same scanner as the KITT model or that it's different but not show accurate?KnightRiderKR wrote:Yes the Ertl/Joyride KARR does not have a yellow scanner. Maybe if they rerelease KARR they will give him a yellow scanner.
It's basically just Kitt painted half silver and they didn't bother to install a yellow scanner. It's basically here is our half assed effort now kiss our asses and give us your money.daroga wrote:So, the thinking is that it's the same scanner as the KITT model or that it's different but not show accurate?KnightRiderKR wrote:Yes the Ertl/Joyride KARR does not have a yellow scanner. Maybe if they rerelease KARR they will give him a yellow scanner.
Ok, well, that's not true. It's probably more orange than it should be, but it's a different color than KITT's. My KARR's batteries are evidently just about dead and my camera was just making a blurry mess when I tried to take the shots, but rest assured that the scanners were different, if not entirely accurate.KnightRiderKR wrote:It's basically just Kitt painted half silver and they didn't bother to install a yellow scanner. It's basically here is our half assed effort now kiss our asses and give us your money.daroga wrote:So, the thinking is that it's the same scanner as the KITT model or that it's different but not show accurate?KnightRiderKR wrote:Yes the Ertl/Joyride KARR does not have a yellow scanner. Maybe if they rerelease KARR they will give him a yellow scanner.
Right, I wasn't ever saying that it was screen-accurate. But your claim that KARR's scanner was the same as KITT's in the models just isn't true. As you can see from KITTfan's post above, the scanner (even unmodified) is clearly yellowish as opposed to being pure red.KnightRiderKR wrote:Kitt is accurate, KARR is mostly accurate. KARR's scanner is really yellow and conspicuous. Unless Ertl can do this then it's not accurate.
I would have gone in and replaced the red LED's with yellow ones, probably easy to do if you know wiring.daroga wrote:Right, I wasn't ever saying that it was screen-accurate. But your claim that KARR's scanner was the same as KITT's in the models just isn't true. As you can see from KITTfan's post above, the scanner (even unmodified) is clearly yellowish as opposed to being pure red.KnightRiderKR wrote:Kitt is accurate, KARR is mostly accurate. KARR's scanner is really yellow and conspicuous. Unless Ertl can do this then it's not accurate.
On that note, KITTfan, I really like what you did to that scanner. I'm tempted to do the same for both my KARR and KITT. Was it a difficult process?