If MicroSizers stopped......

[seeberg]

I'm no Mercedes fan, but that does look like the shit. Tomy should've stayed with Bit Char-G's and imported the full line (as MicroSizers, duh) to the states. If Joe Blow saw a Ferrari Testarossa or a Porsche 911GT2 stateside at 1:64 scale, he woulda shit his pants. Instead, Tomy introduced the Aero R/C line, which looks and feels like everything else at that size.

I dunno, if I had any say about it, I'd like to see another company get the rights to all the Bits out there and start producing them again, with the same QA that Tomy had, and from there begin to cast styrene bodies of cars that should be introdued, like the Holden Monaro/Pontiac GTO, Caterham 7 replica, Renault R5 Turbo, the new Integra Type R, and about an assload of others...

Which brings me to an offer I want to present to all BitPimps out there, but it still needs work. PM me and I'll try to explain it- it could be huge, but the plan I have needs review and assistance.

I'm out,
Abe

[crazydave]

I think the problem we forget about is Tomy made these cars for the Japanese market, and in Japan they are very trendy, and this little trend has died already.

My point about that, is that Hobbico is just a distributor, and they really are just a a hobby distributor. Mattel had picked up Bit Racers and sold them as Hotwheels KIT racers. I wonder what would have happened if Mattel had picked up on Bit Char-Gs and sold them as Hot Wheels, and got them properly distributed in the first place. As it was, my Target had the MSs all the way up on a top shelf, scrunched in the corner. I was looking for them and almost missed them. How the hell was Joe Blow supposed to discover them?


Secondly, I'm kinda mad at RS, because here in America Zip Zaps are where micro RCs are at, and RS has consistantly released products that didn't perform up to par, only to fix them later. Only problem with that, is we on the forums might know they're improved, but Joe Blow don't know that, and word of mouth on the streets has got to be, "Don't waste your money, those things are slow" Kids talk, they're not stupid ya know.

Thirdly, before Bits had a chance to hit on a big scale, we had clones everywhere. That causes several problems. One that no one wants to pay the bigger $$ to the company that does the R&D. Instead we supported the companies that stold the design, and they of coarse are not gonna come up with anything particularly new or clever. The other problem is hit and miss quality of the clones further cements bits reputation in America as a cheap toy. Thirdly, by already having a faster motor, and coming preassembled, the clones kill what I think is the best aspect of bits. They are tunable. Of coarse it's hard to tune your bit when Microsizer is offering crap for hop ups in the toy stores.

Bottom line, if there was still a large market for bits, I'm sure Tomy would produce them. It's all about $$. Big bucks.

So that my summery of how I think bit's popularity was sabotaged in America, before the hobby could ever take off, but Tomagachis are making a comeback, so I have a feeling bits will come back around again

[DarkTari]

So that my summery of how I think bit's popularity was sabotaged in America, before the hobby could ever take off, but Tomagachis are making a comeback, so I have a feeling bits will come back around again

AMEN BRUTHA !

DAMN!!!!@!! That makes the ZZ one look like ass! I love it.

Did you ever get one of the clones from Discovery DT? Not the same detail, but the same car.

If you're speaking of the Z-Car from Discovery Channel Store, that was my very 1st Micro, but it's a C230 Coupe (hatchback) not a AMG CLK55 .......

[seeberg]

I live for the day that Bits come back in style, big time!

Of course, in the meantime I'm doing my research to fix some of the problems that are looming. I'm going to make a prototype of my plan and make a thread of it sometime and see if it gets anywhere. I just wonder if I'm not the first one to try what I'm attempting?