Build your own toy car - only *how much*?!

[Drago]

That's where Richard Branson gets his spaceships from.

 

[Markymark]

Sounds a complete waste of money, unless of course the first issue is free, then it's a bargain.

 

[Welsh wheels]

When I was a kid, I had a birthday present one year which was a magazine with model ship parts inside, promising that you could make your own model ship. I remember being really excited, until my mother pointed out that to get all the parts, you would have to buy 200 copies at 7 quid each. Thanks a lot Aunt.

 

[Drago]

It'd be cheaper to become famous, die, and then have English Heritage erect a blue wall plaque for free.

 

[I like Skol]

Was talking to one of the bosses at work a couple of weeks ago about this very topic. A well meaning (and obviously affluent) relative had bought his daughter just such a subscription. I think he said the final piece would be a large or full-size human skeleton model, like the ones we associate with hanging in a doctors surgery of old.
It had started well initially and the anticipation of the next piece arriving each week to be added to the correct location maintained interest for many months, but as time passed the excitement waned and dad had to step in to make sure the pieces were unpacked and placed on the part grown structure. Eventually even that stopped and the magazines continued to arrive each week, being placed to one side unopened. At the end they contacted the magazine company and cancelled the rest of the series as there really was no point in the balance of the subscription being fulfilled. I can't remember if he mentioned what the exact financial outcome was but he did say he contacted the relative to explain and apologise, I think any refunded subscription may have been donated to charity?
A shame really but I suppose the reality is that very few of these things ever get completed for one reason or another.

 

[AndyRM]

They did one for a Lord of the Rings (or possibly Game of Thrones) chess set a while ago. It came to over £2,000!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

 

[nickyboy]

Was talking to one of the bosses at work a couple of weeks ago about this very topic. A well meaning (and obviously affluent) relative had bought his daughter just such a subscription. I think he said the final piece would be a large or full-size human skeleton model, like the ones we associate with hanging in a doctors surgery of old.
It had started well initially and the anticipation of the next piece arriving each week to be added to the correct location maintained interest for many months, but as time passed the excitement waned and dad had to step in to make sure the pieces were unpacked and placed on the part grown structure. Eventually even that stopped and the magazines continued to arrive each week, being placed to one side unopened. At the end they contacted the magazine company and cancelled the rest of the series as there really was no point in the balance of the subscription being fulfilled. I can't remember if he mentioned what the exact financial outcome was but he did say he contacted the relative to explain and apologise, I think any refunded subscription may have been donated to charity?
A shame really but I suppose the reality is that very few of these things ever get completed for one reason or another.

A bone a week....when it was the inner ear's turn that must have been a bit dull, as would all those little bones in your feet. Femur would have been ok though, and skull would have been the jackpot

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 4725368, member: 259"]If you pay £1.99 extra per issue for a premium subscription you get a free Commemorative Wall-mounted Presentation Plaque.

How can they be making a profit on this?[/QUOTE]
The kits cost around £400 to them. There's no packing to be done by the manufacturer, just wholesale supply costs.

If you started their last one, you'll nearly have finished it now anyway.

 

[mjr]

I remember being really excited, until my mother pointed out that to get all the parts, you would have to buy 200 copies at 7 quid each. Thanks a lot Aunt.

Damn You Auto-Correct?

 

[perplexed]

@User259

'Pedro Vagina...'


I very nearly required a pair of those special inserts for gentlemens' underwear one sees advertised above the urinals in motorway service stations...

 

[Beebo]

The Viz spoof adverts are always very funny.

 

[Saluki]

Did we not have a similar conversation when there was a kit version of The Mallard being advertised. I remember someone saying that the total price was probably less than a equally detailed scale model that collectors covet.
I am not going to pay out for a kit car either btw