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Old 08-01-2019, 07:58 PM
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Default New Estes kits at Hobby Lobby - Might be exclusives

I found some new Estes model rocket kits at Hobby Lobby. They were still in a big box, that were ready for hanging up on the walls.

One is a Cherokee-E and then a rocket with a single cylindrical glider instead of two like the Double Ringer. I also found another one that I haven't seen in the Estes 2019 catalog.
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Old 08-01-2019, 10:01 PM
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Talking with John Langford after the manufacturers forum at NARAM 61 I learned that there might have been the demise of model rockets at Hobby Lobby. He said they had intense negotiations and the compromise was making a line of rocket kits exclusively for Hobby Lobby. They have different face cards and are all new kits. John had several with him. The Luna Bug is a sci fi mosquito. A single ring version of the double ringer called Solo and others I don’t remember.
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Old 08-01-2019, 11:09 PM
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The Cherokee-E and Luna Bug were displayed at NARAM along with the Gryphon boost glider and a re-issued Phantom see-thru display rocket. I doubt, with the long lasting popularity of the design, that Cherokee will be a Hobby Lobby exclusive - other rockets though, that’s a reasonable possibility I suppose.
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Old 08-02-2019, 01:22 AM
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There are eight kits in the exclusive Hobby Lobby Estes line.
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Old 08-02-2019, 05:28 AM
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So, Bob, which of these exclusives will need C6-0s, since they didn’t blow those out with red tag prices as they did the B6-0s? I didn’t see anything in the “exclusive” livery in the box that John Langford opened up at the Manufacturer’s Forum.

BTW, that new face card art is really nice.
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Old 08-02-2019, 10:23 AM
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Is the Cherokee E an upscale, or just a Cherokee D with a longer engine mount?
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Old 08-05-2019, 01:18 PM
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Talking with John Langford after the manufacturers forum at NARAM 61 I learned that there might have been the demise of model rockets at Hobby Lobby. He said they had intense negotiations and the compromise was making a line of rocket kits exclusively for Hobby Lobby. They have different face cards and are all new kits. John had several with him. The Luna Bug is a sci fi mosquito. A single ring version of the double ringer called Solo and others I don’t remember.

This actually makes me happy.
I think i'll head in to my local hobby lobby this weekend and see if they got any of these in.
As of two weeks ago my local hobby lobby was only stocking B motors a few launch sets and a few RTF rockets.
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