I am not bashing the price at all, just stating what I was told because I have had an interest in the airframe ever since Jeff brought out the intel. SM has always been a good and solid company, glad to see them develop some larger airframes like this one. It is certainly getting "towards" the ScaleJets F-16 kit price but I will say, there is a BIG difference and the gap widens heavily when you see the shop time investment to pull off the ScaleJets kit. Plus, frankly, not a lot of the jet guys could or would try and pull off a kit build on this bird.
SM always does a great job with their ARF's and this puts a 1/5 scale F-16 in a ARF version on the market for them. Grateful for that!
Rex