ORIGINAL: Yak18
Goldberg/Lanier products ARE overpriced IMHO. Compare it to other very nice and complicated ARFs from TF; Staggerwing $449. Cessna 310 $499.00. Then there are the new large Cox Wacos and T-28s $399-450. At over $800 for a 1/4 scale monoplane, Lanier is way overpriced in this category.
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As was their 30% Ultimate bipe. Over priced at something like $850 when it first came out a few years ago.
Funny thing--the parts didn't fit and word got out amonst us modelers. Nobody bought them after that.
Tower liquidated their last stock for $400+/-
Crystal Ball sitting on the table in front of me. Hands tightly clasped around the ball as I look through a tiny hole near my thumbs.
I'll hold out for the Husky. It'll be $300 in a couple years.
They (Lanier) will only import one container of these. A few thousand planes at most. Tower will liquidate them starting in early February of 2009.
Unless you just GOTTA have it RIGHT NOW--wait. Patience young grasshopper.