Round 2 buys Lindberg/Hawk

Round 2 sent out a press release today announcing they have acquired Lindberg/Hawk from J. Lloyd.    In the statement released today, Tom Lowe, the owner of Round 2 said, “The addition of Lindberg and Hawk results in a combined product catalog for Round 2 that is so diverse, it will include virtually every type of model kit genre imaginable and in a wide range of scales. Whether you’re looking for cars, trucks, aircraft, ships, sci-fi, space exploration, anatomy and figures or even crazy monsters, we now have it all! We’ve made plans to hit the ground running with these brands and are ready to go. As we progress into the future, we will be working with the vintage Hawk and Lindberg tooling to resurrect more exciting kits that haven’t seen the light of day in decades, just like we have with AMT and MPC.”

It is not clear if this purchase includes the Weird-Oh’s line or not.   Currently the Hawk line includes Werid-ohs, Silly Surfers, and Frantics figures.  Other Lindberg kits include a line of dinosaurs, some of which were originally produced as Jurassic Park kits.   Lindberg also offers a kits of pirate ships, aliens, and a space shuttle.

Lindberg has been the subject of much speculation over the last couple years.   Ernie Petit, Lindberg’s president,  left the company in 2010 and there had been rumors that the company was for sale or closing at the time.  Those rumors were denied by Lindberg’s management.   Lindberg made an appearance at iHobby Expo in 2011, promoting “new” Weird-Ohs kits, which were repackaging of the old Ripley’s and Rube Goldberg kits.  These were eventually released in mid 2012.

It will be interesting to see if any genre kits are reissued.