Dear Herpa-Fan,

until now, you were used to being informed about our planned new releases four months in advance. However, the current cross-industry delays in global supply chains make it more and more difficult for us, too, to precisely determine delivery dates for individual models. In order to reduce the need to put you off by telling you that a particular model is not yet available, we will from now on announce our new releases only one month in advance rather than four months. This will allow us to present them to you much less in advance of the scheduled delivery, increasing the chance that the models will actually be available on time – and, in addition, we will no longer be supplying photos and ideas to some competitors from the legal gray area, who, especially in the Wings segment, sometimes launch their models to the market at short notice without any licenses, approvals, and authorizations.

This means that you will not receive the brochure showing the models planned for March/April 2022 in December, as was previously the case, but rather at the beginning of February. At the end of the year, we present our 2022 Collection featuring available bestsellers, established favorites, and models that are currently available or will be available shortly. The fact that we will no longer be able to base the quantities of the models we produce on the demand we encounter after the announcement can lead to limited availability of some models, which in turn may increase the value and collector’s appeal of the models. More than ever, therefore, we recommend that you act quickly before your particular model is out of stock. We hope you enjoy our models, and wish you lots of fun with them

Sincerely,
Your Herpa team