Estes 2022 catalog

[user 35280]

When is the Estes 2022 catalog coming out?

 

[WillMarchant]

The https://estesrockets.com/catalogs/ page has a, somewhat botched, "coming soon." So I'm guessing in the next month or two. Maybe they're targeting NARCON at the end of the month? Anyway, if we don't see it by then, someone should be sure to ask Estes in the Vendor's Forum...

 

[Initiator001]

My understanding is that the catalog will be relesed in 'early' January.

 

[kyle]

Horrible, horrible company for not having the 2022 catalog out on Saturday, January 1, 2022. This lack of respect to the customer has caused them to lose my business for at least three minutes.

Just kidding. You must chill, just because it's now officially the new year doesn't mean that the catalog will be top priority. There's this new "internet" thing that probably nets them more business than the catalog and probably takes priority.

If I was a gambling man, I would bet that a Venn diagram of people who want the Estes catalog, new customers, and long-time customers would have very little overlap on the new customer/people who want catalogs area.

Seven years as a BAR, and the first thing that sees the Estes catalogs I get with orders is the inside of the recycling bin.

 

[viney266]

Looking forward to it as I do every year. There are , even these days at 56, a few gems every time

 

[Hobie1dog]

I'll try to lay my hands on a copy of the new one as I have two more grandkids who both want their own copies.

 

[user 35280]

Looking forward to the second rocket in this picture,
https://estesrockets.com/product-category/rockets/designer-series/and hope it’s in the new Estes 2022 catalog. It’s a design by Bill Simon.

 

[Back_at_it]

They normally start showing up around the last week of Jan.

 

[WillMarchant]

It's up on the web site now.

 

[Tramper Al]

The catalog features a Super Orbital Transport. Not sure I knew about that one.

 

[dwtno]

Estes 2022 catalog

 

[Scott_650]

Looking forward to the second rocket in this picture,
https://estesrockets.com/product-category/rockets/designer-series/and hope it’s in the new Estes 2022 catalog. It’s a design by Bill Simon.

Yup - it’s the B.O.S.S! Belt Observer Survey Ship - BT-55 based, 28” long, 18mm powered, $35 list price. And the Luna Bug joins the regular lineup!

 

[neil_w]

Gotta say it's not my favorite. Needs some additional fin extension out the sides.

 

[Antares JS]

Looks like the B.O.S.S. and Super Orbital Transport will be making their way to my shelf this year. Best get the build pile cleaned up a bit so there's room.

 

[Scott_650]

The catalog features a Super Orbital Transport. Not sure I knew about that one.

It’s been rumored - bigger than the original but smaller than the long promised, long delayed version from eRockets.

 

[Scott_650]

Looks like the B.O.S.S. and Super Orbital Transport will be making their way to my shelf this year. Best get the build pile cleaned up a bit so there's room.

The B.O.S.S. for sure but all I’ve done with my on-hand standard Orbital Transport is open the bag and check out the parts…what the heck, it’s not like I can’t have two sizes of the same rocket

 

[Antares JS]

It’s been rumored - bigger than the original but smaller than the long promised, long delayed version from eRockets.

Cool, I wasn't sure if eRockets got beaten to the punch... looks like the answer is "sort of."

Looks like the Super version from Estes is going to be BT-55 with 24mm motor mount.

 

[neil_w]

All I see that's new in the catalog are the B.O.S.S, Super Orbital Transport, and builder's kit of the New Shepard. Meh. Also most of the rocket pics are side views, which isn't great. Good to see the return of full info on each rocket, though (diameter, etc.)

 

[Scott_650]

Cool, I wasn't sure if eRockets got beaten to the punch... looks like the answer is "sort of."

Looks like the Super version from Estes is going to be BT-55 with 24mm motor mount.

eRockets showed it at NARAM in Indiana along with their improved standard version with multiple decal options and assembly fixtures - the one I have is a McLawhorn Semroc kit.

 

[jmasterj]

Some of the prices are really confusing to me - why does an Alpha III cost $24 but the Athena is $15? Slightly different nose cone, Athena has a longer body tube, same fin can. Generic E2X $24, Mongoose $18, similar differences but you get another stage and plastic fin can with the Mongoose! Makes no sense to me.

 

[Antares JS]

eRockets showed it at NARAM in Indiana along with their improved standard version with multiple decal options and assembly fixtures - the one I have is a McLawhorn Semroc kit.

Mine is from the early 2000's Estes release, and I built it in high school. I remember the thing that shocked me about it was that it actually came with a pair of blank balsa planks that you had to trace cutout paper patterns on to cut out all the wood parts. I went through a couple of knife blades doing it, but I must have done a decent job because it still flies 1-2 times a year to this day.

 

[Scott_650]

Some of the prices are really confusing to me - why does an Alpha III cost $24 but the Athena is $15? Slightly different nose cone, Athena has a longer body tube, same fin can. Generic E2X $24, Mongoose $18, similar differences but you get another stage and plastic fin can with the Mongoose! Makes no sense to me.

Prices are, typically, driven by what folks will pay rather than on what it costs for the OEM to make

 

[CalebJ]

All I see that's new in the catalog are the B.O.S.S, Super Orbital Transport, and builder's kit of the New Shepard. Meh. Also most of the rocket pics are side views, which isn't great. Good to see the return of full info on each rocket, though (diameter, etc.)

The Star Orbiter in next year's catalog has different fins. Could be that someone just screwed up the artwork?
Current:

Catalog:

 

[Scott_650]

The Star Orbiter in next year's catalog has different fins. Could be that someone just screwed up the artwork?
Current:
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Catalog:
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That’s the fin shape from SO’s Hobby Lobby exclusive sister ship the Vapor - hopefully this is just some kind of standardization and the SO retains its TTW construction unlike the Vapor’s surface mount fins.

 

[Tramper Al]

Some of the prices are really confusing to me - why does an Alpha III cost $24 but the Athena is $15? Slightly different nose cone, Athena has a longer body tube, same fin can. Generic E2X $24, Mongoose $18, similar differences but you get another stage and plastic fin can with the Mongoose! Makes no sense to me.

Wow, good pick up. That Generic MSRP represents an 85% price increase catalog to catalog. Foil decal supply chain. But the Mongoose should sell twice as many motors, at least until I lose the booster.

 

[Scott_650]

After going through the catalog a bit closer I’m disappointed there’s no C5-0 booster motor - maybe it’ll be a mid-year add to the lineup.

 

[CalebJ]

That’s the fin shape from SO’s Hobby Lobby exclusive sister ship the Vapor - hopefully this is just some kind of standardization and the SO retains its TTW construction unlike the Vapor’s surface mount fins.

Agreed - that's my real concern, that the real SO is gone and replaced by the Vapor with SO decals (though, apparently still with a 29mm mount)?

 

[Tramper Al]

Looks like the Super version from Estes is going to be BT-55 with 24mm motor mount.

That would make the parasitic glider BT-50, yes? Now, can I get it to glide with an Astrocam nosecone swap?

 

[boomtube-mk2]

Estes 2022 catalog

I opened the Estes catalog, and something reached out of the screen and tried to grab my wallet.

 

[Scott_650]

That would make the parasitic glider BT-50, yes? Now, can I get it glide with an Astrocam nosecone swap?

Hmmm…now that’s an interesting idea!