Lionel is just, well, Lionel. The company reminds me a bit of Eastman Kodak. Having knocked around the photo biz for more decades than I like to think about, I have seen the "yellow giant," as Kodak has been called, go from being an aloof, king of the hill biggest producer of photography products on the planet, to a running scared, downsizing elfin of a company. They thought for many, many years that they could just go their own way, making the products at their convenience, at the best profit to them. Along came Fuji, a nimble, Japanese outfit that made better film, better cameras, listened to it's consumer base, and one day Kodak woke up and realized that those Japanese upstarts had taken 50% of their business, and were eroding the other half quickly. Kodak responded by introducing a flurry of new films, etc. The digital revolution of course totally changed the ball game for all players. In a somewhat similar scenario, Lionel did not produce any Flyer accessories until MTH did, saw that some of the S crowd bought them with both hands. Perhaps, just perhaps, as SHS and AM, et al, help to enlarge the market, and we see more offerings from K-Line (assuming they remain in business) Lionel will one day come to realize that the S scale market really is a force to be reckoned with. Don't laugh. Only Joe Willie Namath knew for certain (guaranteed it in fact) that the New York Jets would beat the Baltimore Colts for one of the biggest upsets in sports history. We gotta have faith... Cheers :) Roy Inman
> From: Alex Binkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:23:43 -0500 > To: Roy Inman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: S-Scale Modeling Hobby's future (was: Re: MR circulation) > > Hi Roy: > So does Lionel figure there aren't enuf scalers out there to justify code > 100 wheels on the 2-8-2 or do they not want to admit we exist. if SHS can do > the 2-8-0 for scale and hirail, Lionel has no good excuse. of course most of > us wouldn't want all their electronic dodas. > no quarrel that hirail layouts can be as well detailed as scale ones. size > of the rail etc doesn't affect scenery etc. wasn't it you that argued that > HO layouts on code 100 track were in effect hirail. I find HO layouts on doe > 83 or 70 still kinda rare. > cheers > ----- > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
