and he notes -
I think the question should be "How many 'Major' products have been
PURCHASED in the past eighteen months." What good does it do for a
manufacturer to flood the market with a plethora of kits and rtr
stuff if they just sit on the shelves. Some items do sell well,
others do not and that slows any new releases in that line.
Methinks a Martian's eyes are bigger than their stomachs, that is if
they have stomachs. And BTW, a year on Pluto is 240.9 Earth years so
any "new MAJOR products" there would be few and far between!
Raleigh in Maine who definitely has too much time on his hands,
though not enough Gazinkos (Martian Moolah)...
P. S. - A Martian year is 686.9 Earth days so you can live longer and
be prosperer... (or is it be more perspicuitous - us Plutonians have
trouble with short words!)
At 12:40 PM 7/23/2008, Rance and Bente wrote:
>But Ed, the average lifespan, as we know it, would only be (365/900)(76)
>= 30.8 years (or possibly longer if metabolisms are slower due to the
>frozen nature so far from the sun). good comments, however.
>Rance Velapoldi (Tranby, Norway)
>
>Edward Loizeaux wrote:
> >
> > Earthlings.....
> >
> > Due to our mutual language differences and the lack of competent
> > interpreters available to support us, I feel obligated to clarify my
> > earlier
> > comment about new products. Bear with me while I try once again. To start
> > with, here is what I actually said:
> >
> > "Perhaps I am from a different planet, but I have not noticed
> > hardly any new MAJOR products becoming available in the past eighteen
> > months or so."
> >
> > Please note that I did not say there were no new products in the past
> > eighteen months. I did not even say there were no new MAJOR products. What
> > I was trying to say, using my Marsese (official Mars language) was that
> > there were "hardly any new MAJOR products" released in the past eighteen
> > months. My intent, obviously not clear, was to say there have been
> > darn few
> > new MAJOR products.
> >
> > I will leave it up to the interpreters, when their saucers land nearby, to
> > decide if "darn few" is roughly equivalent to "hardly any".
> >
> > Yes, Ron S. has done a couple of modern box cars. And Bill has done some
> > freight cars and a motorized lobster speeder. As he has stated, some folks
> > get excited over lobster speeders. Fine for them. Jim King has already
> > received his publicity and so I will not repeat it here. Yep, I would
> > agree
> > that here are several new freight cars released within the past 18 months.
> > I erred in not mentioning them more explicitly -- although some of them do
> > not run in Mars, but that should not be an excuse. So, yes, there has been
> > a slow steady trickle of new freight cars in S and I should have not
> > forgotten about them so easily. Sorry about that.
> >
> > In my view, new paint schemes on existing castings do not qualify as MAJOR
> > new products. That's just the way it is on Mars. Don't blame me. Some
> > Earthlings apparently think differently and that is fine also. There is no
> > accounting for the differences between various inter-planetary cultures.
> > The UP (United Planets) gave up a long time ago trying to forge
> > standardized
> > thinking about these things.
> >
> > So........unless I am wrong, the only new loco suitable for use on a
> > Class I
> > RR in the past 18 months is the Shark from River Raisin Models which
> > arrived
> > in April 2007 (15 months ago, barely made it). I think that qualifies as
> > "hardly any" MAJOR new locos in the past 18 months. With due
> > recognition to
> > Bill Wade's "creature" (the Mars name for "critters") which is motorized,
> > but not MAJOR. Also with due recognition to the impending arrival of RRM's
> > SP steamers. But that is looking to the future and my comment was looking
> > toward the past.
> >
> > I would also opine that a new grocery store, while very nice, is not a
> > MAJOR
> > structure. In Mars, the word MAJOR means big and very important. Like a
> > sawmill complex, or coal mine complex, major big city passenger terminal,
> > 8-stall roundhouse, monster factory or warehouse, etc. As I recall, Bill
> > Wade (a very busy Earthling, I might add) has been busy with some new
> > large
> > structures for a sawmill complex. Good for Bill (on Mars he would be
> > William), but what other MAJOR structures have become available in the
> > past
> > 18 months? Not many......from what I can see from way up here on the Red
> > Planet.
> >
> > I suppose the point of this dissertation is that S scale new product
> > production, over the years, has had slow times and busy times. Things perk
> > along at a good clip and then there are some dry spells. I think we have
> > just come through a "slow time" with respect to MAJOR new products.
> > That is
> > not necessarily bad or good -- it is just what it is. Perhaps busy times
> > are just around the corner ahead of us. And I would hastily add that new
> > MINOR products are being cranked out like never before. All those smaller
> > structures (like grocery stores), decals, new paint jobs, etc., etc. are
> > coming along just fine. My comments were only with regard to MAJOR new
> > products. Read my lips! Yes, Martians do have lips, but you would not
> > believe where they are located.
> >
> > Perfectly clear now? One other conclusion that could be reached is that Ed
> > L. has too much time on his hands. I would like to point out that on Mars,
> > there are 565 days in a year and that provides me with ample time to write
> > lengthy messages like this one. Just think what I could do if'n I moved to
> > Pluto? Over 900 days per year (or something like that).
> >
> > Take care Earthlings. Have fun in Lowell. Missed the saucer this year, but
> > there is always the future. Right? The future never ends. Think about it.
> >
> > Cheers...Ed L.
> >
> >
>
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