--- In [email protected], "ctxmf74" <ctxm@...> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], "richgajnak" <rustytraque@> wrote:
> > Well, first it's a no-brainer to offer an F7. MTH just bought it from SHS.
> > An F-Unit is probably a more attractive locomotive than an SW to the 1st
> > time trainset buying crowd.
> >
> > And as far as both MTH and Lionel are concerned, I don't think they're
> > getting into S just to trickle out the occasional product to a fairly
> > stagnant market. Both companies obviously see a potential for growth,(and
> > their bottom lines) otherwise they wouldn't be investing so heavily in it.
> >
>
> If they want to compete for the broader market they need to follow the
> lead of the HO companies like Athearn Genesis, Exact Rail etc. who are
> bringing out new very high quality stuff and not just re-hashing the old
> stuff.
> Modern modelers in the other scales have zero interest in flyer or it's
> background so the only thing that will get them to switch to S is models of
> the same quality and somewhat the selection they can get in HO. The physical
> size of S gives it an inherent ergonomic advantage but it needs the product
> to capitalize on the opportunity. The harder to make the scale change and the
> longer the wait for product the more guys will just commit or re-commit to HO
> scale. HO has a lot of size related negatives but it's still very convenient
> and well supplied. ...DaveBranum
>
I don't think Lionels SD70's, U33C's, Challengers and Y3a's(albeit with deep
flanges) is exactly rehashing the "old stuff." And while MTH has a little
catching up to do, they didn't go out and buy up SHS to surrender the S market
to Lionel.
There's a lot of guys in the 3-rail world doing modern, and while the stuff is
well detailed, it's not quite Exact Rail(who recently went factory direct only.
Does that say something?) or Athearn Genesis equivalent. And Athearn is still
cranking out the older, less detailed (along with some newer, better detailed)
stuff in their Ready-to-Roll and MDC lines.
While I appreciate the finely detailed equipment avaialable in the other
scales, I'd rather see ten average modelers, rather than one uber-modeler
attracted to S. Even if the ratio of Flyer/HiRail to Scale remains the same as
it is today.
Of course, in a perfect world, S would attract all eleven modelers.
Rich G(ajnak)
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