> From: ctxmf74 <[email protected]>
>
> Which don't make much sense as the tooling costs are
> already paid for so each additional run would lower the per
> unit cost? I could still buy the same Athearn HO kit when I
> was 42 that I bought when I was 12 years old so they got
> maximum value from those old Athearn molds and allowed the
> maximum amount of modelers to enjoy the hobby. It's almost
> like the new marketing scheme is building in long term
> failure by limiting the number of models and the number of
> happy modelers....DaveBranum
Yes, but how many different models were available in the Blue Box era? many
fewer than now in HO.
New runs are made, but the nobody does a run knowing most of it will sit in a
warehouse. I remember when Lifelike started the P2K line with a BL2, they way
over produced, and within a year were blowing them out at way under MSRP.
Modern marketing doesn't consider models as "staples" which should be stocked
continuously. BTW, even Athearn Blue Box was made in runs. Slower selling items
were not available for years at a time. You might always be able to buy an F7
or a 40 ft boxcar(although maybe not in the roadname you wanted), but RDCs were
pretty scarce for a long time.
Pieter Roos
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