QUOTE: Second, we are REDUCING the retail price of these great behemoths! We have received information that another maker of Challengers is again leaving the HO marketplace, and will be liquidating their remaining Challengers. We want to make certain that our faithful dealers and consumers don't get fooled by a large price differential.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by dontrainman Remember Studebaker and Oldsmobile were around for 100 years too.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by ben10ben Yep, the Lionel coporation doesn't even exist anymore. It official closed about the time General Mills(Model Plastics Corporation, or MPC) started production of Lionel. When Richard Kughn bought the Lionel name from General Mills(Fundimensions) in 1986, he formed Lionel Trains Incorporated, or LTI. When Wellsprings bought it out from Richard Kughn in 1996, they forum Lionel Limited Liability Corporation(LLC). Someone, either here or on OGR, also explained that Wellsprings probably actually has Lionel set up as two different corporations. One makes the trains, and the other just owns the name. The one that makes the trains licenses the name to put on their trains. It's set up this way so that, in the event of something like the Lionel-MTH lawsuit, MTH could aquire all of Lionel's assets, but he there would be no way that he could aquire the thing that he's really after, the Lionel name.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by johnblair Ogaugeoverlord, Those Rivarossi dies are going to China after a BRIEF stopover in Jolly old England.
QUOTE: Originally posted by ben10ben Elliot, I appoligize for the misinformation. Thanks. I didn't realize that the Lionel corporation had lasted for that long after they stopped making trains.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005 QUOTE: Originally posted by johnblair Ogaugeoverlord, Those Rivarossi dies are going to China after a BRIEF stopover in Jolly old England. John, it sounds like even European labor is getting too expensive.
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