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The thread is only silly if you have no interest in furthering the hobby, in the long term the stance could have a detrimental effect. For a magazine that purports to further 'The World's Greatest Hobby' to instill that kind of feeling in another person, whatever their field of employment, does them no good service. It's not just that person's feelings or thoughts, but the effect on others a stance like that engenders. <br />The On30 scale has been responsible for attracting a lot more people back into the hobby because of its size and scope compared to HO, N and Z scales and deserves its place in the hobby, not denigration. Don't lose sight of the fact that On30 or O2-1/2 has been around for many years now, so is not a passing fad or a scale that will disappear - its counterpart in Europe O-16.5 has an equally high following and is certainly not regarded as toys by the mainstream magazines. <br />As for not seeing any bias, the model of the year was voted by readers and not MR and must reflect the popularity of the scale; the reviews of the On30models ( and they are very few and far between ) are more out of loyalty to the manufacturer than the readership, how many articles have you read on the On30 scale?. <br />Either MR is for all railroad modellers, regardless of scale, or it re-aligns its remit to just the 'popular' scales and standard gauges and says so. <br />As to the comment that all model trains are 'toys', then I suggest those people have no right to call themselves modellers. Toys are something bought for children to keep them amused and have no lasting value to the owner. Once you get into the realms of creating a virtual miniature scale world in whatever form, to a greater or lesser detail, then you have gone beyond the bounds of 'toyland'. It takes no skill to play with toys, but skills of all forms are developed or learnt through the art of modelling that for most of us will last a lifetime.
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