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Humm. A number of folks here, not just me, have posted to the effect that MR changed greatly about 1977, when Linn Westcott retired, and it began to go disco or something, with Malcolm Furlow and so forth, such that other mags were able to pick up the money MR was leaving on the counter. Just take one example, Prototype Modeler, which capitalized on the desire of the modeling community in the late 1970s for more accurate models from the manufacturers. MR ignored the trend -- while Prototype Modeler eventually went under, Mainline Modeler survives with a very similar focus, as does Railmodel Journal. Between them these are 150-160 monthly pages -- a magazine the size of MR -- carrying ads MR often doesn't carry. I would say this represents 25 years, if not 30, of losing touch with an audience.
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