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Horizon will not run Walthers out of business, but I sincerely hope that the two of them will "enjoy" some friendly competition that may just give us more neat products and at more 'friendly' pricing. No one panics when Walthers purchases another product line, often due to it having been mismanaged by the prior owner, the prior owner retiring, or for whatever other reason that put it up for sale. . .Sometimes the product line just hangs around as i, until demand falls away and it's allowed to die. Usually, Walthers raises the prices - to see what the market will bear, perhaps? - but never am I aware that they maintined the older price structure, or ever lowered it. . .Nor am I aware of Walthers ever expanding an acquired product line that they own, as opposed to distribute. . . No one panics over sacred Walthers and their super high-priced catalog items. Yet everyone freaked out over Horizon and their recent acquisition of Athearn, and I can sense the same thing is about to erupt over MDC Roundhouse: the rumor mill is cranking up, and the dooms-dayers are preparing their posts re: greedy corporations and nasty CEOs. Welcome to corporate America and the free-enterprise system. To repeat myself - the sky is not falling ! We should be glad that someone stepped up and purchased MDC Roundhouse. I for one, am glad that it wasn't Walthers. The retiring owner and founder of MDC Roundhouse has been at the helm since 1939 and it's time for someone else to bring them into the 21st century.
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