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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by emeraldisle I was excited to hear about Lionel coming back to HO until I saw the price. Come on Lionel, do you seriously think you're going to get $700.00 for a Diecast locomotive. My gosh, Broadway doesn't get that much for thiers and I dare say, you'll have to go some to beat them for detail and just plain old outright beauty of the beast. I can only hope that you'll come to your senses when it comes time to produce the turbine. Please, if you will, the recent fiasco with CON COR. They wanted too much for the ELECTROLINER, and couldn't get enough orders to pay for tooling. Now the Modelrailroading community is, once again, going to have to do without a really fantastic train, that even I as a New York Central fan would have bought simply because of it's uniqueness and collectability. Detail is great but where do we draw the line at high prices. I'm getting a nose bleed with some these prices and remember, the younger people just coming into the hobby, they can't afford $300.00 to $700.00 for plastic or diecast. In these hard times , who can?[:(][:(][:(][:(][:(][:(][:(][:(] [/quote] Yes, yes,yes, right on. I really prefer O scale but I gave up and went to HO because of the price. While I'm always pleased to see more products I think Lionel will be lost in a sea of competitors. Competitors who already have a loyal consumer base. I think the market for HO is to big for lionel to be noticed. I would say N scale would be a good idea too. Then again there cant really use anything from the past 100 years in some thing that small so they're still going to fight from the bottom of the heap.
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