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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by actionplant [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by grayfox1119 Will it hurt the LHS's? To a small degree, they will lose out on the small, cheap train sets for birthdays and Christmas. The serious modelers will still go to LHS for someone who KNOWS what they are selling, not a person MY age handing out smiley faces <h4> ZZZIIIINNNG</h4> at Wallyworld. I am waiting for some smart young man to open a new brand of stores called HOBBY-MART, where they will carry all the leading brands, have everything that you need for MRR'g as well as other hobbies, and be INTERNATIONAL with stores everywhere. Sort of like BestBuy, but strictly all hobby and supplies. DREAM ON YOU SILLY BOY !! [/quote] LHS's seeing gains from an increase of people in the hobby due to cheaper starter sets at WalMart? Couldn't possibly see it. Maybe one or two people out of a town of 50,000. The kid that gets a WalMart trainset for the holidays from his folks is being raised in a society for ttelling him to shop he best deal. And come on, these are kids we're talking about. If they want to get further into the hobby the LHS is the last place they'll go. This is a generation of kids being raised on the internet, and that's where they'll wind up doing their shopping down the road. If they don't have any sort of loyalty to their LHS to begin with, why should they start over-paying now? [/quote]That just doesn't make sense. Maybe if a kids likes trains this would help get him started, besides if they really raised on the internet they will come here, and we will tell them to go to a Local Hobby Shop, for real models. Do you guys do this over every store that stocks a Christmas train set? Simmer down, people, if the end of the local hobby shop is nigh, this won't matter a hill of beans. It is better for a kid to get this and get him started in the hobby, than to get a computer game, which is guaranteed not to arouse interest in model railroading. I got started in the hobby with a cheap train set, of my grandfather’s; his kids didn't like trains too much. Years later this trains set from the '70s was mine; the start of my empire. Next I got a new engine, and then I started on a real layout. My story must not be the only one of its kind. I would hardly call it the last place to go, if a kid is interested further he might stop into a hobby shop, or buy an issue of Model Railroader. I discovered Railroad hobbies in Middleton (a small town for you who don't know the area) just by driving by and seeing a sign on the building. So Dad and I stopped in, I have been a loyal customer ever since.
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