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While visiting my favorite hobby shop, Carr's Hobbies in Duluth, MN. I asked the owner if people where starting to complain about the lack of kits and dearth of expensive, ready to roll equipment. He said that yes, they are hearing this complaint more and more often. He said it is not only the model railroad hobby effected, but it is appearing to cover all aspects of the hobby industry. He said he would love to have his shelves stocked with kits, however, they seem to just sit there and gather dust. Availability of kits is a problem, there are less and less kits. I found their inventory of Roundhouse and Athearn kits to be dwindling down to the ridiculous. I fear that in the future people will no longer understand the great satisfaction there is in building a kit. The modeling hobby to me has always been the above. The hobby is called model railroading and to me model means to build, be it a kit or kit bash or built from scratch, modeling is building! I can't make the industry do what I think is right. I understand it responds to what the public wants. However, if this is the direction the hobby is going, it certainly leaves me cold and sad! Is this the direction you all want the hobby to take? Why isn't this topic discussed in the modeling media? I'll tell you why. If the courts feel that awarding MTH 40 million from Lionel is just, then I'm wet behind the ears about how much money is involved in this hobby!!!!!
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