Lionel is a company trying to emerge from a bankruptcy. I think it's an effort on their part to put "new" product out in the market using tooling that has been monetarily amortized decades ago. The Prewar Celebration Series is fast becoming as popular as the Postwar Celebration Series, making it a win for seller and buyer alike. Lionel puts out a product with lower overhead, and customers get to buy mint in box versions of some 70 year old classics.
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
first off,,,, how can it be "prewar" but only been made in the last few years?
2. why would you want to pay that kind of money for a copy of something, why not buy the real thing for 1/2 the price?
3. imo, lionel is killing the market for real pre and post war stuff, by rereleasing it is making the value of the real things drop. all because lionel cant come up with any new idea's so they just reissue their own older stuff and put a big a** price tag on them.
4. when i buy a perwar lionel, i want a prewar lionel.... not a 2008 copy of a prewar lionel.
in the 2008 book, i found only one piece of rolling stock that i want that was new for 2008 everything other was the same stuff that was in the 2007 books, with maybe a new road name added to the line here or there. lionel needs to get their head out of there a** when it comes to there new stuff. thank god for MTH, or id never get to buy any new designs . just remakes of lionels old stuff.
lionel has put out some nice looking engines the last few years, but thats all they are, "nice looking" i just scrapped out 5 years worth of there engines as they was sub par in reliability , i switched to MTH engines and had nothing but good luck with them. but even mth has to copy lionel prewar,,,, i dont think much of that,
i buy newer MTH engines, and post and prewar lionel. i would buy more lionel rolling stock if they ever come out with something new. they are lacking in standard O , thats for sure.
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