Am I the only one...........

[msacco]

I think you guys are missing the boat here.

You really have to check your hi-rail or toy train brain at the door and think like the unwashed masses.

Have you ever seen what the average person puts up around Christmas time. Geez this is no different!The target here IS NOT US. It's people who love to decorate the $#@@ out of Christmas and love sounds, lights and movement to overly complete the Christmas experience.

    They'll chuck it in the box come January and take it back out year after year. I guarantee they'll sell tons of these things if they get them into the big box stores.

*****update, Look what i found. Get ready for the mad rush. Take a look:

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Mike S.

[palallin]

I think you guys are missing the boat here.

You really have to check your hi-rail or toy train brain at the door and think like the unwashed masses.

Have you ever seen what the average person puts up around Christmas time. Geez this is no different!The target here IS NOT US. It's people who love to decorate the $#@@ out of Christmas and love sounds, lights and movement to overly complete the Christmas experience.

  Mike S.

Well, I "love to decorate the $#@@ out of Christmas," but I'll stick with my #10/332/337/338 in Standard Gauge

[RR Redneck]

I think that I will stick with my Polar Express.

[cubythewater]

"But in all my years in Large Scale,  I know or have heard of few,
if any, who actually entered the hobby via the New Brite route (the
garden railroading/Large Scale segment, that is)."



Well, put me on the short list. I got into the G-scale crowd via an old Disney World Rail Road set from Scientific Toys. I am busy trying to kitbash that old loco into something I can DCC, and reworking the tender to put a sound unit into it.....



(sorry, the editor wont let me fix the quote problems with this post)

[RR Redneck]

That is actually how I got into this hobby.