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Well I believe the new Hobby economics is at hand: 1- Order your copy a year ahead of time by deadline or lose out 2- Have your money ready to get it the first month it's released. 3- Hurry up with that purchase, it may be gone forever. 4- See it and buy it on eBay for several times retail one year later fighting off 20 people with alot of money. The recent article in the MR regarding waterfronts did not help. Walthers will experience a demand for the Barge, Tug and Apron all of which is out of production. Dies and tooling is a one time cost of production. There is always a certain amount of widgets needed to pay for the tooling and dies. You can always make more widgets and eventually a profit but it takes time. Making 100,000 widgets and then retiring those widgets really deprives a company of a income stream. They need to keep making that widget for say.. 5-10 years.
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