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I don't think 8 year olds should worry about a $120 locomotive. They are 8 year olds (or whatever their age is), they don't really care about all the details, they just want to play and run the trains. Once the kid gets older he learn more about the better trains. I wouldn't buy a $100+model for a child since the details are too fragile for them. As for the price.... come on, they are made in China!! Why do you see a P2k (same goes for Bachmann) that MSRP at $100+ and stores that can sell them for $30.00?? They, and LL are still making a nice profit, not as much they wanted to though. Not sure why Atlas still demand higher prices, probably the better quality, demand, and such. As for me I am 20 and currently I just collect the models. Started when I was a kid, stopped for awhile, came back around 8th grade, stopped before high school, and now I am back into it again. I wanted a nicely detailed model, and since I have a part-time job, I can afford one, so I got a P2k UP SD50. Now I have 3 more, Athearn RTR UP C44-9w, Spectrum ATSF SD-45, and an Atlas ATSF U23b. In the future when I graduate college and get an actual job, I can go into railroading more seriously. How I see it, if model railroading is to grow, get more kids into them. They will grow out of it, but they won't forget the fun of trains and their childhood memories, and later in adulthood they would probably get back into the hobby. (I have seen several" I haven't been railroading in XX years, please fill me in." type of threads in this forum.)
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