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[quote user="jfugate"]One thing I've noticed is MTH seems to be trying to get into the HO market using a somewhat offensive-stanced O-scale competing with Lionel mentality, but going against HO manufacturers. The HO market is different, and I predict that unless they tone down their chest beating and focus more complementing what's already available, MTH will fail in the HO market. I could be wrong, but I don't think you can use a one-size-fits-all marketing scheme. You need a little more creativity than that, and the HO market expects you to be more of a team player and not so much of a single source vendor like MTH is trying to be in the much smaller O-scale market. [swg] [/quote] Joe, you're exactly right. In HO, I think there is kind of an un-written rule amongst the manufactuers not to flame each other. Anyone notice there had almost never been an HO add like the MTH one until it came out? In HO, the manufactuers more or less work together, thanks to the NMRA no doubt, but I've never seen Kato flaming Athearn because their SD70MAC is better than Athearn's, for example. I personally think it's to late for MTH now. They came into HO with lawsuits at their heels, and they attack BLI. They're just to far gone, the vast majority of HO modelers want nothing to do with MTH now.
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