QUOTE: Originally posted by ericboone QUOTE: Originally posted by trolleyboy This will likley be bad news for canadian modellers. LL licensed distribution to Canadian paint schemes and Canadian prototype locomotives to Hobbycraft Canada.With the aquisition all these models will be gone.It was good to get canadian specific locomotives with proper detail parts without having to go the brass route. Indeed a sad day. Rob Why wouldn't Walthers simply distrubute these to Canada or does Canada have some law stating that only Canadian companies can sell model trains with Canadian paint schemes? If my assumption is true, couldn't Walthers set up a similar Canadian division or maybe Canada could get rid of the silly law, again, if my assumption is true.
QUOTE: Originally posted by trolleyboy This will likley be bad news for canadian modellers. LL licensed distribution to Canadian paint schemes and Canadian prototype locomotives to Hobbycraft Canada.With the aquisition all these models will be gone.It was good to get canadian specific locomotives with proper detail parts without having to go the brass route. Indeed a sad day. Rob
QUOTE: Originally posted by HighIron2003ar I disagree. They lost in two seperate fires earlier this year if memory serves.
QUOTE: Originally posted by mthrules Lifelike was nothing but junk so if Walthers can improve the line, then more power to them. There's been rumors about MTH acquiring a small scale company but I don't think they considered Lifelike.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by JPowell QUOTE: Originally posted by cnwfan11 QUOTE: Originally posted by simon1966 How much more available can they be? The products from LifeLike are already prominent in the Walthers catalog and the lower end trainsets are already at Walmart and Toys R us. Funny,since WHEN did these 2 stores EVER carry LifeLike? BOTH dont carry a [censored]thing for model railroaders!! CNWFAN - Hate to burst your bubble, but here in upstate NY, they both carry the low end of the LL trainsets. Toys -r-Us has it more often than Wal-mart (usually at X-mas for Wally World). JP
QUOTE: Originally posted by cnwfan11 QUOTE: Originally posted by simon1966 How much more available can they be? The products from LifeLike are already prominent in the Walthers catalog and the lower end trainsets are already at Walmart and Toys R us. Funny,since WHEN did these 2 stores EVER carry LifeLike? BOTH dont carry a [censored]thing for model railroaders!!
QUOTE: Originally posted by simon1966 How much more available can they be? The products from LifeLike are already prominent in the Walthers catalog and the lower end trainsets are already at Walmart and Toys R us.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by gbailey Athearns web site has been a mess since Horizon took over !!! The old Athearn website was accessable and user friendly ... not so the "new and improved (?)" one.
QUOTE: Originally posted by orsonroy QUOTE: Originally posted by CNJ831 Has anybody stopped to give a thought to the basic situation that must have existed to create an atmosphere where Walthers had the potential for buying out LL? We all consider LL a major player in the hobby and its locomotives are generally held in high esteem and seem to sell well. Now Walthers is no billion dollar company by a long shot, so LL must have been either actively looking for a buyer or at least sending out vibes to that affect through the industry. To me this says LL could either see the future in model trains tails off or they were already not profitable enough to continue. I fully expect to see a cascade effect in the near future as the likes of IHC, Model Power, Accurail, Con-Cor, Branchline, et al. give up the ghost to Walthers. And if Walthers past company purchase record is any measure, expect to see very little of each line survive! CNJ831 Life Like, Inc., was bought out a year ago by an investment firm. Once they took control of the company and looked at the books, they saw that the only divisions that satisfied their desire to profit from their investment was the foam divisions (the gliders are mostly foam-based). So...they went shopping for buyers. And believe it or not, Walthers is one of the biggest boys on the block. I'm assuming here that Horizon was too debt-ridden from buying Athearn and Roundhouse in the same year, and Walthers had the ca***o pony up. Nothing unusual here; these things happen all the time.
QUOTE: Originally posted by CNJ831 Has anybody stopped to give a thought to the basic situation that must have existed to create an atmosphere where Walthers had the potential for buying out LL? We all consider LL a major player in the hobby and its locomotives are generally held in high esteem and seem to sell well. Now Walthers is no billion dollar company by a long shot, so LL must have been either actively looking for a buyer or at least sending out vibes to that affect through the industry. To me this says LL could either see the future in model trains tails off or they were already not profitable enough to continue. I fully expect to see a cascade effect in the near future as the likes of IHC, Model Power, Accurail, Con-Cor, Branchline, et al. give up the ghost to Walthers. And if Walthers past company purchase record is any measure, expect to see very little of each line survive! CNJ831