I voted in that survey fully prepared to purchase products if made. I also put in a reservation for a set of the GGD passenger cars.
Something seems a little off to me. There are an adequate number of S scale operators willing to pay $2,900 for a RR engine with DCC, and $2,600 just DC to enable tooling and manufacture. People are also paying $350 for RR REA cars. Why would the same group of S scale operators object so strongly to $1,800 for a set of scale passenger cars? The target market is not the Gilbert/Lionel S operators since the planned GGD cars will not run on 20" R track.
My old TMCC Pacifics have 4 chuffs with synched fan driven smoke. They are nice running and great looking engines.