Reply to "A Practical Future for Toy Trains"

@Bill DeBrooke posted:
It is difficult for me to see that the current thread of development will attract a hoard of younger players into the hobby.

IMO. Tying trains to some other interest does not make a hobbyist/model railroader.

This is what I find odd even with this app based control stuff. Themed train sets. Or anything else.

Thinking one can be baited into the hobby by associating some other area of actual interest. This makes for "temporary" newcomers at best. Once they realize ,the train still goes in a circle, just like they did 120 years ago.

I knew I liked model trains when I was 5, because they were model trains. I still liked them when I was 10, 20...and today...because they are model trains, not Disney characters, or some vr control magic device.....or whatever.

If you paint a set of golf clubs blue and orange and put a Lionel logo on each one. I guarantee I still won't like golf.😉

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