dkdkrd posted:leikec posted:... the bottom line for Lionel, MTH, and others is pretty simple--if you don't make it, people won't buy it.
Jeff C
As relates to the "bottom line" of a business and production choices, if people won't buy it, you don't make it.
That's pretty simple, too.
KD
Certainly it is...but on the other hand it isn't as if it's a secret that S scale is a small market.
Perhaps S scale isn't viable under any circumstances, but it was immediately obvious to me when this locomotive was announced that something was weird about the price point. Anyone who follows the industry at all would have been skeptical of the math underlying the pricing--just look at Rapido's pricing on their HO scale Royal Hudson by comparison. Now think about their probable production forecasts versus the most optimistic possible outcome for a Legacy S scale steam loco...
If an industry outsider like me could see the problem you'd think that the bean counters at Lionel would have noticed right away.
Jeff C
