"Lionel is NOT discontinuing the Legacy remotes. "
Not only that, but every single one of the hundreds of thousands of Lionel sets for sale, including Ready to Play sets for under $100, have a remote included. Thus justifying MTH's decision making by stating "Lionel hit me first" or "Lionel will do dumb things in the future" isn't going to work with Mom and Dad 
. And probably not with a lot of consumers.
I think it is a near certainty that Lionel keeps making a remote that operates all its locomotives made from here on in. They would be deeply misguided not to. Dave Olson is probably reading this thread and thinking "we'll find a way to make this work." Lionel has the additional advantage that they are trying to remain in business as an ongoing full train line concern. MTH and DCS are heading to stasis, or the history books, depending on whose goat entrails you are reading.
