It is my understanding that MTH and Lionel struck the agreement a year ago. Lionel engineering has been working on these products since that time. In my past corporate experience it was common to delay announcing agreements of this sort for the benefit of the selling party and may have been a condition of the sale. If Lionel had announced this prior to now then, MTH would have been stuck with devalued inventory as customers may have made the decision to wait for the new stuff instead of buying the old. As far as remote systems go, I expect DCS to be around for no more than five years as a stand-alone organization. The volume of business necessary to support a separate organization may not be there in the coming years.
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