"Not sure how lawyers jumped into the thread but the data in the link was convincing enough. If you bother to read it."
I read the thread although I'm not sufficiently expert to evaluate the details. My take is that some knowledgeable folks think this is an inferior design to previous locos, and some locos have failed. Those are the facts. That's a very long way from claiming without qualification that Lionel is selling off stock because the locos have a design defect. If you can understand the difference between facts and speculation, and the implications.
Stating as a fact that Lionel is selling these locos off because the drive train self-destructs, when it is almost certainly untrue (see Beth Marshall's post above), is grounds for legal action, should Lionel wish to waste their time and money on a single rash and defamatory comment about their business and motives. Then again this is the internet, and rash and factually suspect comments are everywhere 
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