This is a bad thing, and that's from a guy who is past his "buying years" and who uses only TMCC-based command systems. MTH made great products, consistently better than most others on balance, and kept Lionel on its creaky old toes, mostly.
I hope his employees (as he mentioned) buy him out and switch to TMCC-based command control. That probably will not happen. I thought somebody might buy Weaver's operation. Nope. The demographics of this 3RO industry are not impossible, but they are not bright and shiny, either.
"...switch to TMCC-based command control" - this because there have been a few - and have continued to be - MTH catalogue offerings that made me consider a purchase, even lately, but then I said, as usual, "...well, still DCS/PS3, and I don't run the ones for that system that I already have, so....no". This would also finally give us the universal command system that 3RO almost has.
As a hobbyist, though, a 3RO world without Mike Wolf is a little scary.
