@Mikado 4501 posted:The only thing that’s confusing me a bit is its pricing with dealers.
Most of the dealers I purchase from have the prices of this locomotive fluctuating from MSRP to a preorder price and back again. What’s up with that?
What I heard from my dealer is that Lionel gave the dealers an incorrect pre-order discount. Lionel realized this on the day of the catalog release so a lot of the prices that were originally published by the dealers was with the incorrect discount. Perhaps there is still some confusion on prices going around.
My dealer also mentioned that there will not be a huge pre-order discount on these since it's new tooling AND brass hybrid.