Greekchief posted:If they are upset they should sell of the flyer brand. And hell may as well license the legacy and Chief technology to whom ever buys flyer. You get a lump sum payment for the sale. And dollars for every locomotive produced.
But let's be honest. Mabey they don't want flyer and S to succeed.
I'm pretty sure Lionel wants the Flyer line to succeed. If not, they might as well pack up the tooling and ship it off to Area 51.
The big problem as I see it, is they assume that Flyer and S folks in general are like the 3-rail O market and every time they just about get a handle on it, there's a change in management and it's back to square one.
Currently, the emphasis appears to be on traditional style Flyer with improved electronics and mechanics and that's fine. Plus, Lionel's decoration is second to none.
As Flyer people seem to outnumber us poor scale folks by about 6-7 to 1, it's only natural for Lionel to follow that market. But, it's also interesting to note that somehow, American Models and the former S Helper Service figured out how to appeal to both. (The jury's still out on MTH.)
P.S. I still think my Flyer SD70's and ES44 converted to scale are really neat. Once I changed the trucks & couplers on my Flyer cylindrical hoppers, they're also very nice cars...
Rusty
