Byron: Kudos for the Grumpy Old Men reference....and I do have some Lake Erie walleye for you....but I won't stick it in your car without letting you know first.
FWIW, there is a difference between simply complaining.....and the purchasers of a product voicing their displeasure in said product b/c it didn't meet their expectations. Expectations, I might add, that are simply based on a prior run from the same manufacturer.
When you have skin in the game, you're not just a complainer. You're an end user commenting on the product in question. In this case, it's an expensive product....that we had to wait for and agreed to purchase sight unseen.
To the extent that I've waited so long for my 3985, my anticipation built over time. (I even bought a JLC 4014 in the interim.) When that anticipation is met with less than expected results, disappointment sets in.
Fortunately, Big Orange appears to be making this right....or at least giving one the option of going down that path. I feel that, eventually, I'll have the locomotive that I wanted when I ordered it. I may have to send it back for a sound upgrade and then manually change the position of the front drivers....but I'll have my VL UP 3985 without smoke deflectors....that I can run with my first Legacy version 844 and JLC Big Boy.
