I love mth tinplate. Paying homage to the past with modern motors and electronics is fantastic. And while I don’t want my pretty shiny pieces to get banged up, tinplate can be fixed but plastics can shatter. I am reasonably sure that tinplate will make another comeback under mth’s banner, given a bit of time for remaining inventory to move. Right now I am working on assembling a collection of all the mth made 816/2816 hoppers I can identify. Perhaps with the lct arrangement over we will finally see some new wheel arrangements.