The folks at Lionel might as well just release the thing online I mean it's showing up everywhere. Unless you are willing to enforce the no catalog before the online release then all the secrecy is a moot point.
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I guess a good suggestion to prevent catalog leaks is to ship them the day it goes online. People may receive them late though.
It's not on here?
Well, that's good I suppose.
And me misinterpreting the thread title punctuation, thought they actually had done so! 
Oh well. Only ~ 2 weeks to go. In the mean time, I can think about the missing trains in the Hobby Shop to remind me to not over-preorder on offerings.
-Dave
They might as well, just get the orders in earlier then.
I still give credit to Lionel releasing them to the dealers early in an effort to get traffic into brick and mortar hobby shops.
Chris
MartyE posted:The folks at Lionel might as well just release the thing online I mean it's showing up everywhere. Unless you are willing to enforce the no catalog before the online release then all the secrecy is a moot point.
I totally agree Marty. This is just getting stupid. For the second catalog in a row, dealers have gotten hard copies prior to the scheduled release date. Last time a kid posted it on YouTube, and Lionel begged Alan to try and "put the toothpaste back in the tube" here on the forum. This shouldn't be his problem, it should be Lionel's. If they can't control either their printer or their dealers, then they might as well level the playing field, and just put it up online, as soon as the customers get a whiff. This is simply nonsense. This never used to happen. What changed this year?
It is all part of the hype. People jumpin from web site to web site lookin for a peek.
yamaha226 posted:It is all part of the hype. People jumpin from web site to web site lookin for a peek.
That concept had crossed my mind. If that's the plan, it's kind of working. But then Lionel shouldn't come back and ask Alan to clean up the forum, like last time.
They’re probably too busy uploading another Paul Bunyan wannabe video to Facebook to focus on doing something productive like uploading the new catalog.
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The ad man strikes again. Isn’t Lionel getting two more weeks of hype out of the ad cycle? Create controversy to fill the void. I wonder where they learned that from ?
What MartyE said.
Ben
Big_Boy_4005 posted:yamaha226 posted:It is all part of the hype. People jumpin from web site to web site lookin for a peek.
That concept had crossed my mind. If that's the plan, it's kind of working. But then Lionel shouldn't come back and ask Alan to clean up the forum, like last time.
Unless Lionel thought that there was something even slightly damaging in the thread. Typically the threads that happens to are when people complain about the quality - or lack thereof.
Who cares? I hope Lionel doesn’t chime in at all. It is what it is. I’ll look at the catalog when I get one. Too many real life things to worry about.
romiller49 posted:Who cares? I hope Lionel doesn’t chime in at all. It is what it is. I’ll look at the catalog when I get one. Too many real life things to worry about.
Says the man who cares enough to post to this thread.
Dang, I thought you meant Lionel had put the catalog online.
Same here!
Put the catalog online!
