Chris Zizzo wrote:
<...Now here's where I get in trouble with you guys.
<I have not been a fan of starter sets. We had that
<very labored discussion aboutthem some time ago and
<I'm not looking to open that can of worms again.
<But, I will say that there was nothing that filled
<the bill for me in getting a modern day kid into toy
<trains within this gauge.
<
<As nice as they are, Don's SHS starters are too tame
<for a kid. They don't have sufficient play value for
<the five year old of 2002. They would have been fine
<competition for Flyer back in 1952, because, back
<ten, when I was five, I was poring over Flyer
<catalogs and whetting my appetite for trains to run.
<I already had owned a starter set for 3 years and
<loved trains for themselves. Trains were a regular
<part of our lives in those days.
<
<Caleb doesn't know too much about trains. His key
<phrase was "Are they double-deckers?" Our Long
<Island railroad runs bi-level coaches now. It is his
<only link to real railroading, He sees no freight
<trains where he lives, so his interest was limited to
<passenger trains. It was just a question of
<relevance. I had to find a set of trains that would
<connect to his world. I did find it, too.
Chris, welcome to the dark side. This is just the
argument that I made earlier when I suggested that we
press K-Line to enter the S gauge market. As I
remember, you completely dismissed that idea at the
time. But now you have found, as I as a dealer have
found, that we do not have what we need as an
inexpensive, play-value, starter set. Hopefully, if
the K-Line rumor is true, that may be changing soon
and we can get more kids into the perfect gauge.
However, I just got off the telephone with Nick Ladd,
their sales representative, and he knows nothings
about any K-Line entry into the S gauge market and
strongly doubts it will happen--at least not in the
near future.
Joe
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