Hornby 00 Gauge Trains on Film Titfield Thunderbolt Steam Locomotive Train Model

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There are plenty enough models that they could make, they could even make the ones promised in 2021 and 2020 catalogues, without having to copy someone else.

However, there is a wrinkle in the story, as Canadian model train manufacturer Rapido Trains had previously announced their own Titfield Thunderbolt train set. Rapido publicly announced shortly after that they are making Lion and the Titfield Thunderbolt train packs (under licence from Studio Canal) for the 80th Anniversary of the film and had begun work on CAD etc. To me the madness is, they could have tooled up the 14xx and the Wisbech coach and enjoyed complimentary sales from the licensed rapido product. Rapido publicly announced shortly after that they are making Lion and the Titfield Thunderbolt train packs (under licence from Studio Canal) for the 70th Anniversary of the film and had begun work on CAD etc.Secondly If I was a retailer Id be doing my utmost to lessen dependence on Hornby or even do without .

An awful lot of the complaints about Hornby copying people are very dubious as are complaints from people who don't understand the Tier System for retailers. I’m not joining any boycott of Hornby for two reasons, there’s plenty of folks relying on their jobs in Hornby and if the Hornby model doesn’t duplicate someone else’s announcement and it’s something I wanted then it’s a nice to have.I was therefore extremely disappointed when they announced packs that appeared solely aimed at fans of fictional representations (or possibly an attempt at ignoring intellectual property for those with a cynical mind).