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This thread is prompted by Pedro's call for "The Blue Pullman" (again, you have to admire his tenacity
) in another thread. Rather than hijack that one completely, I've started this one because as disappointed BP fans are only too well aware "The Blue Pullman" train set being offered by Hornby this season (download the full PDF here) is the right colours but that's about it.
Now I was wondering is this Hornby testing the water to see if a "pretty" blue and white train will sell the Christmas train set market and if it is sufficiently popular, will they then authorise tooling of the real thing?
A subsidiary question is, "Is this an attempt to see if 'cute and pretty' sells?".
Our first trainset would have been "The Blue Pullman" if it hadn't been for the "nicer lamps" (my mother's words) in the Britannia hauled Pullman set which we actually got instead.
So any thoughts?
David

Now I was wondering is this Hornby testing the water to see if a "pretty" blue and white train will sell the Christmas train set market and if it is sufficiently popular, will they then authorise tooling of the real thing?
A subsidiary question is, "Is this an attempt to see if 'cute and pretty' sells?".
Our first trainset would have been "The Blue Pullman" if it hadn't been for the "nicer lamps" (my mother's words) in the Britannia hauled Pullman set which we actually got instead.
So any thoughts?
David