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While perhaps of marginal interest to most people here, yesterday Hornby announced their programme of new releases for the coming year, amounting to more than 360 items. This is a reflection that for Hornby, despite the pandemic, 2019 was a good year.This is perhaps a reflection of the fact that while some people have lost jobs and income, others unable to travel or take holidays have found themselves with spare money available for what I would term hobby hardware, including model railways. Being confined to home is of course an additional incentive. I wonder if this will be reflected by other manufacturers as they announce their new releases over the coming weeks?
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Originally Posted by: rmsailor  This is a reflection that for Hornby, despite the pandemic, 2019 was a good year. Yes, 2019 was a good year. |
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Doubt very much Marklin will do anything like this. At most some new paint schemes but nothing completely NEW. But I may be wrong.
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Originally Posted by: ocram63_uk Doubt very much Marklin will do anything like this. At most some new paint schemes but nothing completely NEW. But I may be wrong. I think you are wrong, but my lips are sealed . . . Nigel |
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Originally Posted by: rmsailor
While perhaps of marginal interest to most people here, yesterday Hornby announced their programme of new releases for the coming year, amounting to more than 360 items. This is a reflection that for Hornby, despite the pandemic, 2019 was a good year.This is perhaps a reflection of the fact that while some people have lost jobs and income, others unable to travel or take holidays have found themselves with spare money available for what I would term hobby hardware, including model railways. Being confined to home is of course an additional incentive. I wonder if this will be reflected by other manufacturers as they announce their new releases over the coming weeks?
Bob M.
Hello Bob, I just did a search on Hornby and it’s a win win situation! Jun 7, 2013 Where are Hornby model trains made? Hornby, the model train manufacturer that also owns Airfix, is to return some manufacturing from China and India to Britain, becoming the latest UK company to repatriate production because of rising wage costs in emerging markets. Now that’s great news and since that was eight years ago how are they on track for producing products in Britain?
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Hornby's new Playtrains looks a LOT like Maerklin MyWorld... and apparently cheaper too :O |
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Originally Posted by: Dimi194 Hornby's new Playtrains looks a LOT like Maerklin MyWorld... and apparently cheaper too :O They first introduced those about two years ago. There are more features on the Marklin one IIRC from a comparison I did back then.
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A couple of years back, Hornby weren't producing much new stuff so the two biggest British shops and on-line dealers, Rails of Sheffield and Hattons, formerly of Liverpool and now just down the road in Widness, started designing and commissioning production of new models from China.
They were the Class 66 - Hattons, Terriers - Rails, blue open wagon to go with the Rocket set - Rails, and 4 and 6 wheeled Genesis coaches - Hattons. There have been some fallings out with Hornby over this and now Rails don't stock Hornby any more. I imagine Hattons are a bit P'd off with them too as very similar items now appear in the new Hornby catalogue and range 2021. There's fair competition, there's duplicating and there's plagiarism. I would have thought Hornby could have made something else instead of copying RoS and Hattons designs.
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I think you are wrong, but my lips are sealed . .
For how long?
Hans
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Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Originally Posted by: Dimi194 Hornby's new Playtrains looks a LOT like Maerklin MyWorld... and apparently cheaper too :O They first introduced those about two years ago. There are more features on the Marklin one IIRC from a comparison I did back then. That previous one was more like a battery powered 'normal' HO train on plastic track, as opposed to the new one which is like MyWorld with it's own magnet system, RC controller, fully plastic track etc. |
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Originally Posted by: 2fingers
I think you are wrong, but my lips are sealed . .
For how long?
Hans
Wait until the 21st of January  Austria and Switzerland fans shouldn’t be disappointed  A.
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Originally Posted by: AntoinePrt Wait until the 21st of January You said the same thing in the Marklin thread, are you now taking about Hornby or are you talking about Marklin in a Hornby thread?
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