creating a winter scenery is something different and it takes a certain effort to create one. there is a ski lift available, cable car but when it comes to people the choice is suddenly plummeting to almost zero. you have 1 set of skiers (6 different position) or standing skiers (6) you may get 2 different variety of people dressed in Winter clothe, a man pushing a sled with a kid on it, or the odd working person or railway personell most probably father Christmas, a Christmas tree and this is it.

when you look at the summer collection or selections you can almost find a person for any profession, leisure, you named its there to buy.

there must be at least thousand different type of people and positions. I've started re-painting the gear they are wearing to make them appear slightly different.

Again manufacturers bring out digital snowplows (very nice) but have nothing to go with it, for me very disappointing.

John

it could be when looking at all the other summer figures, may be someone in the inventive or incentive department hates the winter but the irony is that about 7 month of the year they can experience snow. German railways (the most popular one doesn't have real beaches or hot weather like the southern Country of Italy which hasn't got a wide product range Märklin) . SBB and Austria is the next country whereas you can say although its also beautiful in summer time, these countries lie in snow most of the time or have they started producing figures now because of climate change , maybe its time to produce more umbrellas, floodwater scenes or layouts suffering from bush fires.
you can get at least enough different houses or churches to fill your winter scenery.

I have about another 4 or 5 sets coming, don't know exactly what it is but I have already got one set which I have to alter so it looks like they are wearing winter clothe.
I like to know how Hamburg got on with it because they have extensive winter scenes unless they've created their own figures but on the surface it could be the Preiser family has been 1000 times copied over and over again.

John