Porcy Mane Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 40 minutes ago, Classsix T said: when you wandered off the tourist trail into that London's Soho in the 70s Porcy? Nah... ... it was the early 1980's 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 3 minutes ago, Porcy Mane said: Nah... ... it was the early 1980's My apologies for such a horrendous misconception, they'd be VHS and/or BetaMax movie titles then, obvs. C6T. 2 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 20 minutes ago, Classsix T said: My apologies for such a horrendous misconception, they'd be VHS and/or BetaMax movie titles then, obvs. I wouldn't know dearheart. I've never owned a TV nor a VCR although I did once buy my parents a video recorder. My ex used to live in Soho (don't ask) so I spent quite a bit of time there. It was handy for visiting St Martins Models, Motorbooks, Kings Cross (the model shop, not the arches) and 14 New Cavendish Street. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 40 minutes ago, Porcy Mane said: I wouldn't know dearheart. I've never owned a TV nor a VCR although I did once buy my parents a video recorder. My ex used to live in Soho (don't ask) so I spent quite a bit of time there. It was handy for visiting St Martins Models, Motorbooks, Kings Cross (the model shop, not the arches) and 14 New Cavendish Street. Right, from a jovial tie-in of faux porno movie titles I now know more about you than I ever needed to. Thanks. C6T. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldomtom2 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Classsix T said: Absolutely this. An army of people are employed by various companies purely to protect the IP of their clients, not for petty small fry one offs, but because if not done it sets up the opportunity for others to make serious bank from the inactions of the IP holder which then has weakened legal recourse. As I have repeated multiple times - where is your source for this? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 16 minutes ago, Classsix T said: Right, from a jovial tie-in of faux porno movie titles I now know more about you than I ever needed to. Ah! but is it true or total fantasy. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddles Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Interesting news today about Hornby granting a licence to Kidicraft, to market a collection of jigsaw puzzles based on popular and classic Hornby brands. I am left wondering how they would react if another jigsaw manufacturer brought out a series of jigsaws "inspired by British toy and model making companies". Not very likely though, I have to admit. Hornby licence joins Kidicraft portfolio - Toy World Magazine https://toyworldmag.co.uk/Hornby-licence-joins-kidicraft-portfolio/ 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 There have been previous Hornby Brand jigsaws. Hornby (Railways) we have. There are/ were others. Including Scalextric I think ( cannot remember them all…) Hornby licensed the various brands, including Hornby Trains (Meccano Ltd.) and Hornby Dublo. These appeard on stationery, notebooks (paper, not computer!), etc. There were Arrow Jigsaws in the 1960s, using the images from Tri-ang Railways catalogue covers. Though then, I believe that Arrow was part of the Lines Bros. Group…Tri-ang. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMS Posted January 21, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2022 Porky. What - you never visited Hamblings or Beatties or Victors? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 15 minutes ago, BMS said: What - you never visited Hamblings or Beatties or Victors? If there was a good eatery or pub nearby, very probably. "Beatties". Wasn't that the glorified toy shop? My Old Dutch" was opposite. Good pancakes if I remember correctly. Twas all a blur. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 5 hours ago, eldomtom2 said: As I have repeated multiple times - where is your source for this? Past history. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldomtom2 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 9 hours ago, Classsix T said: Past history. Such as...? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 18 hours ago, Porcy Mane said: Tis the duelling season? "Oh, a duel! How very delightful!" 5 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2022 One important point in all this to-ing and fro-ing about what form of legal action might or might not take place in respect of Hornby using anything at all to do with the film 'The Titifield Thunderbolt' is that none of us have the faintest idea what anyone is or isn't actually doing. And if someone should happen to know that then they ought to be keeping their tryping finger well away from their keyboard (or electronic communication devices area available). It's all a bit like the Hornby (other brands are available) announcements or even announcements of announcement where we all have a guessing game about what might or might not be announced which all too often turns into a wishlist. But here we seem to have almost a wishlist - more like a guess list - about what Party A might do to the Party of the Other Part and whose law or legal procedure (perm any one from at least half a dozen) might or might not be used on whatever basis anyone can think of. As with any announcement we will only know if and when anything gets into the public arena. Our only other guide might, or might not, be unusual movements in Hornby's share price (however as anyone else who watches that will know that it goes up & down like the proverbial yo-yo - or even a real yo-yo). 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Apart from setting a legal precedent, another reason why StudioCanal would want to protect their IP in a relatively low-key case like this is that other companies who have been considering entering into a similar arrangement with SC may think twice if they don't think SC are going to back up their agreement should another company try to infringe it. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 22, 2022 Author Moderators Share Posted January 22, 2022 5 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said: they ought to be keeping their tryping finger well away from their keyboard There's been a lot of triping going on. 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2022 Getting back to the serious stuff I don't remember this scene from the film https://www.listal.com/viewimage/22459824 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 11 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said: Getting back to the serious stuff I don't remember this scene from the film https://www.listal.com/viewimage/22459824 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Brune 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Titfield_Thunderbolt 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Hornby could always do a "Minder on the Orient Express" pack with a 73 and some Pullmans, complete with Arfur Daley and Terry figures 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Will she be supplied with the special train pack? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Vistisen Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 16/01/2022 at 17:38, melmerby said: Which almost instantly got nullified by 'all region' players.... The real reason for regional restrictions on DVDs was that films were released in regions as there were not enough prints made for worldwide releases. So by restricting the sale of discs to areas where the cinema releases had been and gone. The film distributors could maximise their profits. The rise of digital projectors removed the need for staggering releases at about the same time as increasing internet bandwidth made it possible for consumer s to download digital copies, legal or otherwise. The same thing could happen in the model world soon. Why buy a model that you can 3d scan and print from a friend who bought one? It might well be that in the future we will just buy mechanisms and print the body we want. In that world, the fight over who has the rights to models will become as archaic as record labels are in the age of Spotify and Tidal. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 6 minutes ago, Vistisen said: Why buy a model that you can 3d scan and print from a friend who bought one? Getting the same quality from a 3D print as the manufacturer's original will cost a lot more than buying what the manufacturer is offering. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 22, 2022 Author Moderators Share Posted January 22, 2022 14 minutes ago, Vistisen said: Why buy a model that you can 3d scan and print from a friend who bought one? That's never likely to be viable and it ever did one to be you could kiss new development goodbye. Timmy Tightwad would still have to paint it. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldomtom2 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 26 minutes ago, Vistisen said: The real reason for regional restrictions on DVDs was that films were released in regions as there were not enough prints made for worldwide releases. So by restricting the sale of discs to areas where the cinema releases had been and gone. The film distributors could maximise their profits. The rise of digital projectors removed the need for staggering releases at about the same time as increasing internet bandwidth made it possible for consumer s to download digital copies, legal or otherwise. Region locked releases are still a thing for digital releases for a variety of other reasons, in particular region-dependent prices. (A particular bugbear of Australians...) 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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