It's not the most exciting announcement but it's nice to see some more releases of models that recently sold out. I am a bit bemused at the announcement of those old track accessories when there are so many available on ebay at a lower price.
However, a few weeks ago we had no idea that we were getting a new release so soon. People got frothing and are now disappointed. It might be better to completely surprise us like Hattons did today when a completely new tooling is not being announced.
I enjoy the little teases from Hornby, they are a very good way of creating interest but the risk is that people end up disappoined like today when actually there's quite a few nice things in there like the Peckett's and the Duchesses and Class 800.