PeterStiles

You can see parallels of the Hornby technology with the Scalextric technology, so the advent of App Controlled stuff, then that widening to both DC/DCC control mechanisms... Looking at the TV Prog - the idea that the "Starter Set" for Hornby could potentially be a DCC Sound set if inviting - this actually does give you a progression from Play Trains. A child progressing from Playtrains with their hand-held controllers, with Sound, to a normal DC loco would feel like a real backward step in control and immersion, but moving from Playtrains to a HM7000-Starter set would seem fairly sensible. We know that a bluetooth module is fairly small and cheap (or else Philips Hue lightbulbs wouldn't contain them) so we could see the cost of the HM7000 decoders as not really being a big overhead on top of the basis Starter Set, especially as they swap the DC controller out for a cable.. ( 6 pin decoder RRP is £31, R7229 DC Controller RRP £20 - so DCC is only about a tenner more expensive to a starter set) I expect to see two versions of the B4-Maxi(*) Hornby Starter Set next year, one plain Bluetooth and one Bluetooth+Sound. (*) As shown on HAMW S2E2

I fear he's talking about the deep emotional risk of deciding to pick TT up and then be suddenly let down by a heartless company promising to deliver something that they fail to, and all his hopes and dreams will have been shattered and the next you know you're tripping over him outside the station. Or he could just be ignored and we'll get one with planning and building our next layouts whilst he whinges on.

Except in the 1st series of Hornby A Model World the entire reason behind tarting up the HST was because they'd heard "someone else was going to do one"(*)... I'm pretty sure the HST isn't a steam loco.. (*) Not that I believe -everything- I head on that show.

An 0-4-0! That means Hornby could use the Smokey Joe chassis!

Its called a "loss leader" aka.. "get 'em hooked, then whack the price up"

May I just say - this thread has the best title I've seen on RMWeb..

I went to puffers a couple of times, but to get there I had to walk past the (aforementioned) Harrow Model Shop... My legs got tired easily in those days. Oh no. That's *now*, sorry. I was just lazy then :)

However that was the 1970s :)

it was for minitrix "n"...

The only difference I can see is the complexity of the livery; occasionally the complexity of livery can account for a different price although...

Given the liveries the Holden 101 pops up (plus, e.g. LNER Class 43s..) in, I fear that this should really be referred "Hornby Style".

Another vote for The Harrow Model Shop - the people who levered the pocket money from my pockets for years on end. The Station Road triplex with Railway/Scalextric one side, Military/D&D/Model Kits the other side and that weird scary bit in the middle with the radio controlled machinery that I dursn't go near because everything was *so* expensive. The LGB rolling back and forth over the Railway Side window. The scowling when I tested the point on paintbrushes before picking one (as was recommended to me in a RM). The excitement when Super Glue 3 hit the market and they glued a 50p piece to the floor with it... My first yard of flexi track. Sniff...

I'd say "watch this space" but its actually "watch me brother"...

(cough) Southern Railway/Region (cough)

Just don't let Gostude get hold of this...

HELP!! MY EYES!! I CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE!!!

That just cost me 77p! That implies you are now a successful author who can retire on the proceeds of this novellette....

I thought that, until I remembered that you can set "Alexa" up so that two speakers are synchronised together enough to work not just as two speakers but two Stereo speakers. So - if a £30 Alexa unit can so that, why can't HM7000 have that ability? (i'm not saying its simple and cheap, i'm just saying it *is* possible)

I would ne more interested in sound quality than volume; so "better" speakers with a fuller bass sound than you can get from the small speaker in the train is where I would see this being of use - in particular the more "bass" a sound is the less "directional" it is, so I supposed what we're talking about is really a Sub-Woofer for the layout...

I dunno, I think *I* want one...

ONE PRESUMES(*) it'll work like the HM6000/6010 which involves a form of pairing; much like any other bluetooth device. Are you worried about your neighbours accessing any of your other bluetooth devices (e.g. Philips Hue lightbulbs) ? You should be... (which is like "assume" but you can't make fun of the word)

I believe: Railroad models have 3 colours or less. Railroad+ models have more than 3 colours. Thats what I've read.. Somewhere... Could have been on RMWeb so who knows how reliable it was?

I was hoping we were getting Union Of South Africa in garter blue. Oh well the only OO one I've got is an old Bachmann one, so this will look as a good replacement.

Well. The levers don't move. The lever in the middle is connected directly to the lever on the other side of the wagon. Which implies it should say "open/closed" on one side of the wagon and "closed/open" on the other side/ But it could mean that the connection from one side to the other isn't supposed to be as simple as the rod that the model has... So: what's it supposed to be then?

hmm. Someone's failed their checks... These shouldn't have been allowed out on the track... My wagons have five of these levers in the "locked" position but one of them is in the OPEN position! Oh My!