"...why doesn't someone reissue the Thomas trains in G scale? You see the Thomas and James sets, which are cheaply made at best, going for 300 bucks on ebay"....
I asked the "Bach-man" about that once, since Bachmann produces an EXCELLENT line of Thomas trains in HO. The problem is, it's a LICENSING/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/crazy.gif issue; Lionel apparently has the licensing for both Thomas & the "Polar Express"
locked up
for G scale. Considering the fact that Lionel's G-gauge (I'm sure NOT going to use the word "SCALE" in relation to their products!/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/sick.gif ) efforts seem to have gone from "BAD" to
WORSE over the years (their early semi-scale PRR E6 Atlantic, for instance, was nicely proportioned/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/blush.gif if a bit on the coarse/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/whistling.gif side, detail wise), they must be throwing
WADS of cash to hold onto those licenses! (And we have people here b*tching /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/unsure.gif about the lack of quality in Bachmann's K-27, which is an absolute
WORK OF ART!/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/w00t.gif , in comparison to the utter TRASH/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/sick.gif Lionel
DARES to call "G-scale"/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/crying.gif I agree, it's a shame/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/plain.gif - Bachmann would probably be able to sell a
QUALITY Thomas set as fast as they could make them!

Tom