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When an idea is created or a better version of one is reinvented ( such as lionels proposed ez street system). Who and at what level decides weather it can be made into a production model and put in the catalogs? It just seems the jon z's team always has great ideas such as the better version of super streets, but these ideas get set aside or severely delayed or dropped altogether. If train hobbiest  on this forum seem to want it. would not the general public as well. Are we to small a market to listen too overall. Who makes the final call? I also wonder how many good ideas for our trains get shot down by the upper brass! This goes for all company's not just lionel per say. Just wondering.
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In any company, and toy train manufacturers are no different, a new product is a business decision.  Can we make it (have it made) dependably and at a cost we can control?  Will it sell?  Is there risk involved?  Part of that decision is not just that alone, but also a fucntion of "management bandwidth" - any company has only so much "new" it can do at a time.  I think right now, much of Lionel's and other companies' attention is directed at consolidating production away from China and other locations that are proving risky.  New products, good as the ideas may be, are not high enough on their priority list, I imagine.

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