okay I'm going to ask as I must be missing something here and from what I can see I'am the only one what is the big fascination with lionchief and lionchief plus to me we just stepped backwards in progress about 20 years it's not compatible with the original TMCC or Legacy ( yes you can run it on the same track at the same time ) the most you can control at one time is 4 trains I believe and with a little more research I see lionel offers that remote for $49.99 so you need to buy another remote to do that.
I can actually see the use for someone under the age of 12 or 13 or for around the Christmas tree but from what I'm getting there a lot going hog wild over these and to me they don't even look much better than a cheap toy. ( unless I've been seeing the worst not the best) And now the only way you can get a non-lionchief/plus set is to pay right at $1000 or more and theres like only two offered like that even the dealers sets are Lionechief talk about having something forced sale to the public if they want your brand you need to buy that or spend money that equals about 2 weeks pay to a months pay for some to get away from it. Personally all this is doing to me is getting me to go away from anything new or look at MTH or Williams when it comes to new. I do not see any advantage to this new lionchief system in fact I see a big disadvantage you now can run 4 trains off one control before with the introductory TMCC I could run 99 different engines and 9 TR settings plus others items but this new less progress item is now all you can buy new .