For those of you who don't know, Lionel is running a contest to design your own Box Car:
It's recently been discovered that a Lionel employee tried to secretly get his own design entered into the contest by having someone else submit his design for him. However, a hidden camera caught the whole thing on film:
Lest anyone take this too seriously, although the box car design contest is very real, the part about cheating and a hidden camera is humorous.
Stu
All Lionel, All The Time
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Cute!
Thanks for posting,
Don
Well it seems to be the way things are done these days. A chess master was got downloading moves from a hidden smartphone during a major international chess tournament. He is probably going to be banned for fifteen years from tournament play.
In the words of Hunter S. Thompson..."a generation of swine."
When I saw this post only one "employee" came to mind...... Yep that will be the one
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Nick
i must be missing something. 1st prize first car off the line and $250. and lets see chance to lose your job. i could see cheating to win the Powerball for 100 million plus but a Lionel car and 250 bucks. I have your sign : genius at work !
I knew it!
Very good advertisement!
The kids told Mike, didn't they? :-)
Good to see some humor from Lionel but I think some may not realize this is just a cute advertisement for a contest.
Trains are supposed to be fun.
Tony
Up on "The D & H Bridge Line"
Very innovative thinking.
It looks like the engineering department where I work.....
Our drawings come out in crayon also.... Hmmmmm .....
This is a fun idea. My little guy is working on his submission right now.
Very nice! Great way to drum up interest in the contest!
Gentlemen,
Ya go to love it!
PCRR/Dave
Mike my daughter is ok submitting your idea
Maybe a little too ironic for the general public.
way to go Mike!!!
hahahahahah!!!!!
That was funny!
Must have been "Take your repairman to school day!" It's a good thing to get those kids interested in the repair of our trains!
Outstanding!
Loved it!
Peter
Speaking of Lionel and humor, do any of you recall some years ago when the Toyota Pavilion (Orange Hall) at the York meet was rather new and someone managed to get on the PA system to announce that there was going to be a seminar on ethics in the model train business conducted by a certain Bob Gxxxx?
That drew a lot of laughs.
Good one.
Classic!
Great job Lionel! Laughing at yourself is pretty good medicine!
Funny stuff!!
Funny, cute and a Great Public Relations Advertisement!!!!
Ralph
One kid was overheard saying, " Who was that jolly blue Giant?" 
As a teacher I had to pull myself back into the chair from the floor.
Hysterical !!!
Do our own !
Do our own !
Funny!
Well done Lionel!
Seriously. From a guy who spent last week in multi-media marketing seminars... that was really well done. Somebody at Lionel deserves kudos. I hope they're using this across all media platforms.
Jon
great name for a pre-school, Ruckus House!!
fantastic video!
ROTFL!! (Rolling on the floor laughing.)
WELL DONE!
That's hilarious!
--Greg
Now that's a good one!
And to think, when I first saw the title of this thread my first thought this was going to be about Bob Grubba (old news).
Now that's a good one!
And to think, when I first saw the title of this thread my first thought this was going to be about Bob Grubba (old news).
John,
Check my earlier post on this topic.
Nice twist. I was expecting to see the lead actor make an appearance, hunched over a drawing board being filmed by a security camera, and then passing the work off to a toddler, lol.
So, how many of you have entered???
Hey Mike. I don't know if you have kids or plan to have kids but get use to it! They won't listen to you either! 
He could all way's ask Mike Wolf to do it for him .
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