MTH Tinplate releases this week

Thanks for posting.

 

Wonder how those boats will sell?

I can't see the boats doing well.  They would look good on the mantle, but not sure they have a place even on a toy layout

I need to start saving my pennies for that A.F. red president special set, it looks fantastic.

 

 

John.

I saw the boat and it looks great. Worth $400? up to you.

I can see it under a Hellgate bridge on a Standard gauge layout.

Does anyone have the red presidential set? Let's see some photos and video!

 

Sunrise

I'll be patient and try and pick up a boat on the secondary market.

 

 

John.

They already had the tooling, and maybe a previous backlog? 

I like the boats too. But for me it wound end up stuffed in my curio cabinet. Even at a price point of 50% off I'm not sure I'd bite. Think anyone will take theirs down to the lake for a run? Me neither!

Maybe not "down to the lake" but I can easily imagine one running across a large fountain pool at a local city park.

 

Bob

Maybe not "down to the lake" but I can easily imagine one running across a large fountain pool at a local city park.

 

That's what they were designed for. Remember, Lionel was a New York company. Back when they were making those boats, lots of kids had large sailboats and motorboats to sail in ponds, fountains, or Central Park Lake. Come to think of it, the last time I was in Paris I saw some kids playing with boats in a fountain a block or two from the Seine.

 

My father had a couple of toy sailboats about two feet long when he was a kid; unfortunately they were given away when my grandparents moved to Arizona and I don't have them. 

You have to admit it would be the coolest toy boat on the water! I like the orange and blue but I don't see springing for one in the near future.

I bought one of the boats, years ago, when they were made for LTI.  Silly me, I actually tried to run it.  Lubed the spring and ran it twice.  Never wound the spring all the way up. First time it ran fine, second time during winding I heard something pop and I could tell something broke with regards to the spring.  Sent it in for repair.  I don't think I received the same one back. Anyway, the mechanism that controls the rudder has a rod attached to it.  I could hear the rod bouncing around when I took it out of the box. NTL, I lubed the spring, wound it up and the rudder mechanism wouldn't work.  I gave up on it at that point and got my money back.