Straight out of the 1960's... Holy BAT Cancellations-That-Might-Not-Be-Cancelled-After-All!!!
I can't believe my eyes. Just looked at Lionel's latest online shipping schedule dated 3/27/2015, and all those 18" aluminum cars that were cancelled a few weeks ago are still on the shipping schedule, but -- get this -- they're now showing ETA's of January 2016 through March 2016. WTF!!!
Maybe it's an early April Fool's joke???
Seriously... do any of our sponsor dealers here have a clue whether these 2016 dates have an ounce of reality as they pertain to the 18" aluminum passenger cars that were recently "cancelled"? Very strange, indeed. I wonder if Lionel will produce these cars as 18"-size after all. The big question now is... will they be aluminum or plastic??? Or is this just all mass confusion???
I'm gonna send Lionel an inquiry, and see how they respond. Stay tuned...
David
P.S. Well at least Lionel finally removed the Big Boys from the shipping roster!!! I guess it's safe to say the Big Boys have shipped (in case anyone had any doubts).