|
|
 Posted - January 13 2007 : 02:54:17 AM
|
Why do people go bonkers every time those hideous Tyco Bicentennial cars in the Reverse Color Scheme pop up on eBay or at a train show. :^) I know they're not at all common out there for sale ... but they look like Tyco just resprayed a batch of shells and just slapped on some quickie Bicentennial logos while they worked on the better looking Striped cars. (Okay, yes I know all model companies just respray the same old shells with different logos - but in this case, these just looked really cheap ...)
I remember when those things first came out and I saw them at a Sears Toy Department (god that was eons ago - does Sears even have a toy department anymore?) and no one was buying them.
A shelf of them sat there for a long time, after which I guess Sears got rid of them. When the Stripes came, those things sold out quick. I have the Short Stripe set, it's what my parents bought for me that Christmas. On another forum, someone was discussing the fact that someone at Tyco thought they were pretty ugly too - hence the switch to the 3 stripes. I just wondered if Tony Cook knew if this was true or not.
I like caffeine and a chainsaw ...
Edited by - HOScale Model Railroader on January 13 2007 02:56:43 AM
|
Country:  USA ~
Posts: 141 ~
Member Since: January 06 2007 ~
Last Visit: February 05 2011
|
Alert Moderator
|
|
|
scmich
Little Six
Status:
offline
| |
 Posted - January 13 2007 : 11:02:36 AM
|
I agree the graphics are a little disappointing compared to some of the 70's boxcars (Old Spice, Canadiana, Maxwell House, and the other 76 cars), but I gotta have it. Just gotta have it.
Its part of the mystique these thing had when I was a kid. My first Tyco was a Rock Island Alco 430 set which to this day I just love. I watched those lighted number boards go round and round and round.....
That train was on the layout from 75-79. Right in the heart of Spirit of 76 mania. My younger brother had the Spirit of 76 Steam engine and old time passenger set. So collecting pieces that I wasn't able to have as a kid is part of the fun for me.
On my wall I will soon have what amounts to my dream collection when I was a kid, after going through the Tyco catalog every year around Xmas.
We didn't have much back then, but those Tyco trains were gold to me and my brothers.
HappyHunting.
Scott
|
|
Country: USA ~
Posts: 122 ~
Member Since: October 26 2006 ~
Last Visit: March 23 2026
|
Alert Moderator
|
|
Home
Forums
Events Calendar
Forum Admins & Mods
Register
