Smashing models
Excellent pricing structure (I must have saved a King's ransom in early bird prices over the years)

BUT

I (and I'm sure I'm not alone) am getting seriously ticked off (being polite for the forum) at the lack of response coming out of the Revolution website contact page. I really can't see the point of having such a page if no one looks at it and responds. Maybe it should carry a warning "Abandon Hope all ye who enter here"

I'm positive the staff at Revolution would soon be up in arms if they were treated as badly. I'd put their communications on a par with Osborn's Models (believe me – that's no compliment)

Please – you're letting yourselves down as regards service. Please sort it

Not sure about the vocals but the guitar playing is great

For @Newportnobby ...


Good as well.

Tim

Quote from: Bealman on Today at 01:51:27 AMYour last paragraph is so true. The first copy of Railway Modeller I ever got was April 1957. There were concerns about youngsters back then, and it has been a recurring theme in the magazine ever since.

Personally, I think it's a non-issue.

This point as raised by the market report isn't that there aren't enough young people entering the hobby, it's that the young people entering the hobby engage differently with it than older generations and have different demands, some of which aren't currently being met, and that's an interesting opportunity for manufacturers.

"Young people aren't interested in model railways" is not supported by the data and is as you say, not an issue - hence the title of this thread.

Just had a brainwave, how about the spares supplied by Revolution/Rapido in the Pendolino packs.

It is a perfect fit, I suppose the other one will turn up now.

I am a railway modeller.

Bealman attempting to put his grandson's. toy back together. I am a railway modeller, honest!

Fit what?

Your last paragraph is so true. The first copy of Railway Modeller I ever got was April 1957. There were concerns about youngsters back then, and it has been a recurring theme in the magazine ever since.

Personally, I think it's a non-issue.

Older Deep Purple. Probably the finest Coverdale/Hughes duet

I'm also interested, hence engaging in the thread  That doesn't mean blithely saying "yes, I agree", to it all, and my beliefs are just that, I don't have evidence, no, aside from my sample size of ~200 at my childrens' school in an affluent village in the SE, which is far from representative.

I take anything I see on YouTube with a pinch of salt, hence my opening comment being that I'd actually looked at one of the reports he is interpreting (because that's what it is, obviously such reports don't/can't make outright claims), and that I don't think the conclusions are necesasrily what he's saying.

Could more be done to bring more younger people into the hobby? Maybe. I applaud your dogged determination to attempt to do so. Would making things cheaper discourage adoption? No, of course not. So to that end of course there's opportunity. Again though, if prices fell (say by 20%) would it yield a meaningful uptake in the hobby from new entrants? I do not beleive so.

I have never seen an account from anyone, of any age, who has decided to get into model railways and then said "oh actually it's too expensive, I'm out". Perhaps those people do the very initial research, say "how much!?" and go no further, but I'm dubious.

Concerns about 'the hobby aging' and a 'lack of younger entrants' are as old as the hobby itself. I'm personally not too worried either way, perhaps that's myopic or selfish. I want the hobby to thrive, but I don't particularly care whether that's children or octagenarians, indeed if the market is cannibalised to bring cheaper, lower detail models to attract 'new participants' then I'm actively against it. I realise that isn't quite what you're saying, but it's not hard to see that happening.