2012 Sixth Annual Model Railway Wish List Poll
- From: graham plowman <gppsoftware@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:53:51 -0800 (PST)
Dear Fellow Modeller,
This message is to let you know that the 2012 Sixth Model Railway Wish
List poll is now open for voting.
Please use the following links to the poll:
2mm Scale Poll: http://www.modelpolls.com/TheSixthAnnualMROLWishListPoll-2mmScale.aspx
4mm Scale Poll: http://www.modelpolls.com/TheSixthAnnualMROLWishListPoll-4mmScale.aspx
7mm Scale Poll: http://www.modelpolls.com/TheSixthAnnualMROLWishListPoll-7mmScale.aspx
This year the poll is again being run on the MROL website just as it
has for the last five years. However, this year the poll is being run
independently of MREMag.
The poll will be open for voting throughout the month of February.
In case of any confusion may we clarify that this is the original wish
list poll. At the present time this is the only British outline on-
line wish list poll which has ever been run.
Why now?
We expect that you are wondering why we are running the poll now
rather than wait until after Bachmann announce their programme of new
models in March. It may seem nonsensical to waste votes on a model,
which might be announced by Bachmann in March.
However, the simple answer is that it doesn’t make any difference to
the manufacturers’ programme and might actually disadvantage Bachmann.
Simon Kohler of Hornby has informed us that he lays plans down for a
new loco or indeed a new piece of rolling stock three years before it
will appear in the shops. So we could very well have been wasting
votes in 2010 and 2011 on models, which were already in the
manufacturers’ 2012 programmes. Simon tells us that Hornby use the
poll to confirm that they are going in the right direction. So if we
take Bachmann’s latest models out of the poll then we are
disadvantaging them by denying them the opportunity to make this
confirmation.
The full text of Simon Kohler’s response can be found on the website
of the British Railway Modellers of Australia at
http://www.brma.asn.au/Convention/SimonsQandA).aspx
A very interesting year!
Each year we invite you to provide additional information about your
modelling interests. The information, which you have provided over the
last few years, has shown that the period of most interest to
modellers is gradually moving forward. The most popular period is now
the BR transition period between steam and diesel. There is a very
real possibility that this years’ poll will reveal that the most
popular period has moved forward to the BR Corporate era (the Blue/
Grey period). If this happens then it will be the first year in which
interest in diesel and electric traction has overtaken interest in
steam.
This year could be a significant date in the history of our hobby
marking the start of declining interest in steam.
Please contribute to our poll so that we can determine whether this
change is really happening.
O Gauge:
There is growing interest in O Gauge with R-T-R rolling stock becoming
available for the BR Diesel period at reasonable prices. If you are
considering changing to O Gauge please place your votes in this
section. If you are voting for diesel locos or modern coaches (Mk1
included) there is a very real chance that the manufacturers will take
notice.
We intend to continue to support the growing interest in O Gauge in
future MROL polls.
Results:
Computer collated data from the poll will be published in the Model
Rail Forum at http://www.modelrailforum.com and on the Model Railways
On-Line website at http://mrol.com.au in early March immediately after
the poll closes.
Our analysis of the results will be published as soon as possible
thereafter.
Should you not wish to receive further communications from us we have
provided a tick box on the first page of the poll for this purpose.
Please forward this message to as many of your fellow modellers as
possible. The more people who vote in the poll the more the
manufacturers will take notice of our wishes.
Kind regards
Graham Plowman (MROL Website Administrator)
Paul Plowman (MROL Editor)
Colin Watts (Historical Advisor)
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