The "stunt trains" controversy.

There is a methodical intellectual mentality that is cultivated during the process of constructing a layout.
It's is creativity and mathematical...it is freedom focused. When you close your eyes and see track as you drift off to sleep, or suddenly realize "The Way!" to to complete a connection, and stop whatever it is you're doing to go complete the layout. It's planning and engineering that is learned through trial and error and experience...it builds pride and character with these experiences and understandings, and produces sound thoughts and concepts of the external workings of the world around us. It's it a good decent wholesome hobby that produces patcient thinkers of substance. It seems the line is clearly being drawn by Fisher Price VS Plarail at this point, and it is clear that in the "throw away" world of today's trivial superficialness, Fisher Price has chosen to entertain and cater to the majority of the masses...it's just an apple to an orange now.