I think there will be loads of returns around Christmas.
Parents will not understand why the new models don't free roll, without making that horrendous clicking sound - they sound like they are already faulty and when the new models get stuck on the older tracks, parents will think they have been sold a pup, for sure !!
Toys r us and Argos, etc, will just take the models back from customers and issue refunds without understanding the issues. They will just say "oh there's loads of these coming back" !!
At some stage, probably early 2015, truckloads of the new Trackmaster locomotives will end up back with Fisher Price/Mattel.
This is a public relations disaster in the making and I hope they will have come up with a fix before sales have plummeted beyond the point of no return !
It's like they've just pressed the self destruct button and the clock is ticking between now and Christmas, which is only three months away !
Parents will not understand why the new models don't free roll, without making that horrendous clicking sound - they sound like they are already faulty and when the new models get stuck on the older tracks, parents will think they have been sold a pup, for sure !!
Toys r us and Argos, etc, will just take the models back from customers and issue refunds without understanding the issues. They will just say "oh there's loads of these coming back" !!
At some stage, probably early 2015, truckloads of the new Trackmaster locomotives will end up back with Fisher Price/Mattel.
This is a public relations disaster in the making and I hope they will have come up with a fix before sales have plummeted beyond the point of no return !
It's like they've just pressed the self destruct button and the clock is ticking between now and Christmas, which is only three months away !
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