Lack of ideas.

Many of my old catalogs didn't have any Technic sets in them at all.

Where do you get the idea that Technic is on it's way out?

This years technic is great. They have the pneumatic backhoe,the red fire truck,front end loader, dump truck, and fork lift. I member back in 96 when people on this news group wrote about wanting robots and eventually the throwbots came out,robo riders,cybor slam.Star Wars technic,Bionicle, and I do believe technic racers. From Andy

I wouldn't call the fork-lift a technic set. It doesn't have a realistic lifting mechanism from what I saw - just a rubber band.

I don't think any real fork-lifts work like that.

Oh yea! I forgot about the rubber band on the Fork lift. I do have the Front end loader and it always gets moved around the place I work at cause the kids like playing with it. From Andy