Superman Returns layout

Oh my god...............its Malcolm Furlow in the city. Bruce

An article in MR.....yeah, that figures, no serious magazine would touch such a stooopid topic.....and MR seems intent on drving its circulation ever downward, so this would fit perfectly.....

Derailments must be interesting...

Jim McL:

A year ago I'd agree with you, but lately MR has been doing a rather good job. The July issue was the first I'd bought in years besides back issues.

Cordially yours: Gerard P.

"The upcoming movie Superman Returns has a spectacular train layout.... This would make for a terrific article in Model Railroader."

No it wouldn't. Don't encourage the conehead. They publish too much crap already.

Eric

You know, of course, that you don't HAVE to read it. Or buy the magazine.

-- Ray

I, for one, would like to see more. The picture on the site may seem a bit of a caricature to some, or reminiscent of the work of others, but certainly a larger grouping of photos would be nice to see. At the least the urban modeling was an eye-catcher.

Um Ray. You know that have this confidence scheme called a subscription were they take your money and then send you a set number of issues going. Many of us have bought into it. So you've already kind of bought the magazine already. So seeing as we've already bought it we'd like keep such crap like articles about this layout out of it. Keep the value of our remaining issues up.

Eric

Ray Haddad wrote:

"You know, of course, that you don't HAVE to read it. Or buy the magazine."

Eric,

Does that "Um" mean you're drooling? Get a grip, man. If you don't like it, show your distaste for it by writing THEM a letter, not bad mouthing them here about something they haven't even done yet. That shows a decided lack of class.

Think about it.

So, I guess my suggestion stands. You don't HAVE to read it or buy the magazine.

-- Ray

Suggesting that subscriber write a letter about a layout article that may or may not get published, that the magazine never even gave a hint that they might cover in a future issue, shows a decided lack of thought and understanding.

You say he should write Model Railroader a letter to recommend not doing an article they haven't done? Think about it.

Ray -- how do you propose that the letter should be worded? I'd be interesting in seeing a sample of how you would discuss this in a letter to Kalmbach.

____ Mark

When did Superman take the layout that he returns?

-- Cheers

Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

I never suggested any such thing.

I did no such thing.

I suggested he should write a letter showing his discontent with the magazine. I also noted the irony of his exasperated complaint here about an article that may or may not be done.

-- Ray

Just exactly what kind of layout are we dealing with here? If you check all the photos associated with the layout you'll notice that most show european G gauge locomotives, rolling stock and scenery. Then you have the linked to photo of an obviously fantasy HO scale urban scene. Looks like old Lex Luthor was scale-decision challenged!

Regardless, the layout doesn't look to me like anything I'd care to see any more of.

CNJ999

Either that, or he commissioned Malcolm Furball to build it... ;-)

"Does that "Um" mean you're drooling?"

Not it doesn't dumbass.

"Get a grip, man."

Upon what. If anyone needs a grip it's you on a book on reading for comprehension. Although maybe you might want to loosen your grip on something so the blood flows back to your brain so you can avoid posting such poorly thought out posts

"If you don't like it, show your distaste for it by writing THEM a letter,"

Write them a letter about what? They haven't done an article on this stupid layout. Duh!

"not bad mouthing them here about something they haven't even done yet. That shows a decided lack of class."

I was referring to stuff they've done in the past.

"So, I guess my suggestion stands. You don't HAVE to read it or buy the magazine."

If you're going post irrelivant quotes could please go with Dr. Suess, at least he's funny.

Eric

He didn't take it -- I think he got it as a gift. ____ Mark

I'm not convinced. Prove it wasn't you drooling.

I was precise in my meaning. You cannot read.

"It" being the magazine you moron.

About the magazine you moron.

Then write THEM a letter instead of pouring your last brain cell out here. You weren't discussing the magazine. You chose to bleat at someone who wanted to see an article about a movie prop that happens to be a model railroad.

And you are still drooling.

"Wet cleanup in rmc! Stat!"

-- Ray

Since we were clearly discussing the "Superman Returns" article in this thread, the article is the the obvious meaning of "it." If you are going to change the meaning of that, the burden is on you to clarify what you are writing about -- not just spew out vulgarities to defend your incorrect position.

I changed nothing. Read my original reply on the subject.

-- Ray