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Posted by Paul
on 11/4/2009, 2:52 pm, in reply to "Re: Massively OT and a concern..."
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Good points, but consider this possibility: A lot of the people who go on cruises have no more interest in the ships themselves than they would in, say, a Hilton Hotel. For them, they are just buildings that float and move. So they may view the models as just overly expensive souvenirs. Even a number of us dedicated ship collectors find these ships to be about as attractive as our local Walmart stores. So even we won't buy the models. Certainly there is a dedicated core of cruise ship fans, but many of these folks know where to get the models.
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: It seems to me that many of the
: "younger" collectors like merchant
: ships and modern cruise liners. Ships that
: they tend to have some interaction with. If
: there is anyway to somehow turn on to the
: models a small percentage of the 10 million
: people that take a cruise, I think that you
: could see some growth. The Dragon Waves
: models were an interesting start, and had
: they been available on board at the $45.00
: price point that is widely seen now, they
: might have been pretty popular. But Dragon
: only sold one model, of only two sister
: ships (funny as the class of ships has four
: Carnivals: Spirit, Pride, Miracle and
: Legend, and a further two Costas: Atlantica
: and Mediterranea). I had some hopes for
: Cruise Liner Models, but they have done
: nothing but disapoint unfortunately.
: Scherbak's models are incredible, but
: getting very pricey as well.
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