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Post by trainman9 on May 2, 2024 12:40:12 GMT
Seems like Lionel is not the only company that has spelling issues. MTH meter car has the word “Industrial” spelled wrong. A poster on another forum found the error and trying to alert MTH with limited success.
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Post by superwarp1 on May 2, 2024 12:55:30 GMT
Seems like Lionel is not the only company that has spelling issues. MTH meter car has the word “Industrial” spelled wrong. A poster on another forum found the error and trying to alert MTH with limited success. Production already completed, product already in customer hands? MTH being a one man operation, may get fixed, may not
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Post by runamuckchuck on May 2, 2024 13:13:41 GMT
Perhaps we should all chip in and buy Lionel and MTH some Spell Check software to give to their manufacturers. If they already have it, they obviously do not know how to use it. Is some remedial training in order?
Nonetheless, MTH states elsewhere that they are aware of the mistake and that the correction will be made prior to production.
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Post by highvoltage on May 2, 2024 18:56:23 GMT
Seems like Lionel is not the only company that has spelling issues. MTH meter car has the word “Industrial” spelled wrong. A poster on another forum found the error and trying to alert MTH with limited success. Production already completed, product already in customer hands? MTH being a one man operation, may get fixed, may not It's a pre-order. Item is anticipated for an August 2024 delivery.
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Post by na on May 2, 2024 19:16:45 GMT
Seems like Lionel is not the only company that has spelling issues. MTH meter car has the word “Industrial” spelled wrong. A poster on another forum found the error and trying to alert MTH with limited success. MTH has replied to that post and said the problem will be corrected prior to production.
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Post by david1 on May 2, 2024 22:43:57 GMT
Its no big deal, if it was Lionel I'd be concerned! Mth will correct it before its even produced.
The Lionel fan boys will jump on anything to make MTH look bad. Trust me Lionel will screw something up this year and we can all laugh at them and the buyers who think its ok!!
Dave
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Post by madockawando on May 3, 2024 1:59:35 GMT
Its no big deal, if it was Lionel I'd be concerned! Mth will correct it before its even produced. The Lionel fan boys will jump on anything to make MTH look bad. Trust me Lionel will screw something up this year and we can all laugh at them and the buyers who think its ok!! Dave I don’t think of this as a Lionel vs MTH thing. It’s an error, it was identified and MTH said they will fix it. No big deal. Best case it gives us all something amusing to talk about for a couple of days. This Lionel vs MTH “fanboys” stuff is over for the vast majority of hobbyists in 2024. Is there really anyone here who will not buy a train they would have otherwise liked just because it comes in the wrong colored box? Does that even make sense? I know I run trains on my layout, not boxes. |
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Post by atsda on May 3, 2024 2:12:02 GMT
If the spelling error does not get corrected before production, then just chalk it up to a car variation. Alfred
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Post by mrmeep on May 3, 2024 3:14:01 GMT
This is what happens when you farm out production and development of formerly
American Made products to countries who do not use English as a regular language
and their plant workers are uneducated low-paid indentured workers who have no
working knowledge of the language or spelling on the product that they are making.
Those countries are culturally xenophobic and thus most of the plant people have
little or no exposure to Americans or the language. Thus, spelling and grammatical
errors will be common place.
Couple this with little or no quality control by the American importers (who are only
motivated by raw profits/units sold and nothing more) and things like this WILL be
commonplace. And as long as the American customer/buyer WILLINGLY ACCEPTS this,
then nothing will change (except their money into the importers pockets).
BTW ... This is symptomatic of ALL products now days in America as we are fine with
off-shoring everything to other countries. Just try reading the instruction manual
for your new TV or DVD player. Or even the owner's manual for your new automobile!
Same for the quality of those items and more!
We have done this to ourselves. Start voting with your wallets! Spend your money WISELY!
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Post by ron045 on May 4, 2024 12:07:50 GMT
Perhaps we should all chip in and buy Lionel and MTH some Spell Check software to give to their manufacturers. If they already have it, they obviously do not know how to use it. Is some remedial training in order? Nonetheless, MTH states elsewhere that they are aware of the mistake and that the correction will be made prior to production. You mean Spell Wreck? My auto correct is constantly correcting me to use words I never indented to use. Union Pacific could come out Onion Specific 
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Post by runamuckchuck on May 4, 2024 12:14:39 GMT
Perhaps we should all chip in and buy Lionel and MTH some Spell Check software to give to their manufacturers. If they already have it, they obviously do not know how to use it. Is some remedial training in order? Nonetheless, MTH states elsewhere that they are aware of the mistake and that the correction will be made prior to production. You mean Spell Wreck? My auto correct is constantly correcting me to use words I never indented to use. Union Pacific could come out Onion Specific The same thing happens to me when the computer seems to be trying to anticipate what I want to type rather than what I intended. It would not surprise me if it is Spell Check with a side order of AI.
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Post by Adam on May 4, 2024 13:15:09 GMT
The Onion Specific Railroad has a nice ring to it.
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on May 4, 2024 13:50:16 GMT
The Onion Specific Railroad has a nice ring to it. I dunno -- I think it stinks! 
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Post by runamuckchuck on May 4, 2024 13:51:52 GMT
The Onion Specific Railroad has a nice ring to it. Does that RR run in circles? Or perhaps run rings around the competition? It must be a Blumin' Onion.
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on May 4, 2024 21:43:16 GMT
The Onion Specific Railroad has a nice ring to it. I dunno -- I think it stinks! . . . but on further reflection, I guess there's no sense crying over it! 
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