The December issue of CTT had great articles and was a wonderful issue. So why am I disappointed? Because the December issue should be Christmas oriented. There was only one article related to Christmas trains and a few Christmas pictures in the photo section. The cover looked no different then any other issue of the year. Christmas, December, and toy trains fit together like a hand and a glove. CTT has had wonderful December issues in the past, but this December issue was very anemic on Christmas themes.
Magazines are dated with the time when they come off the rack. So the January issue is the one that will be on sale during December, and will probably have lots of Christmas stuff in it.
I agree with you about this issue. You’d think that the December and January issue would be devoted to Christmas. Christmas and trains go together. It really upsets me to see how little attenion is paid to Christmas anymore.
jim i hope you meam christmas in the magazine, as the stores have already started. by dec 25, everybody is tired of it. I like christmas but the stores are making the season way too long.
I see your point about it only being October, but, this is the time that you would want Christmas related items to be showcased as the folks will want to be getting the Christmas related train items soon. Of course the layouts would have to be from last year as not too many would have their Christmas themed layout done in time for presentation with photos in a same year magazine.
There is an ad on page 29 of the December CTT issue that directs the reader to ClassicToyTrains.com and select Train Layouts/Basics of Toy Trains/“Get your toy trains ready for the holidays” by Ray Plummer. That article is not there as of 10/26/08. I hope they get the article up soon.
Hey Earl I think your right. All though it’s October, and CTT is not a train catalog, isn’t this the time of year that you want everyone to get motivated to get the trains up and running for the Christmas holidays??? Way back when wasn’t it Lionel that made sure that the consumer catalogs were out by September so that kids could start planning their xmas platforms and making their wish lists as to what they were hopping to find under the tree??? Well any way I guess that I’m just getting old lol, but I still cherish those memmories. Vince
Actually I think this issue doesn’t hit the stores till the first week of November. Subscribers typically get the issues prior to general public release.
Therefore you have to keep this in mind… the January issue will be on shelves the first week of December, but Christmas is NOT in January - so most magazines have their ‘December issue’ serve as their ‘Christmas issue’… but not everyone in the hobby is Christian so a ‘Christmas’ issue may be offensive to some… so we’ll just refer to it as ‘Holiday’ issue… but then again some people are atheist so we’lll just call it ‘December issue’… ugh… the PC crowd really has things mixed up in this Country…
“so we’ll just refer to it as ‘Holiday’ issue… but then again some people are atheist so we’lll just call it ‘December issue’”. Yule need to rethink this.
HA! Good one Bob!!! I always greet our parish priest with “Yuletide Greetings” at Christmas time. I like to remind him about the roots of the holiday [(-D]
As a Christian, saying “Holiday” is offensive to me. And although Christians are a majority, to be politically correct we must do whatever makes the minority happy. I thought democracy was doing what the majority wants?
In fact, Muslims are not offeneded by Christmas because Christ was one of their prophets.1