Latest MR has an advertisement for preassembled Plasticville buildings! Preassembled! You sneeze on those suckers and they assemble themselves! Not that there are not some very usable things in the Plasticville line – the signal bridge is a classic for kitbashers. But preassembled Plasticville … the mind reels.
Dave Nelson
Yep, now you don’t have to waste time putting them together! They look like… uhm… well… plastic right out of the box! LOL
Plastics and bachman= Blotchman ahahahhahaha
I knew this was comming when KD started marketing assembled no.5s
As styoopid as I am even I know about Plasticville stuff. Preassembled Plasticville is like buying a preassembled Snap Tite model.
Great, now it’s actually more challenging because now instead of just trying to figure out how I’m going to use the thing and dress it up to make it look good, now I have the added challenge of taking it apart first!
Easy boy. Next time, I might not help you find stuff so quickly. LOL.
Ok. I have to say this Ready to Run/Roll/Use/Plant/or otherwise avoiding puting forth any effort at all is getting way out of hand. I mean come on. Don’t plasticville buildings have like 10 Parts? All of them snap in place?
This is getting pathetic. A ready to run stream engine is one thing. But a plasticville building?? Come on.
James
How about this Athearn RTR stuff. The last time I assembled an Athearn boxcar it took about 2 minutes, and that was a double sliding door boxcar.
I kinda like the idea, my plastic assembly skills suck!! they mite be aimed at my type of modeller?
Are they pre weathered as well??[:D][:D]
Ken.
WOW!!! It’s good to see I’m not the only one that feels this way! I like building kits. It’s half the fun of the hobby for me.(even easy crappy looking ones). I did enough dis-assembly and rebuilding when my dad passed on and got all his stuff! (he wasn’t very detail oriented) But I know He’s looking down liking what I’ve done.[angel][angel][angel][:D]
I don’t think they are, judging from the ad. Ertl tried some assembled structures (rolling stock too) that were lightly weathered. Didn’t go over at all, and they got out of the HO scale stuff alltogether.
What we really need now is a preassembled layout, with everything already installed and running! Sort of like a foldup pingpong table. And have it computer operated too! Just unfold the thing, set back and let it operate all by itself - the ultimate RTR model railroader! [tdn]
Bob Boudreau
There already is a layout close to that. If price is no object, then this is how you can “build a model railroad” without lifting a finger or getting your hands “dirty”. Just pay someone else to do it for you. Kinda sad, IMO.
Well, I for one find this to be LAME. There is absolutely no skill required to building a Plasticville kit, except for basic motor skills. You don’t even need the instructions. The only extra thing you need is glue, since they don’t hold together all that well.
I see no point to it, but watch it take of like a rocket…