I took a walk over to the ARF site and read page one. Perhaps this is going to be a good thing in the long run for kit builders but I do see the down side too. No ARFs {I saw they were calling them kits} means less pilots and less people buying all related RC equipment. Not a good thing. I know two of my LHS are trying to sell out. One just because and I noticed the other didn't have a lot of walk in people at all. Didn't have a lot of airplane items stocked either. As he told me, he can't afford to have a lot of inventory on hand collecting dust.
Who knows, maybe we will start getting some of the builders that went over to the dark side back. As long as we have plans and old templates we can keep building.
Be nice to see the old kits come back too although when they were discontinued the prices for those boxes of wood were getting a bit out of site too. If they come out again it will be fun to see what the distributors think they are worth.