ORIGINAL: ThunderbirdJunkie
Horizon and Great Planes are not suffering because they're selling stuff everybody else wants. Remember that numbers that look huge to a small mom'n'pop outfit are too small to interest Horizon and GP, and your ideals are not mirrored by everybody else in the buying public. That's why some of your discontinued kits and ARFs go for a pretty penny; there are a few who want them, but not enough to interest Horizon and GP; otherwise they'd be making them.
If everybody else wanted big glow/gas ARFs, you bet your panties GP and Horizon would be catering to that; but they don't want them.
In the case of Horizon, they offer more and better large scale AFRs than ever before. Add to that is that they consistently sell out. In general there have never been as many top end, quality built large scale ARFs available at any time in history. I would put the quality and craftsmanship of my Hangar 9 3.1M Su26 up against 95% of the builders out there. Maybe some should expand their horizons past the "Hobby People" web site.