ORIGINAL: The Toolman
But I am surprised you investedn a commercial operation for children's hobbies, sounds all to familiar for me.
STL, the only reason I did was that I was a big slotcar racer back in the 60's. This way I could rationalize buying it for myself to play with. It's now at a new home somewhere in Illinois. Slotcar racing is still pretty big east of the Mississippi river. Theres a helluva alot of it going on up around your parts also, thats where I got most of my invevtory from. Someplace called Bud's HO around you I believe.
Ronnie
You certainly don't have to explain it to me Ronnie, I know exactly why you put in your slot car track ... regression. All grown men do it, it's a toy thing. And I know slot cars are big in my area too, especially here on Long Island ... seems like slot cars are actually one of the biggest hobbies for kids, the have those things all over the place and the tracks are always filled.
But one thing is for sure .... kids are the same everywhere. It takes the right people to show kids the right way how to start and stay with hobbies. Let me tell you Ronnie ... getting THQ running was not easy and it was not cheap. But luckily it's more successful then we ever thought it would be. The reason ... we spent over 2 years perfecting the instructors operational manual and getting the people who spark the kids ... to do it the way that makes it stick. It starts and ends with the person whose doing the presentations and encouraging ... not the kids.