04-20-2009, 08:50 PM
I suspect that the problem with trying to sell Thomas in a hobby shop is direct competition with "big box" toy stores like Toys-R-Us getting much bigger discounts for buying in volume that the lhs can't even approach. My lhs carries the Lionel Thomas set because Lionel has gotten so expensive that it is almost not something that you would buy for children anymore. The little cheap wooden Thomas and battery powered Thomas are inexpensive enough that Toys-R-Us probably sell them for about what the lhs would pay for them.