Hornby 00 Gauge Trains on Film Titfield Thunderbolt Steam Locomotive Train Model

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The only similarity I know for certain was the fact that the other set came with the same engine, but the rights to the film name (which I can't remember right now) may also have been owned by Studiocanal? have decided to remove the two ‘Trains of Film’ packs from the Hornby 2022 product range and acknowledges and accepts that Studiocanal owns the licensing rights to the ‘Thunderbolt’ locomotive as depicted in the ‘Titfield Thunderbolt’ film as well as Dan Taylor’s grounded carriage body. I suspect that StudioCanal had a pre-existing arrangement with Rapido Trains for their Titfield products.

Simon K has made it very clear in both Hornby series he’s going to go after ‘their models’, although how Lion fits that I don’t know, and he’s stepped across into making them seem like bullies rather than the victim with the antics as a result. In this scenario, at some point someone in Hornby decides, after the company has already spent money on development work on Lion, that marketing a model as “Titfield Thunderbolt” would generate extra sales over and above sales to the people who bought Rocket. The film was the first of Ealing Studios’ famous ‘Ealing comedies’ to be filmed in colour and it was released in March 1953.If Rapido have an exclusive license from StudioCanal to use the Titfield Thunderbolt designs I can't see how Hornby think going "inspired by" will be any defense to using the designs, its one step above uploading copyright material to YouTube and saying "I don't own the rights". have decided to remove the two ‘Trains of Film' packs from the Hornby 2022 product range and acknowledges and accept that Studiocanal own the licensing rights to the ‘Thunderbolt' locomotive as depicted in the ‘Titfield Thunderbolt' film as well as Dan Taylor's grounded carriage body.

To me the madness is, they could have tooled up the 14xx and the Wisbech coach and enjoyed complimentary sales from the licensed rapido product. Yeah, I don't think it's a case of Hornby copying per se (lest we forget, they were the first company to produce a Titfield Thunderbolt train pack with the ex-Airfix 14xx, Lowmac and Toad). Hornby also acknowledges and accepts that Studiocanal owns the title rights to the films ‘Titfield Thunderbolt’ and ‘The Lady with a Lamp’. Zero live bidding commission is added on in addition to auctioneers fees where the "Flat Fee" registration option is available and chosen. But we still have the idiotic situation of two manufacturers producing a model of Lion, which is likely to be of limited interest.An obvious one that springs to mind for me is Paddington 2, which features a very prominent train chase that could (I think) be quite reasonably recreated by Hornby. You can register and bid live while the auction is taking place through our LSKlive portal which becomes available half an hour before the auction is due to start. Indeed might xyz arrive first, eat your balance sheet and find abc are canceled later down the road ? Hornby 'heard about' the other Lion and Titfield products when they approached Studio Canal for the licence and were told that it had already be acquired by another manufacturer.

This time however, Hornby have been caught with their pants down as they didn’t have the image rights for the model, as it was a character in a movie, something that they really should have done their due diligence about….Their rush for the class 91 nearly destroyed Cavalex, and it’s clear today Hornby had nothing but a rushed computer render going, given the time it took for even a prototype, let alone how long it’s taking for release.