Rapido HO RDCs mean ...?

[OldEastRR]

... that there may be a chance DCC/sound versions will be coming in N? Notwithstanding the KATO fail with these, if Rapido put out the roadnames of the railroads that used a lot of them this time (B&M), would they sell? The RDC does have a noisy distinctive sound and dual Diesel start-ups. Plus I'd assume the NH version would have the Hancock air whistle sound.

[bbussey]

No.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Haha... Pretty much what Bryan said.

And Bryan is texting from two booths away from rapido.

[ncbqguy]

Kato USA did not "FAIL" with the RDCs.
Kato Tokyo management insisted on 2X the per item number production number instead of splitting the run into the first and second productions proposed by the US staff.....and as predicted only half the run sold out.
Even today you won't see "lesser" roadnames because of their Japanese market production philosophy.
US and Canadian importers adjust their production numbers to the North American market.  Some roadnames barely crack 100 units or even less and European and Japanese companies can't seem to understand that "more is less" when it comes to higher per item number production and "more is more" when it comes to more item variety spread out over more frequent releases.
There have been questions of why BLI is doing an NW2 when Kato and Bachmann have already done them.   Without doing a detailed tally between the two there probably have been less than a couple of dozen road names and paint jobs.
In the HO NW2 and SW7 BLI has released roads like IHB PM C&S/AT&SF just to name a few that would have a snowball's chance from other manufacturers....plus several different schemes in the "popular"
roads.  Same is true for the upcoming BLI USRA Heavy Mikado that has been released in just about every road that had originals and copies.  I expect BLI will follow suit in N as far as releases and variety.
Charlie Vlk

[Point353]

... that there may be a chance DCC/sound versions will be coming in N?

Here you go: