I'd much prefer Stepney over Ryan, as it seems you guys do too, due to the fact that he's a classic character and Hornby retired him years ago before the whole range was retired.  Profits would be better, and we would be willing to pay however much money necessary to finally be able to own a Stepney model. 

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I didn't know Tomix is also available in the US.

So, in that case, Bachmann may not get the license for N Scale Thomas anytime soon.

They were available in the US at one point but stopped selling them here a long time ago, hence the old artwork on the packaging.  So the license should still be up for grabs since Tomix is only selling in Japan and hasn't brought anything to the US market in a long time.

O scale rights are owned by Lionel and they are still making products in their Thomas range, so therefore the odds of N scale rights being acquired would be far greater than O gauge.

What peoducts are Lionel making currently? Because I haven't seen any in a while.

Thomas, Percy, James, and Diesel I'm pretty sure.

Did Large Scale Diesel get cancelled?  I noticed he's not in the catalogue.  Also I'm assuming Emily's Passenger Set got discontinued too. 

I doubt it cause they'd probably run on Z scale track, and Bachmann doesn't make Z scale.