Remember when the introduction of the Branchline 50' box car kits was stalled... a long time? And I griped (I must have been in an especially gripy mood) because Ed Hawkins' related articles for RMJ were getting WAY ahead of the kits? There was an upside though-- when the kits came out, the instruction sheets pointed to Ed's articles for prototype info. If there was a "GuruSite" manufacturers could point to it if they wanted to. Of course the "review" info on the site wouldn't appear until after the models were out, and therefore the packaging of the first run of models couldn't point... but the manufacturer web site could point. (Especially if they could point to a specific page about a specific model which was a good match... even if some of their other products were revealed to be more-or-less bogus on other parts of the GuruSite.) If you walked into a shop and they had a deal on that car you hadn't quite gotten around to researching, you could use your Dick Tracy Wrist Web to look it up.
