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The MPC "cheap truck" sydrome was obliterated by the announcement that all Lionels would have two operating couplers and solid steel wheelsets. The line was significantly re-vamped providing more and higher quality beginner level equipment and an overall more balanced line. Initially there were numerous excursions into semi-scale models and Pre-War reissues, but their production was reduced greatly by 1991, and Pre=War reissues dissapeared altogether. The line was also increased to the size it was in the postwar. In the following two years there were several changes in the production line, some to collectors chagrin, and other to their delight. Kughn created Lionel Trains Incorporated, an autonomous train maker. The failed move seemed the last straw for KPT, for in 1986 it sold Lionel to a Detroit Real-Estate developer, Richard Kughn. The attempted move biased die hard Lionel fans against foreign production, and Lionel would not attempt any major importing for 10 years. So early this year Lionel moved back to Chesterfield township, just outside of Detroit "(Jenson, NBC). Lionel had hoped to save money with the Mexicans working in the this new factory for 55 cents an hour, but the planning was bad, the work was shoddy, and the move turned into a fiasco. By 1985 Fundimentions was consolidated into General Mills' new Kenner-Parker Toys division, and Lionel's line suffered further shrinkage. Quality was good on the whole, with top of the line items being far superior to old Lionel and bottom of the line being worse. Fundimentions also had no flare for operating accesories, and the vast majority were reissues or new designs on postwar versions. Fundimentions was not afraid to create new castings for the line, but they had an afinity for plastic and often used as a cost cutting measure in places where plastic had no place, such as motor frames and wheels. By the 1978 the line grew to nearly its size in the early 50's, but declined in the early 80's only to peak a bit in 83 then slide to nearly what it was before. In the early 70's the line was rather small. Fundimensions, being experienced in toys and plastics, greatly improved the line with it own style of innovation. Fundimensions at the beginning used Lionel's old designs and color schemes but as time went on the added new cars, engines, and accessories. MPC, later Fundimensions, manufactured Lionel trains from 1970 until 1986.