Prior to the 2005 legal action, the relationship between Lionel and K-Line had generally been more amicable than Lionel's relationship with MTH.

To his mother's dismay, Lionel falls in love with a local shopkeeper's daughter, Paquita ( Diana Peñalver ), and while snooping on the two during a visit to the zoo, Lionel's mother is bitten by the Sumatran Rat-Monkey ; she subsequently crushes its head.

However, Lionel's uncle Les ( Ian Watkin ), arrives to try to wrangle with Lionel over his mother's estate.

Lionel's arms were at some point those of the kingdom, differenced by a label argent of five points, with each point bearing a cross gules.

Although Lionel's tenure with MPC was relatively short, " MPC " is the most commonly used term for the 1970-1985 era.

On March 27, 2008, a bankruptcy judge approved Lionel's reorganization plan, including a settlement with MTH.

Shortly after the adoption was formalized, Lionel's affair with another woman became public knowledge.

Complete with TMCC ( Lionel's proprietary wireless remote control technology ) and a superb sound chip / system ( TrainSounds ), the Mikados proved to be a hot seller and their success has led to future similar issues.

Other ads criticizing Ives ' quality appeared, but they always compared Ives ' cheapest products with Lionel's priciest offerings.

During the first few years of this K-line by Lionel period, the extravagant passenger trains which competed directly with Lionel's premium products were conspicuously absent, with the initial offerings focusing more on K-Line's value line.

LexCorp appears on the series early in the second season when Lex Luthor ( Lionel's son ) stages a coup with a handful of LuthorCorp managers and splits off from the parent company to form Lex's own enterprise that are based entirely in Smallville, which Lionel retaliated by blackmailing Lex's shareholders individually in order to financially eliminate LexCorp and afterwards Lex has since returned to his father's corporation.

Upon Lionel's incarceration in the fourth season, Lex became LuthorCorp's new CEO and had gradually morphed from an agri-business / biotech company to a corporation with many subsidiaries and divisions, very much similar to LexCorp in the comics.

In season three's " Forsaken ", Chloe decides to assist Lex Luthor ( Michael Rosenbaum ), Lionel's son, with getting Lionel arrested for the murder of Lex ' grandparents ; Chloe's hope is to get out from under Lionel ’ s control.

In 2006, Lionel's electric train, along with the Easy Bake Oven, became the first two electric toys to be inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.

Lionel's earliest trains were larger than the sizes commonly available today, running on two-rail track with the rails 2 inches apart.

When competitors criticized the realism of Lionel's trains — Cowen had been unwilling to invest in the equipment necessary for lithography, so its early offerings were simply painted with solid colors of enamel paint with brass detail parts — Lionel targeted advertising at children, telling children its products were the most realistic toy trains.

The trains were considered a luxury item, and at the height of the Depression one of Lionel's more extravagant locomotives cost as much as a used Ford Model T. In an effort to compete with companies that were willing to undercut Lionel's prices without diluting its premium Lionel and Ives brands, Lionel introduced a line of inexpensive electric toy trains under the Winner Toys or Winner Toy Corp. brand name, which it sold from 1930 to 1932.

Efforts to increase train set profitability and / or sales by cheaper manufacture ( largely by replacing castings and folded sheet metal with unpainted injected — molded colored plastic ) were largely unsuccessful ; 1957 was Lionel's last profitable post-war year.

In season three, it is revealed that Lionel conspired with Morgan Edge ( Rutger Hauer ) to murder Lionel's parents, and use their insurance money to fund the start of LuthorCorp.

John Glover looked to a friend's personal battle with cancer when trying to portray Lionel's struggle with terminal liver disease.

Lionel's great-grandfather was John Louis Brown ( October 25, 1839 – September 8, 1931 ), the bi-racial ( mulatto ) possible son of the widowed 81-year-old American-Revolutionary-War-fighter Dr. Morgan Brown or his son, Judge Morgan Welles Brown.

In the episode " Memoria ", it is shown that much of Lionel's anger toward Lex is because he blames him for the death of Lionel's infant son Julian.

For season three, Lionel materialized as the true villain of the show, specifically with his machinations to find out Clark's secret, and driving Lex into a psychotic break that allowed Lionel to use electroshock therapy on his son to erase the knowledge that Lionel co-opted Morgan Edge to kill Lionel's parents for their life insurance.

Lionel's only son, William, a controversial figure, amassed great debts guaranteed by the expectation of inheriting the family fortune, however, he, too, predeceased his father who subsequently bequeathed the estates to his grandson, William John Manners Tollemache, with his brothers, Frederick and Algernon with Charles Hanbury-Tracy acting as trustees for 21 years to 1899.

Pete Conacher, Lionel's nephew and the son of Charlie, also played in the NHL.

In 1869, Lionel's son, Alfred de Rothschild ( 1842 – 1918 ), became a director of the Bank of England, a post he held for 20 years.

John Day Jackson passed control of the papers to his sons, Richard and Lionel Jackson, then to Lionel's son, Lionel " Stewart " Jackson Jr.

Lionel's son Edmund Leopold de Rothschild took on the responsibility for the estate after the war, restoring the house and gardens.

Other notable characters include: Lionel's father, Rocky ( Frank Middlemass ), who owns a large country house in Hampshire, which he later gives to Lionel ; the housekeeper, Mrs. Bale ( Janet Henfrey ), who has an unusual interest in the Shipping Forecast, and the gardener, Lol Ferris ( Tim Wylton ).

Despite Rita and Les being killed in the process they successfully destroy all the zombies until Lionel's mother, who ( assumedly because she was the one originally bitten ) has become a gargantuan monster, pursues Lionel and Paquita to the rooftop, where Lionel finally confronts his mother about the truth regarding his father's demise.

K-Line has also produced commemorative cars celebrating some of Lionel's significant anniversaries, which has sometimes caused confusion among collectors.

The secret of Veritas and the Traveler subsequently cause Lionel's death at the hands of Lex, who realizes that his father has been covering up the truth about the Traveler.

Lionel's partnership with YEO ’ S blossomed over the years and soon he became the ambassador of H-TWO-O and has been actively involved in their advertising campaigns.

Lionel's wife, Elizabeth, was daughter and heiress of William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, and Lionel had himself been created Earl of Ulster before his marriage.

In 1930, Lionel's operating profit dropped to $ 82, 000 — its operating profit in 1927 had been more than $ 500, 000 — and in 1931, it lost $ 207, 000.

Had that been the case, it was a short-lived greatness: Lionel's 1955 sales were some $ 23 million, while rival Marx toys ( more than just trains ) sales were $ 50 million.

The single is the first single from Lionel's " Tuskegee " album released on March 27, 2012.

His brother Lionel tried to help him find a small place near Lionel's house and to convince him to stay away from impetuous marriages, which usually ended in divorce and put a strain on his once large income.

While it was at Eton that Byng first received the nickname " Bungo " to distinguish him from his elder brothers " Byngo " and " Bango " his time at the college was undistinguished, and he received poor reports ; indicative of his attitude towards academics, he once traded his Latin grammar book and his brother Lionel's best trousers to a hawker for a pair of ferrets and a pineapple.

With so many years of absence from the market, Gilbert American Flyer S gauge trains were no longer considered a direct competitor to Lionel's 1: 48 proportion O gauge trains.

On July 26, 2006, Lionel's bankruptcy judge ordered that Lionel submit a plan for emerging from bankruptcy within 75 days of the appeals court's verdict on the MTH lawsuit.

Although Ives could rightly claim that its lithographed offerings were more realistic than Lionel's simple enameled two-color cars, Lionel, taking a cue from Ives, targeted advertising straight at children, claiming its cars were the most realistic and that its paint jobs were more durable.

It specialized in Standard gauge trains reminiscent of Lionel's offerings from the 1920s.

By 1966, Lionel's revenue was $ 28 million, 40 percent from government contracts.

Lionel's development from a main antagonist to ally was one that was difficult for the writers, who felt the character's arc failed to achieve the status they were looking for.

Lionel's distrust stems partially from the fact that he believes that Lex is a bit spineless.

Edge asked him to break into Lionel's LuthorCorp office and steal a package from a titanium reinforced safe.

It also states that Hunter was cleared of all charges after the bullets from Lionel's gun were examined.