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Re: The Future of Trains
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lugnet.lego
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Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:42:08 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
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I even would guess that a special sleeper plate with flat bottom (to float on
studs beneath), with 242 studs on top and a kind of retaining clips to fix
the metal rail would be an option for any “third-party producer”. BBB? Little
Armory? We would surly need hundreds of these. On the other hand we would not
like to pay 3 bucks per piece, but only 10% of this...
I would not care about another 3rd party piece. If lego cuts the support I do
not mind to throw my purism over board.
Leg Godt,
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I’ve looked at this and a few similar options. Wether or not BBB could achieve
it at the $0.30 per piece range (preferably less) is a matter of quantity. I’d
much prefer to be closer to $0.10 per piece. But in order to get that low, I’m
thinking of production runs up to 100,000 parts and I don’t know if the demand
would be there. Especially not knowing what LEGO will do.
The other aspect to this is that you are basically talking about a new ‘system’
of track and I don’t think you could just make the sleepers (ie ties) without
making the other necessary parts - switches, crossings etc. and there in lies
the crux of the problem. You can’t just engineer one part of a track system,
you need to work out a whole system of track that will ‘play well’ together.
And investing in a whole system of track would require a lot of upfront cost
which may be made entirely obsolete by what LEGO will release in 2009. It just
doesn’t seem feasible to do the necessary R&D, release a product and make the
investment back.
Cheers,
Ben Fleskes
Big Ben Bricks LLC
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Hi Ben, I do not see so much need for a full system: the biggest need is for straight track and possibly new curve radius. The aftermarket will offer used 9V switches for the next 20 years. Some people will switch to the new battery trains. (...) (17 years ago, 7-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) (SNIP) (...) Hi Steve I even would guess that a special sleeper plate with flat bottom (to float on studs beneath), with 242 studs on top and a kind of retaining clips to fix the metal rail would be an option for any "third-party producer". (...) (17 years ago, 5-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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