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Re: Now what?
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Sat, 3 Aug 2002 01:17:23 GMT
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> > Nice thought. When you examine what LEGO has been putting out recently in
> > its train line what do you see? My eyes see this wonderful thing called
> > variety. You've got Metroliner, Santa Fe (and cars for it!), the small and
> > large train engines with cars for them.
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> Bear in mind that an awful lot of Lego train enthusiasts look at these and
> think "Metroliner -> Amtrak -> American. Big red caboose -> American.
> Santa Fe -> American. Silver carriages -> American. When are we going to
> see some variety?" (or whatever that sounds like in German...)
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> A lot of LEGO trains in the past have been bland generic ones. I really
> like the more specific designs we've seen recently, and I wish I could
> afford them all. But, I think they could vary the nationality a bit now.
> Time to re-iterate the call for a model of the "Mallard" perhaps?
The other night I was looking through a curent Marklin catalog and something
occured to me...the shape of the front/rear ends of current Euro freight
engines is just about identical to the shape of the canopy on Jango Fett's
ship, all it would take for TLG (or anyone else for that matter) to build
one would be a little paintwork to outline the windscreen and side
windows...hmmmm.
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| (...) Bear in mind that an awful lot of Lego train enthusiasts look at these and think "Metroliner -> Amtrak -> American. Big red caboose -> American. Santa Fe -> American. Silver carriages -> American. When are we going to see some variety?" (or (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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