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Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:07:16 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Frank Filz wrote:
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The more and more I think about the whole LEGO train deal, the more I think
that we’ve set ourselves up for these let downs. Almost no other model
railroad sub-hobby limits itself to a single companies products. The
exceptions I am aware of are Lionel and American Flyer enthusiasts, with the
American Flyer folks collecting and operating trains that have been out of
production for many many years, and the same for the tinplate Lionel
enthusiasts.
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Frank-
I see two signficant differences between LEGO train enthusiasts and fans of
defunct products from defunct companies:
1. TLC is not defunct and although it’s had problems, we all expect it to
recover and thrive.
2. While many (most?) of us LTC types like/love trains, trains are only the
“glue” that make large layouts that consist of 99.9% non-train specific parts
possible. The trains are essential, but they are a very small part of the $$ we
spend on LEGO product and a very small percentage of the $$ that people who are
inspired by seeing LTC layouts spend. Because we are an “LTC”, we get
invitations to model railroad venues, but when we attend these things what we
are really showing the world is LEGO everything, not just LEGO trains.
Similarly, when we get invited to non-train venues, it’s almost always because
the venue knows us as a creator of LEGO cities and towns that happen to have
these fun and animated things called trains running through them.
LTCs are MUCH more than model railroading - they are really more about LEGO
modelling in general. But LTC is a format that for the past 5 years or so has
become easy to explain to the world. Bottom line, if there were no trains we
would almost need to start over to get the world to want us and understand us
the way they do now.
-Ted
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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| (...) Well, this is an interesting question that is distilled into the LTC vs LUG debate. I think that there are distinctions between the two. The TCLTC's motto is that our layout is simply a background for our trains. Without the trains, the whole (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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| That may all be true (but I would point out that last I heard, Lionel is alive and well, yet there are folks who only do vintage tinplate Lionel), but my main point is that by chosing to be 100% pure to a single manufacturer, we are totally at the (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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| (...) The more and more I think about the whole LEGO train deal, the more I think that we've set ourselves up for these let downs. Almost no other model railroad sub-hobby limits itself to a single companies products. The exceptions I am aware of (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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