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April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
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Hi Folks,
I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was
strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke.
Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
life now, because I have to declare:
I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
proud now.
I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool some
of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the lugnet
readers too.)
But what happened here was succeeding all my imaginations by far. And I'm glad,
that enough people had their doubts about the faked catalogue: I would have
felt much worse if anybody had started to sell of his "old" stuff because of
the new sets, which will never come like this of course.....
One good thing I can see in all this is the following: TLC will surely
have been informed of the faked train program and they can see how much
exitement it caused under the train heads. And while reading all the posts of
the thread, they could filter a lot of information, wishes and requirements out
of them.
So this hoax might help us to get some better train stuff in future. That's at
least my hope.
I fear I will get a lot of response on this post now. I will try to answer all
questions, but I have a job and my english is not the best. So I beg your
pardon, if I'm not able to give satisfieing answers to all requests
immediately.
Ben
P.s.:
for some more information go here:
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun
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| (...) I thought it was full-on well done!!! Just realistic enough looking to give someone an initial glancing doubt, but with plenty of clues, especially the "© Logo" part at the bottom -- very nice!!! LOL!!! I can't wait to see what you come up (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I'm sorry, I don't believe you. I think you faked those pictures of the fakery. Can you PROVE it was a hoax? I mean, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and as we all know, Lego is busily working to produce all this very good (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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| (...) glad, (...) Unfortunately, as real as Disneyland and for one moment we were all hoping to see an announcement stating that the two systems were compatible! Well done. Jon (...) out (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Well, you sure got me for a sec there! Too bad the hoax suspicions were already posted by the time I saw the "catalog", otherwise I would've bought it completely. :-) Nice job... ouch, you really got us all hoping... (I want a pitchfork!) (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Great joke, Ben! And nice models too! You made this weekend a lot of fun for me. I was surprised that no one admitted to it by the end of April 1, but I guess the vacation would explain it. Well done! John Matthews (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Great models! But I saw it was faked almost immediately...for next year you might want to get an image-editor with better text anti-aliasing :) And maybe add a bit of color to the next engine--LEGO almost never uses just one color... I'm still (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) you again for a look at what TLC could, and should do for themselves. Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (No, I don't work for TLC, but I want to...) Card carrying LUGNET MEMBER: #70 Visit (URL) & (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Great Joke, ben. You should have put a "coming out middle of 2001" type of thing on it, it would have made the fact that the pictures are very early prototypes seem more believable. You were even able to fool people who see prototype pictures all (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hi! Nice joke, amazing work, but... now I'm wondering about this: Are the rumours about Lego developing their new digital trains nonsense too, or is there really something going on? Were those rumours only working for your April fool's joke? Did you (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Nice job Ben! I will admit that I was really hoping it was true, maybe someday it will be. One can only hope. jt Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote in message ... (...) joke. (...) my (...) some (...) glad, (...) of (...) of (...) out (...) at (...) all (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| "Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message news:FsEr2w.86L@lugnet.com... (...) are). I read on your page that the red engine is powered by technic motors... is it possible to post some more pictures of that? I'm very curious how (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Well, you have nothing to fear from me! :) I thought it was a wonderful April Fool's Joke! :) Of course, it makes me wonder why so many were fooled (I was the first to post that I thought it was a hoax). (...) And boy did you ever fool people! (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Well, I think I speak for many when I say we believed the joke, more so, because we wanted it to be true, rather than it's believability. Anyways, great job on the MOC's. I, for one, have been inspired. Congratulations. Tim Strutt 8^) In (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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