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(...) Right, I'll do about a 50car freight train, but I'd like to finish the 20car grey 4558 and the 5-10 car black 4558 before diving deeply into the freight train ;-) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Spoken like a man with terminal Train Jones. Thing is, I have it too, and I probably can hold off somewhat, because, while passenger is nice, FREIGHT is where all the action is. (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Stickers - Problems
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(...) Ah, no. We've had that debate already. MOST sets have track and a power pack included but it's not required. I think I've been active in MR since before you were born. (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Right, TLC indeed lost money in 1998, but they got on their feet in 1999. (they attributed their renewed success to Mindstorms.) -Shiri (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Stickers - Problems
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I purchased 44 3225s last year and I'd say most had peeling sticker problems. A perfectly flat and well-preserved sticker sheet was the exception, not the rule. -John (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) 3225 is not a set it's a train - it deserves it's own category along with 4558 and 4565. A set in the model train world is something that can operate just using the components in the package. (...) It's been said before, 4561 would be so good (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I may be wrong, but I seem to remember reading somewhere, recently, that they experienced a loss in 1998. -Jonathan (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: an update -- and an apology
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(...) Last I heard they weren't. Ben Roller (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) TLC is not a corporation it is a family owned buisnesss. Unfortunatly they run it like a corporation. i.e. they no longer seem to care about quality over cutting corners to save money. Now they wonder why they are losing money. (...) I prefer (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) rudeness. (...) No, I will not, and not because there aren't numerous examples. You obviously don't want to hear it, so it's best if you educate yourself. Very easy to do with the internet. We all love Lego, but you have to remember it's a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering Train windows... My Thoughts
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NO, they unfortunately have plain glass, not train glass. Otherwise, those vans would never make it onto the shelves around here, I'd buy them by the case. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Stickers - Problems
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(...) the (...) to. (...) the (...) I've had a similar problem with a 3225 too - at first I thought that the box had been returned to the shop after someon had opened it and pulled the stickers off the backing. They seem to stay on the elements OK (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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I have never had a sticker problem EXCEPT with #4556, the small red train station. Some of the stickers were curling up off the backing when I opened the box, and they have continued to curl up from the elements they were applied to. I wonder if (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Isn't the window glass used on the soccer busses coming out later this year? --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) No. 4560 is BETTER than 4561 because it doesn't come with the rather useless transformer. And 3225 is easily better than 4559. Although, as you say, it *is* a set rather than just a collection of cars or a locomotive. So I'd rank 4559 and (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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The last 2 new sets I have built (4560 & 3225) have both had the same problem with their stickers. The problem is that the other items inside the MISB boxes must rub against the sticker sheet and cause them to come off the sheet and stick on other (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Bulk Ordering Train windows... My Thoughts
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I have a feiling that train people wont be getting their window glass because it is not a piece TLG is currently making. The most recent set to use it was the model team black and yellow helicopter, which is in the special insert from the s@h (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: an update -- and an apology
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(...) A sad but accurate comment, Todd. Even without taking actual orders, they should be collecting the information for themselves. Frankly, just asking us to repeat here for the Nth time all that has already been stated time and again about what (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: The Cluetrain Manifesto (was: Re: fan support)
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One of the authors of this came to our sales kickoff meeting. Great talk. Dunno how many of our salespeople "got it" though. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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