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Re: Hey Brad! Why not rerelease an *unpowered* monorail set?
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Date: 
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:55:54 GMT
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You could get around that by running your seam down the ceter of the studs.
There would still be no undercuts. Thus a 2 part mold. Probably too large a
piece with no retun on investment gaurantee. Still sounds fishy to me.



> In lugnet.dear-lego, Jim Schifeling writes:
> > I think I recall Brad saying something about not being able to make the
> > track anymore as well. That doesn't make any sense to me though. A very easy
> > mold with no undercuts.
> 
> Well, the track segments are fairly large parts, which means (I think) the
> cost of developing the molds is higher.
> 
> And the track would require at least a three-part mold, because there are
> studs facing left and right.
> 
> > The points might be a real problem as they are
> > fairly complicated (as they are genius)
> 
> True.
> 
> Steve



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  Re: Hey Brad! Why not rerelease an *unpowered* monorail set?
 
"crunch-o-matic" <naughty.monkey@verizon.net> wrote in message news:Gq5016.G01@lugnet.com... (...) studs. (...) a (...) .... only thing is the studs on the sides of the monorail track are the hollow type which accept things the size of minifig (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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  Re: Hey Brad! Why not rerelease an *unpowered* monorail set?
 
(...) Well, the track segments are fairly large parts, which means (I think) the cost of developing the molds is higher. And the track would require at least a three-part mold, because there are studs facing left and right. (...) True. Steve (25 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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