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In lugnet.announce.moc, John Neal wrote: One of the perils of fatherhood for which I was not prepared is the disturbing fact that the Thomas themesong stays in my brain for three or four days after I watch the show. I can only catch it with Matthew (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) Hey, Ben! They have been sighted at various TRU and also from TRU online (Amazon.com) (...) It is the regular LEGO blue. Percy, OTOH, is the lighter LEGO green, which is the correct color for him. JOHN (20 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) Toys-R-Us has them. HTH, - Joe (20 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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Hello John, Very nice. Two questions: 1) Where can I get a Duplo Thomas engine? - I'm not seeing them listed on S@H anywhere. 2) What color blue did LEGO use for the engine? Thanks, Ben Fleskes Big Ben Bricks LLC (...) <snip> (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) Yes, but how much clearance does one need? These ties are simply 1x4 tiles on the LEGO ties. If you need more clearance that, you also probably need more time at the design table;-) Out of curiousity, to what "other stuff" might you be (...) (20 years ago, 7-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) Also, don't those sleepers mean less ground clearance for the motor (and other stuff)? Legoswami (20 years ago, 7-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) Great. Since a 100k pic is worth 100k of words, I'll post some to show how (along with some pics for my son Ross' solution for points, as requested elsewhere) JOHN (20 years ago, 7-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the pics! I must say they look pretty good, even with the squishing. I have an unrelated question though: How do those 1-wide sleepers work in curves? ROSCO (20 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) I am probably going to have to add a section on modifying the Duplo sets to 9v since it is a new and easy way to get Thomas for a club/layout. Russell (20 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) lol Hey Russ- I was actually thinking about you when I was building this stuff-- how will these sets affect your LEGO Thomas presentation? JOHN (20 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) SWEET! I have been thinking about doing something very similiar since I first saw the preview pictures. John, you might get me to go 8-wide after all. ;-) Russell BayLTC/BayLUG (20 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) They are five studs in diameter. The faces I used on my 6 wide Thomas characters were just shy of 4 wide. I think that these new faces would be virtually impossible to use on 6 wide trains and have the results look good (except, perhaps, for (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) Works for me. I actually thought about doing that when I saw them in the prerelease photos! But now that you have one in your hand, how does the size of the face compare to, say, a 4x4 radar dish? Rob (20 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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Well, my prayers have been finally answered (sorta:-) I had gotten into the habit of firing off an email to Brad Justus every 6 months or so when he was still heading up LEGO Direct begging for TLG to get a license for producing Thomas the Tank (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX) !!
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I stopped by my local TRU, Mira Mesa/San Diego, on Tuesday and I think I stepped into a time warp. They had all 4 sets from the new (URL) DUPLO line >. As well as the new LEGO (URL) Large Dump Truck, 7344 >! Non of these show up on S@H or any other (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I hope they end up here eventually. In particular I'm interested in the garbage truck (4659). (cross posted to lugnet.lego) Julie (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.lego)
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When I was in Europe lately I had a chance to look at the new Duplo© sets. They are nice sets for town, farm and train. Since my baggage capacity was limited I did not buy any. I wanted to buy them being back in the states. In the local TrU no luck (...) (20 years ago, 20-Mar-05, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.general) !
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| | Article about Quatro, Duplo and System bricks compatibility
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Hi, Thanks to khan and rob for the translation into English of my article on FreeLUG website : (URL) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.quatro, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.people.parents)
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| | Re: little forest friends, names ?
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(...) I have a book that come with one of the sets which list all the names. They are in four families: bluebells, strawberries, toadstools and Meadowsweets. The ones you mentioned above are from bluebells family. Here is the list: Bluebells: (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Ray, It looks like brickset.com has some names in there (not sure if they are accurate or not). 2828 - Trouble Toadstool & Jangle Bluebell 2829 - Melba Strawberry & Dozey Meadowsweet 2830 - Snuffle Snail with Lolly and Baby Jelly Strawberry (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.duplo)
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