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Re: Traumatic Events in the Life of a Lego Fan
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:44:26 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Chris Phillips wrote:
> Changing the color of 9V train track has a
> very definite impact on the many LTCs that might want to expand our train
> layouts someday and will have to either (1) acquire old track at a steep
> mark-up, (2) replace all of our existing track, or (3) have a crappy-looking
> layout with mismatched colors of track.
Chris, I feel your pain, I really do. But I have never seen real train tracks
that are a uniform color. Some of the ties are black. Some are brown. Others
are faded in a non-uniform manner. It would seem to me that some color
difference in a LEGO train layout would make it more realistic as opposed to
"crappy-looking". Expand your layout with new track. Nobody will look at a
LEGO train layout at a GATS show or at BrickFest and say, "that layout is
crappy-looking since some of the track is a darker gray then the rest". They're
looking at the trains and the buildings - not the track.
IMHO,
John Hansen
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 | | Re: Traumatic Events in the Life of a Lego Fan
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| (...) The more likely solution is that our club will simply stop buying new track. If we decide to expand our layout, we will probably just borrow track from our members. (I'll lend all of mine if necessary.) When you consider the significant (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Traumatic Events in the Life of a Lego Fan
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| (...) Actually, there's very good point to this. But it also got me thinking that if uniformity is what is really desired, you can still achieve a very nice effect by cycling through a small set of colors in a fixed order... say alternate between (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) <snip> Well this is funny, and it did make me laugh, but most of these changes that you mention are improvements to the product line. Very few of these represent a step backwards in the consistency of the product. I know that you are mocking (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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