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| (...) :) And don't forget, 'sauna' is a three-syllable word. The 'u' is not silent! Steve (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Actually "guys" is a gender neutral term: (URL) definition 3 entry 3b -Orion (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) I can only speak for myself, but part of the fun, for me at least, is the challenge of staying within the confines of the Lego product. If I wanted to build track, etc. from other items, or do my own molding, I'd work in N or HO scale (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) Now that is kind of what I was advocating in my post. The whole LEGO system is a modular system--why not come up with modular way of creating tracks and motor housings or whatever using perhaps the system as the glue and outside parts as part (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) If you go far enough north it isn't! They also use the other variant, youse guyses, as in, "You got da deep snow over to youse guyses place, eh?" to which the response would be, "Ya, sure, but we cleared da path to da sauna!" (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Yes, I am aware that "y'all" does have some connotations--but have decided that it is really the only politically correct, all encompassing, non-gender, non-racial, non-religious specfic pronoun that is available in the English language-at (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) If this were to be done, and the target market was AFOLs, then it would make far more sense to not bother at all with the curved and straight track sections of different sizes, but just produce flextrack. Then you have a single small gang-able (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) ah, forgive me. I've never actually seen any 12v stuff :( I was just trying to throw out an example so, whoops. The track will all work together still like the current plastic track works still with metal track. the main difference is where (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Well the versions I have seen most recently are directly powering lamps and light fixtures and such. I don't know if that would be enough for a train motor. I doubt LEGO has that in the works too, but it would be nice. Reliance on batteries is (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) Hm, I wonder if TLG would fight them on a patent/design methodology? That would be the first issue I see. However, on that note, what I would really like to see is some way to get just metal tracks that would fit over the plastic track. That (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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