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| (...) Scott pretty much summed up my concern over this one. Get a commercial entity involved, and you're in danger of crossing the line for patent infringement. I doubt they'd ever go after Ondrew for his hand-modded track (indeed, since he uses (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) As problematic as it is for long term track maintainence, and modifying track, it's actually a very simple solution to an ugly problem. Have you ever noticed how regular model railroaders link two sections of track together so power will be (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Ok well I'm not really OUT out. But out in terms of not buying new stuff, like the battery stuff, I passed on, since I had no interest in those kind of sets. If the new power system they are talking about is as bad as the battery system then I (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| On the positive side of things, the new battery trains run fine on my old blue track, and the new plastic-only track is a whole lot cheaper than the old electrified track. I also like that useful 4-way switch they introduced. Electrified track gives (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) And presumably a "large" one too... Tim (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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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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