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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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| (...) 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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| (...) Hehe, so I'm not alone on that one :-) (...) A guy in the Netherlands is just trying this, even before this message of discontinuation of the 9V line appeared. (...) About 5 years ago, I even started with Lego trains that were discontinued 23 (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) Ben, Well said! I couldn't have stated it any better. I too will wait, impatiently I might add, for the reveal on the new system. I trust that if I lack the creativity to make it work, I will do what I always do... Copy from the rest of you. (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Well I do. The last 5 years I have build up a huge collection of blue track (both 12 volt and 4.5 volt), as well as trains from that era (1966-1979) and many parts, like motors, train bases, etc. All long after the last production run by TLC (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Funny how we as AFOLs have a hard time thinking "outside the box". We automatically assume that new track geometry necessarily requires large sectional track pieces. The old 4.5-volt/12-volt system had separate ties (sleepers in Europe), track (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) Hey Adam, Will you sell me you 9v stuff? Todd (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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