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Re: I heard a rumour that lego were going to ditch 9v track...
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct
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Date:
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Sat, 5 Oct 2002 13:41:29 GMT
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On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 09:37:46 GMT, "Scott A" <eh105jb@mx1.pair.com>
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> In lugnet.trains, Rob Doucette writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Harvey Henkelman writes:
> > > I don't think LEGO® would leave a money-making theme such as trains hang
> > > high and dry, it would be foolish...especially after almost 40 years of
> > > continuous train production.
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> Can we be sure trains are a "money-making theme" in the longer-term? The fact
> that much of the newer offerings can only really be had via S@H and that these
> sets contain no real new parts makes me wonder what the long term plans for
> trains are.
Is this really true though? After all, 3 of the 2001 train cars are
available at retail. Probably more significantly, there are 2
different retail starter sets that are built around the 2001 series of
trains.
Does anyone else suspect that by Christmas 2004 we will have retail
sets based around the Super Chief sets?
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Super Chief set not ready for prime-time
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| In lugnet.trains, Mike Case writes: ... (...) The Super Chief locomotive and cars are absolutely beautiful. I've bought 15 sets so far, and I could see buying more. But, it is the poorest running train since the inception of 9V. As Jeroen de Haan (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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