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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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Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:35:22 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Case writes:
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 09:37:46 GMT, "Scott A" <eh105jb@mx1.pair.com>
> wrote:
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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.
> >
> > 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.
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>
> 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.
Hmm. Perhaps this is a US thing (?), the only 2001 train sets we have in
non-lego shops in the UK are what looks like superfluous LD stock sold at a
slight discount.
Scott A
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> Does anyone else suspect that by Christmas 2004 we will have retail
> sets based around the Super Chief sets?
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