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Re: New Train - KT203 - Opening the box - first impressions
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk
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Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:09:22 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
> > http://www.wilkesworld.co.uk/lego/kt203_first_impressions.htm
> >
> > For all of you dying to know how the new trains are packaged, here are a few
> > photos of the contents.
> >
> > I havent had time to make it up yet
> > Will have to wait till tonight
> >
> > regards
> > lawrence
>
> Well, I've got KT204 - the green large one with a tender. The instructions
> come in the separate tender / engine boxes, and mine show blue bricks as
> well, despite it being a green engine. I presume the blue one was the
> original design. (Note: must have a close look at the S@H website, and see
> if the blue engine pictures are the only ones that don't look like they've
> been re-coloured).
I wonder it thats why the site says backordered, will deliver on March 25?
I'm ordering grey soon!
Josh
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> The large engine instruction book contains instructions for both the tender
> and closed rear engines, and you can build either - I just did. If you
> build the closed rear one, it includes some of the coloured bricks which
> would otherwise go in the tender.
>
> Whichever you build, you have a few parts specific to the other left over.
> In the case of the closed rear engine, that's a pair of 1x6x1 black arches
> and a few ordinary bricks left. In the case of the tender engine, that's
> the 2x1x3 panels and the 2x1x3 inverted buttress slopes from the coal scuttle.
>
> The bag of coloured bricks contains some black ones too, including the front
> dish. I presume these are (some of?) the parts common to both the large and
> small engines. I wouldn't hold out too much hope of being able to build the
> small engine from the large one. Someone would need to buy both to get both
> sets of instructions to be sure though.
>
> Oh - one other thing. Depending which of the large engines you make, the
> sticker for the controls goes on a different brick. For the closed rear
> engine, it goes on a coloured 1x6, but it goes on a 2x6 on the tender engine
> (the 1x6 then goes in the tender). All the other stickers go on the same
> bricks.
>
> It looks good when made up - and you don't really notice the bogeys
> underneath. That, and it's well worth the money if only for train parts.
>
> Now, if all the parts are the same, I'm just wondering why it costs more to
> add a tender to the small engine than to the large one. Profit margins I
> suppose, but it comes across as a bit odd when you work out the prices.
>
> Jason J Railton
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