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I saw an interesting close-up photo of the bogus little "engine" from the 4561 and it appears to me that the blue corrugated used are 2 1x4s, which would be a new element. I was wondering if anyone else had that same impression. BTW,the catalog (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | just for fun
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Well I got home today and I was just finishing some work on the train I just built and had a weird idea. I took Anakins race pod, that I bought a couple weeks ago, and mounted it on the 9V motor and had it run around the track. it looks very cool. (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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(...) Robin, YES! My thoughts exactly about the windows from the upcoming 4561 set. Glad to see BOB have a brother. ;-) later, James Mathis (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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(...) BOB's coloring: The brochure's front cover art looks to have been "artisticly" enhanced, turning selective patches into grayscale images of varying contrast and color depth(?). I thought the same thing at first. BOB's total number of units: (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Lego Loco Group Session Sunday 5/2
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Greetings all! I'll (definitely this time!) be hosting a Lego Loco Multi-Player Session tomorrow, Sunday, May 2nd, at 6:00pm Mountain Daylight Time (8:00 EDT). Please e-mail me if you plan to join so I'll know what size layout matrix to use, and so (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Possible Source of NEW Trains
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(...) I felt the same way. I fervently hope they do not make trains unless they can improve the quality a LOT. Their molds can't be THAT imprecise so it's got to be the speed at which they eject the parts. (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Possible Source of NEW Trains
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Josh, Thanks, I never saw any around here. Bad quality, huh? Oh well, at least it was an attempt. Ugh! Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Possible Source of NEW Trains
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I would guess it would be similar to Megablocks, just as a guess. But maybe if TLG would see some of their themes (i.e. Military, Suburbia, etc.) and some of their pieces, maybe they would think twice on their Town Juniorizing everything. I would (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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James, Nice train, I like it! I think I'll make one for my next show. Maybe I will use the parts from that new thing the TLG calls the Railway Express(4561). It has a lot of those 4x3 clear wall part that would make nice windows for this kind of (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Possible Source of NEW Trains
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Are the Bestlock bricks the same (or near) quality as LEGO? If they are as crappy as MEGABLOCKS, then this discussion is over for me. Just wondering and hoping.... John Lawrence Wilkes <lawrence_wilkes@msn.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Possible Source of NEW Trains
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I've seen (held, checked-out, put back) the military sets in a Target in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Among other problems, the plates look really flimsy. That, along with other general flimsy appearance meant I wasn't willing to chance (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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Very nice. The middle car looks great, very efficient use of windows. Very attractive! As, someone else already noted...LEGO should be desinging sets that look this nice! They would not be able to keep this model on the shelves. Thanks James, Chris (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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Wow! That's cool James. Just one nit, it seems that maybe the prototype has red doors on one side and blue on the other??? or else some of the brochure pictures are from different trainsets. I get the impression that the prototype has a middle (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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(...) This looks great! Even TLG could do a set like this for cheap, and they should. This would even be cool in a monorail version. Now you've got me thinking about articulated cars again :) -Tom McD. (25 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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I have finally had some time to build with LEGO. This time I've found a friend, and his name is BOB, oder: "Die Bayerische Oberlandbahn". BOB is a German passenger train. A friend of mine recently traveled to Germany and returned with a brochure (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Triangle Area Interests
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(...) 5561 Big Foot 4x4 has 2 red 1x4x3 train windows* in each set -- but that's a pretty expensive way to go, even if you can find it on discount. OTOH, it's got other goodies like white train doors and --Todd * actually, only the frames are train (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Triangle Area Interests
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(...) If I was to buy just a single train, I'd think about the the S@H 3225 (using their "train set" deal). The 4565 is also a good choice, but you have to add a power pack which adds about another $45. If you think you want to dive into trains in a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Redesigned diesel electric
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Great job, Chris! I like the details! Scott Sanburn (Hoping to get done with sorting stage 5 to get back to building, ugh!) :) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Possible Source of NEW Trains
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Oh, I agree Chris. I would have said the same thing five years ago. I have been with Lego sets for 20 years now, and I have a hard time with saying it. But times have changed. I will say the SW sets are wonderful, I have many now. But overall, look (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Redesigned diesel electric
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I finally fixed the front end of my diesel electric. While I still do not claim that it is a model of any specific engine it does at least resemble real diesel electric now. The front page (URL) to the engines and scroll to the bottom (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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