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<snip> (...) Yes Video game systems come and go but NOT the force behind them. Video games systems provide instance stimulation. Generation X (me), Y and the new millenium babioes (gen z) are all about INSTANCE GRATIFICATION. LEGO (the brick) cannot (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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besides agreeing with a lot said here i wonder how many ironclad knights have been around your neighbourhood lateley or when the last dinosaur galloped through your garden and yet these are popular themes today. i guess thomas is more importand than (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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"Michael Hader" <mhader@hubcap.clemson.edu> wrote in message news:H7J2AB.5By@lugnet.com... (...) + (...) RR) (...) is (...) well. In (...) and (...) you'll get (...) won't run (...) child a (...) time) (...) [ ... lots of snippage ... ] I think (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I think it depends on where they are being sold. In retail America (which is what I consider in most of this post) this probably wouldn't work too well. In stores like TRU/Walmart/Target/... you need a set that is (a) affordable and (b) has (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Here is the right way to sell lego trains, these are the sets to have: 1.several train sets, all unpowered, as a starting point (all train sets + all add-on locomotives would show ways to add motors and in some cases lights as well). Have perhaps (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Stefan, I agree with everything you've said above and couldn't have put it better myself. There was a time when America was a better place to live in...not now -Harvey (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thinking is detremental to today's youth (...) Whoa now...hold on here a minute. Like many youngsters, I embraced the video game FAD when I was young and pretty much abandoned LEGO® (never knew they made trains at the time, or that NES would (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Does (...) Ah. As far as I am aware, gauge 2 & 3 are not available any more commercially. However, you could try looking through the garden gauges stuff: (URL) sure, they seem to indicate gauge 3 stuff) (URL) where I get those links from. I (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I think Ahui is totally right here. Kids today just do not take interest in anything that doesn't involve a digital gun of some sort or another. The kids in my school, excluding my friends of course, like rap, video games, sex, drugs, and the like. (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Ahui Herrera writes: <snip> (...) Actually, I think that they were not of *my* generation. With the advent of TtTE about 15 years ago, I believe we are actually seeing a renaissance in train interest. <snip> (...) Young kids are (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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