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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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(...) Hey James, if one wanted to get into, say, 2 1/2", where would one begin? Does anybody actually sell scale stuff at that gauge? I would like to obtain some gauge 3 bettendorf trucks! JOHN (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Perhaps Trains (in general) are not of this generation. I remember that I loved to see trains running while I was a little kid. I also loved to go to the aracde and spent a whole dollar on acrade machines. But then the "dark ages" came... No (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) take (...) 1:-) 2 1/2" gauge for 1/24. 3 1/2" for 1/16, 4 3/4' or 5" for 1/12, 7 1/4"/7 1/2" for 1/8 James (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Oh, I see. [...] (...) *My* experiments? NBL. I'm a LEGO purist, remember? I just pointed out a possible LEGO solution to the problem, but I see now that it won't work... --Bill. (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Last night as I was strolling through the clearance section of my favorite Target store, and marveling at my luck at so many train cars being offered at a discounted price, a thought hit me. Why would a kid who did not have a Lego train setup at (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, I find the large scale stuff very intoxicating as well! Actually, USA Trains (and Aristocraft) are around the scale of 1:29, but utilize gauge *1* track (which is actually scale for standard gauge at 1:32). I *do* have "G" scale trucks, (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Does this help... (URL) actually live within a couple miles of their headquarters and store in Malden MA. Super great stuff! If I were not so dedicated to LEGO trains I would be in their store on at least a weekly basis. Eric K. (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Sorry, no pics yet, but I'm nearly finished with my first 2 cars. I'm posting in hopes of picking the brains of some large scalers out there (James Powell-- hint hint;-)... But first: After many calculations (big thanks to DaveE and his awesome (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Calling all trainheads! The Vancouver Lego Club is sponsoring a Train Operating Weekend on Fri Jan 31 to Sun Feb 2, in New Westminster, BC (close to Vancouver). The focus of this event is to build a large layout which allows us to do *realistic (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic, lugnet.org.us.sealug)
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(...) To activate the Kadee(r) coupler's Magne-Matic(r) uncoupling feature. see (URL) for more information. (...) Which my experiments have indicated is woefully underpowered for this particular task, as well as not aligned in the correct direction (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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