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In lugnet.trains, Jan-Albert van Ree writes: [snip] (...) Hello Jan-Albert, It seems to me that the noses of your model are much too long. Try making these only 3 studs deep (1 stud for the white section and 2 studs for the blue section). make the (...) (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I've been looking for a nice new model since I finished my diesel and soon stumbled across some pictures of the German E44 electric engine. After a long evening of trying to model it correct in MLCAD I've given up. I can't seem to make it look (...) (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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My first MOC is finally done.... concerning monorail automation. I made an automated switch and stop/go with help of the RCX. Have a look on brickshelf when moderated and tell me what you think/ comments. (URL) Christmas. Guido (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I figured out the deep links: (URL) me know what you think. I think I'll add some runners beside the train wheels. Oh, and please excuse the odd lighting, christmas lights add an odd tint to everything. Leonard (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Right on, thats the way it was done in the 12v days, and for that matter even today (the Santa Fe and My Own Train series don't come with motors or lights). What we need in the shops is affordable train sets. Once little Johnny or Jilly has (...) (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Not satisfied with a conventional train layout for my first Christmas train, I give you the Six Wide Santa. (URL) (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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It's a bit late for pics from the Great Western LEGO Train Show, but I just got these out of my digital camera. First is something of a coup for me - a LEGO Great Western 4-6-0 Castle Class "Caerphilly Castle", sitting on the firebox shelf of Great (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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and all the young minifigs gathered at the station at Pole Crossing. My irreverant Christmas train and diorama is at (URL) to LEGO creations, then On track. (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Reminder: End of year Exhibition of FGLTC. // Lego®-Fan Treffen in Hattersheim am 29.Dez.2002
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Hi all! I just wanted to post a small reminder about the end-of-year meeting of the German AFOL community in Hattersheim (near Frankfurt at river Main). The meeting takes place on sunday the 29th of december in the "Haus der Vereine in (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events)
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<snip> (...) LegoDirect said at Brickswest 2002 that they are trying to do this. Their (LEGO) shippment system and order fulfillment is NOT setup to handle small stores (aka train hobby stores). As such it is a real logistic mess right now to (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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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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