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(...) Good point. I should have realised that Mr Gould wouldn't get that close to actual bits of plastic. I was obviously confused by his name being all over the front page at the moment. Jason R (19 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Tim Gould's photos ? The owner of the linked BS gallery (talltim) is our dear curator Tim David. Didier (19 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Ben - your own joke bites you on the bum! On the same day, at the Brickish AGM I demonstrated this engine: (URL) Engine>> (URL) uncoupler>> The engine contains a 6x8x3 box containing an IR receiver circuit. The 9V battery box is under the (...) (19 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Are you sure that you or any fan can influence the decisions already made by LEGO? Another view on this whole "See what the fall sales bring and Lego will decide further" story is: Lego moves the sale of metal rails and stuff to S@H, because (...) (19 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's some (URL) hot space station justice> right there. You've got me waxing nostalgic for FF7. A few criticisms: Firstly, even though it can't be done in such a silver, there are ways to ameliorate the monolithic amount of black. I suggest (...) (19 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Excellent rendition and great choice of source material. Are you going to make the cars to go with it? They look fun to do and there's some prime snot opportunity in them. Strangely enough although I've more than two hundred hours of my life (...) (19 years ago, 2-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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I'm usually a lurker - and a space building lurker at that - but even us lurkers have to put up a MoC once in a while to prove we're alive. So here it is, a locomotive from the RPG Final Fantasy VII, I think anything else is explained in the (...) (19 years ago, 2-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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(...) (SNIP) (...) It seems there are a few types of rechargeable batteries to consider: NiCds are made obsolete by the European RoHS directive (banning Cadmium), and they also suffer from memory effect. NiMH are becoming more common in standard (...) (19 years ago, 2-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There *was* buzz about LEGO Factory on Legofan, but it died out there too when no responses came from LEGO. The LEGO Factory forum is here: (URL) Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) Gallery: (...) (19 years ago, 2-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: One good message (kind of) from LEGO at last... (April Fool's Day)
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(...) Yes Mark, on April the first I wanted to post about an IR-reciever in form of a "4x4 block, 2 plates high plus the 2x2 bulb on top". That is correct. And of course it was April Fool's Day (so maybe LUGNET was not working properly). ;-) Ben (19 years ago, 2-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) So you're saying this is a 4x4 block, 2 plates high plus the 2x2 bulb on top? Just want to be sure of the correct information :-) Mark (19 years ago, 2-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Rosco, Todd must have implemented a tool which deletes all "0." in messages coming from me on April Fools Day. Of course I meant to have typed "0.66". But nevertheless: you got me. And I admit this wasn't my best April Fools Joke. It is (...) (19 years ago, 2-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You are correct, Brad was a train fan. (...) Same here. They seem to have missed several of their dates and, without the Jake conduit of information, as far as I know we don't have any updated information. Steve, who really misses Jake (19 years ago, 2-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I tend to agree. I get a lot of the "I didn't know Lego made trains" at train shows and give them the standard spiel, "Yes, long time, mostly mail order, etc." We've done shows with a train set or two available for sale (MSRP) and IIRC have (...) (19 years ago, 2-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Interesting that "plugging in" is veiwed as a negative. Most of the people I know (myself included) would never buy a battery powered anything if a plug in version was available. That is the reason I never bought a Mindstorms kit. When I had (...) (19 years ago, 2-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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--snip--- I'm sure this has been posted somewhere but I've been out of the LEGO loop for about a year now. What is this RC Track and IR Train that I keep reading about? And images, links, thanks? -AHui (19 years ago, 1-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) SNIP (...) I'd be a lot less worried if I knew Jake was still working for TLG. It may be my imagination but it seems like every SAH-exclusive/LEGO-Direct 9V train-related product that was produced in the last 5-6 years has had Jake's (...) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Well I don't think 4x4x66 will be very useful, especially on April 1st ;) ROSCO (19 years ago, 1-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Train Fans! Some may have heard about the AFOL group which co-worked with LEGO on Mindstorms-NXT (at least as a kind of feedback group). Then there is the group of Ambassadors and who will wonder: there is a group of train fans organised to give (...) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well I dont use my train parts for very much so I am more concerned about whether they are going to go bad on me over time vs what might happen if I was running them all the time :) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I suspect, despite AFOLs protests to the contrary, the true measurable sales impact of AFOLs, train shows and the like, is very small in comparison to mainstream marketing, sales and distribution. Everything else was the dedication and (...) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Jonathan- One sad fact is that some parents don't buy LEGO trains (and LEGO in general) because they don't want to assemble it and know/believe their child doesn't have the skill or patience to put it together. (It surprises me how many kids (...) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Jonathan- Several parts of the LEGO 9 volt train system have wear issues when used for model railroading (as opposed to occasional under-the-Christmas tree kid usage). First, the motors units fail in proportion to loading, track grade, and (...) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) The "lack of interest" is comming mainly from the big box stores like Toys-R-Us, Wal-Mart, Target etc. The problems for those stores are: 1.Compared to other toy trains (such as blue track thomas the tank engine or any of the various wooden (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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I hear all this talk about 9-volt parts "wearing out". Which parts wear out? Is it based on how much they are run or how old they are? (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ray, Thanks Ray, BTW some of the rolling stock isn't mine. Susan built the Thomas that was used, along with the black troublesome trucks. My Thomas kept derailing. 8( As far as I know, the current plan is to re-use and add to the TTTE display (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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For what it's worth I have built space containers with a rectangular cross section. (URL) I work in shipping, containers are really useful and have really sped up shipping in the last few decades, and space needs more of them! Soren's can be stacked (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Everything I have read indicates that the "hobby train" IS Lego Train Factory. Lego is focusing in-house train set development on their "play train" line. "Hobby train" set development is being left to us, the fans, using Lego Train Factory. (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thank you, Eric, for jumping into this and taking charge. I feel I have to be missing something, but, Lego is announcing plans for the hobby train (based on 9V) in August 06 & then deciding whether to continue 9V or not in early 07? They are (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) You're getting close to what I've thought for a long time, Larry. Eric, you have some interesting ideas, for sure, and plenty of passion for our hobby. Here's some simplistic opinions that I can share - it's evident to me that LEGO's looking (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Ouch. First TLG, after offering a train set (URL) train/hobby shops, wouldn't actually supply the product, and now is cutting the smaller stores that have been faithfully carrying trains out of the loop. A stride forward for vertical (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Great looking rolling stock Mat. I wasn't able to get to Legoland over the weekend to see your Thomas the Train locomotive and other character engines. Are you going to be displaying them at the upcoming train show at Fullerton too? Ray Original (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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In lugnet.trains, Eric Kingsley wrote: (some interesting ideas) That's all well and good, and I think a website might be useful but it's not the way to prove the line is viable. That requires driving demand. But how? What are the chances of LEGO (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I can't disagree with anything you say Troy. With that said I think we have a decent chance of convincing LEGO to maintain the line if we can all come together and make our case. One thing I think that has been lost in the last couple of years (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) This is perhaps the case for those of us that already have the essentials to make a LEGO train (track, controler, motor) but it certainly is not what is required to bring NEW people into the hobby. People at the shows and at the store all want (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) This may depend on your interpretation of hobby train I guess. I think the purchaser of sets will want the all plastic train and track. I can't recall the last train "set" I bought. But I have bought a lot of track, points, motors, track (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Eric, First off - THANK YOU for the news. (Good to see actual Lego discussion is going on in lugnet.trains.) My initial thought - on reading this news and the other thread about club participation - was "How did we get HERE?" It seemed like there (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) So, is LEGO going to actually have any 9v product available during this time to accurately guage the performance of said product? Or will it be just the remains of what they currently have, which most people already have. It seems to me that (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Eric, First and foremost -- thank you. This gathering and reporting of information is exactly the sort of thing I that I imagined the Lego Ambassador program would be useful for. This is also the first time that any ambassador has done (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) (URL) photos of the "real" Trevor. I think she is either a 6 or 7 NHP engine, which makes her moderate in size...not too big or too small. (I think also that it is just Foster, not & Rastrick...). I know all about the problems of Lego scale (...) (19 years ago, 30-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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