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(...) Or comedianne - sorry couldn't resist it. (1) (...) Nope, my trains collect dust until I have money to invest. I have a 7740 with some missing doors and windows. (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I meant LEGO *train* builders. And you might be right, there may be 1000's but I still have the feeling that we are not as big a general audience. Certainly more vocal! BTW the top line "Plenty of valid points" was aimed at the other postings in (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Define "we". People who read/post to lugnet? Adult Fans Of Lego, worldwide? I'm sure there are more than 1,000 AFOL's worldwide. More than 10,000. Steve (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Plenty of valid points here... LEGO AS is market driven. We must assume that we are all a special interest group of adult LEGO train builders. A very small group, even if we were 1000 strong (that number seems even a bit high). When LEGO AS designs (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I respectfully disagree for these reasons. First of all, one can hardly call an idea such as "motor with 6 large wheels" or "gentler curved rails" original. These are the kinds of things I'm talking about. Also, I point to Matt's scratch built (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) But if I understand TLG's reasoning correctly, the act of publishing your own ideas would make those ideas unusable by TLG. Something to do with copyrights and such? So maybe you would be better off _not_ publishing all those great ideas, and (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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If we suppose that Disney and (for our purposes) TLG are monitoring sites on the net such as James' webpage, I think we (trainiacs) should come up with some sort of top 10 or 20 list to make known beyond a doubt what TLG can produce which will (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi All, I will be traveling to Salt Lake City this week and was wondering if anyone here lived there and wanted to meet for lunch or whatever... SteveB www.PNLTC.org (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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<delurk> Well they are making Winnie the Pooh Duplo this year. (URL) Korn <relurk> (...) believe (...) at (...) a (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Due to a shortage of 12V motors, I eventually made all my locomotives 9V. But I have set up the 7866 remote controlled crossing on my layout, as well as a more modern looking level crossing, without the swinging arms, but with the blinking (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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