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(...) extraordinary (...) good (...) Hi Larry, have you followed the link I gave in my post above? You would have found a lot of pictures in higher quality showing the models I built and used for the April fool joke. It would have been a hard work (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) glad, (...) Unfortunately, as real as Disneyland and for one moment we were all hoping to see an announcement stating that the two systems were compatible! Well done. Jon (...) out (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm sorry, I don't believe you. I think you faked those pictures of the fakery. Can you PROVE it was a hoax? I mean, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and as we all know, Lego is busily working to produce all this very good (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) I fear next years joke will not be mine: everybody would expect me to have done it. (...) Of course that's not pedantic: in three out of five published pictures there is no Lego logo at all. I think they are quite ok, but I will add some (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) I thought it was full-on well done!!! Just realistic enough looking to give someone an initial glancing doubt, but with plenty of clues, especially the "© Logo" part at the bottom -- very nice!!! LOL!!! I can't wait to see what you come up (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) True, but isn't it the day to try to FOOL people and not make people laugh? Well done, well thought out ... kind of a bummer;) -- pn (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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There are ha-ha jokes, and there are cruel jokes. Yours, sir, was DEFINITELY the latter. (...) ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I just posted about this myself. Too bad it was a fake. I was considering getting into trains because of the "new" stuff. Excellent job. (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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So, has anyone popped up and said that the new 9v trains are an april fool joke yet? I have never been interested in the Lego trains, but if that's a real set, I would buy it in a minute. I, for one, would'nt have to think for a minute about buying (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Folks, I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke. Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my life now, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !!
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(...) I don't see the Starwars AAT and MTT on www.lego.com. Does that mean they are MOC's as well? In my experience, it is very rarely that we find information about new sets at www.lego.com _first_. For example, most of the information about the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Perhaps it's because they *are* MOC's. I don't think this is real, why haven't we found anything on www.lego.com? --Tobias (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Poindexter writes: Note, I will speak of a hypothetical remote control switch which just happens to resemble something posted which may or may not be a hoax and which may or may not be OK to talk about. (...) Sigh. Well one (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) distance (...) Lar and others: The 8 wides WILL hit that box going through points. My DD40 cannot spur off on a set of points unless the actual yellow point switch is removes, as it ovehangs on the inside of the curve by too much. The box is (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Funny...I was just in St. Louis this morning for about an hour and a half, connecting from San Francisco to Chicago. But...I probably won't have the $$ to make it down for meets :( -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.il)
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(...) Or just be lazy and use altavista. Alan (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm not following you completely. Here's where my thinking currently is, and I admit I should have thought this through before posting extensively as I now think some of that posting may not be correct from a legal perspective. I am prepared (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Interesting thinking about this, the debate should settle down to just naysayers (if you believe the scan is real, it is almost certainly a leak, and therefor shouldn't be discussed). The only thing which (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It is against the Terms of Use Agreement to infringe on the privacy or publicity rights of others. Interpret our (mine & Suz's) opinions at your own risk. --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) even (...) I meant the latter. It's unoficially more like 60 lbs (according to the bathroom scale). Why would 40 lbs "hardly seem possible?" Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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