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G'day This may be somewhat anticlimactic given Reinhard's hard work, but I finally had some time to start on my web page @ (URL) have some of my oldest recorded models and my latest three engine Rail Zeppelin. This model is a proper 98 studs long (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) you again for a look at what TLC could, and should do for themselves. Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (No, I don't work for TLC, but I want to...) Card carrying LUGNET MEMBER: #70 Visit (URL) & (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Great models! But I saw it was faked almost immediately...for next year you might want to get an image-editor with better text anti-aliasing :) And maybe add a bit of color to the next engine--LEGO almost never uses just one color... I'm still (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Great joke, Ben! And nice models too! You made this weekend a lot of fun for me. I was surprised that no one admitted to it by the end of April 1, but I guess the vacation would explain it. Well done! John Matthews (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's a great thing for castle, and it's VERY hard to get nowadays. I probably wouldn't buy the whole set just to get 'em but that would make them easier to get in general and thus cheaper for me to offer trainheads to buy it from them; or (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Excuse my stupid question: what is so special with the pitchfork, that you would by a 60 - 80$ set to get one? I supposed it to be rare, since I own just two of them.... Regards, Ben (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, you sure got me for a sec there! Too bad the hoax suspicions were already posted by the time I saw the "catalog", otherwise I would've bought it completely. :-) Nice job... ouch, you really got us all hoping... (I want a pitchfork!) (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Darn... Excellent work... I was almost got suck into an expensive hobby known as LEGO trains... (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Send me the models. If you have them now, that's pretty definitive. Or just send me the boxcab electric, I want to see how you did the technic motor driving a vertical axle that carries motion to the LGB wheels, and how you did current pickup. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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ARGH ! ! ! ! And I finally had convinced my NLSO wife to start with trains since these were so cool and she loved them......... Dave (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I may have read between the lines incorrectly, but I read the above as a tongue-in-cheek comment. I don't think Larry really doubts you -- he's just giving you a hard time for the fun of it (IMHO!). (...) WOW! (...) IMHO, your work already (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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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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