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  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
Cool joke! Did indeed fool me, and made me laugh! Fredrik (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
 
  7813 in new "drab" colors
 
I recently bought a 7813 to get more white corner slopes, so I rebuilt it in a new color scheme. It has a tan base, with grey/ dark grey tanks and black accents. Pictures are here: (URL) Farver - mailto:rfarver@rcn.com (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
Great Joke, ben. You should have put a "coming out middle of 2001" type of thing on it, it would have made the fact that the pictures are very early prototypes seem more believable. You were even able to fool people who see prototype pictures all (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)  
 
  Re: My Rail Zeppelin and web page.
 
(...) This page renders somewhat strangely for me in NS 4.7. Buttons jumbled, text overlapping and lots of other weirdness. Just me? +Lar (only one plus for a while, since I got fooled by Ben) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
Target locking on... fire!!!!! Good one, but I must say, DIE!!!!!!! ; ) Scott "Finally some colors I would like to use on trains! )S. Scott E. Sanburn Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Soon: The Sanburn Systems (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)  
 
  My Rail Zeppelin and web page.
 
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)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
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)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
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)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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) ! 
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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) ! 
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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)  
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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) ! 
 
  Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
 
(...) 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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