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Re: How will Ben top last year? (summit talk?)
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Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:41:58 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Santosh Bhat writes:
> But isn't there some sort of a general rule that no reply, or no comment
> generally means "yes" ?
Except for kidding around, I've been fairly careful, because if one indeed
says "no" to the no things and "no comment" to the yes things, one IS giving
information. To be correct, one has to say "no comment" to everything, yes
OR no. And I think I've been doing that. The downside of that is that it
leaves the impression that one knows more than one does because to be safe
you're saying no comment to stuff that you know nothing about!
That said, we don't actually know that much about the future mainline train
products. There was a lot of discussion and we made a lot of suggestions and
we did see a few new things but that's it. LD is not the main source of new
designs, that happens in Billund. But LD CAN create new things and has.
THAT said, I still have a lot of high hopes of good things yet to come.
Things have been playing out (so far) as I expected them to, albeit a bit
more slowly than I had hoped.
As for points being unavailable I don't know the details. I DO know that
things periodically run out of stock because not everything is in production
at the same time. That is not the same as something being discontinued. Can
you elaborate on what you heard or read that lead you to believe points were
being discoed? Maybe I missed it.
The tooling for new points to replace the current ones would be hugely
expensive. I know we asked for new points with better geometry and with a
better mechanical linkage to make it easier to automate them, but I am not
expecting them for a while, if ever. A lot of other stuff has to happen to
make trains more valuable to TLC before I would see them investing the
tooling for such a huge part
++Lar
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| (...) Yes fair enough, though to me (the simple non legal minded folk), the fact that a company or a person isnt opening up means they've got something to hide. Now I'm not saying this to you personally Larry but in general terms. Surely if (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| Well I'm not under any sort of agreement that limits my thought processes so here goes: Would I be right in thinking that the train summit recently held didn't have much to do with Lego Train items at all? But that it was mainly aimed at using Lego (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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