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Re: How will Ben top last year? (summit talk?)
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Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:41:37 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Santosh Bhat writes:
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> > But isn't there some sort of a general rule that no reply, or no comment
> > generally means "yes" ?
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> 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!
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 something was beneficial, any company would be out flogging this
fact, rather than being secretive right? Or am i just being an uncoof yoof
[1] who hasn't being around for long enough?
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
Well I wont pretend to quote because there's a good chance I'm wrong, BUT,
didn't the S@H catalogue omit points? And I know here in Aus that Points are no
longer available from Lego Australia, and generally they were the best source
for train items here.
> 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
Like exposure to model railroaders? Sure they can't budge into the modelling
market, but hey, those folks have kids and mum/dad (mom/dad *g*) wouldn't want
juniorette/junior messing with the expensive models..
Trains are obviously a drawcard for Lego, I'm just curious as to why their
being so secretive about what their plans are. I know my interest in LEGO is
waining much like and a negative log curve. For the past few years each new
catalogue has only disenchanted me more..If lego told me "ok we're looking at
doing this to trains"...I'd be hanging in anticipation for the news!
Sorry if you're being hounded by myself or others about the summit. I'm just a
bit disappointed that Lego doesn't want to share information.
Santosh
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