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Subject: 
Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes | Trains
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:48:38 GMT
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"Duq" <Duq@nlgateway.net> writes:

>  Maybe it's childhood memories, maybe it's because I'm just after
>  buying the old Thatcher Perkins, but it looks like trains have only
>  gone downhill since the early eighties....

But the Thatcher Perkins is, like, more than twice as large as today's
trains.  And it still doesn't implement the correct kind of
pushrod/cylinder movement.

If a LEGO set was perfect to the degree that there wasn't any room to
improve it, would you still like it?  What I like about LEGO sets is
the possibility to improve and rebuild the original design.

Fredrik



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  Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes | Trains
 
What's all the fuss about? They don't look great to me. They look like those kiddy rides you find in theme parks to me. A steam train should have cilinders, pushrods etcetera. These are on bogey's from a Diesel. Also, they lack detail; half the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

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