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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 (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

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