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Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes | Trains
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Date: 
Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:16:36 GMT
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Mark Sandlin wrote:

> Josh Baakko at shi_web@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> > > > I also
> > > > think that the larger ones could have been built better, but WHERE ARE THE
> > > > DIESELS?
> > > 
> > > To which diesels are you referring?
> > 
> > I'm waiting for some.
> > Josh
> 
> Well, perhaps you should look at it from a sales perspective.
> 
> Diesel engines (IMO) look like a shoebox with wheels. The trains currently
> on shop.lego.com are far more interesting to look at (IMO) than a diesel
> engine would be.

LOL You are SOOOOO wrong! (IMNSHO;-)

> Things that aren't interesting to the consumer generally don't sell very
> well. TLC is probably counting on more than just the die-hard train nuts to
> drive sales, so they probably are trying to make the trains as interesting
> as possible to people like me who aren't train nuts.
> 
> Of course, I could be completely off-base, but that's kind of what it looks
> like from here.

You are between 1st and 2nd and the throw to home has been cut off.  This is what
happens when muffinheads start talking trains;-)

-John

> 
> 
> $.02
> 
> ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head
> --
> Mark's Lego(R) Creations
> http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego



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  Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes | Trains
 
(...) Yeah, yeah, we know. They're not eight-wide. 8^) (...) If I may make a guess, though, Muffinhead isn't speaking about the scrupulous LEGO representation of detailed trains as they appear in the real world; he's saying that the average (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes | Trains
 
(...) Well, perhaps you should look at it from a sales perspective. Diesel engines (IMO) look like a shoebox with wheels. The trains currently on shop.lego.com are far more interesting to look at (IMO) than a diesel engine would be. Things that (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

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