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Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes | Trains
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:30:58 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> > 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.
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> LOL You are SOOOOO wrong! (IMNSHO;-)
Yeah, yeah, we know. They're not eight-wide. 8^)
> > 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.
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> You are between 1st and 2nd and the throw to home has been cut off. This is
> what happens when muffinheads start talking trains;-)
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 purchaser is likely to be sufficiently
interested in the models TLC is presenting because they look nice. If they
don't have the Harfnarf Flammostat in proper alignment with the Gubtweedle
Valve, so what? If they look cool, people will buy them.
TLC has never put out a low-price model that fastidiously reproduced the
real-world equivalent; why should Trains be afforded some special "they're
not accurate so they suck" status? The models can be cool without being
true to the real things.
Dave!
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