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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 20:29:40 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
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> > > 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;-)
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> Yeah, yeah, we know. They're not eight-wide. 8^)
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> > > 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;-)
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> 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.
Thats true, and they could do that with diesels too. Look at a SD40-2F
(http://members.nbci.com/baakkorail/pnr.html), thats interesting, and i know
i'd but one!
Josh
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> Dave!
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