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Re: Is it too late for a new comer?
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Tue, 11 May 1999 00:30:28 GMT
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JOHNNEAL@spamlessUSWEST.NET
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Yes! (ala Marv Albert)
Welcome to trainstrainstrains!! You are right about the specialty pieces-- they
add that little something standard bricks cannot, especially the doors and
windows. And yes, they are *way* too expensive! Why can't TLG make a train door
and window pack? Would *only* selling about a million of them be too cost
ineffective;-) Actually, a well-kept secret is the 3225, which you had
mentioned. Buy a lot of those; if just for the windows (6!). At $66, it's a
deal compared to the open market, and rumor has it this is their last year. And,
as far as trains go, just buy every set they put out, even if it stinks. The
parts alone will be worth it. Looking back, I think *everyone* is kicking
themselves for not buying more club cars when they were $38. I have 4, and I
wish I had 10! Many of us are hopeful that big and good things are in store for
the trains line in the future, so now is a great time to get on track! (pun
*in*tended;-)
-John
Hao-yang Wang wrote:
> Like so many others, Mindstorms brought me out of my dark age, and soon my
> interest has grown beyond Technic.
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> Recently I bought a set of Metro Liner from ebay. Frankly when I learned that
> I won the bid my feeling was mixed, for the set was pricey and after I placed
> my bid I got a cheaper offer somewhere else for a used one. (If I am going to
> open up the box and build it why should I pay the premium for an unopened
> set?) However soon after I received the box I forgot how much I paid
> completely. Now I don't care if I had bid too much. This set really opens a
> new world for me.
>
> Metro Liner looks realistic. However, it achieves such realism through a bunch
> of special pieces. When I read the messages posted in this newsgroup, they
> always mentioned about train heads, train doors, train windows, etc., etc.
> This makes me wonder: to build realistic looking trains, like all the cool
> ones on your web sites, do I need all the train-specific special parts, in
> proper colors?
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> Or I just have to buy a bunch of 3225 from S@H, then happily off I go?
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> Compared with trains, the Lego trucks are made with more general parts. They
> may not be so realistic. (You cannot tell whether it is a Kenworth or an
> International, say.) Still, they each has its own individuality.
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> I live in the (San Francisco) Bay Area, so I like to build the Lego model of
> our local two-story commuter train, CalTrain. However, I cannot afford to buy
> a couple of the Club Car just to get the parts I need. (For some reason, a
> Club Car each now costs almost as much as Metro Liner, if not more.) What
> parts does it take to build a good approximation of CalTrain? (In the sense
> that a mini-fig scale Lego truck is a good approximation of a real truck.)
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> Outside of the trains themselves, I think I can build the crossing out of the
> normal Technic parts, and the train station is just another building, which
> can be built with the normal Lego bricks.
>
> Hao-yang Wang
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| Like so many others, Mindstorms brought me out of my dark age, and soon my interest has grown beyond Technic. Recently I bought a set of Metro Liner from ebay. Frankly when I learned that I won the bid my feeling was mixed, for the set was pricey (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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