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Re: New release of Train
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego
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Tue, 25 May 1999 18:12:52 GMT
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What I don't understand is this: Why is it *so* obvious to us (consumers) what
is needed and *so* obscure to them (the sellers whose job it is to produce
products the consumers want) what is wanted??!! I mean, come on, 4561?, 3225?,
4559? THAT STUFF IS *CRAP*, and good for *nothing* but parts! And I won't even
mention the new MOW sets. I would *never* run those trains around my track--
they simply SUCK! And that represents their past three train set offerings. The
only thing I can think of is that a family member of the Christiansens designed
them, because anyone else who would conceive of such crap would be hung by his
BVDs from a semaphore and have his pink slip crammed up his....
<more calmly> But I digress. Toys, John, we're talking about a toy. <Sigh> As
if I were to expect the world to work rationally, intelligently, etc., etc:-p
-John
David Zonker Harris wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, David VinZant writes:
> > Why not just write them to do a rerelease of the Metroliner in another color.
> > Then they wont have to do sevice packs and everone could get the metroliner
> > again. We would get a whole bunch of train doors and windows and the roof and
> > nose peices. they could make a white one and call it an ICE.
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> There was a popular rumor that the Metroliner was going to be re-released
> back in '98, and again in '99. The first year, the rumor was kept pretty
> quiet. (*Yes. this is a first-hand account, not an urban legend...I spoke
> with a daytime rep at S@H, and her husband was a trainiac, and she told
> me the red retrostation was coming back, and that Metroliner would be
> following that. At least I got a retrostation.)
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> I wouldn't mind a Metroliner-like trin in another color. (How about
> orange, like the TGV? Think of the plethora of orange elements in *that*
> model! ;-) White would be OK, or red. :-)
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> On the other hand, I don't like the 4561. At this point, I'd rather buy
> train service packs and make my own. Even if they bring out a new,
> Metro-liner-like train, I'd still want service packs for making extra,
> variant cars, like the mail car, freight/luggage, diner, sleeper, etc.
> (If you look back over the train lines, back in the 100's, you'll find
> that LEGO let you buy individual cars, so you could have 50 Cargo Wagons
> if you could afford to buy them. You can see some of these in the PAUSE
> trains directory, http://www.lugnet.com/pause/trains.html)
>
> -Z- http://baylug.org SF Bay Area LEGO USers Group
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| (...) There was a popular rumor that the Metroliner was going to be re-released back in '98, and again in '99. The first year, the rumor was kept pretty quiet. (*Yes. this is a first-hand account, not an urban legend...I spoke with a daytime rep at (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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