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Subject: 
Re: www.LEGO.com/trains updated!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sat, 22 Dec 2001 22:45:47 GMT
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David Graham <david@graham167.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:GorAyv.2uL@lugnet.com...
> It was good to hear that there will be some more trains from Lego direct.
> I wonder if we will get a US outline diesel locos (you can with Duplo)?

NOTE: prototype sets do not nessecary come out...
What I really would like to see is the Re460 (SBB460)

> I was suprised that home tests in Germany said that children would like
> futuristic sets.  I have found from exhibiting by trains that children
like

Question: Why do children like StarTrek, Balylon5, Zamuk, etc... you name
them?

> to say "that is the one I went on my holidays".  I can't see 4559 being

Answer: The American lifestyle is changing the world - today you by car or
plane!
20 years ago people would say "hey that was my train"

Adults would say: I use the XXXX to work every day * , but my guess is that
children mostly see trains when passing by a station or railway line.

* (like I used the Tk4 or T4 every day - that was a good time - new they
have new Kt6t's)

> re-released in 10 years time.  The best 9V trains were those that were
> released in 1991 - they were real trains.  But the Lego direct trains have
> been more "real".
> 
> It would have been good to have had an interview with the person who
> designed those earlier trains - he(/she) must have left?.  I liked Jorn's
> own designs especially the 1st and 4th ones.
> 
> David

Sonnich
www.hot.ee/sonnich/lego/



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  Re: www.LEGO.com/trains updated!
 
It was good to hear that there will be some more trains from Lego direct. I wonder if we will get a US outline diesel locos (you can with Duplo)? I was suprised that home tests in Germany said that children would like futuristic sets. I have found (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)

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