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(...) Some of the fields look a bit cramp to me. Approximately how many characters are available for "Owner Name" before the tail is visualy cut off in the list? "Country" seems to be a little short also, are we supposed to fill in the official (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief Train Engine Registry
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(...) I wanna know how John & Jane Doe got theirs' delivered so quickly!! ROSCO FUT .o-t.fun (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: 10020 limited to 10000 sets or not?
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I just finsihed the transcitps the of Q&A with Brad Justin at Brickswest. On the question of 10,000. This is what he said. Question 39: How limied (on train engine) is limited? Answer: "It's a seriesm of 10,000. We run out of the numbered ones at (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 10020 limited to 10000 sets or not?
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I am debating the urgency of buying a couple of these right away. I definitely want a pair, but economic circumstances are not as good as I'd like right now. (Are they ever?) (...) But in an earlier post he wrote: (...) My emphasis on "only." Can (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10020 at brickswest and what the Sr. VP of lego direct said
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There is enough engines for everyone to get 1 or 2. Besides the VP said "It's a series of 10,000. We run out of the numbered ones at 10,000." He laters says that if they need more they will make more (most likely without the number). Also on the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Santa Fe Super Chief Train Engine Registry
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In February 2002 LEGO® released the 10020 Santa Fe Super Chief as a special numbered limited edition. In effort to track the release numbers this registry has been created. If you own a limited edition LEGO® Santa Fe Super Chief please visit the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains) !!
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| | Re: 10020 at brickswest and what the Sr. VP of lego direct said
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Ahui Herrera wrote in message ... (...) Well, they'd better hurry it up. Santa Fe engines are already appearing on eBay. Kevin ---...--- TOWN Lego Building contest! (URL) Hospital 2396 piece kit! (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10020 at brickswest and what the Sr. VP of lego direct said
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(...) Agree. Only in my priority list it's quite far down. (...) Some lines above the curve radius. (...) YES! Maybe this would be even my number one wish. (...) Again: this is really great news. If they are going to work on new curves, new short (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10020 at brickswest and what the Sr. VP of lego direct said
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(...) Sounds like a good project for someone. J2, how about an 8-wide version of the new Super Chief? Are you up to the challenge? Compare well, Andreas Stabno (URL) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | wow - brickswest 2002
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That was a blast; on so many levels its hard to recount them all. The best part was hangin' with everyone! It was great to put faces to names, meeting many for a 2nd or 3rd time and building on old friendships. The MOCs, Frank's 12v setup, and (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10020 at brickswest and what the Sr. VP of lego direct said
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Two more things on this topic and then I'm going to post the transcript of the Q&A. 1) The train engine that was given as a goft was number: A8841. 2) Train engines 1 - 5 will be auctioned off on eBay.com by LEGO in the future. This is something new (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe (10020) registry?
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(...) James, This really is a good idea. I may even open the box to get the number. ;) It will be interesting to see how many of 10k you can record... and if Lego makes any doppelgängers. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Yes, we'd want to track all of the units, even if they're never "commissioned" in to service. It would be interesting to see if a pattern apears for numbers here in the states versus sets sold in Europe and other parts of the world. I'll send you (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Cool. I will of course put a link to it from the .trains front page (remember folks, if you see things that maybe ought to be there, drop me a line). So would you want to collect all numbers from folks, even for ones bought for parts (I plan (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10020 at brickswest and what the Sr. VP of lego direct said
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(...) I feel that it's not just width, you have to increase length a fair bit and height a small bit when you go to 8 wide, so I would argue that the brick increase is anywhere from 30% to 100%, tending toward the higher of that range. J2 disagrees, (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10020 at brickswest and what the Sr. VP of lego direct said
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"Ahui Herrera" <jedi_agh@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GrrICE.HoK@lugnet.com... (...) done. Not to start another 6 vs. 8 wide debate, but I hope Lego Direct concentrates on the continued revival of the six wide, 9 volt train line and expanding (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10020 SFSC proud owners list
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James J. Trobaugh wrote in message ... (...) in (...) Cool! Consider mine registered as soon as I have it! Wessel (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10020 SFSC proud owners list
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I've started putting a registry together for the LEGO SF, it should be up in the next day or so, just in time for the back orders to start arriving. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 10020 SFSC proud owners list
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Dunno if someone else has already come up with this, but I think it would be kinda cool to create a list here on LUGNET where you can register which number(s) of the Santa Fe Super Chief you own. Something like a SFSC 'Proud Owners List' Ok, such a (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10020 at brickswest and what the Sr. VP of lego direct said
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(...) Well, we've had this debate before. I want big wheels too. But the curves need fixing. We need two radii so that parallel tracks look better. We need the turnout/switch geometry fixed so you can do a proper diverge and a proper crossover. We (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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