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In lugnet.trains, Jan-Albert van Ree writes:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> >
> > > > In lugnet.trains, Huw Millington writes:
> > >
> > > > While I'm sure the US market makes up a significant proportion of those that
> > > > buy trains, please, LD, don't forget us Europeans. Let's have some
> > > > European-styled diesels, hoppers, vans, 4 wheeled wagons, 0-4-0 shunters,
> > > > even the Mallard for Jason!
> >
> >
> > well, color me confused, don't we already have all that in 4563 and 4564?
> > Just dust those off and reissue them (in different colors perhaps)!
>
> 4563 : loco doesn't look much German/Dutch to me... maybe French, but
> then the colors wouldn't be right. The red closed freight car is OK-ish,
> the rest is pretty much simplified
>
> 4564 : loco is pretty decent, bit like the MaK diesel range. Again, most
> of the freight cars look quite poor. A re-release of just the diesel
> would be nice.
>
> I liked quite a few things about the 4565 diesel, althouth without the
> doors it looked a bit juniorized to me.
>
> To me, most of the 12v designs resembe the European rolling stock
> best... 7755 and 7760 are still my favorite diesel engines.
>
> LEGO could easily do something like a German class 141 or 110 or 111.
> Easy to do, TONS of varieties in color and with a few different bricks
> you'd even be able to do a 150/151 (with some concessions, but I doubt
> many would really be upset) Also quite nice would be the French
> 7200/15000 class, with the special nose design by Paul Arzens (which
> would mean us dutchies could easily build our class 1600 and 1100 :D )
OK, OK... you guys convinced me. The stuff I perceive as european is no more
authentic (to european prototypes) than the stuff you perceive as american
is (authentic to american prototypes, that is).
But parts is parts. We. are. not. the. target. market. and we can build our
own.
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| (...) Like I posted before in various threads I agree we are not the target market. Maybe if you have the finances to buy tons of sets just to get a few parts you need you can build whatever you like, most of us probably can't. And even then, some (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) 4563 : loco doesn't look much German/Dutch to me... maybe French, but then the colors wouldn't be right. The red closed freight car is OK-ish, the rest is pretty much simplified 4564 : loco is pretty decent, bit like the MaK diesel range. (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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