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Re: Dream rails
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Fri, 8 Nov 2002 00:37:22 GMT
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Jason Spears wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Jan-Albert van Ree writes:
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> > However, given what Brad told us at LEGOWorld and looking at the cost of
> > the molds, I am afraid we'll just need to keep on dreaming. Maybe if you
> > worked out the mold drawings already and sent those to LEGO? ;)
> What did Brad say the molds would cost?
He didn't quote prices, but given how he was talking about the need to
make huge quantities for them to earn something, and my own experience
in making molds, I'd say at least 50,000 for the 2 curves, not including
the assembly stuff to put the metal tracks on. Points are a lot worse,
because of all the moving parts.
What Brad basically said that the AFOL train heads are a too small group
at the moment to justify the cost of doing new molds. Color variants of
existing stuff (as with Santa Fe series) is possible for LEGO
Direct/Shop@Home stuff, but at the moment new molds for such a specific
market are too much. Maybe in future.... fact is that LEGO is pushing
the train stuff on the American market as a sort of Model railroading it
seems. If this catches on and shops start stocking LEGO trains, I'd say
it has a much better chance than with the current situation.
--
Jan-Albert "Anvil" van Ree | http://www.vanree.net/~javanree/
VanReeDotNet IT Solutions | http://www.vanree.net
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| ...than why not Atlas or some other model RR company produce "L" gauge track. Why not one of us? Why not hand spike "L" gauge track using model RR materials? Lots of out-of-the-box ideas here... The construction criteria for LEGO elements with the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| In (...) I _think_ that it can be done for rather less than what Lego is quoting, but it would require some special conversion pieces. IIRC, in the mid 80's, GEM (a UK model railway co) and the TT society made a track base mold for TT for ~1000 UKP. (...) (22 years ago, 9-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) What did Brad say the molds would cost? -Jason +---...---+ Jason Spears MichLUG - (URL) Page - (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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