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Re: Top 10 List involving Monorail
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 30 May 2003 12:19:34 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Paul Janssen wrote:
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I secretly, and very selfishly, hope that TLC will not re-release momorail.
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All bets are off WRT to the “momorail” ;-), but as far as monorail goes,
Brad Justus was asked point-blankedly what the chances were that TLC would
rerelease the monorail, and his answer was 0%. All parts specs for the
motor are lost, and so any release would have to be completely re-engineered
from the ground up.
So, your selfish desire, although no longer secret, is probably pretty
safe:-)
JOHN, AFOFTX;-)
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Yeah, momorail is funny :). Anyway, the only thing they need to design is the
track wheel. All other parts thy have, a 9V motor, a battery box, and technick
gears. They’d have to make 1 part that is a regular technik gear, with attached
the metal gear that is at the bottom of the motor. The on-off switches can be
modified (they should because the way they were prevents running a large loop
with multiple stations (buncing back rather than going thruogh dependent on loop
direction etc.) How hard can it be to make 1 metal gear? I can send them one of
my motors, they can measure its specs. My selfish reason for not wanting it
released are two-fold. My current collection is quite large (maybe one of the
largest monorail collections?, challenge me...), with well over 400 track,
(going well over 500 total incl. 200+ straights as soon as my next lot comes
in), 45+ bases, 25+ motors. Second, I paid a pretty penny for this collection
over the years. Resale value of used track will drop like Galidor prices when
they re-relase monorail, but I am now assured they won’t :)
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| (...) So it sounds like you're still building your monorail collection. Just think of how much moolah you'd save next year if they re-released a compatible monorail set. How soon were you planning to take advantage of that resale value anyway? My (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Top 10 List involving Monorail
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| (...) <snip> (...) All bets are off WRT to the "momorail" ;-), but as far as monorail goes, Brad Justus was asked point-blankedly what the chances were that TLC would rerelease the monorail, and his answer was 0%. All parts specs for the motor are (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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