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Re: Top 10 List involving Monorail
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Fri, 30 May 2003 12:37:50 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Paul Janssen wrote:
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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 grandchildren will have to pry my Airport Shuttle out of my cold, dead hands.
-Chris.
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| (...) I know, I'm not selling (maybe a few stray pieces here and there), but I think I'll stop buying soon. I just like to think that when I ever indure hard times, I have something to fall back on. Of course, monorail would be about the last thing (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Top 10 List involving Monorail
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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