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Re: My Final Iteration of Thomas the Tank Engine
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Date: 
Mon, 27 Sep 2004 02:09:09 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.trains, Ken Nagel wrote:
   In lugnet.lego.direct, John Neal wrote:
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   It’s all academic anyway as tomorrow or the next day someone will build a better one and if you’ve ever worked with the Thomas people you’d know that the odds of Lego working out a deal with then are slim and none.

Really? From the looks of the marketplace, it appears to me that Thomas is virtually ubiquitous and that licensing wouldn’t be a problem at all.

JOHN

From our (NILTC) work with them and having talked to Ill Railway Museum officials about their Thomas show the group that holds the licence is VERY difficult to work with. One would think with the money problems Lego is having that they have better things to do. But then they never do what I think is right anyway so who knows...

Ken



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  Re: My Final Iteration of Thomas the Tank Engine
 
(...) Vital body part;-) (...) Well, you are preaching to the choir here when you talk about 8 wide:-) Actually, I have a half-finished Thomas that is 10 wide that utilizes BBB wheels-- I'm waiting for Ben to mold them in blue! (...) Just so you (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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