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Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo
Date: 
Fri, 6 May 2005 22:47:41 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, John Neal wrote:
   Well, my prayers have been finally answered (sorta:-)

I had gotten into the habit of firing off an email to Brad Justus every 6 months or so when he was still heading up LEGO Direct begging for TLG to get a license for producing Thomas the Tank Engine. He was always good about writing back and thanking me for the reminder! About six years later, he (Thomas, not Brad:-) arrived at my door step.

Okay, so he’s Duplo, but that didn’t tarnish my excitement in the least. The bright side is that he’s 8 wide! :-)

(Skip boring blah, blah to pics HERE

Thanks for the pics! I must say they look pretty good, even with the squishing.

I have an unrelated question though: How do those 1-wide sleepers work in curves?

ROSCO



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  Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
 
(...) Great. Since a 100k pic is worth 100k of words, I'll post some to show how (along with some pics for my son Ross' solution for points, as requested elsewhere) JOHN (20 years ago, 7-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)

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  8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
 
Well, my prayers have been finally answered (sorta:-) I had gotten into the habit of firing off an email to Brad Justus every 6 months or so when he was still heading up LEGO Direct begging for TLG to get a license for producing Thomas the Tank (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX) !! 

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