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Re: PROPOSAL for new track (was Re: New Lego Track!
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 17 May 2005 08:12:38 GMT
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> > I was a bit bummed when I realized this message thread was not an
> > announcement of new track but rather another discussion of something LEGO
> > should do...
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> I agree, I think the subject line could have been chosen a bit more clearly.
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> I also have a question about the images of the different radii track? Are these
> new images or just recolors of the images that Ben Fleskes did? If they're new,
> how do they differ from Ben's work? If they're Ben's work, was credit given to
> Ben and to the others he based his work on?
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> That aside...
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> I would love to see LEGO step up and play trains with the big boys by enhancing
> the track line. I just don't see it happening, but I would love it. I think we
> fool ourselves when we think this market is big enough to support the tooling by
> LEGO under current ROI assumptions (we assume they're using). It's not,
> according to my guess work. That's not to say it couldn't be profitable if we
> were willing to pay higher prices, or if LEGO could figure out how to sell more
> successfully.
Well I suppose I should not expect LEGO to make any moves towards providing
tracks that would, I think, be a worthwhile investment. Silly of me to expect
others on LUGNET to agree that new track geometry would be something worthwhile
and asking for a show of support. Instead there has been a majority of replies
basically saying that it's old news not worth really responding to. I'm reminded
that I'm a fool and that the niceties of posting on Lugnet are more important
than getting some sort of ground swell happening.
Not being a seasoned writer of posts on lugnet I was not aware of just how
quickly you get the feeling that your point of view is not really appreciated.
Yes, it is true that if we did a poll on what LEGO should make there would a
list that could stretch from earth to the moon. And I probably don't have a clue
how LEGO decides what they will market and what really sells. What I do know is
that I've been using Lego for over 40 years and I have steered many young people
into appeciating the wonders that can be done with the plastic brick. And I know
I'm not alone, as I have also spoken to many others just like me (actually
spoken face to face) and we often scratch our heads and wonder why LEGO never
quite seems to get the idea that there is actually a fairly large group of us
out there (I'm including the silent majority here). But I have this sinking
feeling that to actually get a bit of support is not that easy to do. Maybe I
should leave it to others to let me know what I want out of my hobby.
This post will probably get ridiculed and rubbished and I will rightly go back
to lurking, where I should of stayed in the beginning.
Gary
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 | | Re: PROPOSAL for new track (was Re: New Lego Track!
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| Gary, Don't get all disappointed. It was me who originally made the post about the subject of the message. I was catching up on emails, LUGNET posts, etc and saw the "New Lego Track!" subject. Of course it was not what I expected it to be. If my (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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