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Re: PROPOSAL for new track (was Re: New Lego Track!
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 26 May 2005 07:11:23 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Juhana Siren wrote:
> The interesting part is that Brio is in fact producing the following items for a
> target market of _3 to 5-year-olds_ (approximately):
> - remote controlled turnouts (with IR remotes)
> - remote controlled locomotives (with IR remotes)
> - automatic grade crossings
> - automatic locomotives (that react to specific track components by whistling,
> slowing down, stopping, reversing...)
LEGO had remote controlled locomotives back in 1968. Blow the whistle
(included in the trainset) and the train went forward. Blow the whistle,
the train stops. Soon a new version was introduced, which also supported
the train going backwards. That was all with 4.5V LEGO trains.
As soon als LEGO started with 12V trains in 1969, the turnouts were
remote controlled. I believe it was discontinued around 1972.
Remote controlled stuff was reintroduced in 1980 with the new gray 12V track.
(new for track, not new for gray ;-) )
Niels
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 | | Re: PROPOSAL for new track (was Re: New Lego Track!
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| (...) Yep; just change the one resistor... oh well... no such events in .fi, although you do see some Lego trains in the bigger stores... (...) And it's a damn shame, when Lego could be changing the times instead... :P OR at least they could be (...) (20 years ago, 23-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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