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Re: Hobby Train - the no future train....
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 9 Jan 2006 02:07:19 GMT
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Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:
In lugnet.trains, Ram Sreerangam wrote:

There seems to be a lot of discussion about the new battery powered trains. I
notice that there seems to be a general consensus that the trains are targeted
towards younger kids.

What ever happened to the promised "hobby trains"? I believe this was mentioned
during BrickFest. It led me to believe that there may be powered points and
other such fancy stuff that used to exist in the 12v lines.

Any updates?

Thanks,
Ram


Hi Ram,

I think, I am quite familiar with the things one can expect from LEGO. I do not
understand all the optimism here in Lugnet concerning the new kids trains.

The nowadays 9V train stuff is available in 99% of all toy retail shops in
Germany (and lots of European countries).

Wow, trains are only available in the LEGO company retal stores in the
US. I haven't seen a LEGO train in any other reatail outlet in a couple
of years.

This will now be discontinued (as LEGO told us),

That does sound like bad news. To have all the metal rail stuff pulled
from retail outlets doesn't sound good.

Leg Godt!

Ben
(who will cry for every 9V motor which dies from now on.)

Chris

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(...) This whole discussion makes me long for the early 1990s, when 9-volt trains were in their infancy, and Toys R Us (at least my local one) not only had them IN STOCK, but actually placed them in the same area of the store with OTHER MODEL (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains)

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(...) Hi Ram, I think, I am quite familiar with the things one can expect from LEGO. I do not understand all the optimism here in Lugnet concerning the new kids trains. The nowadays 9V train stuff is available in 99% of all toy retail shops in (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains)

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