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Re: Thoughts on Battery-powered IR-controlled trains
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Date: 
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:16:55 GMT
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Jonathan Reynolds wrote:
[...]
> 
> The scenes in the old catalogues really inspired me as a kid - you know the
> ones, with non-set models sprawling as far as the eye could see, bridges,
> smiling kids in amongst it all etc. There must be some experts out there who
> have decided this is not worth it anymore!
> 
> Jon

Man, I loved those old catalogues. In my eyes they were made even more
exotic simply due to the fact that we couldn't get any of the 12v stuff
here :(

When I worked in the Enfield factory in 1986, I even ask the people in
the comapany store if they could get them so I could buy them, but the
couldn't :( In the end, I did manage to get one :) But the catalogue was
too cruel...

Chris
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  Re: Thoughts on Battery-powered IR-controlled trains
 
(...) We've been asked for info/catalogues on Lego trains at every train show. They simply are not available in the usual retail outlets which explains why we get the same comment at every train show; "I didn't know Lego made trains".Unfortunately (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)

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