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(...) Oh, and I was misled. I thought the trains were radio controlled. Apprently, they are Infra-RED controlled. I mistakenly put radio in my post. I revise my statement in the EE Degree. I will now need a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Eric, The poll is a great idea. I have posted below answers to your three items. I have also added a few survey items that I humbly submit for you to include. 1. Would your club disband or significantly cut back on public appearances? (List (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I am a Castle Builder who as only recently begun collecting trains, and even more recently, building MOC trains, and both specifically for the purpose of bringing them to TexLUG displays. Yes, they're for my enjoyment, too, but as a Castle (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) SCLTC (Southern California LEGO Train Club does about 6 display events covering 100 show days that attract about 150,000 visitors per year. The trend is upward. (...) We probably could not avoid having some members bring IR trains to our (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) The GMLTC doesn't do too many appearances each year. But, almost all our appearances are at 'train events' - model railroading shows and at the Jackson Street Roundhouse in St. Paul. We consider ourselves model railroaders first, and Lego (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sure post anything that you feel would be helpful. The reason I wanted to focus on clubs is that they are essentially providing free advertising for LEGO which can be quantified and have a value attached. Any time you can say that LEGO will (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Eric, Is there anyway for you to also gather input from "club-less" LEGO train enthusists? While I don't belong to a club or do exhibitions, I do have my own home layout for both myself and my children. And I too have a big investment in 9V gear. I (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Lets post it on LUGNET for all to see. I will then collect it and put it together in a single document for those at LEGO to go through. Again honest answers without the vitriol is important. I won't include any fire-brand comments in my (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:Iwuo0x.BMJ@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Do you want this feedback via e-mail or posted to LUGNET? Mike (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ted, This is very important feedback. Lets try an informal poll... If 9V trains do get discontinued... 1. Would your club disband or significantly cut back on public appearances? (List your club and number of appearances) 2. Are there any (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Eric- Thanks. Glad to know you and the others are on top of this issue that means so much to many of us. At SCLTC we have almost 5 years invested building our club and have reached the point where venues come to us and we have as many events (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes there are LEGO Ambassadors, I am one. We are under NDA so we are very limited in what we can say without permission. If we recieve permission to release information we do so immediately. I honestly can't say what the official status of the (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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The silence from LEGO since Jake's departure has been deafening. Jake's blog used to be my first stop in my daily web news crawl. But since the keynote at BrickFest ((URL) there has been very little solid news about the IR train system and the LEGO (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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"Ted Michon" <ted@scltc.org> wrote in message news:IwtA9E.oJw@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] You have to find a "ship to" address in France. I ordered a bunch of stuff from LEGO Sweden a fair number of years ago and had (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) AFAIK you can't (this type of order can be placed "everywhere" in europe but is not publicized by TLC and you have to know LEGO item numbers - the ones you can see in the BOM at the end of some 2006 BIs) . Anyway, I'm afraid the Electric 2x4 (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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(...) Ergh, didn't they set up some kind of Ambassadors or GlobalAFOLs or something comprising people who are supposed to relay this kind of info back and forth between TLG and the great unwashed masses? I think if anyone knows who any of those "in (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ross- Gee, I've despaired of getting any 9V electric plates for a long time. Last I look there were some in Spain or Hungary, but that was about it. I wonder how someone in the US places an order in France? (...) Ross- OK, so "almost no". (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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That may all be true (but I would point out that last I heard, Lionel is alive and well, yet there are folks who only do vintage tinplate Lionel), but my main point is that by chosing to be 100% pure to a single manufacturer, we are totally at the (...) (19 years ago, 27-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, this is an interesting question that is distilled into the LTC vs LUG debate. I think that there are distinctions between the two. The TCLTC's motto is that our layout is simply a background for our trains. Without the trains, the whole (...) (19 years ago, 27-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) These are apparently (URL) available> from customer support in Europe. (...) The (URL) 8421 crane> definitely uses the new 9V motor, and a new (apparently studless) battery box has appeared in some photos of the recently announced Technic (...) (19 years ago, 27-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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