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Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:08:50 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mark Bellis wrote:
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LEGO has always been both a toy and a serious building medium. If TLG want it
to be just a toy, without adult fans, discontinuing 9V trains is a big step
towards that.
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This is a good point which bears repeating in my mind. If TLG thinks that we as
LEGO train AFOLs think this will somehow be a BETTER system, then they are
(again) sorely mistaken. As Mark said, however, TLG is a toy company, so the
point may simply be moot, and we are (again) SOL.
I didn’t freak out when this new system was revealed, because it was my
understanding that it was going to be a companion, Jack Stone-ish entry into
LEGO trains, and that the two systems would exist side by side. This is still
my hope.
But if this is the death knell for the 9 volt system, then I will become like
the 12 volters whom I used to pity and run my 9 volt motors until they die. Po,
po, pitiful me.
JOHN
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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| (...) 1. I would not show LEGO trains in public ever again. This is because my trains are bigger than 8-wide, and I would be ashamed to mislead the public by displaying an obsolete product. I'm not prepared to change my sales pitch from an (...) (19 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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