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Re: 9v Train status report.
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:46:25 GMT
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Eric Kingsley wrote:
> [First, what we have been authorized to release.]
> + LEGO will continue to sell the current 9v system including the train motor,
> metal tracks and the speed regulator through LEGO Shop at Home and LEGO Brand
> Retail only, from mid 2006.
Ouch. First TLG, after offering a train set
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/65537
to train/hobby shops, wouldn't actually supply the product, and now is
cutting the smaller stores that have been faithfully carrying trains out
of the loop. A stride forward for vertical integration, perhaps, but not
the sort of thing that's going to give small toy stores warm fuzzies for
TLG.
--
TWS Garrison
http://www.morfydd.net/twsg/
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| (...) Actually buying that product is what finally got me into lego trains. "Steam" train for under $100.00 is what it took for me to take the plunge. Damn it :) (20 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| OK, we have been given a limited amount of information that we have been authorized to share. Now I am a fan first and Ambassador second so I am going to give you all the nuts and bolts first. After that I am going to break down each statement as I (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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