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Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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Sun, 21 Nov 1999 19:10:01 GMT
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cmasi@STOPSPAMMERScmasi.chem.tulane.edu
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I agree with a lot that is being said here, but I think the biggest problem is the
lack of LEGO support. What I mean is that the models that everyone are so
impressed with are our home-built models not the LEGO sets. LEGO is producing
unexicting, boring-dare I say-bad sets. Until LEGO can produce a good line of
attractive sets, get them in the stores, and advertise them nothing will change. I
do not run around pushing LEGO trains because I feel embarrassed by the current
selection. First timers do not have the experience and the collection to build
good trains. So, I feel that introducing people to LEGO trains is like introducing
them to a let down. Very soon your friend comes back and says, "Is that all there
is?"
Could you imagine a commercial featuring a LEGO TGV zipping through a LEGO
countryside, or a massive LEGO freight train pulling a load up Horseshoe Bend
(that is the right name, isn't it)? LEGO trains could make nearly as big an impact
as Mindstorms did. Right now no one knows that LEGO trains exist if if they did
they would find the selection rather uninspiring.
So, LEGO should design a better looking line, leave them in production a little
longer, and advertize them!
Just thinking out loud.
Christopher
John Warren wrote:
> Hello fellow railroad buffs,
> I just thought I'd share a little story with you that occurred to me
> today. Earlier today I went to a model train hobby shop to look for some
> decals to add to my recently completed EMD GP15-1 union pacific diesel engine.
> I decided to take my engine in with me so as to compare it's size to some
> decals. I pulled the engine out of a bag and placed it on the counter top in
> the shop. Needless to say all of the oldtimers in the shop were little
> impressed. Most of these guys were age fifty-five and over. They were all
> gathered together working on a large HO layout in the back of the shop. While
> looking through the decals a father and his small son (about age 6) came into
> the store to pick out his sons first train set. Boy, all the old men got
> excited. Now comes the kicker. During the time the father and son were in the
> shop looking around, the son completely left his father's side at LEAST five
> times and came running over to my LEGO diesel engine and touched and played
> with it with utter fascination. He was totally uninterested in the other
> trains all around. He kept telling his dad that he wanted "that train"!
> Needless to say his dad nor the other oldtimers were amused.
> The point of this story...I don't know. To me it seems that today I
> observed that the future of model railroading lyes not in HO or O scale models
> but MAYBE in LEGO. I know that HO and O will never die, god forbid, but I have
> a strong sense that when I hit age fifty in the year 2021 I will see train
> shows that are at least 50% lego. Oh well, maybe I'm just dreaming.
>
> Keep Building Guys.
> John Warren
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| snip Until LEGO can produce a good line of attractive sets, get them in the stores, and advertise them nothing will change. Yep. The easiest way to do this would be to reintroduce the Metroliner, or something very similar, but in a different colour. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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| Christopher Masi wrote in message <38384376.EDE1FF67@c...ne.edu>... (...) is the <snip> (...) Bend (...) impact (...) did (...) <snip> There is a great idea right there. Mindstorms and trains... people are doing it on their own, but LEGO could make (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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| All, I'll take a moment to disagree with Mr. Masi. If LEGO wants to push LEGO trains. They need one key item: a marketing angle. The days of building a better product and the customer will pound your door down are over. We live in a marketing driven (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hello fellow railroad buffs, I just thought I'd share a little story with you that occurred to me today. Earlier today I went to a model train hobby shop to look for some decals to add to my recently completed EMD GP15-1 union pacific diesel (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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