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Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 21 Nov 1999 21:34:37 GMT
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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. (Can you say ICE? I
thought you could!)
> 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.
Somehow I just cannot see 4 tracks with freights and passangers running both
ways at once, no matter how vivid a picture that is :). Good models (IE-same
caliber as the Metroliner, Metrostation, Croc, even 4562/3) are a great way to
introduce people to Lego trains. I don't think all that much of the current
store set, 4561. 4565 is a far better set.
I would recommend to a friend that they buy 4565, much rather than 4561 or
4559. Both 4561 and 4559 suck as far as trains go. They make good people
movers, but as a train, they fail the grade. Much more like monorails, which
are great to move MF's across the living room, but not so good as a train.
(please don't take this as demeaning the monorails, it is just that they are to
me not real trains, more a people mover)(and ask me about the 2 calve
requirement for one of the real ones!)
4565 is a train, with a separate engine, and cars. And all the cars have
magnets on them! Compare that with 4559, which only had the 2 magnets, and had
the car resting on the rear of the engine (an idea I stole for a rail car, but
not for locos!)
Lego, how about releasing the classic train as a set? Cheap, effective, little
aditional costs...
That or a 4-4-0 or 2-6-0. I know, you cannot really build any bigger than
that, so that is why I would suggest it.
James Powell
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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, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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