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Re: New RC Trains Are Posted on LEGO.COM
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Date: 
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:33:55 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Clifton D. Chambers wrote:
Regular track is a little more expensive than 9V.

http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=7896&cn=250&t=5&d=12

...but it's US$16 for 8 straight & 8 curved.  Had me scared for a sec, wondering
how all plastic track could be more expensive than plastic + metal track.

The bad thing here is that you can't buy straight track by itself!  Users often
end up with too much curved track...

-Bryan



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  Re: New RC Trains Are Posted on LEGO.COM
 
(...) Which, functionally, means that straights are $2 apiece. Hmm. I wonder if, instead of binning them, you could use the curves structurally in landscape sections, much like Thomas Rafert has with (URL) makes a ~16x16 grid of bricks to desired (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)

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  New RC Trains Are Posted on LEGO.COM
 
The new RC trains have been released on LEGO.com. The Cargo set is expensive at $149.00 (URL) switch tracks are less expensive than the regular switch tracks. Someone needs to figure out how to convert them for 9V. (URL) track is a little more (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains) ! 

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