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| | | Just want to see whether any update from anyone related to the future of the 9v train. In March,there is discussion of whether Lego will discontinue of the 9v train in 2007 depending on the 2006 fall sales. Anyone heard anyting? (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Any 9v train update? —Elroy Davis
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| | | | | (...) I haven't heard anything official, but I did notice in the catalog that arrived in the mail the other day that they were advertising 9v parts as part of the Lego Digitial Designer pallettes. They are also selling the new Holiday train as both (...) (18 years ago, 22-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Any 9v train update? —Jeff Van Winden
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| | | | (...) i have passed this question on to LEGO, I will let you know when there is an answer. Jeff VW (URL) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Any 9v train update? —Bruce S. Chamberlain
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| | | | (...) I have been buying 9v straight track regularly from the local Lego Store and the three boxes I bought two weeks ago have new dark blay. All of the earlier boxes were old dark grey. I assume they had run out of boxed straight track and had more (...) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Any 9v train update? —Jordan Schwarz
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| | | | (...) Bruce, I noticed that on the S@H website, nearly everything involving curved tracks is presently out of stock, implying to me that more curved tracks are presently being made as well. Tracks are at this link: (URL) I'm not sure how many tracks (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Any 9v train update? —Dean Earley
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| | | | | (...) What is stopping someone knocking it up in LDD and uploading it? (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Any 9v train update? —Jordan Schwarz
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| | | | | | (...) Dean, If I understand your question correctly, you are asking, what prevents one from designing a 9V version of 7898 using LDD and ordering that one? The answer is, LDD has a limited palette of brick types and colors. The 7898 set uses a (...) (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Any 9v train update? —Dean Earley
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| | | | | | (...) Ahhh, ok. I didn't realise they used parts not available in LF (ignoring the IR baseplate :). (18 years ago, 9-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Any 9v train update? —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | (...) You know, if taken literally, that statement would mean that we should *never* suggest anything to LEGO, because then they would automatically be unable to make it. In practice, it doesn't seem to work that way. Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego (...) (18 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Any 9v train update? —Chris Phillips
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| | | | (...) ...And they definitely wouldn't be able to resell people's LDD models that are uploaded to legofactory.com. (18 years ago, 8-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Any 9v train update? —Jordan Schwarz
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| | | | (...) I've been reading All Aboard!, a book on the history of Lionel trains. I found it interesting that in the last chapter, which chronicles 1980 to the present, Lionel faced a number of difficulties and stiff competition and went through a series (...) (18 years ago, 8-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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