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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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