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Re: Any 9v train update?
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Date: 
Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:51:43 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Bruce S. Chamberlain wrote:

   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 made. I think that they had a very large amount made (several years supply) at a time so I find this encouraging.

Bruce

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:

http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Leaf.aspx?cn=181&d=328

I’m not sure how many tracks are made at a time, so I don’t know what effect this has on keeping 9V trains around. But, like you, I hope that they stay around.

Incidentally, I received a reply from LEGO regarding a 9V version of the new Cargo Train. I posted most of this reply on the S9VT website. I was told that their corporate policy prohibits them from accepting outside ideas for new products and that hence, a 9V version of the train would be impossible. Still, I appreciate the support of the 9V community in the effort to get such a train and hope that the letter to LEGO helped to show what interest there is in the 9V train line.

-Jordan



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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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