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Re: Any 9v train update?
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 9 Dec 2006 08:52:31 GMT
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Jordan Schwarz wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Dean Earley wrote:
> > > 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.
> > What is stopping someone knocking it up in LDD and uploading it?
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> Dean,
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> 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?
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> The answer is, LDD has a limited palette of brick types and colors. The 7898
> set uses a variety of unique bricks, including some found only in that set. LDD
> can indeed be used to design 9V cargo trains, but these lack the special LEGO
> bricks in 7898. You could use MLCAD (from LDRAW) to create a version of 7898
> with 9V components, which you could then import in LDD. But, you could not
> order this set if it does not make use of the bricks available from LEGO
> Factory.
Ahhh, ok.
I didn't realise they used parts not available in LF (ignoring the IR
baseplate :).
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Dean Earley, Dee (dean@earlsoft.co.uk)
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