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Re: Hypothetically speaking? the future of IR/RC trains
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:54:17 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
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I’d like to pose a question that’s been bothering me lately. Since RC trains
made they’re debut last year many issues have risen with the product in its
current form. Mainly these are control and power issues but there are many
other quirks as well. Since plastic track seems to be here to stay, Common
sense tells me Lego is eventually going to kill off the 9v line. Knowing this,
we as a community need to think about eventually converting to plastic rails.
This also means now would be a great time to tell Lego what we need for
plastic rails to work for us.
This leads me to my question; given the current IR RC train line what
changes do you see necessary for you to convert from 9v track to plastic track
and why?
Ondrew
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**maniacal laughter**
Bring back the 4.5 volt trains, with the good plastic track. That’s what I’d
like to see. And the cuuuuute little battery boxes! Bwah-hah-hah-hah-haaaaaah!
Okay, seriously--
I never got the 9v train system; I sorta felt like it was not in line with what
I felt was the essence of LEGO: plastics. Metal tracks just didn’t look right
with all the train station, city buildings, etc. Since that was where LEGO US
went, it killed the 4.5v trains quickly. It was only by being willing to pay the
cost in Pounds (plus shipping), and a promise to never, EVER order from the UK
LEGO service again unless I moved to the UK, that got me enough track to have a
decent layout.
Therefore, I’d like to see the new plastic track work with the old plastic
track, at least. That way, I could seriously extend my layout. If nothing else,
make an adapter track from one type of track to another. I haven’t checked for
compatability, but it doesn’t look like it’ll mate based on what I have seen
from the new plastic track boxes.
Play Well!
Matthew Crandall
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