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Re: Toy Story Train comments?
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 15 May 2010 20:48:53 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Peter Naulls wrote:
> Bit too juniorized for my taste; it kinda fits into the same idea
> as the Harry Potter trains. The carriages are very short,
> which is a reasonable concession to the target age and the
> cartoon aspect of this,
I think you completely missed the mark right there. Given the nature of the
franchise, it is probably a very accurate and highly detailed recreation of an
actual toy train, with no "juniorization" involved. I bought it, and compared
to a similar style of train engine that someone else in our club made, the bogey
design on the engine is actually pretty clever (instead of using a swing-arm
design for the front bogey and a fixed rear bogey, the boiler is cantilevered
out on an axle, and the front bogey is pin mounted to a 4x4 round brick at the
front end), and that's coming from someone who has very little interest in train
sets.
> but I think it would look very out of place alongside other Lego trains,
> even though normally have scale compression in length.
Now _that_ might certainly be true, depending on the style of other trains
you're setting it alongside. But the reasons could vary significantly. I mean,
if you stick it next to a bunch of Thomas the Tank Engine trains, it would look
way too realistic.
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| I see a video review here: (URL) too juniorized for my taste; it kinda fits into the same idea as the Harry Potter trains. The carriages are very short, which is a reasonable concession to the target age and the cartoon aspect of this, but I think (...) (15 years ago, 12-May-10, to lugnet.trains)
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