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Re: Future of LEGO Trains?
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Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:48:30 GMT
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Jonathan Reynolds wrote:
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> TLG have got to sell this to the larger market - kids, or more specifically,
> parents buying for kids. If the scale gets too big, and the radius of the
> curves gets too large, there is a danger that parents will look at the space
> required for a simple oval and dismiss it :"it takes up too much space on the
> floor and we'll have nowhere to put Grandma when she comes to visit" etc. etc.
I might have thought that too except for the existence of Playmobil trains...
Playmobil was smart in choosing an existing track gauge (G) and therefore didn't
even necessarily need to support its own products with track, etc.
> Me too, just make sure all the train equipment I have just collected will not
> be immediatley redundant!!!
You can't bake a cake without breaking a few eggs;-)
-John
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| (...) the (...) etc. (...) didn't (...) Oh, before anyone gets into too much of a tizzy about Playmobil trains...they are on there 3rd incarnation. The first one was made by Fallar (sp), the German Kit maker. (Play train/Hit Train) and they were to (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) TLG have got to sell this to the larger market - kids, or more specifically, parents buying for kids. If the scale gets too big, and the radius of the curves gets too large, there is a danger that parents will look at the space required for a (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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