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Re: Speculation: Monorail, Disney, Past Coincidence?
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 04:02:20 GMT
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On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:32:25 GMT, John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote:

If we suppose that Disney and (for our purposes) TLG are monitoring sites on the
net such as James' webpage, I think we (trainiacs) should come up with some sort
of top 10 or 20 list to make known beyond a doubt what TLG can produce which will
greatly enhance their train line and, in turn, make building trains so much more
enjoyable.  I thinking along the lines of Matt's wish list
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/train_depot/wishes.htm   If we could
definitively lay something out, perhaps things might happen...

But if I understand TLG's reasoning correctly, the act of publishing your own
ideas would make those ideas unusable by TLG.  Something to do with copyrights
and such?
So maybe you would be better off _not_ publishing all those great ideas, and
hope/pray TLG comes up with similar ideas on their own.

There should be a smiley here, but unfortunately the above scenario is probably
true.

-- Terry K --



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  Re: Speculation: Monorail, Disney, Past Coincidence?
 
I respectfully disagree for these reasons. First of all, one can hardly call an idea such as "motor with 6 large wheels" or "gentler curved rails" original. These are the kinds of things I'm talking about. Also, I point to Matt's scratch built (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Speculation: Monorail, Disney, Past Coincidence?
 
If we suppose that Disney and (for our purposes) TLG are monitoring sites on the net such as James' webpage, I think we (trainiacs) should come up with some sort of top 10 or 20 list to make known beyond a doubt what TLG can produce which will (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)

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