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Re: Speculation: Monorail, Disney, Past Coincidence?
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:08:46 GMT
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Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the grease;)  But all seriousness aside, I think
there would be a large market of AFOL who would be interested in model team
detailed trains (if you build it, he will come)!

Steve Barile wrote:

> I meant LEGO *train* builders. And you might be right, there may be 1000's but
> I still have the feeling that we are not as big a general audience. Certainly
> more vocal!
> 
> BTW the top line "Plenty of valid points" was aimed at the other postings in
> this thread.
> SteveB
> 
> Steve Bliss writes:
> > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:35:28 GMT, "Steve Barile"
> > <steve.bar@worldnet/att/net> wrote:
> > 
> > > ... We must assume that we are all a special interest
> > > group of adult LEGO train builders. A very small group, even if we were 1000
> > > strong (that number seems even a bit high).
> > 
> > Define "we".  People who read/post to lugnet?  Adult Fans Of Lego,
> > worldwide?
> > 
> > I'm sure there are more than 1,000 AFOL's worldwide.  More than 10,000.
> > 
> > Steve



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  Re: Speculation: Monorail, Disney, Past Coincidence?
 
I'm a purist. No non TLG elements sully my creations. I'm fairly pedantic about it(1) too. But I'd make a big fat exception for train specific LEGO compatible elements that came from elsewhere. The PNLTC gang had a project afoot for drivers but it (...) (28 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Speculation: Monorail, Disney, Past Coincidence?
 
I meant LEGO *train* builders. And you might be right, there may be 1000's but I still have the feeling that we are not as big a general audience. Certainly more vocal! BTW the top line "Plenty of valid points" was aimed at the other postings in (...) (28 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)

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