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Hello Look at following link, about time we get something before the USA, gtfthis is a scan of of upcoming sets for Lego end of the year, YEAHHH...HHH: (URL) happy 9V Trasin Collector and builder Paul (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !!
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(...) MOC's I've seen around here. And that's not bad! Fredrik (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Thank you for posting these fantastic pictures! Just looking at the models, we can all see that trains these don't look like Town Jr. I can't wait to see exactly what the new features of these trains are. Looking at 2.jpg, I see the word "PC" in (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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4439 - automated switched! Looks like sets can use existing track! So happy.... Bryan Kinkel Paul Rutenberg <paul_germany@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FsA9v1.9Cs@lugnet.com... (...) gtfthis is (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Pinch me and tell me I am not dreaming! 1/4 track sections brown and green wagons New sizes of wheels more realistic train station new COLORS of wheels AND Digital Control This is a happy day. Yahoo! ++Lar (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes: <raving> Two minor downsides I saw: - while we got new wheels in both powered and unpowered, we still don't have a good piston rod/valve gear solution - Looks like old motors may be obsolete. The DCC unit (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My mouth just hit the floor! They are wonderful. James (who has to go to schoool...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) older gray train in the middle? Puts most of the trains over the last few years to shame! Scott S. Scott E. Sanburn Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Soon: The Sanburn Systems Company (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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OH MY GOD!!! This is awesome, totally awesome!!!!! I love the digital control and the new engines! Looks like it's time to retire my computer control project and start saving my money now!! Long live trains!!! yippie! james Paul Rutenberg wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Larry, Where did you see 1/4 track sections? Did I miss something? jt Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Oops, never mind I see them now. My vision was blurred by the excitement. jt James J. Trobaugh wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Upper right of first page, above the switches. ++Lar (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I love people that casually talk about owning more than eight trains... (...) Hmm, not sure which bits you can't read but here goes. The bottom corner of the first picture advertieses a competition to drive a train, visit a museum in Berlin (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That grey steamer is going to be a gold mine of dark grey parts. Also, for Mike Stanley... (and other castle heads) did you see what the farmer behind the white horse is holding in set 4479(1)? 1 - which begs a question, why 44xx? Are we (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.castle)
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(...) GMLTC for one... but i'm more worried about accessories than trains. However maybe you use NETWORKED PCs, each controlling 16 accessories on one layout section... in other words, maybe blocks aren't dead just yet. They just got bigger, that's (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hmmm... Anyone besides me find these suspicious? The images just don't feel right... Not to mention the font is wrong... Jeff (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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I'm with you on this ... did you notice the pirate torso on the woman at the station? If it's a fake then it's a well done fake ... Could it be April 1st already? -- pn (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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That would be the most amazing April fools day trick ever if it was. They would have had to actually make some fake pieces or some some really good image enhancements. Pawel Nazarewicz wrote in message ... (...) the (...) 1st (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Larry, (...) Indeed, and train doors and windows! Blue, red, white. Gosh, my credit cards are going to melt again. : ) Excuse me for being a naive trainhead here, but with this digital system, you will be able to operate the points and things with a (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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Jeff, (...) feel (...) You know, I was thinking the same thing to some extent, the pictures, the font, who knows? I was wondering, though, did you ever see the part in this set before: (URL) red part, the 3x3 wall part, with the window in it. I (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) is (...) I'm with you Larry! The red weird train front is back again. It looks like street lamps in red will be back, (service packs hopefully available for those, sorry, it might cut into your new business). A few people are concerned that (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I had someone here at the office translate part of it for me and it mentions that you can convert you old type engines to work with the new digital system!! Excellent! jt (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) OK, my German s frightful...but here is a very loose traslation of the IMHO most important paragraph (top left) on this page: (URL) and ride the new Lego Digital Train! Now begins a new railroading fun with digitally controlled (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Infrared? Could this possibly work with the RCX?? :-b... (drooling!!) JohnG, GMTLC (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi everybody, please read the message below I rarely watch this group But i am amazed by the pictures, but the following things puzzle me 1. Since when those DB stickers come back? I thought they belong to the 12V not to 9V 2. Look at 4450 Right at (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Yes... "engines", but not motors. That is, you'll have to find a hollow space in your engine body somewhere for the DCC receiver module (that gray thing in the picture with the power truck, Nr. 4468) and then replace your current power truck (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm going to hope that it is real... I'm thinking these aren't the final versions of the pictures, that this is being used to test layout, colors, whatever. Yes, the picture quality is lower than what we're used to, but I've seen prototype (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "3x3 wall part, with the window in it", but all windows have appeared in other sets. Jeff (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I was thinking this, too. Lego now uses the "<-o->" symbol. Not to mention that the stickers are poorly applied, and Lego doesn't even use stickers for the door symbols anymore (I think, they didn't with 4558). (...) Right, too much (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Too many things point to it being a hoax, IMO. Also, While the quality is low, whoever made it, tried to make it as real as possible. The Train Logo is way too clear, while the Lego Logo is way too fuzzy... Jeff (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) THis is a needless comment. If your message is worthy of reading it will be read without the prefacatory fluff. (...) Stickers can be reprinted. (...) No idea what you're getting on about here. (...) Parts can be reprinted. Parts can be (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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These are compelling arguments... :( And here I was thinking of auctioning all my 12V track and trafos to be able to but this stuff in the fall... If they are fake...the person who did this deserves a nice round of applause....and we should all make (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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Maybe we're spending too much time on the quality of the graphics. Lets look at the sets themselves. Where would those wheels on the 4460 and the gray wheels on the 4432. And the doors and windows on the passenger cars on the 4450? Those are awesome (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) was (...) hoax. (...) It's (...) 4460 (...) on (...) I would really like that train to come out, But we will have to wait for confirmation from Lego if it's true, if it's true were did Paul Rutenberg get the pictures from? -- Michael - - - (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It looks like 4450 and 4460 use the same motor to me. Looks like the new motor has two small wheels and 4 large spoked ones. I did a quick look through the train sets, and unless I missed something, I don't see a white/blue split color train (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Feel free to call me gullible, but I believe this is real. The layout of the ads are different than what we are used to, but I would attribute that to it being a Deutsche Bahn promotion catalogue, or something to that effect. At least the text (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Try <set:4563> or <set:4551> both of which command over 100 to over 200 each on the aftermarket. I am looking forward to having that part available in larger quantities. I've seen at least one MOC streetcar use this part We need to hear the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) I'm thinking 4460 uses steel rimmed (powered) and 4450 uses plastic rimmed (unpowered) with the motor unit in the tender. That looks like a glint of steel on the tender wheels. That's good news because it means we get a new size wheel for (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) nice models. if they had been taken in prototype format, not mocked up onto pages, I almost could have fallen for it. :-) There are many specific flaws in the design of the pages. LEGO has style guidlines. - The name SYSTEM would have to (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) It _is_ a bit strange that the red 4460 has metal rims on all the wheels, though. Surely, only two pairs are powered. On the other hand, mixing metal and non-metal rims on one engine would probably look daft. Fredrik (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Why aren't the 'leak police' all over this one like a rash? Tom? regards lawrence (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) ?? <set:4551> ++Lar (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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After having another look, I am not too sure now, I am stuck in-between. You guys are going to have to connive me. If this is the True Lego picture It would be great, but why is there some mistakes in the picture. I now believe that this is a hoax (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Image quality is a big part of determining if it is a fake. IMO, at least. For example, is it just a bad scan? What evidence is there for or against this? One piece of evidence is that many of the colors are too universal for it to be a scan. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) familiar: the very top piece looks like a 1x6 black low "fence" piece; the hinge structure looks familiar; but, the method of attaching the 1x6 black low "fence" piece to the "finger" hinges is what I can't readily dicern. (...) Gotta wonder! (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There may be one new piece here. Consider a 1x1 plate with 2 fingers on both edges? Plug that into a clip to clip into the bottom of the rail Either that or they borrowed your unsymmetric method and we can't spot it. I would rather they used (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) this (...) well. (...) it", but (...) Alright, in front of the engine, there is a angled window. (going from the train door forward) There is the 3 1x1 tile, the 1x2x3 window with the thin slot window, and the angled window in front. Maybe it (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If this is a prototype, why is it in German? Wouldnt the danish do it in Danish first, or at least english? Why would we see a leak in German first? Any history of sets coming out in Germany before anywhere else? Or German only sets? Also, (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Listen up, people!! This is from "Someone in the know"!! :) (...) I thought they got rid of SYSTEM... Also, the red dot is too large... I'm sure Lego has premade scalable templates for this kind of thing, so there wouldn't be errors... (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Doesn't this fall under "emotional abuse" on the part of the hoaxer? Thank goodness he or she didn't release a castle. I would have to jump out of a window. -- pn (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Larry, (...) this (...) each on (...) larger (...) That's right, I was just trying to see if it was a new part or not. It is one of those, darn, I missed it sets. (...) a (...) Todd (...) Indeed. I think Todd is sleeping right now, isn't he? I (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I don't have a crocodile, but I can tell you that the type of frame without the actual Lego Train type window glass, (I have to word it just right so Larry wont be confused,) is available in #5958, Mummy's Tomb. It's red, just as shown in the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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< cross posted to Dear-LEGO > Dear Brad, (...) is (...) Well, if it is fake or not, it sure has attracted many people, and I hope TLC sees this. This is what we would really like to see in train sets. Sets like these have the possibilities and parts (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego) !
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(...) is (...) Trains are designed in Germany. 3225 was. If this is for real, it is somehow connected with a DB (Deutsches Bahn, the German nationalized railways) promotion. (...) These are all the same question. (...) Yes. 3225 recently. most of (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) is (...) In my opinion, yes. In 1981, I eleven years old on a Europe trip with my family. We were in Germany, soon to travel to Denmark to visit LEGOLAND, Billund. In Germany, my family went to a toy shop where I saw the 7820 red Mail Waggon. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's also a promotion for the Verkhers- und Technikmuseum in Berlin (if it is real, that is). There is a reference to a contest on the first scan. It should be easy to ask either of them to verify if it is real. Of course, if this is still a (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Could this in itself be a problem that Lego wouldnt not want to encourage? i.e the sets are too German. By that I mean too localised (nothing specific against the Germans I would like to point out). If lego want to sell sets on the world stage (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) and I set the FUT there too. (...) Indeed. These sets get a number of things right: More subdued colors (lots of dark grey, brown, tan and green), more realism, less juniorization, additional options for power, more use of train windows, and (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego) !
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(...) I'm curious about clearance issues with the automated points. Would the undercarriage of "normal" train cars strike against the dark gray block if going through the curvey-curve section of the points? later, James Mathis (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I see your point but I would point out the following items to ponder: - Germany has the highest per capita brick consumption with 95+% or some such households with kids having TLC products. - Germany is a large market (almost 1/2 the US size), (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snip> (...) I don't agree one bit. While I might not know what UK train rolling stock looks like, (but I do,) that would not deter me one bit. For any new train enthusiest in Lego Train, anything you can get your hands on is a good thing. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Does anyone care to guestimate how much these sets might cost? I'm thinking I need multiple copies of each set! JohnG, GMLTC (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow. There's got to be a better way to increase your hit count on a free web page than posting hoax train pictures. Nice models, though. Ed (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You're right -- I noticed the background in the main picture is all made out of LEGO. TLC never does that anymore. Highly suspicious. Steve (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) low (...) not. (...) I concurr. (...) ...wasn't there an artist who generated a bit of controversy when he created a mock up of a LEGO set under the theme of a WWII era concentration camp? That was kicked around on r.t.l a couple of years (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm afraid that I must go with the hoax theory. Here's why: 1) This appears to be Paul Rutenberg's first ever Lugnet post, and he has a hotmail address to boot. 2) His homepage (once translated with babelfish) is decidedly non-Lego. There are some (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) What is with the rude comments of late? Someone can't just throw in a little meaningless statement here and there? You do it often enough. I do it, too, and so do most people. (...) Yes, but isn't that a real train company? Wouldn't it have to (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) is (...) Yet more proof: I had a friend match up the "digital points" to see if they where, in fact, mirrored. And guess what? They were! Feel free to try it yourself... Jeff (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Has anyone noticed the new link on the site? (URL) swear that wasn't there this morning :) -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) 4460 (...) on (...) they (...) the (...) Naw. Those are black model team wheel hubs - recently available in Bi-Wing Baron (thanks LFB :-) and the Twisted Time Train - with chromed edges. Ben Fleskes has an engine using these wheels in grey and (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) lol!!! You're right! I would, too, if it was more believable. :) Jeff P.S. We've still got a number of hours before the hoaxer posts his "Gotcha! Happy April Fool's Day" post. And boy is he making a number of people look like fools. ;) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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Yeah and the counter isn't working any more! jt Thomas Main wrote in message <38E4E488.3482DB3D@a...te.edu>... (...) gtfthis (...) feel (...) they (...) it (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Here's the mirror proof: I took the images of the points from the 'leaked' catalog and cut them out into separate files. I mirrored one of them. I then dropped the red and green components from one and the green and blue from the other. I then (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) I'd also add that German prototypes probably have the most world recognition from a model perspective because of the dominance of the German model railroad industry (for example, most people, myself included, commonly refer to G scale as LGB (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Now there is an email on the web page! spam@papierkorb.de hmmmm, i don't like the look of this at all dang it! jt (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ooh, good point. That may be the strongest evidence yet of a hoax. There is still one other problem I have, why would someone this capable of model making feel the need to create a hoax to get attention? If these same models had been posted as (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Well it was there, now it disappeared James J. Trobaugh wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Nope, because those aren't spoked. However, the could be painte Maxifig wheels... (also found on the "pre-model team" classic cars, in the 390's) Jeff (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) What I see are CLEARLY spoked wheels with a single stud hub. (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hey, Frank! Check your calender. What's tomorrow again? ;) Jeff P.S. For the Calender Impaired, tomorrow is April 1st. :) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Perhaps the person who did all this is convinced that he / she can create models that are on par with or better than "official" releases. All this hubbub would then serve to affirm this persons belief. Awww...that's too psycho-babblish! (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Dan (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Plus ... a pack with only three track pieces in it? What is this ... "Train Polybags"? (...) Because if it wasn't for those annoying kids they would have gotten away with it! Let's give Jeff his Scooby Snacks:) I think they might have done it (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) would MOCs get *this* much attention? :) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I find it quite a bit strange if someone went to _these_lengths_ to make an April fool's joke, and didn't even get the date correct! ;-) True, it may have been April 1st in New Zealand when it was posted, but certainly not in Germany! And why (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Will Hess writes: <snip> (...) I am not an expert on either trains or any of this other stuff, but it looks to me that the spots that look like cuts may be "jaggies" introduced by a scanner. I have seen similar effects produced on (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This could just be the set-up, with the obligatory "April Fool's!" comming tomorrow... Jeff (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) standard image processing techique(sorta) for change detection. It's used a lot in ecological and archaeological studies with a time series of aerial photographs. You can tell what has changed from time point to time point just by looking at (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) So should the finger pointing start ... ? I point to ... : The Guild of Bricksmiths[tm], a “band of LEGO Fans who have become concerned at the dearth of high quality kits available and decided to do something about it”... -- pn ;) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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You are both correct. Now, where's that shoehorn? I seem to have my foot stuck in my mouth :-) I still think his whole thing is a hoax. Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's back again now. And I don't like the look of the mail address, too! But he has also put up a link to some old catalogue scans! (URL) haven't seen the first ones before, and they're great! Wether the original scans are a hoax or not (I (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ...lol... yea.. simple! :-) ...Chris, u have too much time on ur hands! :-) (...) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) #160 (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) looks (...) I just blew these up in my image editor and can say with certainty that the three most obvious cuts are: 1) perpendicular (sp?) to the rail, and 2) in the exact same place for all three track parts!! Will (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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There's something that has been bothering me with those pictures of automated points and I finally realized what it is. The power connectors to drive the switching motor are connected to both parts of the point. One is attached to the straight part (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Andreas Stabno <stabno@megsinet.net> wrote in message news:FsAv72.EDJ@lugnet.com... (...) automated (...) parts (...) the (...) from (...) connections? The outside rails are always live (while there's power being applied to the track) - the inner (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Paul Rutenberg <paul_germany@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FsA9v1.9Cs@lugnet.com... (...) gtfthis is (...) The problem I have with believing this is that virtually all of our collective dreams appear to have come true: Digital control (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Additionally, it looks like the jag in the left rail is due to the perspective on the picture of a regular piece of track resulting in a size difference when the track is shortened (it even seems like the jag may be a bit more pronounced on (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I won one of this guy's auctions of old bricks a few months ago. That's his real name and the hotmail address is the one he uses to do his auctions. I don't think that he would use all of his real info to pull a hoax on LUGNETers. Gloria. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If it is an April Fool's joke, then he might (I probably would in his place). I certainly wouldn't hate him or anything for this, if it is, in fact, his own hoax. I'd kinda admire him for being able too fool so many people for an April Fool's (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) link tries to argue that it is not an April fool's joke in the link below. (If my German isn't completely rotten, that is! ;-) Check out yourself! (URL) least lugnet.trains isn't the only group to believe that it is a hoax! Fredrik (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I have to say, you are right about the station. It does not look like a Lego plan. It looks homemade and funky with the flat roof, and small windows and doors. Is it a station meant for a countryside setting? (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:38E4EAB0.5358@m...ing.com... (...) Larry and other bricksmiths, If this is a hoax, I think you have found a new guildsman that could generate a ton of sales! Mike Poindexter (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Lego (...) and (...) That's my impression. The entire setup (which can be interpreted any way you wish :-) appears to be rural, as the rolling stock features a horse car and a pair of nice looking tractors. Will (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hallo Egon,was muss ich Dir für die Modelle bieten? :^) Spass beiseite,es stimmt tatsächlich! Ich habe gerade mit meinem Bekannten im Norden gesprochen.Er arbeitet in einer der Verlage,die für Lego die Pläne usw. drucken.Die veröffentlichte (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Oh oh, 8 wide hell? Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I've been following this all morning trying to find a good place to jump in and decided to get in at the start. Some think it's a hoax others hope that it is not, but I think that is is possibly real. Let me bring up a few things up I've not heard (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Nope, nothing to do with us (assuming you mean we might have produced this hoax train page) and our announcement itself is not an April Fool either (in case that was what you meant). Kevin (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Wow- Check out the light grey treasure chest and a new bench...pretty interesting to see old parts come alive... -jeremy (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Heck, maybe LEGO intentially leaked these picture to see what kind of reaction they'd get from the train fanatics here on LUGNET?? Or, maybe I've been watching too much "X Files"... ;-) (...) is (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Lighten that picture up in PSP, and you'll see that IF they are those rims, they were EXTENSIVELY modified. As in the flange on the smaller diameter was removed, most of the larger ends' flange was removed, black spokes were machine for the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Check out this page: (URL) BR 44 in particular... Looks very similar...also, the upside-down radar dishes are used in the BR 24. -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) True - magnify the image, and you see that the jaggies are only across ONE side of the track, and even the shadow is shifted a bit. I could do a better job of "shortening" track in PSP if I really felt the need to. In fact, if someone will (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I've seen metal rims before look at (URL) is a machenist and had these made in his shop 18 months ago! Looks like they owe Jon a free set ;) As for different colored bricks the gray train wheel covers is a 2 min job in photo shop as is the green (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, Huw, that is correct. However, why not have internal metal wires in the point? I would think it easier to make it so that the take off was from within the tie bar than to have the external connection. However, I would view it as entirely (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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If I remember correctly, lego had some involvement with that artist. The artist misled (maybe another word is better) lego such that they were shocked when they saw his creation. I know a lot of people complained. Here's what I found in dejanews: :: (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) maybe, i just tried the same analysis on the two 4 stud track pieces and i can't tell if they are the same segment copied twice or not. They are two small to get an accurate judgment. i'm a geek. -chris (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I think that most all of the first-round of gray-track 12v era sets were modeled after German trains. The 7745 red/black/white 12v passenger train broke the mold in year 1987(?). Recognition and target product to the primary audience would be my (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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James Powell <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:FsB2pJ.JJ9@lugnet.com... (...) clear. (...) No, it will NOT CLEAR. It is on the "other side" in regards to being before the switch, but it is on the curved side instead of the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ya, got to bed really late last night and only woke up about 3 hours ago. This was the first thing Suzanne & I talked about today -- we had a good laugh. I hate to use the word "hoax" because "April Fool's Joke" is probably much more (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) But what a nice dilemma to have! (I'd vote for 8-wide trains...) John Neal is too busy building *14* wide "G" scale cars... ;-) JohnG, GMLTC (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It is not the same DB logo as the 12V ones - they changed it in the early 90's - the one on the scans is the newer version. It is shown more clearly bottom right of 1.jpg. Compare old logo: (URL) new logo: (URL) at the new train scans - the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I realize that, but what if the simple installation of an automatic point makes clearance of 8-wide trains impossible? Do we then not allow the remote points on 8 wide layouts? What about layouts that are 6 wide, but will connect to 8 wide train (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Traditional model railways with DCC control have required the 'self-isolating' points to be hard-wired so that there is power to both rails on both tracks at all times. This is of course to allow not only movement of trains independant of the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Christopher Tracey wrote in message <38E51BAD.B42D5DA9@w...ug.org>... (...) I just loaded this picture up into Paintshop Pro and zoomed in. I'm not sure what kind of effects JPG compression can actually have, but it is interesting to see that the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello, why so much doubt? Believed in the good in the world and be happy on beautiful Lego that will soon come. I made no April joke! But I don't have made the scans. Greeting from Germany Egon Eiermann (legoit) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow! Now this gives me a *real* reason to learn a second language. ;) Most posters seem to be saying the same things as people here at LUGNET... Steve (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I am disturbed by the apparent lack of attention from the folks who run this forum. Wasn't there a big brou ha ha (sp) about the last 'unofficial scans'? What gives? Please do not read this as an indication that the 'folks who run this forum' are (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Egon, I think that the timing of your announcement was just plain unlucky. But for us to believe you (and yes we all WANT to believe you), please provide some more information. Especially regarding: - Where did you find out about this - Why is it (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Pawel Nazarewicz writes: I think it is obvious that the images are fakes. It's probably an April-fools joke, and very well done. Similar someone else's, of a fake set. That was really good, he made a fake box and even took a kid, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) People think LEGO are incapable of making great sets anymore - these sets are sensational. (...) I know it was March 31st, I'll have to wait till November for them to come out. Carbon 60 (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Perhaps the 1x6 low fence is simply a placeholder, while a different part or a different design will be used on the final version? That would be consistent with the hypothesis that the "scans" are not scans but layout drafts. I wonder if it is (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If they were this good? Almost but not quite. ++Lar (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) While we're capable of work this good, or better(1), it would be coming from me, based on our current guild membership, and I don't do eurotrash. Even old, cute eurotrash. I also don't hack on bricks (which would be necessary to do the wheels) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) No. this is exactly where you would have to connect. The outer rails are unswitched (think about it, they have no points in them, they're unbroken. If this is a hoax, the hoaxer got this right. ++Lar (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) parts (...) within (...) Yes, or that they have solved how to retrofit this mechanism to existing points, or that they wanted to reuse the tooling for the current points ties and subplate. Or that it's a hoax. To people that think I am not (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Perhaps the little antenna pieces. Alan (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) is (...) Also note that they are using many old pieces that haven't been used for years, like the pitchfork and the 12v timetable sticker thing. And they have the old necklace and workman torsos. And the Train logo is of very poor quality. And (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Note that the map is from the 1996 police station(I think) Alan (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) None of this matters if this is a leaked mockup of preproduction models and artwork that was created to give a sense of what an ad would look like. There are lots of new pieces present.. motor, DCC controller, points controller, short track, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It is against the Terms of Use Agreement to infringe on the privacy or publicity rights of others. Interpret our (mine & Suz's) opinions at your own risk. --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Interesting thinking about this, the debate should settle down to just naysayers (if you believe the scan is real, it is almost certainly a leak, and therefor shouldn't be discussed). The only thing which (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm not following you completely. Here's where my thinking currently is, and I admit I should have thought this through before posting extensively as I now think some of that posting may not be correct from a legal perspective. I am prepared (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Or just be lazy and use altavista. Alan (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) distance (...) Lar and others: The 8 wides WILL hit that box going through points. My DD40 cannot spur off on a set of points unless the actual yellow point switch is removes, as it ovehangs on the inside of the curve by too much. The box is (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Poindexter writes: Note, I will speak of a hypothetical remote control switch which just happens to resemble something posted which may or may not be a hoax and which may or may not be OK to talk about. (...) Sigh. Well one (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Perhaps it's because they *are* MOC's. I don't think this is real, why haven't we found anything on www.lego.com? --Tobias (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I don't see the Starwars AAT and MTT on www.lego.com. Does that mean they are MOC's as well? In my experience, it is very rarely that we find information about new sets at www.lego.com _first_. For example, most of the information about the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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