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Re: April 1st sometime in the world ... ? (Re: New Trains)
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:47:17 GMT
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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 sure someone at LEGO sees these pics
and how excited we all were about them....maybe they could generate
similar excitement with a REAL product :)
--
Thomas Main
main@appstate.edu
Jeff Stembel wrote:
>
> In lugnet.trains, Michael Edwards writes:
> > 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
>
> 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).
> >
> > 2. Look at 4450 Right at the top right corner appears to be a part of the
> > wall showning, and the pictures don't look like the way lego does theirs?
>
> Right, too much reflection, for one. Also, 4450 used a wide angle lens,
> causing it to "bend".
> >
> > 3. Look at 4424, the Station map there, that came from the Police Van
> > released in 1986
>
> 6676 Mobile Command Unit. The map is still on the appropriate part, too! 4424
> also has a gray treasure chest (which I find suspect), and 4450 has the train
> schedule from 7824, still on the three white 1x4 bricks.
> >
> > 4. Look at 4468 Looks like at Old 9V Technic motor same for 4438 and 4439,
> > the old motor was discountued a few years ago.
>
> Yup, and the parts don't seem to fit together well.
> >
> > 5. 4465 Looks Odd?, why do Lego want to start making little pieces of track?
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> Actually, it is a good idea. More flexibility in making layouts.
>
> > 6. 4479 There is too much shadow, it's not well done.
>
> Yup.
>
> Also, Old torsos are in these, even when lego has newer "versions". And the
> points images are mirrored copies of each other, IMO.
>
> Certain parts are too pixelated, the letters are too clear (no grays, like
> you'd get in a real scan), same with the red dot in the train lego (which is
> too large), etc. There is *no* doubt in my mind that these are fakes.
>
> Jeff
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