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Re: April 1st sometime in the world ... ? (Re: New Trains)
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:59:27 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> In lugnet.trains, Michael Edwards writes:
> > Hi everybody, please read the message below
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> THis is a needless comment. If your message is worthy of reading it will be
> read without the prefacatory fluff.
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> > I rarely watch this group
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> > But i am amazed by the pictures, but the following things puzzle me
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> > 1. Since when those DB stickers come back? I thought they belong to the 12V
> > not to 9V
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> Stickers can be reprinted.
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> > 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?
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> No idea what you're getting on about here.
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> > 3. Look at 4424, the Station map there, that came from the Police Van
> > released in 1986
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> Parts can be reprinted. Parts can be reused. Why design new parts if you can
> use old ones again?
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> > 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.
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> It would be logical to use the tooling for the outside casing for the DCC
> controller instead of developing a new one, if the dimensions work. These are
> low volume, save tooling where you can. (the INSIDE of the casing might well be
> different but that's a different surface of the mold and could be new tooling.
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> > 5. 4465 Looks Odd?, why do Lego want to start making little pieces of track?
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> Because people who build real layouts have been screaming for them for years,
> as you'd know if you read the group much. GMLTC makes these with a hacksaw on a
> regular basis. This may be the most important new item of them all. Really. Too
> bad they didn't redo the switches/points to fix the geometry problem.
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> > 6. 4479 There is too much shadow, it's not well done.
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> Lame critique.
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> > THIS IS A HOAX
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> Maybe. But a very elaborate one. I'd reserve judgement. Wasn't that what was
> said about the star wars preproduction pics? Please name off a significant
> announcement that came with pictures that actually turned out to be a hoax.
> Seems like every time TLC does something good everyone thinks it's a hoax. It's
> funny. They deserve it, but it's still funny.
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> If you think it's a hoax you have to explain where the metal wheels on 4460
> came from, those are going to be very hard to fake. And the large spokers on
> 4450 for that matter.
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 door.
The 1st picture has a mountain made out of green rectangular BURPS. I
have seen green triangular ones, but not the rectangular ones.
The brown box car in 4479 looks like it has green 1x3x4 solid doors,
I've seen those in a bunch of colors but not green.
Why would a hoax put the set numbers in the 44xx range?
How did the hoaxer get grey train wheel frames? Why create a color no
one would have expected LEGO to create.
Of course some of these ideas could be carefully chosen image
manipulations to try and hide the hoax.
--
Frank Filz
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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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