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Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:19:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jeff Stembel writes:
In lugnet.trains, Paul Rutenberg writes:
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, YEAHHHHHHHHH:
http://members.tripod.de/legoit/herbst2000.html

A happy 9V Trasin Collector and builder
Paul

Hmmm...  Anyone besides me find these suspicious?  The images just don't feel
right...  Not to mention the font is wrong...

Jeff

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 appear beside the LEGO logo before the presence
of anything that looked like a train logo. Train logo would not be blown up to
height of LEGO red square.
- the trademark/copyright info would not say (c) Logo(R)  (yes, L-o-g-o)
- the colors are too bright around boxes, etc to have been scanned (they dont
match the intensity of photos, too smooth to be descreened halftone.esp next to
choppy text which looks unscanned.
- one of the yellow 'new' triangles is positioned off by one pixel. In a print
copy, I don't think a scan could produce that error effect.
- old 9v motors are no longer being used.
- photography is of unacceptable quality. even for a first layout draft.
- layout of page 2 is too poor.
- screened background photos are of large LEGO setups, not real-world.

No doubt an April 1 hoax. good one.

-Suz



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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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(...) 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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