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Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:13:13 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Lawrence Wilkes 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
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> If this is a prototype, why is it in German?
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.
> Wouldnt the danish do it in Danish first, or at least english?
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> Why would we see a leak in German first?
These are all the same question.
>
> Any history of sets coming out in Germany before anywhere else? Or German only
> sets?
Yes. 3225 recently. most of the 12V line in the farther past.
> Also, given recent train history with lego, focused on more modern, stylisted,
> juniorised trains, why would they revert to seniorised old sets?
Because they got a clue? That's what I am hoping for, anyway... I want to give
them the benefit of the doubt, that if we whack them over the head enough
times, eventually they get it.
They realized that train heads spend more (per head) than anyone else and if
there is a place for adult specialty marketing, trains is it. This, after all,
is what we have been telling them in these forums, and more importantly, behind
the scenes (from as high as the office of the president of the NMRA) for at
least a year now.
I could be wrong. *IF* this is a hoax, it's a cruel one. And one that took a
lot of work.
++Lar
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 | | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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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)
| | | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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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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| | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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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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