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Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:33:30 GMT
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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 legoish links but these all wind up in a stock Tripod
shopping page.
3) Those big silver wheels...I'm planning to use these in a MOC of my own
soon. I got the idea from Ben Fleskes' SP&S 700 engine
(http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/1857/700.htm). Make those
wheels black and chrome the rims (which is, I admit, a neat trick in itself)
and see if you don't have a match.
4) Yeah, it's a bad angle, but that round tile atop the 4460 looks
suspiciously like the imperial logo tile used in the Tie Fighter.
5) Look closely at the stations door. For starters, it will never open
thanks to the arch that straddles it. There's also the little matter of the
brick wall behind the door. When has TLC ever created a minifig scale
building with no interior access?
6) Those fences on the station are nifty, but when has TLC ever (in the
minifig era) built a fence out of real elements vs. using prefab fence
sections?
7) Take a very close look at the rails on the half and quarter track
sections. You can clearly see the spots where they were cut and
reassembled.
Now, having said all that....
THESE ARE GREAT!!! I hope the builder treats us to more (and better)
pictures of these creations.
Will
Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services
www.crosswinds.net/~hokie
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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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)
| | | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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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)
| | | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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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)
| | | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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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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| | New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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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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