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Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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Date: 
Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:19:38 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Frank Filz writes:
> Will Hess wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 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 MOCs, we would be singing praises
> to their creator, instead, if this is a hoax, when it is finally put in
> the grave, we will all just end up viewing the creator with disdain (of
> course he could have stolen some pictures of someone elses creations and
> doctored them into a fake LEGO add).

Hey, Frank!  Check your calender.  What's tomorrow again?  ;)

Jeff

P.S.  For the Calender Impaired, tomorrow is April 1st.  :)



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  Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
 
(...) I find it quite a bit strange if someone went to _these_lengths_ to make an April fool's joke, and didn't even get the date correct! ;-) True, it may have been April 1st in New Zealand when it was posted, but certainly not in Germany! And why (...) (27 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)  

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  Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)  

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