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Hi Folks, I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke. Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my life now, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !!
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(...) I just posted about this myself. Too bad it was a fake. I was considering getting into trains because of the "new" stuff. Excellent job. (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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There are ha-ha jokes, and there are cruel jokes. Yours, sir, was DEFINITELY the latter. (...) ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) True, but isn't it the day to try to FOOL people and not make people laugh? Well done, well thought out ... kind of a bummer;) -- pn (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I thought it was full-on well done!!! Just realistic enough looking to give someone an initial glancing doubt, but with plenty of clues, especially the "© Logo" part at the bottom -- very nice!!! LOL!!! I can't wait to see what you come up (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I fear next years joke will not be mine: everybody would expect me to have done it. (...) Of course that's not pedantic: in three out of five published pictures there is no Lego logo at all. I think they are quite ok, but I will add some (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) I'm sorry, I don't believe you. I think you faked those pictures of the fakery. Can you PROVE it was a hoax? I mean, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and as we all know, Lego is busily working to produce all this very good (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) glad, (...) Unfortunately, as real as Disneyland and for one moment we were all hoping to see an announcement stating that the two systems were compatible! Well done. Jon (...) out (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) extraordinary (...) good (...) Hi Larry, have you followed the link I gave in my post above? You would have found a lot of pictures in higher quality showing the models I built and used for the April fool joke. It would have been a hard work (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) I may have read between the lines incorrectly, but I read the above as a tongue-in-cheek comment. I don't think Larry really doubts you -- he's just giving you a hard time for the fun of it (IMHO!). (...) WOW! (...) IMHO, your work already (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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ARGH ! ! ! ! And I finally had convinced my NLSO wife to start with trains since these were so cool and she loved them......... Dave (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Send me the models. If you have them now, that's pretty definitive. Or just send me the boxcab electric, I want to see how you did the technic motor driving a vertical axle that carries motion to the LGB wheels, and how you did current pickup. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Darn... Excellent work... I was almost got suck into an expensive hobby known as LEGO trains... (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, you sure got me for a sec there! Too bad the hoax suspicions were already posted by the time I saw the "catalog", otherwise I would've bought it completely. :-) Nice job... ouch, you really got us all hoping... (I want a pitchfork!) (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Excuse my stupid question: what is so special with the pitchfork, that you would by a 60 - 80$ set to get one? I supposed it to be rare, since I own just two of them.... Regards, Ben (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's a great thing for castle, and it's VERY hard to get nowadays. I probably wouldn't buy the whole set just to get 'em but that would make them easier to get in general and thus cheaper for me to offer trainheads to buy it from them; or (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Great joke, Ben! And nice models too! You made this weekend a lot of fun for me. I was surprised that no one admitted to it by the end of April 1, but I guess the vacation would explain it. Well done! John Matthews (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Great models! But I saw it was faked almost immediately...for next year you might want to get an image-editor with better text anti-aliasing :) And maybe add a bit of color to the next engine--LEGO almost never uses just one color... I'm still (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) you again for a look at what TLC could, and should do for themselves. Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (No, I don't work for TLC, but I want to...) Card carrying LUGNET MEMBER: #70 Visit (URL) & (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Target locking on... fire!!!!! Good one, but I must say, DIE!!!!!!! ; ) Scott "Finally some colors I would like to use on trains! )S. Scott E. Sanburn Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Soon: The Sanburn Systems (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Great Joke, ben. You should have put a "coming out middle of 2001" type of thing on it, it would have made the fact that the pictures are very early prototypes seem more believable. You were even able to fool people who see prototype pictures all (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Cool joke! Did indeed fool me, and made me laugh! Fredrik (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) thing on (...) seem (...) all (...) Hi Jonathan, the wheels with the silver rims of the 4460 electric engine are from a small engine of LGB garden trains. They have been a little expensive (~ 50 $), but they look great and you can put a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi! Nice joke, amazing work, but... now I'm wondering about this: Are the rumours about Lego developing their new digital trains nonsense too, or is there really something going on? Were those rumours only working for your April fool's joke? Did you (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Mika, I fear this is a question only the Lego Company could answer, but I think they will not do so. In fact I have spread out one rumor about big wheeled trains 2 weeks ago, but on the other hand I've heard wishes and rumors for digital (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Nice job Ben! I will admit that I was really hoping it was true, maybe someday it will be. One can only hope. jt Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote in message ... (...) joke. (...) my (...) some (...) glad, (...) of (...) of (...) out (...) at (...) all (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There have been some rumours that something new in the Train theme may pop up: (URL) it's hard to say if we can expect DCC or somthing similar. Or if the rumours are even true! Fredrik (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) [snip] Ben, Absolutely Brilliant work! You have set an exceptionally high (and achievable!) standard for TLC to aim for. KL (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) logo in the spoof. Normally one would say "fair use" or "parody" but I his newly minted term is quite appropriate in this case :) KL (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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"Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message news:FsEr2w.86L@lugnet.com... (...) are). I read on your page that the red engine is powered by technic motors... is it possible to post some more pictures of that? I'm very curious how (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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<German Accent> Some people say that we Germans have no sense of humor. But let me assure you... we have ways to make you laugh. </German Accent> :-D I think Ben missed the sarcasm. Brian (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, you have nothing to fear from me! :) I thought it was a wonderful April Fool's Joke! :) Of course, it makes me wonder why so many were fooled (I was the first to post that I thought it was a hoax). (...) And boy did you ever fool people! (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Grat job Reihnard You brought some fun in LUGNET that tends to be too serious. After all Lego has been made to bring fun to people. A big smile from Italy Marco PS anyway you did not catch me, but you had a good number of fishes even in Italy (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I saw the post first on Sunday night. I pulled up the page and was amazed; I couldn't believe that LEGO had made everything that everyone had been saying they wanted, so I was fooled for a bit. But then I thought about April Fool's, and kept (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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[X-Post & FUT .publish] (...) Using Corel Photopaint, I could easily mess with colors, add fake half-toning, etc, etc. I also have 1000+ fonts to match from... My only problem is that I would have to create hyper-realistic raytraces because I don't (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish)
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Well, I think I speak for many when I say we believed the joke, more so, because we wanted it to be true, rather than it's believability. Anyways, great job on the MOC's. I, for one, have been inspired. Congratulations. Tim Strutt 8^) In (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Since this thread resurfaced... (...) For the record Ben never did send these to me but I got to examine them closely, in person. Amazing work. :-) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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