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Re: Are the new Duplo trains a sign?
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:46:55 GMT
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[snipped lugnet.lego.direct, 'cause this is off-topic for there]

In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:

r2 wrote:

How do we know that they are abandoning the 9V line?

It is speculation at this point based upon info from this post:
http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=7201 , and from the observation that minimal
effort is being put into the 9 volt line.  It appears to me at least that the
9volt line has been riding the coattails of sets created before '95.  Not much
worth mentioning has occurred in the last 5-6 years.  That is a bad sign IMO.

(I'm not sure about '95, the Guide says 4565 is from 1996.  Anyway...)

Evidence to support:  in the Fall 2000 US S@H catalog, the 4565 Freight &
Crane Railway gets about 1.25 pages of very nice layout; it's a new layout,
probably old photos, but newly cropped and formatted.  The 4561 Railway
Express gets 1 page of crummy, cramped layout.  4565 is 4 years older than
4561; I expect it's the oldest set shown in the catalog (except maybe for some
accessory kits).

Steve



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  Re: Are the new Duplo trains a sign?
 
(...) Beg to differ. I feel that if there is any NG that is being monitored by TLC, it's there, as evidenced by Brad's occasional posts. I'm hoping that someone at TLC reads these posts and reacts to them, but expecting them to monitor every theme (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Are the new Duplo trains a sign?
 
(...) It is speculation at this point based upon info from this post: (URL) , and from the observation that minimal effort is being put into the 9 volt line. It appears to me at least that the 9 volt line has been riding the coattails of sets (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

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