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Re: Are the new Duplo trains a sign?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:06:13 GMT
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JOHNNEAL@saynotospamUSWEST.NET
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> [snipped lugnet.lego.direct, 'cause this is off-topic for there]
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 NG is asking too much. I would love a confirmation of the theme's future or
lack thereof.
-John
> In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
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> > r2 wrote:
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> > > How do we know that they are abandoning the 9V line?
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> > 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.
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> (I'm not sure about '95, the Guide says 4565 is from 1996. Anyway...)
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> 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).
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> Steve
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| (...) I know that the 9v line has been the orphaned theme for a while, but with such a huge amount of activity in the Duplo 4.5v line up it seems nuts that LEGO wouldn't be reinvesting in the train theme in general. Also, over the years LEGO seems (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| [snipped lugnet.lego.direct, 'cause this is off-topic for there] (...) (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 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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