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Re: Hypothetically Speaking...
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Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:41:58 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> > Some questions which I would like all LTDs (LEGO Train Dudes) to ponder
> > and discuss:
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> > What if the guy/gal in charge of designing LEGO trains posted here and
> > asked, "Should we continue to design LEGO trains 6 wide or begin to
> > design them 8 wide?" What would be your response?
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> I'd respond "Are you out of your mind?".
Not at all.
> If you think TLC 6 wide trains are too expensive,
Never said that.
> just think how bad 8 wide
> ones would be. 1/3 more in each direction == approximately double == 2x the
> cost.
This "funny math" needs to be dispelled right now. True, it is 1/3 wider, but
length is arbitrary according to how much you want to compress (even I
compress BION). And height remains the same (I just compared by Hiawatha
coaches to a metroliner coach-- something which I had never done, and they are
exactly the same height). It doesn't surprise me that 8 wide and 6 wide have
the same height dimensions, because the minifig is still the same height!
Basically, the only difference between 8 wide and 6 wide is that 6 wide scale
*is* 8 wide scale, but *compressed* width wise. Internalize that. This is a
particularly unfortunate thing due to the fact that the minifig is *so* wide.
I really think we need to reject this width compression, or else we are doomed
to having snowmobiles and trains the same width:-( That's sick and wrong...
> I don't think you have to worry that this is going to happen. Only a small
> minority of people would be advocating such a thing to TLG. Hypothetically
> speaking, of course, were any such advocacy actually to occur, it would
> greatly diminish the credibility of the advocate with TLG.
Poppycock.
> Fan created 8 wides? Great. Bring them on.
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> TLC created 8 wides? Height of folly.
lol "Height of folly"?? Hardly. No, I think what they have *already* done to
the train line over the past 6 years would be *that*.
-John
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> ++Lar
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| (...) "Not at all" what? You said "if the guy in charge asked what I would think" and I told you what I would say. Are you now speaking FOR this hypothetical person? (...) We'll see. We'll just see what we shall see. ++Lar (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I'd respond "Are you out of your mind?". If you think TLC 6 wide trains are too expensive, just think how bad 8 wide ones would be. 1/3 more in each direction == approximately double == 2x the cost. I don't think you have to worry that this is (...) (24 years ago, 10-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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