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Re: Discontinued Train Items??
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:30:06 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Bryan Kinkel writes:
> While browsing the galleries at http://www.1000steine.de , stumbled into the
> forums.
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> Can any of our German speaking friends comment on this message:
> http://f24.parsimony.net/forum61776/messages/1420.htm
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> As http://babelfish.altavista.com translates, it looks like the snow remover
> car, the crane and the switching rails are being discontinued. But the
> translation is not so hot. I'm interested in exactly how this post reads.
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> Thanks in advance,
> Bryan
Dear Bryan,
you have found an articel, which was posted a few days after a big "earth
quake" in the German Forum at www.1000steine.de/forum . This has been one of
the last shock waves of it....
The story in a short:
1. Lego distributers have been told by Lego Company that points and crossing
would be discontinued and gave this information to us, their customers.
2. Some of us asked the consumer service of Lego and were told the same
3. dec. 7th :an anonymous guy (Flame-Slizer) surfed by and told us how stupid
those where, who told that points would be discontinued ("Volltrottel!") and
that this was a wrong information. So I had to feel as "Volltrottel", since I
forwarded that information too (alsways telling, where I found it). I also did
a posting here in this newsgroup.
4. it came out, that this guy was an employee of Lego (using his work computer
of Lego, but as he later said, he did it in his free time)
5. a big discussion started (take just a look at the amount of answers!):
http://f24.parsimony.net/forum61776/messages/977.htm
6. dec. 11th: Lego consumer service for Europe still told that points would be
discontinued....
7. (This is the message you have read):
Flyers were found in some shops, which told, that points and crossings will
not be discontinued as planned, but 4533, 4557 and 4553 will do. Also the whole
Basic line ends with this year.
Of course thes story did not go on as straight as tod here: those days have
been the days with the biggest traffic in the forum since ever and there
have been a lot of discussions on Legos behaviour, their losses and the
decreasing quality of bricks and sets in general.
Kind Regards,
Ben
BTW: this was the first semi-official contact of TLC with the German Lego®
community. I think after this great start things can at least not become
worse... ;-)
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| Ben, Thanks for giving me the whole picture! I recall your original posting in lugnet.trains about the points issue, so I figured the 1000steine forum message I found was part of the larger "points & crossings picture." Early 2001 should prove to be (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote in message ... (...) will (...) whole (...) I'm am a little confused. The points and crossings are not discontinued but the entire train line is discontinued? How can this be? Could a new monorail be coming? I wish Lego (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| While browsing the galleries at (URL) , stumbled into the forums. Can any of our German speaking friends comment on this message: (2 URLs) translates, it looks like the snow remover car, the crane and the switching rails are being discontinued. But (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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