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Re: Discontinued Train Items??
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:29:43 GMT
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I tried
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SteveB
In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Bryan Kinkel writes:
> >
> > Early 2001 should prove to be an interesting time for the Train series. I
> > just hope it goes uphill rather than downhill.
>
> Personally I would doubt early 2001: Lego gets faster, but I suppose we have to
> wait till summer at least.
> The only better story (just kind of rumor) I have recently heared told we will
> get a none-4560-like new train in colour green. Sorry to tell, but I can't give
> any more information on that topic, but I personally do believe in this small
> rumor. And please believe me: THIS IS NOT MY NEW APRIL FOOL JOKE FOR 2001.
>
> > I do enjoy viewing the galleries on 1000steine.de . From your point of view,
> > Ben, are the German Lego fans as passionate about the hobby as Americans?
>
> I would agree with that. You are 250 millions Americans, and we are just 80
> million Germans, so our community is smaller. But what is more important:
> Germany has maybe as much internet connections as you have had 3 years ago in
> the US. Maybe you are long enough online, to remember how small the US
> community was in 1997.... I think the German community will really grow on for
> the next years.
>
> www.1000steine.de has had a traffic of more than 1.5 million pageviews in
> November 2000 (if I remember it right). So we are working hard on it. ;-)
>
> > I
> > would suspect that it is about even, but I imagine there are more Train fans
> > in Germany.
>
> Yes definitely most AFOLs around here are in trains. There are some castle fans
> and a few classic space fans around, but I actually do not know about too much
> mechas for example.
>
> Another difference might be, that here are quite a lot of fans of "historic"
> Lego, like these two sites (surftip, but not train related):
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> http://home.t-online.de/home/roland.ridder/Lego/autos.htm
> http://www.planet-interkom.de/lfreak/index.htm
>
> Leg Godt!
>
> Ben
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