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No, not DCC. No, no new geometry. No, there will be no large wheels for steam trains. In fact, scrap the wheels all together. Wheels are so 20th century! I think LEGO is going to release a line of mag-lev trains! OK, maybe not. Good night, Chris (23 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Fanciful LEGO train speculation
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(...) Lets hope not, that MagLev stuff is so sterile-Harvey (23 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I would be 100% guaranteed to buy that. eric (23 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Fanciful LEGO train speculation (the German answer..)
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(...) Latest (maybe to read ironic) spculation abaout coming Lego trains as posted on www.1000steine.de/forum/ (free translated by me): ***...*** Certainly there will be battle-engines! The "Evil-Engines" and the "Alpha-Trains". The "Evil-Engines" (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Fanciful LEGO train speculation (the German answer..)
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(...) Ben, you've struck a chord with me. When I was a child, playing with LEGO (the late 1970's) I never did connect violence with LEGO. Now when I hear young kids playing with the stuff, interest is quickly lost if they can't add guns or missiles (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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(...) <Snipped stuff about "Evil-Engines"> (...) Well, I completely agree with all of this. When I was a child, playing with Lego (late 60's early 70's) I never connected violence with Lego either. But, what did I play? One of my brother's and my (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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(...) <snip valid comments about LEGO falling into the violent toys slippery slope.> Very funny post. It reminded me of what I saw in the S@H catalog concerning the LEGO soccer game. The catalog referred to one of the teams as the bad guys, or the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Fanciful LEGO train speculation (the German answer..)
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(...) One of my favourites was a "gun" made of two blue rails side-by-side, shooting another rail upside-down along the top. With a good rubber band, I could shoot the length of our hallway. Don't ask me how long that was, but it looked like miles (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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