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Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct
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Sun, 4 Feb 2001 04:27:25 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Todd Lehman writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > [...]
> > > The conversation was wide ranging and very productive.
> >
> > Awesome!
> >
> > > We discussed things
> > > that LD is going to be doing, the future of the product line and ways to
> > > leverage the productive relationship between LTCs and LD.
> > > [...]
> >
> > Ohohoo, when you say "the future of the product line," I assume you are
> > referring to trains?
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> Yes.
>
> > If so, that sounds very encouraging! Can you say
> > whether rumors of the train product line's demise are greatly exaggerated?
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> Yes I can decisively say that. I think I did already, actually.
My apologies everyone, I totally underestimated the power of the
(LEGO)Force. I'm very glad that Trains have a bright future, this has been
my lesson in faith. -Harvey
>
> > Will be any new train sets coming out in 2001 or 2002? Will there be a
> > Harry Potter Hogwarts Express train? Any new bulk paks coming soon?
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> That kind of information would be covered under the NDA so I can't
> specifically comment.
>
> > Most
> > importantly, were you able to sleep last night?
>
> After dinner the lot of us fested till pretty late, so at 2 AM when I got to
> bed, I was out like a light. (it doesn't help that I have been deathmarching
> on a project for the last few weeks and getting about 4 hours a nite sleep)
>
> I'll try to upload a few pics later tonite or tomorrow, suffice it to say
> I've never seen so many top top top shelf train MOCs in one place at one
> time ever before.
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> Also, I would like to thank the various people who participated in publicly
> speculating about things like production volumes and what molding machine
> configurations were like and various other supply chain/MRP/operational
> related topics.
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> That speculation, which some derided as pointless, was extremely helpful to me.
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> ++Lar
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