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(...) Mmmmmmmmm... Nitrous. Darrell ps Thanks for the pix, Larry! (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005, FTX)
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(...) You are correct, sorry. It's seems to be the same wheelset base, but with one axel removed. And it placed the corect end forward, edded for the drive rods to look right. Thanks, Mat (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.year.2005, FTX)
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In lugnet.trains, Mathew Clayson wrote: snip * (...) Percy has a 2-axle wheelset, and it was assembled correctly: (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.year.2005, FTX)
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(...) What bugs me, is that non of these sets are powered. Thery all apear to use the older 3 axle steam wheelset. But at least they get drive rods. And the short wheelset for the tender is nice. Also, I found it interesting that non of the models (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.year.2005, FTX)
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(...) Search back in LUGNET, this has been discussed at some length. Briefly, LEGO is using flesh for figs based on real people or on movie characters (which are played by real people) and retaining yellow for generic people. That's not a very good (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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(...) Yes! (...) I think there are a lot of nifty new pieces coming too! (...) I noted that too. (...) I packed some chewing gum, so we'll just see what happens. Supposedly it's not illegal any more but if you get notes from prison, you'll know why! (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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Greetings all, New poster here. While looking at Lar's pix from Toy Fair, I noticed that Lego had moved the minifigs in the Harry Potter theme from traditional LEGO yellow "skin" color to colors intended to more realistically match the actors (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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(...) Should be easy enough even for an average-skilled builder to work around. What concern me more are the other parts there- the boiler half is pretty useless, and don't even get me started on the cab (SOLID??!!) eww. And yeah, Larry, that is (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.year.2005)
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(...) It would be much easier is the face disk was a separate piece from the rest of the boiler. But it looks like the face is part of a single front piece. Check out the bottom right inset picture on this box art. (URL) are four engine pieces to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.year.2005)
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(...) Hey Lar, Great set of pics. I had to wait til Monday so I could look through them at work with a higher res. tube than here at home on my laptop. I was very happy to note you made sure to focus (mainly) in on some of the new parts which are on (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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