Subject:
|
Re: My Final Iteration of Thomas the Tank Engine
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:45:03 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
2217 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.trains, Ken Nagel wrote:
| |
In lugnet.lego.direct, John Neal wrote:
| |
I have finally built what I believe is the closest design of a LEGO Thomas
one can build compared to the original
|
snip>
IMHO I like mine better...
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=86650
No offense... After all opinions are like noses or some other body part...
|
Vital body part;-)
| |
I like the 8-wide as the proportions work out better.
|
Well, you are preaching to the choir here when you talk about 8 wide:-)
Actually, I have a half-finished Thomas that is 10 wide that utilizes BBB
wheels-- I’m waiting for Ben to mold them in blue!
| |
I realize the wheels
look to small but this one is 100% Lego Except for the face paint and soon to
follow #1 decal.
|
Just so you know-- those red wheels on my Thomas are also LEGO; my only non-LEGO
part is the face...
| |
If Lego was to make a 6 wide I think they designed the motor to accept a side
decoration with a dead center wheel. At least the indentation is in the right
spot and the measurements work out perfect.
|
Hard to say whether they’d design him with a motor or not. I would think “no”,
because a motor automatically tacks $25 onto the price of the set. My version
could probably meet a $19.99 price point pretty easily.
| |
It’s all academic anyway as tomorrow or the next day someone will build a
better one and if you’ve ever worked with the Thomas people you’d know that
the odds of Lego working out a deal with then are slim and none.
|
Really? From the looks of the marketplace, it appears to me that Thomas is
virtually ubiquitous and that licensing wouldn’t be a problem at all.
JOHN
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: My Final Iteration of Thomas the Tank Engine
|
| (...) From our (NILTC) work with them and having talked to Ill Railway Museum officials about their Thomas show the group that holds the licence is VERY difficult to work with. One would think with the money problems Lego is having that they have (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: My Final Iteration of Thomas the Tank Engine
|
| (...) snip> IMHO I like mine better... (URL) offense... After all opinions are like noses or some other body part... I like the 8-wide as the proportions work out better. I realize the wheels look to small but this one is 100% Lego Except for the (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
|
7 Messages in This Thread:
   
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
