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  1. legotownlinz
    Reliability, simplicity. My experience with H0 and N model trains is that power from the rails is often unreliable. My Lego trains never failed. Terminal loops and wyes are difficult with 9V tracks and impossible without using third party electronics. Plastic tracks allow easy control of multiple trains.
  2. legotownlinz
    I hope not. 9V is gone for good, the future belongs to plastic tracks.
  3. legotownlinz
    I wonder why Lego never gets the Hogwarts Express right. Is there anybody who has not modified it? It must be even more frustrating for children than for AFOLs that motoring the train is difficult, that the coupling is incompatible with other trains, ...
  4. legotownlinz
    Ideas buildings are rejected when they are too similar to the Modulars. Lego releases one Modular per year and they won't release a second one as Ideas set. The Chemical Plant is different, it does not compete directly with the Modulars. The Chemical Plant fits in the minifig world, but its far more detailed than City sets. It don't think they reject it because its too close to the City theme. The Chemcial Plant is exactly the kind of set all fans into building a Lego city are waiting for, a set that goes beyond the reiterative City sets, a set that adds something completely new to a Lego city. Nearly all Lego cities I've seen have trains, buildings and an amusement park and some a monorail. It's time that the minifig world becomes more diversified.
  5. legotownlinz
    This is an awesome design, yet simple and small enough to blend well with existing Lego trains. It is a perfect successor for 7740 and the Horizon Express and deserves to become a product. Let's support it!
  6. legotownlinz
    This set has minifig scale, it is a unique idea and integrates well with any City or Modular Buildings layout, so I expect it to become a product and it will be a product that sells very well. Lego will certainly keep the train track because it seduces several buyers to buy the cargo train, too.
  7. legotownlinz
    I'm fine with a GG rerelease, it my only chance to get it at a reasonable price and I think many other collectors are missing it as well.
  8. legotownlinz
    Great work!
  9. legotownlinz
    I'm a big fan of the plastic tracks and want better switches, so I supported your project with 2x left and 2x right switches.
  10. legotownlinz
    Lepin can't do an exact copy from a few leaked images. They need the manual. Nobody wants the low quality Lepin stuff, at least in Europe, unless Lego doesn't satisfy the demand. Lego should be lucky there is no serious competition yet. Modulars based on MOCs, decent-quality bricks and a website that's not as embarrassing as this one and Lego is in serious troubles.
  11. legotownlinz
    I've bought them one after the other within the last two years and built all except the Ringtram. Not all of them are motorized yet because I'm waiting for the new Powered Up components that do not require the ugly IR receiver. If anyone needs PF train motors: The Munich Pasing Lego store still has them in stock, the Vienna Donaucenter and Berlin stores don't. I bought my last PF train motors last week in Munich, now I have a motor for each receiver. All my future purchases will be PU.
  12. legotownlinz
    I'll come. I'm on holidays, so I'm flexible regarding date&time. These are the other sets I've bought so far:
  13. legotownlinz
    When is this meeting? Or if its just you & me or three of us, send me a personal message. Btw, are there Lego fan meetings in Linz? It would be nice if there's a Lego-only solution, but the model has so many issues that I think it will need a complete redesign to get a good solution. I fixed it the easy way. ;-)
  14. legotownlinz
    Of course they have over-current protection, it's a must-have for toys. Nevertheless I guess they want to keep the system simple - one sensor/motor per port - unless the wire protocol actually supports multiple sensors per port. I didn't study the technical details yet, but I doubt it does. It's easy to solder a splitter yourself, so it's not a big issue if Lego doesn't sell it.
  15. legotownlinz
    I doubt there will be splitter cables. They certainly want to prevent children from connecting too many devices to a hub. Another question is if a splitter cable would allow to connect multiple sensors. If no, they would never sell such a splitter cable to avoid confusion.
  16. legotownlinz
    Excellent work!
  17. legotownlinz
    I had a look at the Powered Up Android App today. It was developed with Unity, a cross platform game engine. The APK includes the Unity runtime, which explains the file size. I've unpacked the app and took a look at the embedded images. Besides images of the train battery box, the Boost Move Hub and the WeDo Hub, there is a Duplo motor image, too. Is Duplo also part of Powered Up?
  18. legotownlinz
    Will it be possible to pair a controller with two receivers for multi-engine trains?
  19. legotownlinz
    It takes 136 MB on my Android device.
  20. legotownlinz
    Good to see there is no complicated logic inside the motor. Swapping M1 and M2 should change the polarity of the motor. Hopefully a controller can be paired with two receivers. Otherwise running long trains will become a problem. Has anybody tried it?
  21. legotownlinz
    Just put a few items in the cart and noticed that shipping is rather expensive and the shipping costs increase with each added item.
  22. legotownlinz
    Are there any leaks what set 60199 will be? Does Lego skip the number? It was mentioned before there that it will not be a City station, which sounds reasonable, taking the Winter Village station and Harry Potter stations into account.
  23. legotownlinz
    The set is big, it has tracks and it is the long anticipated coaster. This generates some buzz causing Lego stores to be sold out quickly. But I do not expect that the level of interest remains above other Creator Expert sets for a long time. The appeal of the coaster is not as aesthetic as most of the other sets, it's just ordinary and taking the price into account it won't be the first choice of the average non-AFOL Lego store visitor.
  24. legotownlinz
    It is different than the other modulars but it is nice, my overall feeling is positive. It was a good decision to change the style after 10 years. The weak point of the diner is its left side, it should have been designed as a corner building. It kind of is, but not really because it has the studs to connect to another building. It doesn't look like friends at all.
  25. legotownlinz
    Lego tracks are made of ABS and the resistance of ABS to UV is bad. Permanent exposure to direct sunlight will probably destroy the tracks after a few years. It is unlikely that Lego uses UV-stabilized ABS for indoor toys, buts that is just a guess. It would be possible to build the tracks out of metal rails available for other gauges. Custom switches are required anyway because the Lego switches will get dirty inside and won't work anymore. The trains could stay inside or at least in the shadow when they are not used.
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