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Lachlan ‹ Blog ‹ 2006 ‹ September
(Unofficial) phpBB Podcast
September 26, 2006
As one of the team members featuring on the first episode of the (unofficial) phpBB Podcast, I would like to tell you all to have a listen to me being nub, or possibly knowing a thing or two.
Anyway, check it out, and send us an e-mail if you like it.
http://www.phpbb-podcast.com/
New Lego Magazine
September 19, 2006
The fact that I just got a new Lego® World Club mazagine today means one thing, it's been three months since my last blog post, anyway here is a picture for those who want to see one.
Unfortunately this time it came with no free Lego, but it did come with the second half of 2006 catalogue in which the NXT is listed on the last page.
In other sad news they have once again murdered their Train Set range. All the trains are new and now are battery powered. For something you don't need batteries for, the battery poweredness is the spawn of evil. It is obviously a conspiracy set out against young children by the battery companies, ohh look it's sponsored by Duracell, how convienient [1]. By the looks of it they have also screwed over anybody with existing sets once again by removing the little metal in the rails.
quote:
Tracks do not conduct electricity and therefore are not compatible with LEGO 9v Trains. [2]
All it not as grim as I have made it sound, you can still get the metal tracks from Lego Shop at home, for double the price per track piece as you would pay for the new battery powered ones. I fail to see how what must be 10g of metal is worth $12.50AUD. And you can still buy the 9V track powered train motors. But, they do not list the 9V transformer and speed regulator.
Such a sad turn of events. I should also add that I don't own any 9V train sets, I have the even older 12V sets, so I've been in a situation much more grim than this for the past 15 years with no compatible sets being avaliable. Not that I can afford Lego, but hum ho.
And I shouldn't be so hard on the Lego company, I like their products, I really do, but IMO they keep short changing those who like trains. And they should be congratuated for spelling catalogue correctly, as it was meant to be spelt.
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