{"id":1568,"date":"2012-01-22T23:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T03:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2012-01-22T23:55:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T03:55:10","slug":"lego-train-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2012\/01\/22\/lego-train-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego Train Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a LEGO Train, no power functions yet, and no track yet. I would like to get all of that, to have a decent layout. But &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lego don&#8217;t have any good track in their shop at home store, there is some on eBay for WAY TOO MUCH MONEY! It was $15.99 at one time in the store, now it&#8217;s not there, and on eBay it&#8217;s way above, from $50 on up, mostly, auctions sometimes a little lower, or a lot more, and buy-it-now up and up and up. It&#8217;s way too steep for me, and LEGO really should put that package back into the store.<\/p>\n<p>I do not want to, nor will I do so, make a track with &#8220;flexible track&#8221; only. That&#8217;s my option right now. Thus I have none and see no time in the future that I can get any.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s frustrating. LEGO 10194 Emerald Night is a great looking train, and I want to run it around a track, but there is no reason to even get power functions for it when there is no good track to be had. I suppose I should get them anyhow, just in case they stop stocking the power functions I need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a LEGO Train, no power functions yet, and no track yet. I would like to get all of that, to have a decent layout. But &#8230; Lego don&#8217;t have any good track in their shop at home store, there is some on eBay for WAY TOO MUCH MONEY! It was $15.99 at one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[557,650,517,651],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-10194-emerald-night","tag-emeral-night","tag-lego","tag-lego-10194"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1435,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2011\/09\/01\/alien-conquest-earth-defense-hq\/","url_meta":{"origin":1568,"position":0},"title":"Alien Conquest! 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