1 ActivityActivity TablesDiy Activity Table KidsDiy Craft Table For KidsPlay Table For Kids DiyPlayroom Ideas For Toddlers BoysEasily FlippedEasily MovedTable AddictedForwardBuild a 4 in 1 Activity Table for kids. This makes a great addition to any playroom and keeps the kids entertained for hours between trains, coloring and more.I think there are five reasons. This is what I believe, not necessarily true but it is not very likely that the whole truth would be divulged for commercial reasons.1) Reliability of 9V Manufacture. It seems the 9V rail attachment machines were no longer reliable enough for all pieces of track. As an example, I had to have 3 points replaced because the ends of the rails did not match up with the ends of the plastic parts they were attached to. This meant the metal parts were either loose, protruding, receded or didn't make a good enough electrical connection to the next track piece. Replacements mean the financial return is almost halved for the parts that go wrong;
this would not have been sustainable for the company so I guess a decision had to be made whether to renew some machinery or change the system. I guess the machinery had reached its design life anyway.2) Starting Age. Ever since the 1980s system changed to 9V, there has been a desire for kids to be able to start earlier with LEGO trains e.g. a direct transition from Duplo trains. I started with blue rail 4.5V on my 5th birthday but the 9V system with transformer was really for 6+. With the 1980s system kids could have push-along to begin with, 4.5V battery at 6+ and 12V transformer at 8+. This is similar with Power Functions - push-along 4+, AAA batteries 6+ and LiPo batteries for older kids and adults. The AAA and LiPo batteries fit with the whole Power Functions concept across all themes so the outlet for the parts is not exclusive to the Trains theme and this helps to sustain them.3) Parts Range 1. As the adult fan community has grown, we have been more vocal in asking for more adventurous rail parts e.g. wider radius curves, crossovers, Y-point, double-slip.
Quite a few of us would like to make a proper model railway out of LEGO so we need the real-shaped rail parts to do it. Plastic-only rails make this much easier. Some rail modifications have been most impressive by being fully-electrified but more people can have a go at customising rails if there is no electrical connection to worry about.4) Parts Range 2. Descending from reasons 2 and 3, a piece that facilitates younger children getting into LEGO trains is the flexi-track. This enables a child to make a circuit every time. In theory it also allows adults to make any radius they like but it is not so popular with adult fans, partly because of the check rails; these help keep the train on the track at all angles but look out-of-place for a proper model railway except on the sharpest curves and bridges. The technology became available to do an infra-red receiver and a LEGO LiPo battery so that adult fans would have something better than (heavy) AA or modest-current AAA batteries to power a train.
For the Trains theme to remain viable it was important for the adult market to support it; even though adult fans are only a small proportion of the total LEGO market they make up a larger proportion of it for Trains. The LiPo battery gives up to 800mA before the current trip kicks in. Even then it will try to restart the train. The V2 IR Receiver can drive 2 train motors; it was designed to drive 2 L-Motors in Technic Crawler 9398.Unfortunately some adult fans have trains so heavy that they need more than 2 motors, which is where we revisit the question from the AFOL point of view. Whilst it would be just 2 motors per engine, it is important to control all the engines together. The theory is that each engine with its IR Receiver on the same channel would be fine with that but tunnels or the larger distances involved at exhibitions could cause a problem of derailment if only one engine received the speed command. This is why a slave H-bridge motor driver module is needed - driving many motors from a single IR Receiver.
This was much easier with the 9V system even though a bench power supply or high-current regulator would be substituted for the 300mA 9V controller.At the moment the LiPo battery needs a plug to charge it. This needs to move towards inductive charging - stopping the train over a pad between the rails.These issues mean I still have reservations about Power Functions on the main line but I have built two shunting & trip-working engines with it. I have committed to making it work as best I can and sharing this with the community. I just hope Power Functions lasts a lot longer than the 12V or 9V systems lasted as new products because it is taking longer for adult fans to really get into it for trains.Lego train sets are a great buy whether you are a train enthusiast, an avid Lego lover or a disciplined collector. Out of all the products that you will find stashed on the market, these 10 are the best Lego train sets that you can get your hands on at this point. They are beyond fun to play with, and putting them together is a snap because instructions come included.
When it comes to their overall design and quality, everything is top-notch and up to par. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses. Cover photo is available under {{::mainImage.info.license.name || Add your first bookmark by selecting some text or hovering over a link. Look for the bookmark icon. Already have this bookmark Date: {{(current.info.date | date:'mediumDate') || Uploaded by: {{current.info.uploadUser}} on {{current.info.uploadDate | date:'mediumDate'}} License: {{current.info.license.usageTerms || current.info.license.name || current.info.license.detected || View file on Wikipedia Thanks for reporting this video!It stretches an incredible 2.5 miles, is composed of roughly 93,000 LEGO bricks, and takes about two hours for a tiny motorized train to traverse, start to finish.