LEGO Trains

[Big Sol]

Okay, while LEGOs are definately 'toys' by most standards (who says toys are bad?), I was wondering what most model railroaders thought about their Lego Train line of products. As with all Legos, they're on a set scale (Lego scale?), which seems very close to O-Scale. Here are some images:

http://www.cnettv.com/i/dl/vdl/media/image/25/85/1/18525_320x240.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Hollow/2436/mainview.jpg
http://scltc.org/images/galleries/events/2003.11.11.l.01/mic.205.jpg

Now, granted they're not as 'realistic' looking as the things I prefer to work with, but they can clearly be used to create very intricate designs, and there's definately no shortage of scenery pieces what with the various different types of scenery available, including medieval and sci-fi space scenery if you wanted to use those sorts of themes in your construction (Medieval magic-powered engine? haha).

Personally, I think Lego trains qualify as a type of model railroad, myself, having enjoyed legos for many years. Anyone else got an opinion on this?

[nscaler711]

they are really fun and i would clasify them as MRing.

[Nathan]

The LEGO train group has had some very nice displays at the last few NMRA conventions.  A lot of the equipment they ran looked very good.  Some of them even run DCC.  I beleive the LEGO site will take you to some pictures.