Greg In The Desert

Lego is having a black friday sale until 30 November which is nearly 10% off. I’m planning on purchasing the 10194 Emerald Night train set. They Emerald Night works with the new power functions sets. These are nice since there are no longer train specific motors and controllers but it’s made all my previous train engines obsolete.

I emailed Lego and asked why they no longer carry the Emerald Night with power functions and the new flexible track as a kit. They responded with the following:

The product you inquired about have been discontinued from our current product line as a kit and we do not expect to offer it that way at this time.

Purchase any 4 Items of Power Functions accessory and Get 10% off, or Any 8 Items and Get 15% off, instead of releasing a new Power Functions Train Accessory Pack.

Here are the individual items that need to be purchased with the Emerald Night to make a complete kit.

• 8867 Flexible Train Track
• 8878 Power Functions Rechargeable Battery Box
• 8887 Transformer 10VDC
• 8870 Power Functions Light
• 8879 Power Functions IR Speed Remote Control
• 8882 Power Functions XL-Motor Item
• 8884 Power Functions IR Receiver

Smarthome is having a black friday sale. Typically they have a percentage off sale before the end of the year, I don’t know if this will replace it or not.

Smarthome has a number of Insteon products for sale and using the checkout code EKITS will get you free shipping.

I am interested in the 2412U Insteon PowerLinc USB Modem to replace my 2412U. Is supposed to work faster with Indigo (19.8k baud rate on the 2414 vs. 4.8k on the 2412).

The sale ends 30 November 2009.