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This is not a Creator Expert Train that happens to be a Winter Village set.
I originally wanted it, but now I'm not so sure. It looks too diminutive for my likes, and the fact there's only 2 wagons - about the same size as the loco - puts me off. The previous winter train, despite the basic 9V blockiness, had more presence to it.
(I happen to have a bunch of trains - I'm not at all disappointed with any of them.)
I said months ago that I expected it to be a Constitution-style loco, and I've been proved right. Personally I think it'll be a good seller, and hopefully that'll tempt TLG to produce more trains.
@drdavewatford #10173 probably wouldn't appeal to a hard core train fan but, for me, it looks more like how a steam locomotive should be...
This is purely going to be a cultural thing and I expect it to be very popular across the pond...
While a more substantial train would be nice, I don't think that would have been realistic to expect. Not in the least.
I'm sure it's the train around the tree that is moving, not the tree turning. It makes almost too much sense.
Fisher Price probably based red wheels on real trains.
What defines an 'Expert' set seems a bit ambiguous as some seem to be no more complex than the more complex City sets. There is no reason kids can't be 'experts', LEGO is a kids' toy after all.
Who ever said there was going to be a 2016 Creator Expert train?
There are certain things that exist in the real world that don't exist in my LEGO world.... America, Europe, fingers, knees, restaurants that serve foods other than pizza...
(yeah yeah I know leaked photos are bad, etc etc, but when a majority of fans have already seen it then the cat is out of the bag.)
For train enthusiasts, this becomes a nice challenge to see how power functions can be added -- mods to make it look "better" to each of your tastes.
We just need to find the clown that was yearning for a compilation Hoth set. And stuff him in a tauntaun.
I'm waiting for my UCS Serenity. Thank you.
As a train fan this was pretty much what I expected and I'm fine with it as it is - the fact there isn't a continuation of the Creator Expert train line is a separate issue as this was never going to fill that gap.
As I'm not that fussed about Winter Village I was in two minds about getting one (though I know I probably would!) but as soon as my thoroughly non-AFOL wife saw it she has said that we 'need' it to go around the tree this year - something that she wouldn't let me do with the Emerald Night in years gone by! It helps that our train-obsessed two year old will love it, especially if I can get power functions in it...
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on the outside!