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...but then I remembered the four-stud-wide tracks ;_;
Good point!
If you don't mind non-LEGO bricks, you could use these:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/15b7/?srp=6
I guess you can always use used batteries with low charge :-)
And I agree with @Pitfall69, this makes the Constitution look like a grand bargain for the same RRP.
Still, with the right promo I may get this bc I've been wanting an Xmas train.
Anyway, I am still getting #10254, but it's going to look silly running around my Christmas tree:
I'm sadly not convinced looking closely as it now. It's clunky and messy looking to me. I think we might try and be brave and make our own
I agree that the designer video could have been a little more enthusiastic.
Because the old train split the Christmas tree and present bin into two trucks, the rotating tree truck (which is essentially tree and presents too) I've flipped in direction and made into a Santa "parade truck", using the big golden armchair from the Santa's Workshop set. The new train stuff below isn't quite built properly - I just rushed it together. I am quite happy with this, although I might have to get Bricklinking in time for Christmas.. and buy two of the train when it's released! I wonder what Lego would have charged for a train this size...
this will give me the spare parts to power the christmas set.
4-4-0, PF integrated in a similar fashion to the official Lego model. Emerald Night style front bogie so it should take curves. All official Lego parts will be used, though I'd strongly recommend you use the Brick Trains custom items if you want to best look.
I was hoping someone would answer my post so thanks for this @Picopirate
There's a dude in Germany selling red track, I've bought special colour parts from him before.
LDD file available on MOC pages.
PF motor driving the loco wheels, PF receiver in the firebox, battery in the tender - just like the vanilla set, except far cleaner.
Part of that boils down to familiarity and realism. Horizon Express probably works in Western Europe better than anywhere else, simply because the details give the impression, at least, of something familiar. Elsewhere, it doesn't resemble anything and is in what is probably an unusual colour. There's always something that makes most foreign locomotives look wrong.
You can't have a locomotive that's Barbie Pink. Or can you? This is a fairly standard European locomotive, with variants operating in several countries - but one of a small batch that's Barbie Pink:
http://www.forumkolejowe.pl/ilostan/index.php?nav=foto&id=14590
@MattDawson My LDD claims it removed 4 parts that were not placed correctly. Do you happen to have a list of parts we need to add to the set? That way I could order those straight away as well... :) Thanks for your design, I think it looks awesome!
I've re-opened the file and the 4 pieces that are missing, and they were the 'lights' on the tender where the white leaf parts attached. The only reason I kept them were they were in the original set, but 1x1 flat round tiles work a lot better.
As for a parts needed to be added, without the official inventory I wouldn't be able to confirm the requirements. The boiler is all new, the underframe is based around a train motor unit (so you would need to use this to assemble everything from anyway, unless you're good with creating an imitation).
I would say you'll need the cheese slopes, 1x1 headlight and 1x4 and 1x2 bricks with studs on the side, an extra set of panel pieces, the 1 x 3 x 4 black panel piece in the rear of the tender, all the 'wood' fuel...