Happy to finally have this video out - Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 Or whatever you celebrate, have a good one! Also I'm sorry I forgot to properly talk about the 2022 Christmas train at 8:26!
Amazing video as always! By the way, the jagged edges on the track at 2:02 are a layover from the very old train sets that had the same notches on their motorised wheels for better traction, although interestingly the new straight track pieces use slightly different moulds to the original ones.
There are no notches on the wheels, they just have a rubber band. But the notches were required for traction even with the rubber bands! As a side note the "outer" curve pieces have notches, the inner ones doesn't. Since the engines doesn't have a differential they are intended to just slip on the inner track. Btw, I still think the original track is far superior to anything that has come later. True modularity (I built lots of monorails with mine!) and it would be extremely simple to adapt it to narrow gauge (needs just one more curve piece plus a new switch).
@@henrikgiese6316 I was going to mention the lack of notches on the curves but felt it unnecessary. As for that one more curved piece, I recently found out that some third parties such as everyone's favourite, Trixbrix, make the individual curved rails that would be needed for that sort of system, and I've even had the opportunity to pick some up and they work great.
My train set back in the day was in the 4.5V system with those old notched rails, with the sleepers that have the special rail-studs - i think they originally just used standard plates, but that clearly didn’t work well. The rubber band system was… not awful? What was really bad about the system was that after converting it to 12V, the contact brushes on the bottom of the 12V motor were just *terrible*. They wore out in like a week, and those motors were *expensive*.
@@JasperJanssen I only have the original tracks - my father liked model trains too and got me a bunch back around '80. Could never figure out why they changed the sleeper connection from regular studs. I've never had any problem getting the track to sit securely. When one of my friends got the newer tracks we figured someone was just being evil making sure we couldn't use the sleepers as any other 2x8 plates.
Lego could make bank if they gave us narrow gauge trains Remember the "My own Train" line of the early 2000s? Now that was peak for trains as it was clearly based off model train companies, and provided affordable trains. It's a shame I was born too late for that experience. Apply that concept to narrow gauge trains, it could be affordable train models
this brings me so many memories, the first 3 in 1 Creator train and the Emerald express were my main inspirations for my first small train MOC. good job covering Lego's small trains!
Great video! Although technically you could build 4 wide trains in the 70s, as the 2x4 brick with holes for classic train wheels had holes on both sides! Merry Christmas!
Good point! I didn't mean to imply that it was completely impossible until the small wheels came out, but oops, I guess that's how it ended up. And to you too!
On the temple of doom also, I think it’s worth noting there was a planned remake of the set (including a mine cart line!) but was cancelled due to Disney wanting to distance themselves from that Indiana Jones film unfortunately. I really appreciated all the information in the video! It was really cool to see all the different trains, and surprisingly the lack of track… it’s funny I have that Batman set but it never really hit me that the track was used there. I assume they would have used it more in other sets. I never considered buying the creator train, but I think I will now- you’ve converted me! Also I think I had that first 3-in-1 train, great set!
That is super interesting! It's interesting that we never got more and it seems that LEGO were under no technical limitations that stopped them... Glad this was interesting to you, and happy to have converted you!
Hi there I will saw your video when you try to interview some of the engines that you already seen like the one from Dr. Brown from back to the future. I literally have that Lego set right now. I literally have it. I literally got the train and it look great. Also I have the DeLorean as well as for Marty with the hover board and they go cool with the collection. I have the two boxes that I have and I’m keeping those for the time being like literally anyways I literally saw your video when you tried to interview some of those engines they were great like sometimes it’s hard to make those but I was kind of wondering if you can make like the green the big one I would like to see that you can try to do that Big and large and I wanna try to see you try to build them and also one of the thing have you looked up on RUclips there’s literally Fortnite on the game right now and everyone’s already played it and they think it was really cool you could see it for yourself. If you wanted to see it, you can actually try to make your characters of come true, right
Great video Larry! Love these history/review videos, only thing is I now have to go and buy 2 of the high speed trains, always wondered what a full train would look like and now I’m obsessed 😂
Thanks QP! Haha, the biggest problem with talking about actual sets is that I have responsibility for making people buy stuff :p Glad it intrigues you!
I remember once i had the blue express, but i absolutely spam-bought it over the course of two years, and ended up creating a train that had 2 locomotives, 10 coaches, and a custom caboose at the back.
I used to have that small emerald express train, I bought it for $10 and that was the only set I had for years. But the amount of different designs I could make out of it was almost infinite. It probably is still one of the best Lego sets I owned and the memories of playing with as a kid cannot be replaced.
You know what I made into track quite shortly after my son got his small scale high speed train - 4510 Plate Special 1 x 8 with Door Rail. You simply use two plates parallel to each other (we normally do the rails on the outside, so that we can elevate it with some bricks) and have a straight track. I did not even know there were extra small tracks for those trains, tbh. I liked your video, showing all those little trains we still have to get (mind you, he has three, plus two high speed trains)! My son already told me he loves that emerald express and the blue express as well. Maybe the easter bunny will hide them for him...
@@frostedbutts4340 They hardly even support standard gauge! Outside of the starter train sets, they only sell track in inefficient packs. If you don't use the flexy track garbage, it takes 4 packs for a full oval. At that price, you can buy a full loop of _metal_ Lionel track, and the LEGO stuff is plastic!
You’ve completely forgot the Creator Polybag Winter Holiday Train they released in 2022! It’s a great small train they released! A lovely video though, I own the blue train and the green one from 2014!
I got that LEGO Lone Ranger Silver Mine set and some other sets from the line for greatly reduced price from an overstock redistributor. The movie may have sucked but the playsets were very fun!
I was worried that you were going to skip the latest Christmas train. I really enjoyed and thought for a sec that I would have to do a shameless self promotion saying that I just reviewed that train last week, but you showed it and now I don't. 😅
Lego does not like trains. So sad. A smaller scale track would be really nice but Lego does not make them. Luckily 3rd party brands have good quality now too.
6:27 Seeing that older pic makes me realize why the old track strips were bumpy was probably because those old train wheels use to have a little (I assume) rubber to them. So they would have had better grip for when you motorized them (Which I think they were experimenting with at that time)
Fun fact: as far as I can remember the Lego city mine set was my first ever set to have more than 100 pieces and it was great and unfortunately it's now broken, what a shame 😢
No actually in the Lego friends advent calendar that I have don’t judge me there were red train wheels also, I have that small red Christmas train and that dark blue train. I have a lot of miniature trains now, but kind of destroyed them all. 8:26 I have that train. I even gave it a hopper car, but I still don’t know what to do with the other flatbed.
This was *at the time*. I then said after 6 years they put it in sets the public could buy (including the Friends advent calendar). Though I guess the wording made it seem misleading!
I had bought two lego friends botanical garden sets... Actually they had started to create really good sets with awesome look and great part list for low price. I recommend to check some of them for MOCs.
Sry. It you said that for the Mimi Lego train pack you said they were a steam train a electric train and a train car but really they are a steam engine a diesel engine and a electric engine😊
Well with the 1960s Lego train system with the blue individual tracks, it was not really possible to build narrow gauge loop, because the curve rail pieces were designed for standard gauge. However, it was easily possible to build narrow gauge trains. There were white 2x4 Lego bricks with a little hole at the center on each side (a total of 4 holes), and the red train wheels from back then had little metal pins factory-mounted to them. Those metal pins had a length of 1 stud and could be inserted to the holes of the 2x4 brick. So depending on which two sides of the 2x4 brick you inserted the wheels, you got a standard gauge or a narrow gauge wheelset.
I just got so.e of the polybag trains as a christmas decoration and was looking into track when i found this. Didnt know there was a different track. Super informative thank you
Hey Larry, Thanks for the amazing video! I've been in the rebbit hole of narrow gauge track recently, and I stumbled upon the concept of using roller coaster track as rails for narrow gauge track. It's not at all the same, but the concept is there. I hope to utilize it in the future, and if LEGO does too, it'll be very awesome, but for now, it'll stay quite complicated. hopefully LEGO makes a wide roller coaster turn soon. - pyro
Thanks Pyro, glad you liked the video! And indeed, roller coaster track is compatible. Interesting what could be done! Good luck with your endeavours in utilising it
Thanks for this video. I have recent Christmas train, and also Classic Blue train, that also consist four small train wheels. I am trully sorry, that Lego didn't produced any real 4 stud wide train set, but thanks to external manufacturers we have full offer of narrow gauge tracks, and plenty instructions at rebrickable 😊
I have two of the "other Christmas train" you mention at 8:26. They came from the City Advent Calendar set in wither 2020 or 2021. I really wish I could get some proper track for them for our winter display.
Unfortunately, the fact that 4w track has not been produced since 2016 likely means that it is no longer able to be produced. LEGO generally destroys molds that have not been used for 5 years since that's the point at which it becomes more expensive to keep storing them than it would be to remake the mold if they decide they want to use it again.
“Possibly named as a nod to the Emerald Night set 5 years earlier” Now THERES an idea for another small scale train build… Sure it was done already in that 50 years pack, but it’d be cool to see either the Emerald Night with a full consist on narrow gauge, or a different interpretation entirely
Btw you can make that high-speed train work like crazy good on curves by putting turntables on the bogies and removing some of the undercarriage, it works really good! (I have two sets so I have the complete train and I even found it works on the tight rollercoaster curves!)
due to increased prices i think small track offers a really good compromise for mainly parents/childeren and lego seems like a great business model parents or granpa wont buy a 300 dollar set for there 6 year old but an 25 dollar set ? now i see that happening
Random thing. you could consider the first 4 wide lego train track to be set 360 the Gravel Quarry/Brick yard from 1975. The crane is suspended on rails. It doesn't use train specific wheels, just regular rubber wheels. but they are on rails!
Yo Larry! Noice video once again 😎 I wanted to let you know I finally bit the bullet and got your rebrickable instructions for a little Thomas, he hangs out all day with his dad from CoolProps. Have a happy holiday, man!
@@LarrysLego Oh I sort of been meaning to ask this, but would there be issues with having a 4 stud locomotive with 8 wheels instead of the usual 6 or 4?
As seen on picture at 6:28 Original Blue tracks had ribs because motors had train wheels with rubber band for extra grip. On curved pieces only the outer one (longer) had ribs, inner was smooth.
I'll be honest - I would have talked about it properly but I *completely* forgot to include it in the script, until I looked for a generic Christmas train to use in that joke. So I thought at least it ended up in the video!
I remember my 2012 mine set. I loved that thing so much I built it over and over and over again. It was one of my inspirations to make my own narrow gauge train
I had the emerald express. It was the first Lego set I ever got (when I was 5) and I have been in love with Lego since then. Also this may explain my love for steam engines, I feel it’s so cool to see big metal rods work together in a beautiful harmony to move a train. It’s mesmerising. Also that’s a big feat considering the fact that I’m 14 years old.
I never would have guessed that my emerald express set could use rails! Just wish i didnt take it apart almost a decade ago. Apparently these are rare now?
Happy to finally have this video out - Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 Or whatever you celebrate, have a good one!
Also I'm sorry I forgot to properly talk about the 2022 Christmas train at 8:26!
Thanks Larry enjoy the holidays looking forward to seeing what comes next year merry Christmas -henry from Canada
@@SteamRailPatreonR761VR Thanks Henry! You too
4:15 I HAVE this one!!!
Why exactly is the first question problematic
Genuine question
How do I buy the train track Narrow straight? The 4 stud-wide track 00:6
Lego has more consistent releases with train polybags than actual train sets
you forgot the lego friends advent calendar train
Can the creator express use round tracks?
In the actual set the wheels cannot move, so it can't turn. But apparently it's easy to modify to add rotating bogeys!
where do you get that 4 stud track?
Trixbrix
“Calling this a rollercoaster is a bit ambitious if you ask me” best pat in my opinion. Idk why but I laughed pretty hard at that
I am actually intensely surprised they didn't capitalize on trains. The crossover in the fandoms of trains and legos seems like a great match.
I'm surprised too! They seem to try, especially with huge-costing sets, but it feels like they kinda miss the potential.
You mean Autism?
I"m kidding, but
Amazing video as always! By the way, the jagged edges on the track at 2:02 are a layover from the very old train sets that had the same notches on their motorised wheels for better traction, although interestingly the new straight track pieces use slightly different moulds to the original ones.
Oh that's fascinating! As my first set with those was "The Mine", I was just forever confused about why they were there until seeing this comment :P
There are no notches on the wheels, they just have a rubber band. But the notches were required for traction even with the rubber bands!
As a side note the "outer" curve pieces have notches, the inner ones doesn't. Since the engines doesn't have a differential they are intended to just slip on the inner track.
Btw, I still think the original track is far superior to anything that has come later. True modularity (I built lots of monorails with mine!) and it would be extremely simple to adapt it to narrow gauge (needs just one more curve piece plus a new switch).
@@henrikgiese6316 I was going to mention the lack of notches on the curves but felt it unnecessary. As for that one more curved piece, I recently found out that some third parties such as everyone's favourite, Trixbrix, make the individual curved rails that would be needed for that sort of system, and I've even had the opportunity to pick some up and they work great.
My train set back in the day was in the 4.5V system with those old notched rails, with the sleepers that have the special rail-studs - i think they originally just used standard plates, but that clearly didn’t work well.
The rubber band system was… not awful? What was really bad about the system was that after converting it to 12V, the contact brushes on the bottom of the 12V motor were just *terrible*. They wore out in like a week, and those motors were *expensive*.
@@JasperJanssen I only have the original tracks - my father liked model trains too and got me a bunch back around '80. Could never figure out why they changed the sleeper connection from regular studs. I've never had any problem getting the track to sit securely. When one of my friends got the newer tracks we figured someone was just being evil making sure we couldn't use the sleepers as any other 2x8 plates.
Lego could make bank if they gave us narrow gauge trains
Remember the "My own Train" line of the early 2000s? Now that was peak for trains as it was clearly based off model train companies, and provided affordable trains.
It's a shame I was born too late for that experience.
Apply that concept to narrow gauge trains, it could be affordable train models
Lego has never taken trains seriously since the 80's & 90's, and thats really sad
Agreed! :(
He used my photo🥹 7:55
this brings me so many memories, the first 3 in 1 Creator train and the Emerald express were my main inspirations for my first small train MOC. good job covering Lego's small trains!
That's so cool to know! It's like we were bitten by the same bug, haha. Thank you!
knowing lego, they probably lost the mold 💀
Great video! Although technically you could build 4 wide trains in the 70s, as the 2x4 brick with holes for classic train wheels had holes on both sides! Merry Christmas!
Good point! I didn't mean to imply that it was completely impossible until the small wheels came out, but oops, I guess that's how it ended up. And to you too!
lego train lore goes crazy
0:27 I used to make 4 stud wide track like that. Part: 122c01 with the tyres removed worked fine as did part 7039 again with the tyre removed.
On the temple of doom also, I think it’s worth noting there was a planned remake of the set (including a mine cart line!) but was cancelled due to Disney wanting to distance themselves from that Indiana Jones film unfortunately.
I really appreciated all the information in the video! It was really cool to see all the different trains, and surprisingly the lack of track… it’s funny I have that Batman set but it never really hit me that the track was used there. I assume they would have used it more in other sets.
I never considered buying the creator train, but I think I will now- you’ve converted me!
Also I think I had that first 3-in-1 train, great set!
That is super interesting! It's interesting that we never got more and it seems that LEGO were under no technical limitations that stopped them...
Glad this was interesting to you, and happy to have converted you!
Knowing this brings me great pain. I would have bought multiples to have a mine cart area.
When the Christmas train polybag came out, I purchased multiple and then promptly cannibalized them for parts.
In the future, lego may bring back the narrow gauge 4 stud track, and make more 40518 style trains
We can only hope!
I once owned the emerald express! Don’t know what happened to it though…
I think it's about time that lego started making wider trains. 6 studs is way too narrow
Why do Lego insists on releasing 400€ train sets, when they could release 19.99€ ones? Truly an unsolvable mistery... 🙄
3:48 U got it wrong its an Diesel Engine and an Electric Engine.
Hi there I will saw your video when you try to interview some of the engines that you already seen like the one from Dr. Brown from back to the future. I literally have that Lego set right now. I literally have it. I literally got the train and it look great. Also I have the DeLorean as well as for Marty with the hover board and they go cool with the collection. I have the two boxes that I have and I’m keeping those for the time being like literally anyways I literally saw your video when you tried to interview some of those engines they were great like sometimes it’s hard to make those but I was kind of wondering if you can make like the green the big one I would like to see that you can try to do that Big and large and I wanna try to see you try to build them and also one of the thing have you looked up on RUclips there’s literally Fortnite on the game right now and everyone’s already played it and they think it was really cool you could see it for yourself. If you wanted to see it, you can actually try to make your characters of come true, right
i need that tracks for small like yours hehe😮😮😊😊 i like your videos 🎉🎉
I had one of those creator canister sets i believe it was the 31001 or something like that. It was a small car
Great video Larry! Love these history/review videos, only thing is I now have to go and buy 2 of the high speed trains, always wondered what a full train would look like and now I’m obsessed 😂
Thanks QP! Haha, the biggest problem with talking about actual sets is that I have responsibility for making people buy stuff :p Glad it intrigues you!
I remember once i had the blue express, but i absolutely spam-bought it over the course of two years, and ended up creating a train that had 2 locomotives, 10 coaches, and a custom caboose at the back.
Goodness me! You alone bought up most of its stock :p
heck, you could probably make a whole layout with that stock.
I used to have that small emerald express train, I bought it for $10 and that was the only set I had for years. But the amount of different designs I could make out of it was almost infinite. It probably is still one of the best Lego sets I owned and the memories of playing with as a kid cannot be replaced.
6:39 Hey, That's a set that I got year's ago, And I still have it.
You know what I made into track quite shortly after my son got his small scale high speed train - 4510 Plate Special 1 x 8 with Door Rail. You simply use two plates parallel to each other (we normally do the rails on the outside, so that we can elevate it with some bricks) and have a straight track. I did not even know there were extra small tracks for those trains, tbh. I liked your video, showing all those little trains we still have to get (mind you, he has three, plus two high speed trains)! My son already told me he loves that emerald express and the blue express as well. Maybe the easter bunny will hide them for him...
Oh wow! That certainly is a way to do it I'd never considered. That's very sweet, I hope your son likes likes them! :)
It's such a pain to get official versions of that thin track, but man do I wish they would sell it in bulk. Love your custom trains by the way!
I know the pain. And thank you!
Yeah I'm normally a Lego purist but they're clearly never going to support narrow gauge, so 3rd part get my money.
@@frostedbutts4340 They hardly even support standard gauge! Outside of the starter train sets, they only sell track in inefficient packs. If you don't use the flexy track garbage, it takes 4 packs for a full oval. At that price, you can buy a full loop of _metal_ Lionel track, and the LEGO stuff is plastic!
You’ve completely forgot the Creator Polybag Winter Holiday Train they released in 2022! It’s a great small train they released! A lovely video though, I own the blue train and the green one from 2014!
I didn't completely forget, it appears on-screen at 8:26! But I did forget to talk about it properly, haha. Nice!
The small scale trains can run on roller coaster tracks
The small Lego train wheels (the smallest one to be exact) could fit on the rollercoaster track pieces if you use a 2x2 plate wheel holder
My father gave me “the blue express set” when i was in the hospital , somthing that was funny is that he named it timothy!
I got that LEGO Lone Ranger Silver Mine set and some other sets from the line for greatly reduced price from an overstock redistributor. The movie may have sucked but the playsets were very fun!
I was worried that you were going to skip the latest Christmas train. I really enjoyed and thought for a sec that I would have to do a shameless self promotion saying that I just reviewed that train last week, but you showed it and now I don't. 😅
Lego does not like trains.
So sad. A smaller scale track would be really nice but Lego does not make them. Luckily 3rd party brands have good quality now too.
I really love the small LEGO train sets and I have the small blue train set!
the old train wheels from the 60 with the metal pins work on narrow gage because the 2x4 that holds then has holes on 4 all sides
6:27 Seeing that older pic makes me realize why the old track strips were bumpy was probably because those old train wheels use to have a little (I assume) rubber to them. So they would have had better grip for when you motorized them (Which I think they were experimenting with at that time)
There’s a Hogwarts Express from a polybag. Not sure what year it’s from, though.
Fun fact: as far as I can remember the Lego city mine set was my first ever set to have more than 100 pieces and it was great and unfortunately it's now broken, what a shame 😢
8:05 That's a perfectly reasonable job for trains according to Sodor logic, alongside gigantic inflated balloons.
Excellent job on the video! Give us more 4 wide trains and track Lego! 😁
Thanks! And yes I highly second this 😁
No actually in the Lego friends advent calendar that I have don’t judge me there were red train wheels also, I have that small red Christmas train and that dark blue train. I have a lot of miniature trains now, but kind of destroyed them all. 8:26 I have that train. I even gave it a hopper car, but I still don’t know what to do with the other flatbed.
This was *at the time*. I then said after 6 years they put it in sets the public could buy (including the Friends advent calendar). Though I guess the wording made it seem misleading!
I had bought two lego friends botanical garden sets... Actually they had started to create really good sets with awesome look and great part list for low price. I recommend to check some of them for MOCs.
Thx
I'm just surprised Lego trains are from the 90's. I figured they were way older than that
They definitely are! The first LEGO train was from 1964. It was the small wheels that were introduced in the 90s.
4:02 I have this little green train at my home. However I did not know there were some 4-stud wide rails back then.
I onze had the change to buy the employee only set on a fleemarket, it was fully sealed. Its a shame that I didn't buy it.
The fact that the Birthday Train is just a recolour of the first Christmas Train.
I hadn't realised that! Maybe I praised it too much...
my god i didnt even realize that until now.
Rly cool small Lego trains, but I've seen smaller, I saw a miniature gauge tender engine that Britishbricks built 3 years ago
I did a big boy WAAAAY BACK before i joined RUclips but i might just make a new one heh heh
The creator high-speed train reminds a lot of Tomica's train, hopefully Lego released a sub-theme of them
We can only hope!
Sry. It you said that for the Mimi Lego train pack you said they were a steam train a electric train and a train car but really they are a steam engine a diesel engine and a electric engine😊
I have the emerald express, I didn’t know it came out that early
I bough the emerald express at the time, now i would like to buy it twice in order to add the cart to the locomotive
WE MAKIN IT UNDERCOVER WITH THIS INTRO 🔥🔥🔥
I knew it told ya larry. Remember the live vid lol i said I knew you next vid
Well with the 1960s Lego train system with the blue individual tracks, it was not really possible to build narrow gauge loop, because the curve rail pieces were designed for standard gauge. However, it was easily possible to build narrow gauge trains. There were white 2x4 Lego bricks with a little hole at the center on each side (a total of 4 holes), and the red train wheels from back then had little metal pins factory-mounted to them. Those metal pins had a length of 1 stud and could be inserted to the holes of the 2x4 brick. So depending on which two sides of the 2x4 brick you inserted the wheels, you got a standard gauge or a narrow gauge wheelset.
I just got so.e of the polybag trains as a christmas decoration and was looking into track when i found this. Didnt know there was a different track.
Super informative thank you
I'm very glad it was! No problem
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I love mini scale builds.
Probably from playing Lego Dimensions so much.
Hey Larry,
Thanks for the amazing video! I've been in the rebbit hole of narrow gauge track recently, and I stumbled upon the concept of using roller coaster track as rails for narrow gauge track. It's not at all the same, but the concept is there.
I hope to utilize it in the future, and if LEGO does too, it'll be very awesome, but for now, it'll stay quite complicated. hopefully LEGO makes a wide roller coaster turn soon.
- pyro
Thanks Pyro, glad you liked the video! And indeed, roller coaster track is compatible. Interesting what could be done! Good luck with your endeavours in utilising it
I remember having the emerald express Lego set a long time ago.
There is another Lego Narrow Gauge: the monorail. Look up the Futuron and Unitorn monorail bases and the Airport Shuttle set from the 80s/90s.
That's a good point! Forgot to mention those
Thanks for this video. I have recent Christmas train, and also Classic Blue train, that also consist four small train wheels. I am trully sorry, that Lego didn't produced any real 4 stud wide train set, but thanks to external manufacturers we have full offer of narrow gauge tracks, and plenty instructions at rebrickable 😊
No problem! You are right. It is nice to live in a world where we have custom building and third-party parts to fill the gaps LEGO leave behind :)
I have two of the "other Christmas train" you mention at 8:26. They came from the City Advent Calendar set in wither 2020 or 2021. I really wish I could get some proper track for them for our winter display.
That's very nice! Whilst it's unofficial, you still can get track for them from Trixbrix if you would like to!
Unfortunately, the fact that 4w track has not been produced since 2016 likely means that it is no longer able to be produced. LEGO generally destroys molds that have not been used for 5 years since that's the point at which it becomes more expensive to keep storing them than it would be to remake the mold if they decide they want to use it again.
That's a real shame!
When that 2018 Christmas train went on clearance after the holidays, I bought almost a dozen of them. I really need to place a trixbrix order! 😂
Oh my goodness! You have a whole fleet of them :p
3:57 funny how i had all of these packs 😂😂😂
“Possibly named as a nod to the Emerald Night set 5 years earlier”
Now THERES an idea for another small scale train build… Sure it was done already in that 50 years pack, but it’d be cool to see either the Emerald Night with a full consist on narrow gauge, or a different interpretation entirely
Yeah for sure! I think Lego could do several of their own trains in small-scale and do much more with them, a full consist as you say
Btw you can make that high-speed train work like crazy good on curves by putting turntables on the bogies and removing some of the undercarriage, it works really good! (I have two sets so I have the complete train and I even found it works on the tight rollercoaster curves!)
Oh wow! I'll have to give that a go :)
My god I LOVE your Lego Thomas Mini Trains!
Aw thank you! :)
due to increased prices
i think small track offers a really good compromise for mainly parents/childeren and lego
seems like a great business model parents or granpa wont buy a 300 dollar set for there 6 year old but an 25 dollar set ? now i see that happening
For sure! This is exactly why I think it's a wasted opportunity not to do it
I have the train that looks like the 3 in 1 set!!!
Random thing. you could consider the first 4 wide lego train track to be set 360 the Gravel Quarry/Brick yard from 1975. The crane is suspended on rails. It doesn't use train specific wheels, just regular rubber wheels. but they are on rails!
Man that's a good find! I definitely would have included it in this video had I found that
Yo Larry! Noice video once again 😎 I wanted to let you know I finally bit the bullet and got your rebrickable instructions for a little Thomas, he hangs out all day with his dad from CoolProps. Have a happy holiday, man!
Aw, why thank you! I'm glad you got him and hope he brings joy to you 😊 You too!
Awesome vid larry!!!
Thank you Spotlightrheneas!
I honestly want Lego to make small scale train sets now
Well I learned alot from this video
Glad to hear it!
@@LarrysLego But it is a good thing a company makes 4 stud track
@@LarrysLego Oh I sort of been meaning to ask this, but would there be issues with having a 4 stud locomotive with 8 wheels instead of the usual 6 or 4?
The 2007 mine cart is my jam
I HAVE THAT LITTLE EMERALD EXPRESS
I have the Emerald Express.
As seen on picture at 6:28 Original Blue tracks had ribs because motors had train wheels with rubber band for extra grip. On curved pieces only the outer one (longer) had ribs, inner was smooth.
I think we need another christmas train
8:26 That Christmas train looks a lot like Rheneas. Sad that you didn't talk about it and just used it for this silly gag.
I'll be honest - I would have talked about it properly but I *completely* forgot to include it in the script, until I looked for a generic Christmas train to use in that joke. So I thought at least it ended up in the video!
i like lego track they cool✌
I really like the newest polybag lego train (the joke one lol) because it looks a lot like dolgoch
Oh wow, it does!
I have the high speed train
I have the last one...🙂
I remember my 2012 mine set. I loved that thing so much I built it over and over and over again. It was one of my inspirations to make my own narrow gauge train
5:55 I had that Amtrack Lego Rail set wayyyy back when. Like 2002 or something. Came with *wide* track 🤔
The 2016 set is a narrow-gauge version of that set! The originals of all of them were for 6-wide track.
@@LarrysLego Ahhh 😮 Ty!
I own that alien spaceship
That high speed train looks really good
I had this one 7:29
9:11 nice video i want möre
I got the 40262 😊
I had the emerald express. It was the first Lego set I ever got (when I was 5) and I have been in love with Lego since then. Also this may explain my love for steam engines, I feel it’s so cool to see big metal rods work together in a beautiful harmony to move a train. It’s mesmerising. Also that’s a big feat considering the fact that I’m 14 years old.
I never would have guessed that my emerald express set could use rails! Just wish i didnt take it apart almost a decade ago. Apparently these are rare now?
Happy to have made you aware! They're decently affordable on Bricklink. The Emerald *Night*, however, is rare (or at least really expensive!)
@@LarrysLego Really wish I still had it now.