The Sex Pistols were more respectful with their "God Save the Queen" than Bradford exchange with this... thing. That leads us to the most interesting question about this : salvage or scrap ? Thanks for the good laugh Sam !
Honestly can we appreciate the fact that Sam is willing to spend his hard earned money on junk like this for our entertainment and also to make sure we don't make the mistake of buying them? Thank you Sam.
I'm shocked by the price of that set, it looks like the kind of toy train that you'd get at "Pound Stretchers" around Christmas time for about £14.99. I enjoyed the very amusing video, I'm impressed that you were able to keep a fairly straight face through out.
On this episode of "This is a real product", this absolute nugget I must say that I've thoroughly enjoyed this plastic waste review. I enjoy seeing the garbage, because it makes me enjoy the good products all the more. Thank you for your service Sam. You've entertained, and more then likely stopped at least one person from suffering the same fate as yourself👍
12:20 😂😂😂😂 OH MY GOD. The way it derailed and the sound of cheap plastic hitting the ground. Especially right after you said let's watch it run... Kinda perfect timing for a joke really.
Power-Loc was originally made by Life Like (probably part of Walthers now). It was the sand coloured track that you got in the old Hornby Battle Zone and Dino Safari sets. I have lots of it and have found it to be robust and reliable, less fiddly than Bachmann EZ Track. I suspect the stiff chassis or build quality of the loco maybe the problem. Try a different "normal" loco on it. Certainly the Hornby 08 and old Flying Scotsman had no problems with it. As for the loco and tender is is very insulting to our departed Queen. People paid less for the crap metal coins that came out within days of her passing.
You had me at "Slab of Resin". Rushing off to search the net for this amazing and 100% Accurate Steam Locomotive from 1800's American West. England. A land I never really knew existed, but apparently only appears when the world needs it, and, Bradford Exchange need more $$$$. 😁
Power-Loc was a trademark of Life Like Trains who got absorbed into Walthers. The track is ok and still popular. Maybe Walthers are making the whole thing via some Chinese sub manufacturer.
I have some of the old power loc track. Unfortunately the steel rails haven’t aged very well but the track itself is still useable and even my cheapest trains are capable of running on it without derailing. Unfortunately this new track doesn’t seem as good as the old steel rail stuff that was around when I was a kid.
@@emdB67 oddly it's one of the tracks recommended for carpet as it had the built in track bed lol. Same goes for Marklin and a few more. Can't blame Sam's carpet tiles this time :P
@@jayo1212 Apparently Walthers was butchered and gutted by Bachmann USA after they acquired it. There was a Model Railway RUclipsr who talked about how they went from good to bad...
Well done Sam. I have to admire your restraint when describing this product and its nostalgic track. That track reminds me of the Triang Series 1 track I had in the mid 1950s, although my trains could run in any direction.
Powerlock Track was originally sold bt LifeLike Trains now owned by Walthers, s far as Gold Col is concerned in the days of Queen Victoria rge coal was painted white
I can see this loco being a collectors item...in a kind of "Yep, I am the one that was stupid enough to buy one" kind of way. Thanks for taking the hit on this one Sam...your bravery will not go un-noticed. 🤣
I’ve been waiting patiently for this and it certainly didn’t disappoint!! “Was The Queen a particular fan of loose change?” Really got me idk why 😂😂 Also isn’t that an old pound coin on the tender?!
I honestly wonder if they're planning on releasing a 4th 'issue' or if it was scrapped late cause it looks like there's some sort of flatbed behind the passenger car on the store's page. Going onto how the locomotive and tender are, that flatbed would be just as bad as everything else though
Rather than coal, the engine seems to run on solid gold nuggets! This is an awesome reference to how you'd get better enjoyment out of lighting the money on fire instead of using it to buy this locomotive!
My theory is that's not gold nuggets but is infact uranium ore. This locomotive has some weird nuclear reactor that is able to run on copius amounts of unrefined uranium.
I tend to be more forgiving on some of the cheap products made for train sets, but Life-Like/Walthers Power-Loc has always been poor next to the Bachmann and Atlas roadbed tracks. They made it to power their cheapest plastic train sets, and last time I used it, pliers were needed for rail alignment.
I think the track is meant to be like that because the enjoyment I got out of watching that piece of tat derail is far greater than the enjoyment (or lack of) I got from watching it work properly.
Great vid Sam this is hilarious! Not sure what Walthers were thinking 😮. I recently got a Bachmann Ivatt 2 Mogul, BR lined black late, DCC fitted, runs like a dream, £42!
haha me neither - don't know what they've gotten themselves into here! Ahh very nice - those Ivatts are quite nice too, great pricce! :D Thanks for watching, Sam :)
"Bradford Exchange makes Hornby's latest range look like excellent value for money" In all seriousness they do offer their infamous 365 day money back guarantee if you're not 100% satisfied. Are you 100% satisfied @Sam?! I'd love to see the 3rd edition because that includes a carriage to derail too! Think it said somewhere on their site there might be up to 8 editions to collect! I mean you could buy a 14-car APT for that!
My theory surrounding Walthers' involvement is one of two things. Either A: They purchased Walthers' track and stuck it into the package which would fall under illegal distribution unless Walthers somehow gave them the ok to do it. Which leads me to... B: The company behind the "Bradford Exchange" set is a subsidiary to Walthers in the UK.
The loco seems to be a Bachmann chassis with a custom body attached to it, looking-up Hawthorne Village train sets. This seems to be a hodge-podge of different manufacturers!
This is the most entertaining and funniest thing I've seen in ages. I get why you don't want to waste any more money on this tat but part of me would just love to see it. No need to apologise by the way, it was hilarious.
Hi Sam. Impressive train set/pack. When I was in the Royal Air Force, one of our instructors, an R.A.F. Regiment sergeant had an unfortunate saying which never failed to raise a titter of amusement amongst my fellow apprentices. Instead of saying excellent, he would say excrement. This I find absolutely relevant to a description of this product, lol. Happy modelling Sam.
£400 will get you decent Tissot (Swiss) automatic with a genuine Swiss-made movement. I've one on my wrist as I type this, and it keeps brilliant time and I've never had need to manually wind it apart from its first ever wind! I don't know if it's a fluke, but all I can say is 'what a difference from Bradford Exchange's offerings' LOL!
I love how the opening music is King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, when the loco and tender is more Duke Artie and the Knights of the Lopsided Table with a Missing Leg 🤣🤣
It was until recently that Bradford Exchange train sets came with Bachmann E-Z Track. That stuff is much better than Power-Loc track as you can easily connect that to whatever track you want without adapter tracks. I had some older Power-Loc track with the black roadbed and steel rails and I never had derailing troubles when running clockwise like you did. But the train would slow down if it went farther away from the power source (either controller terminal track or 9V battery) I bet the controller you would get would be an American one that you can't plug into your British outlets. Godd luck trying to cancel your order as other RUclipsrs who bought these have trouble canceling their next order in the series.
Ahh interesting - wonder if Bachmann is no longer involved then?? I've cancelled and not had anything else delivered yet... so we'll have to see what happens! ;D Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Interesting thing about the power lock track. It was originally made by a company called life like back in the 80s or 90s. Walthers bought out life like back in the 2000s I believe and changed the track from steel to nickel silver. Even still the track was garbage and was simply a copy of bachmann ez track.
Woah you actually got the tender. Fair play mind once you've the loco it feels like a must to get the rest. I think you yourself deserve a commemorative sculpture for such an endeavour but hopefully not from them..... Though I gotta say the track does take me back. Hornby actually used that sort of track for some of their more unique trainsets such as Battlezone (I had that) and Dino Safari. Though of course in Hornby's case it was better thought out. I would be curious how that thing would perform on the Battlezone set etc. I like to think Hornby's track was better but who knows maybe bigger locos would suffer on it as the Battlezone set had a class 08.
One of the BEST comedy train videos I've seen. What? Not intended as a comedy production? Oh dear me. So a half refund on me ticket then? - I swear, it IS funny...
I think more than likely this locomotive and tender were designs reused from something else, and if that's the case, Im very curious what the original product looked like and what it costed. I'd be willing to bet this exists somewhere as a Christmas tree train set you can get for a third of the price.
I like to think that plastic attachment with the coins is really part of the tender and the loco actually burns silver coins for fuel. It's funnier that way. It kinda reminds me of those cheap plastic Christmas train sets where they fill the tender with wrapped presents and stuff (if they even remember to include a tender at all)
I don't know what's more entertaining: that there's clearly a spot in the packaging where the locomotive was supposed to go, or that they managed to misspell the word "car" on the "certificate of authenticity."
Next they will do a Coronation set with a huge resin face of Charlie Boy on the front. Just avoid running it through tunnels as the ears will likely be out of gauge!
My grandmother spent around $800 AUD on the full set of this for me and I just.. I feel so bad for her oh my god.. I know she meant well so don't want to sound ungrateful or mean spirited but she literally could've bought a Lionel American Flyer set (some of the most expensive model trains I know of) for the same price or even less and gotten *so* much more value for money.. I'm not even mad.. more than anything I'm upset she fell for something like this.. I don't know how to tell her nor do I want to hurt her feelings in doing so but I know I'm likely to never even run this thing.. please send help 😭
i don't know how the Law for returning things works for you, but i would say that the Set is plasticfantastic and don't work and you need to return it since it's not working properly. And if a replacement comes up, say it's a manufacturing problem and it will never run properly. Maybe throw some false advertisment in for good measure, that the "Handpainting" are "just some cheap stickers". So you're not sound ungratefull, but you would be unhappy everytime you look at that way overpriced rip-off thing
I was shocked to see Power-Loc type tracks in this £100-£300 "set." My experience led me to believe that the Power-Loc tracks were on the lower end because they came in Life Like train sets you'd find in toy stores. Life Like wasn't too realistic with lots of molded details, stickers, plastic carriage wheels, mechanisms from the 1970's and 1980's, and the sets were around $20-$40 in the early 2000's. But these sets came with scenery such as billboards, telegraph poles, cattle pens and a loading ramp, cattle, buildings, figures, cars and trucks, trees, road signs, signal lamps, elevated tracks and bridges, and probably even more things I cannot recall. I had many hours of play time running those Life Like sets to the point where the plastic wheels on the rolling stock started to shred themselves apart, so for the cheap price, Life Like trains and the Power-Loc track has served me well. But it's a bit much to see this, again, £100-£300 "set" with such lower quality in...well... everything. Edit: Also, I don't recall having as much derailment (or any derailment) issues that you encountered with my Power-Loc track besides the non-Life Like locomotives and rolling stock that couldn't handle tight 18 inch radius (2nd radius) curves.
Hi Sam. I did laugh when it fell off the track. It had to be the track; it couldn't be the lack of weight of the loco and tender, both being made of solid gold!
On the plus side, all the other manufacturers that produce locomotives that you will be reviewing in the future, have now all heaved a huge sigh of relief- safe in the knowledge that none of their offerings could possibly end up in last place on your list! 🤡
Seeing that On30 that thinks it’s a HO scale engine rolling through that town in the beginning of the video really does give me 50’s giant monster movie vibes. All that’s missing is the black and white filter and maybe some people screaming in terror
The fishplateless track electrical connection system is identical to that used on Rovex / Triang-Rovex Series 0 brass rail & Triang Railways Series 1 steel rail mono directional track. I have ovals of both. It requires tweaking with pliers to align rail ends to prevent derailments and tends to prefer running in one direction rather than another. I find that any steam loco with bogies will derail on it, though oddly enough, my Bachmann "Rusty" 0-6-0 diesel shunter runs just fine on it. Triang abandoned the system in 1952, with the introduction of Series 2 Universal / Standard track, which had fishplates.
If I'm not mistaken, this loco and tender are, by my point of view, Sm-Scale (S-Scale that runs in HO-gauge track). I've seen an S-scale toy train's tender adapted to HO-gauge track before, the measurements look kinda like the same.
Hey Sam. If you're want a set made by Walther's that's decently enough affordable and comes with locomotive, rolling stock, track, and power, might I reccomend their Streamliner and Iron Horse starter set. (Personally like the asthetic of the Amtrak set)
Threw me off when it "powered" up Gordon's Hill. I was waiting for it to crash into the overpass and then there was the station! Understandable you didn't want the bridge damaged. 16:25 don't apologise! The review and Martin Mart Martinson ep. Have been great entertainment! Fricken hilarious XD
The fashion in certain countries is that the more bling a thing is, the more attractive a thing is. Think frilly tapestries adorning lorries and you might guess the part of the world I am thinking of.
Same with their film industry: colour saturation at maximum, volume at maximum, the same film is simultaneously a thriller, a romance, and a musical.... LOL!
I have seen a photo showing a fourth item, a gold (of course) flat bed truck carrying the Golden State Coach with a decorated back-board. Tried to post a link but RUclips wouldn't permit. ETA That fourth truck may have been part of an earlier iteration produced for the Queen's Jubilee.The engine has been used several times including for an Armoured Train.
Did you run this steaming pile on your track in reverse? Did you try one of your OO-scale locos on the Walther’s track (forward and reverse)? And what’s with the gold “coal”? What were they thinking?! Did they think someone would believe the fireman was going to shovel gold nuggets into the firebox?
Complete the set, get the third set, we must complete the saga!
We can't do that to poor Sam. I would not wish this set on my enemy.
@@jimflagg4009 then it's a good thing Sam's not your enemy
Trilogies come best in threes 🤣
There's more than three is the sad thing.
Do a gofundme, we'll buy it for him
That “thing” derailing and toppling over was the funniest thing I’ve seen all day!
Yeah, got me goin too…..😂😂😂
lionel ho-scale train track is worse
The Sex Pistols were more respectful with their "God Save the Queen" than Bradford exchange with this... thing.
That leads us to the most interesting question about this : salvage or scrap ?
Thanks for the good laugh Sam !
Salvage or scrap? There's nothing that can be salvaged here, and the scrap option would be cruel... to the Scrapman.
The scrap man demands rusty metal, not cheap plastic!
@@TheSergioTurbo Nah I want the see the Scap Man Poisoned by Cheap Toxic Plastic...
I would refer to that not as a tender... but as (very) expensive plastic tat! Great video sam!
haha agreed - that's more accurate!
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
@@SamsTrains They are also selling gaudy fake gold watches for the 100th year anniversary of the Irish state
Just like the monarchy
Honestly can we appreciate the fact that Sam is willing to spend his hard earned money on junk like this for our entertainment and also to make sure we don't make the mistake of buying them? Thank you Sam.
I'm shocked by the price of that set, it looks like the kind of toy train that you'd get at "Pound Stretchers" around Christmas time for about £14.99.
I enjoyed the very amusing video, I'm impressed that you were able to keep a fairly straight face through out.
Oh
My
Gosh!
He actually bought it! What a legend!
hahaha!! ;D
Sam - you didn't waste your money. You delivered a hilarious and enjoyable video :)
The sequel we needed but didn't deserve, thank you Sam! and Martinson for manufacturing such a lovely tender!
The set we were all waiting for 😂
haha absolutely!! ;D
Now the tender really looks like a box of danish chocolate. Sam should check if there is a sewing kit inside
I reckon there's class A drugs inside it. It's the only thing that makes sense for that price.
@@matthewdevalle404 LMAO
The tender would probably be more useful for storing sewing tools than being an actual train set
@@matthewdevalle404or maybe some soul
On this episode of "This is a real product", this absolute nugget
I must say that I've thoroughly enjoyed this plastic waste review. I enjoy seeing the garbage, because it makes me enjoy the good products all the more.
Thank you for your service Sam. You've entertained, and more then likely stopped at least one person from suffering the same fate as yourself👍
The static valve gear still gets me every time
Thats just cheap and horrible. What a joke!
The slow fall over the train does cause the track doesnt align had me in stitches. Beautiful.
The set is the best Aprils fool joke ever! Wait, they were serious about selling this?
they make it look ok on the advert, abit like gaming chairs.
I genuinely woke my wife up laughing at this! 😂
Please complete the set!!!! Please
12:20 😂😂😂😂 OH MY GOD. The way it derailed and the sound of cheap plastic hitting the ground. Especially right after you said let's watch it run... Kinda perfect timing for a joke really.
PLEEASE get the rest! That was hilarious. Please!
Power-Loc was originally made by Life Like (probably part of Walthers now). It was the sand coloured track that you got in the old Hornby Battle Zone and Dino Safari sets. I have lots of it and have found it to be robust and reliable, less fiddly than Bachmann EZ Track. I suspect the stiff chassis or build quality of the loco maybe the problem. Try a different "normal" loco on it. Certainly the Hornby 08 and old Flying Scotsman had no problems with it. As for the loco and tender is is very insulting to our departed Queen. People paid less for the crap metal coins that came out within days of her passing.
You had me at "Slab of Resin". Rushing off to search the net for this amazing and 100% Accurate Steam Locomotive from 1800's American West. England. A land I never really knew existed, but apparently only appears when the world needs it, and, Bradford Exchange need more $$$$. 😁
Power-Loc was a trademark of Life Like Trains who got absorbed into Walthers. The track is ok and still popular. Maybe Walthers are making the whole thing via some Chinese sub manufacturer.
Honestly, I expected better from Walthers!
I have some of the old power loc track. Unfortunately the steel rails haven’t aged very well but the track itself is still useable and even my cheapest trains are capable of running on it without derailing. Unfortunately this new track doesn’t seem as good as the old steel rail stuff that was around when I was a kid.
Perhaps the Power Loc track has a small disclaimer somewhere about rails may not correctly align when placed on carpet. ;-)
@@emdB67 oddly it's one of the tracks recommended for carpet as it had the built in track bed lol. Same goes for Marklin and a few more. Can't blame Sam's carpet tiles this time :P
@@jayo1212 Apparently Walthers was butchered and gutted by Bachmann USA after they acquired it. There was a Model Railway RUclipsr who talked about how they went from good to bad...
Putting the _Shrek_ names on The Deed Of Ownership (™) was priceless!
Well done Sam. I have to admire your restraint when describing this product and its nostalgic track. That track reminds me of the Triang Series 1 track I had in the mid 1950s, although my trains could run in any direction.
Powerlock Track was originally sold bt LifeLike Trains now owned by Walthers, s far as Gold Col is concerned in the days of Queen Victoria rge coal was painted white
I can see this loco being a collectors item...in a kind of "Yep, I am the one that was stupid enough to buy one" kind of way. Thanks for taking the hit on this one Sam...your bravery will not go un-noticed. 🤣
The sequel we all knew we needed
haha definitely!! ;D
I still can't believe this exists. I would love to hear about the board meeting when someone at PlasticTat Inc suggested this lol
12:20 LMAO! It gets funnier every time watching it!
I’ve been waiting patiently for this and it certainly didn’t disappoint!! “Was The Queen a particular fan of loose change?” Really got me idk why 😂😂 Also isn’t that an old pound coin on the tender?!
I honestly wonder if they're planning on releasing a 4th 'issue' or if it was scrapped late cause it looks like there's some sort of flatbed behind the passenger car on the store's page. Going onto how the locomotive and tender are, that flatbed would be just as bad as everything else though
The website does mention "a fully-sculpted and removable replica of the Gold State Coach " I can only imagine how terrible that would be.
Rather than coal, the engine seems to run on solid gold nuggets! This is an awesome reference to how you'd get better enjoyment out of lighting the money on fire instead of using it to buy this locomotive!
haha yeah - that's in keeping with the high price of the set I suppose? Exactly! ;D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Can't imagine gold would be able to create enough heat...
@@jayo1212 Ooooh if you have enough of it, it definitely will keep you warm.
My theory is that's not gold nuggets but is infact uranium ore. This locomotive has some weird nuclear reactor that is able to run on copius amounts of unrefined uranium.
I tend to be more forgiving on some of the cheap products made for train sets, but Life-Like/Walthers Power-Loc has always been poor next to the Bachmann and Atlas roadbed tracks. They made it to power their cheapest plastic train sets, and last time I used it, pliers were needed for rail alignment.
I know you want those coaches really 😂😂
There's a temptation inside you which wants to buy them to see how bad they really are 😂
You cant stop now we need to see the other parts 😂
I think the track is meant to be like that because the enjoyment I got out of watching that piece of tat derail is far greater than the enjoyment (or lack of) I got from watching it work properly.
I always wanted these as a kid when I saw them in the TV guide... Thank goodness I never did! Thanks for sharing (and taking the chance for us)
Well thats 2023's worst loco of the year decided already! You're a brave man for buying that, Sam.
Heljan management breath an enormous, collective sigh of relief!
I'm so glad you revisited the instructions at 13:50, for pure entertainment value.
That loco seems to be the top candidate to see how long a model engine can run once set on fire (outside of course).
Great review, Sam... snarky, truthful, hilarious and sincere all at the same time! I watched this video yesterday and my eyes still hurt!
Great vid Sam this is hilarious! Not sure what Walthers were thinking 😮. I recently got a Bachmann Ivatt 2 Mogul, BR lined black late, DCC fitted, runs like a dream, £42!
haha me neither - don't know what they've gotten themselves into here! Ahh very nice - those Ivatts are quite nice too, great pricce! :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
They do make adapters to connect that track to regular track
We just need a compilation of the engine falling over. 😂
hahaha I know! ;D
If you want a queens commemorative loco set , grab ( or buy) a tatty old loco and decorate it yourself, much more fun.
"Bradford Exchange makes Hornby's latest range look like excellent value for money"
In all seriousness they do offer their infamous 365 day money back guarantee if you're not 100% satisfied. Are you 100% satisfied @Sam?!
I'd love to see the 3rd edition because that includes a carriage to derail too! Think it said somewhere on their site there might be up to 8 editions to collect!
I mean you could buy a 14-car APT for that!
Or the complete 'Coronation' streamliner train (including Hornby's full-detail A4)...
What a work! I can just see these soaring in value as the years go by! Better pick up a few.
My theory surrounding Walthers' involvement is one of two things. Either A: They purchased Walthers' track and stuck it into the package which would fall under illegal distribution unless Walthers somehow gave them the ok to do it. Which leads me to...
B: The company behind the "Bradford Exchange" set is a subsidiary to Walthers in the UK.
The loco seems to be a Bachmann chassis with a custom body attached to it, looking-up Hawthorne Village train sets. This seems to be a hodge-podge of different manufacturers!
@@freebrickproductions Did you notice the actual driving wheels? They actually looked decent (unlike anything else about the 'model'.
This is the most entertaining and funniest thing I've seen in ages.
I get why you don't want to waste any more money on this tat but part of me would just love to see it.
No need to apologise by the way, it was hilarious.
I wonder if they are going to make a coronation set? Thanks for a fun review, Sam. 😊
Hi Sam. Impressive train set/pack. When I was in the Royal Air Force, one of our instructors, an R.A.F. Regiment sergeant had an unfortunate saying which never failed to raise a titter of amusement amongst my fellow apprentices. Instead of saying excellent, he would say excrement. This I find absolutely relevant to a description of this product, lol. Happy modelling Sam.
The Bradford Exchange tried selling me a £400 pound watch that had a £6 cheap quartz movement in it 😂 stay we’ll clear folks.
£400 will get you decent Tissot (Swiss) automatic with a genuine Swiss-made movement. I've one on my wrist as I type this, and it keeps brilliant time and I've never had need to manually wind it apart from its first ever wind! I don't know if it's a fluke, but all I can say is 'what a difference from Bradford Exchange's offerings' LOL!
I love how the opening music is King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, when the loco and tender is more Duke Artie and the Knights of the Lopsided Table with a Missing Leg 🤣🤣
It was until recently that Bradford Exchange train sets came with Bachmann E-Z Track. That stuff is much better than Power-Loc track as you can easily connect that to whatever track you want without adapter tracks.
I had some older Power-Loc track with the black roadbed and steel rails and I never had derailing troubles when running clockwise like you did. But the train would slow down if it went farther away from the power source (either controller terminal track or 9V battery)
I bet the controller you would get would be an American one that you can't plug into your British outlets. Godd luck trying to cancel your order as other RUclipsrs who bought these have trouble canceling their next order in the series.
Ahh interesting - wonder if Bachmann is no longer involved then?? I've cancelled and not had anything else delivered yet... so we'll have to see what happens! ;D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Of course, Bachmann has the issues with the rails and joints being pushed back or coming broken off, which is why I've gone with KATO Unitrack!
Interesting thing about the power lock track. It was originally made by a company called life like back in the 80s or 90s. Walthers bought out life like back in the 2000s I believe and changed the track from steel to nickel silver. Even still the track was garbage and was simply a copy of bachmann ez track.
The first “ Life-Like “ train set I had was a disaster from the year 2000 !
The set must be completed. It’s what Big Liz would’ve wanted!
A beautiful addition to the magnificent engine ❤️
2:39 The box doesn't look that bad, when one considers that it spent much of the last decade in a Chinese warehouse awaiting Her Majesty's demise.
Woah you actually got the tender. Fair play mind once you've the loco it feels like a must to get the rest. I think you yourself deserve a commemorative sculpture for such an endeavour but hopefully not from them..... Though I gotta say the track does take me back. Hornby actually used that sort of track for some of their more unique trainsets such as Battlezone (I had that) and Dino Safari. Though of course in Hornby's case it was better thought out. I would be curious how that thing would perform on the Battlezone set etc. I like to think Hornby's track was better but who knows maybe bigger locos would suffer on it as the Battlezone set had a class 08.
Plastic tender covered in plastic tender. 😂
🇺🇸🏆
One of the BEST comedy train videos I've seen.
What? Not intended as a comedy production? Oh dear me.
So a half refund on me ticket then? - I swear, it IS funny...
You should sample their returns process.
I recognize that track that came with the tender, that's PowerLoc Track used by Life-Like in their cheap train sets from the 1970s to the early 2000s!
I think more than likely this locomotive and tender were designs reused from something else, and if that's the case, Im very curious what the original product looked like and what it costed. I'd be willing to bet this exists somewhere as a Christmas tree train set you can get for a third of the price.
Complete the set it nice to see all
It’s not tat, it’s ‘A Fine Collectible Product Not Intended For Children’. It says so on the instructions, so it must be true :-D
Thoroughly entertaining. Please buy the complete set.
Sam, we need the coach review as well........ reverse points test 😀😀
What an absolute box of tat. Thanks for your endurance Sam.
Makes you proud to be British, doesn’t it!
It sure does!!
I like to think that plastic attachment with the coins is really part of the tender and the loco actually burns silver coins for fuel. It's funnier that way.
It kinda reminds me of those cheap plastic Christmas train sets where they fill the tender with wrapped presents and stuff (if they even remember to include a tender at all)
Sad to admit I've been looking forward to this since the locomotive.
hahaha so have I admittedly! ;D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
I don't know what's more entertaining: that there's clearly a spot in the packaging where the locomotive was supposed to go, or that they managed to misspell the word "car" on the "certificate of authenticity."
Please! I beg you buy the rolling stock. I wanna see this in its entirety 😂😂🙏🙏
haha I kind of regret cancelling the subscription now... but I did it! :(
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Next they will do a Coronation set with a huge resin face of Charlie Boy on the front. Just avoid running it through tunnels as the ears will likely be out of gauge!
Now now now ;-)
My grandmother spent around $800 AUD on the full set of this for me and I just.. I feel so bad for her oh my god..
I know she meant well so don't want to sound ungrateful or mean spirited but she literally could've bought a Lionel American Flyer set (some of the most expensive model trains I know of) for the same price or even less and gotten *so* much more value for money.. I'm not even mad.. more than anything I'm upset she fell for something like this.. I don't know how to tell her nor do I want to hurt her feelings in doing so but I know I'm likely to never even run this thing.. please send help 😭
i don't know how the Law for returning things works for you, but i would say that the Set is plasticfantastic and don't work and you need to return it since it's not working properly. And if a replacement comes up, say it's a manufacturing problem and it will never run properly. Maybe throw some false advertisment in for good measure, that the "Handpainting" are "just some cheap stickers".
So you're not sound ungratefull, but you would be unhappy everytime you look at that way overpriced rip-off thing
I was shocked to see Power-Loc type tracks in this £100-£300 "set." My experience led me to believe that the Power-Loc tracks were on the lower end because they came in Life Like train sets you'd find in toy stores. Life Like wasn't too realistic with lots of molded details, stickers, plastic carriage wheels, mechanisms from the 1970's and 1980's, and the sets were around $20-$40 in the early 2000's. But these sets came with scenery such as billboards, telegraph poles, cattle pens and a loading ramp, cattle, buildings, figures, cars and trucks, trees, road signs, signal lamps, elevated tracks and bridges, and probably even more things I cannot recall.
I had many hours of play time running those Life Like sets to the point where the plastic wheels on the rolling stock started to shred themselves apart, so for the cheap price, Life Like trains and the Power-Loc track has served me well.
But it's a bit much to see this, again, £100-£300 "set" with such lower quality in...well... everything.
Edit: Also, I don't recall having as much derailment (or any derailment) issues that you encountered with my Power-Loc track besides the non-Life Like locomotives and rolling stock that couldn't handle tight 18 inch radius (2nd radius) curves.
Sam, I know you don't want to hear this but I think you need to complete the set with you coach
There are EIGHT sets in total!
@Atheist Orphan I thought there was three, the Loco, the tender, and the coach?
Hi Sam. I did laugh when it fell off the track. It had to be the track; it couldn't be the lack of weight of the loco and tender, both being made of solid gold!
On the plus side, all the other manufacturers that produce locomotives that you will be reviewing in the future, have now all heaved a huge sigh of relief- safe in the knowledge that none of their offerings could possibly end up in last place on your list! 🤡
I would refer that whole lot to Trading Standards as breaching the sale of goods act.
Please, please do a gofundme for us to pay for you to buy the remaining issues
Seeing that On30 that thinks it’s a HO scale engine rolling through that town in the beginning of the video really does give me 50’s giant monster movie vibes. All that’s missing is the black and white filter and maybe some people screaming in terror
The fishplateless track electrical connection system is identical to that used on Rovex / Triang-Rovex Series 0 brass rail & Triang Railways Series 1 steel rail mono directional track. I have ovals of both. It requires tweaking with pliers to align rail ends to prevent derailments and tends to prefer running in one direction rather than another. I find that any steam loco with bogies will derail on it, though oddly enough, my Bachmann "Rusty" 0-6-0 diesel shunter runs just fine on it.
Triang abandoned the system in 1952, with the introduction of Series 2 Universal / Standard track, which had fishplates.
Series 1/Standard has fishcakes....
If I'm not mistaken, this loco and tender are, by my point of view, Sm-Scale (S-Scale that runs in HO-gauge track). I've seen an S-scale toy train's tender adapted to HO-gauge track before, the measurements look kinda like the same.
Yeah these look vastly overscale for HO
I couldn’t stop laughing throughout this video, quality entertainment, Sam!
Yes Sam we all need you to complete the train set
Hey Sam. If you're want a set made by Walther's that's decently enough affordable and comes with locomotive, rolling stock, track, and power, might I reccomend their Streamliner and Iron Horse starter set. (Personally like the asthetic of the Amtrak set)
12:21 killed me 😂😂
The perfect gift for that elderly relative. Who you can't stand. At this price that would have to be a lot of hate though.
Those four coins that now adorn the loco and tender is actually a display of how much it cost the Bradford Exchange to make it.
Less a case of Sam's Trains, as Sam Strains! To understand who would appreciate this tat
So it uses Walthers Lifelike track. Here in the states Bachmann makes the sets for Bradford Exchange. Very interesting set you have there
I never thought I would see the return of Rovex/Triang Standard track 60 years after it was replaced by Series 3.
At least the triang standard track worked!
Threw me off when it "powered" up Gordon's Hill. I was waiting for it to crash into the overpass and then there was the station! Understandable you didn't want the bridge damaged.
16:25 don't apologise! The review and Martin Mart Martinson ep. Have been great entertainment! Fricken hilarious XD
I also love the way the flags blow in the opposite direction to the direction of the train 😂😂😂
That's Sam - he did the same thing with the Rivarossi Big Boy!
The fashion in certain countries is that the more bling a thing is, the more attractive a thing is. Think frilly tapestries adorning lorries and you might guess the part of the world I am thinking of.
Same with their film industry: colour saturation at maximum, volume at maximum, the same film is simultaneously a thriller, a romance, and a musical.... LOL!
Same world that bought you brass tissue dispensers n the car rear parcel shelf and fake stained glass panels sandwiched into double glazing.....😂
I have seen a photo showing a fourth item, a gold (of course) flat bed truck carrying the Golden State Coach with a decorated back-board. Tried to post a link but RUclips wouldn't permit.
ETA That fourth truck may have been part of an earlier iteration produced for the Queen's Jubilee.The engine has been used several times including for an Armoured Train.
The way that “model” just gives up and falls off the track has the same energy as the video of the waffle falling over
"Oh God I can see track".. Priceless.
Did you run this steaming pile on your track in reverse? Did you try one of your OO-scale locos on the Walther’s track (forward and reverse)? And what’s with the gold “coal”? What were they thinking?! Did they think someone would believe the fireman was going to shovel gold nuggets into the firebox?
Would you risk toppling a loco with fine-scale valve gear??? I certainly wouldn't...