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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Shut up and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the Bricks King Podcast, where I'm gonna bend
your year about Lego, review those amazing bricks and plastic
and discuss what is new and up and coming around
the Lego world.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm your minifigost Matt. Let's build on it. Welcome in everybody.
How you're doing today, hopefully doing quite lovely. It doesn't
matter what time of the day, evening, morning, whatever it is.
Wherever you are, I hope you are doing quite well.
And we embark on another episode today, and I would
be remiss if we didn't get our annual lovely happiness
(00:50):
out of the way. I shouldn't say out of the way,
but we've got to talk about the new holiday Lego
Icons Winter Village set, and this year we get something
different for once. It's been a minute since we've had
this opportunity. We're getting a train. We're getting a train,
believe it or not. First and foremost, I have to
(01:12):
thank the Lego group for sending this to me early
to review. We've we had some other things we need
to knock out last week and as we jump back in, uh,
but here we are today. So this is by the
time you're hearing this is sometime. Yeah, it's it's early
early October anyway. So the Holiday Express Train is exactly
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what we're gonna be talking about today. Another train, another
holiday train. If you're somebody that has not been able
to have an opportunity to be able to get the
original kind of Winter Village stuff, I know there are
people that the modulars and the winter Village stuff are
things that newer collectors that you know, have gotten into
that have kind of gone back and said, here, take
(01:54):
my money. I'll pay this much as long as you
give it to me. And that is one happened. But
you know I don't have to do that. You don't have
to spend thousand dollars on a one hundred dollars set.
You can get this year set anyway. So the Holiday
Express Train one zero three sixty one is the set number.
It comes with nine hundred and fifty six pieces. One
of those is extraordinarily unique, retails for one hundred and
(02:19):
thirty buckos here in the United States and one hundred
and twenty euros across the pond from all your lovely
people over there. Now, the interesting thing behind this, and
Lego made a point straight out of the gate to
say hey, there's a special, unique piece in this set,
(02:39):
one of a kind, never done before, and I was giddy.
I was like, oh, man, I can't believe what is this.
I'm so excited. And it comes in a little a
little box that has printing of gift wrapped on the outside.
Really really cool. It's it's actually something I did not
choose to throw away. You know, I threw around away
the other packaging and stuff like that. This I couldn't
(03:00):
part with because it's so unique. The box is really
kind of neat. I know some of your like, it's
just a box. You don't need that thing, man, it
get it out here. You're probably right. But in this
set is the very first ever three D printed piece
by the Lego Group, the very first ever, and it
mentions in the instructions I'm not going to get into
(03:21):
too much detail because I want you to enjoy it yourself.
But the reason it is they've done three D printed
pieces before, they've never made it into sets, And the
reason for that is because they wanted it to be,
you know, the best as anything else that they send
out any pieces that are molded into the factories. They
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wanted it to be that quality, and until they reach
that ability to get it, they weren't gonna just toss
anything out there because their standards are ridiculously high. I
say ridiculously high as if it's a bad thing. It
is not. I would love if many, many, many other
companies had the high quality that they do, especially toy
(04:05):
companies these days, you just don't seem to have that
as often, especially with the Lake Group. Anyway. The piece
that I'm talking about is a train. And the cool
thing about this thing, Now there are little parts that
you're gonna put on this train, but this little locomotive piece.
But what is incredible is it already has wheels on it,
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and it has the little I guess I don't know,
the brass looking colored pieces on the typical train that
make the wheels move, that connects the wheels that already
has those connected in there. And the other thing about
it is on the inside of this puppy, on the
inside of this thing. For the smokestack of this when
(04:47):
you turn the wheels, what happens is on on the
inside it rotates the chimney stack up and down from
the inside. And you're gonna see that in part of
this as well in the in the train itself. But
how cool is that? Huh? But on this it is
a blue it's just a blue train locomotive. Now it
does have this little kind of like a bar attachment
(05:10):
on the back that I could foresee. I could foresee
more things like this coming about to make this train longer.
I don't know. I don't have any inside information. I
don't have any underground sources, you know, any spies or
anything like that, So I don't know. But why would
you put it back there? Why would you put it
(05:31):
back there? There's gotta be a reason. It's it has
nothing to do with sitting on the set itself. There's
gotta be a reason. The only thing I could think
of is you're going to attach something another train car
to it in the future. I can only hope anyway,
so that you got your little train right there now,
this actual train, the real big train, mind you, this
(05:54):
tiny little locomotive is super duper tiny. But the big
train that you have comes with your locomotive. It comes
with your your tender car, it comes with your caboose,
and then it comes with a car that has a
polar bear. I was gonna say a snow polar bear.
(06:14):
It looks like something you would make in the snow.
Granted we don't where I live in Texas. We get
lucky if we get an inch and a half maybe
two a year. For the year some of you get.
You know, it's already snowing where some of you live,
and I'm so jealous of that. There are days where
I wish we had that opportunity here. But alas so
(06:35):
you have that, and you have the little display for
this tiny little locomotive as well. So let's go ahead
and start with, you know, the beginning. You start with
the main locomotive itself, the big boy locomotive. Now, before
I jump into this real quick, you can motorize this set.
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You have to have your own motor, the controller, all
of that, the control box. You've got to have all
of that yourself. It does not come with this, okay,
as it wouldn't. That's gonna put you I think what
it's fifty and twenty. It's gonna put you somewhere. If
you were to buy all three of those, it's gonna
put you over I believe, over two hundred bucks. Yeah,
(07:19):
it'll put you over two hundred bucks. But you know,
maybe maybe you got one laying around and you got
one in the past. Who knows. AnyWho, your locomotive car,
we got really nice looking coloring going on. Here. We
have dark blue, and then we have that nice powdery blue.
Oh my god, it's so lovely. It's amazing. I love that.
(07:41):
It's almost like the Carolina blue. Is this the sand blue?
I believe this is the sand blue. I think we
know we talked about sand green on the last episode. Yeah,
I think this is the sand blue. Anyway, So you
have that, and then you have all your gold accent
pieces that are all over the side. You've got it
for the drum in the middle, in the middle, in
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the front, in the center of the locomotive where you know.
I don't I don't know anything about steam locomotives or
any coal locomotives. I don't know anything about that kind
of stuff. I just know that they were a thing.
I'm not a big train buff. I've got a nephew
that could probably tell me exactly what kind of train
this is modeled after, what year it was made, what
(08:23):
what town the boiler was probably built in. Shout out
to you Bent anyway, what we're talking about here in
the front. We've got some flower decorations on the front.
We've got some flower decorations on the side. Holiday train, right,
you've got to think holiday train. It's really funky at
first when you kind of put it together and then
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you have this these red flowers with the green leaves
up against the dark blue background. It just kinda it
just kind of doesn't feel right. But you gotta you
gotta keep thinking of your head. Holiday train. Now you
can on holiday this real fast by removing those So
there is that possibility. Some of the other stuff, you're
gonna have to do a little bit of a complete
(09:05):
retail all over build, you know, retailing or not retail,
a whole complete detail of it. Redetailing. There's that's what
I was looking for, redetailing anyway. So yeah, anyway, back
to the locomotive, we're all over the place. It's just
it's been one of those kind of it's been one
(09:26):
of those kind of days anyway. But in the front,
your locomotive in the front does rotate around. It's got
some weird gearing, believe it or not, in the very
front wheel section of this. And what that does is
as the wheels rotate around on the track. Your chimney
stack goes up and down like it's puffing pooh pooh,
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you know that whole deal. It's got a little steam
cloud that's up there as you're driving that looks like
it's wisping to the rear. So that's kind of neat.
I'm a big of the way that that is done.
It's real simple. It's not super complicated. But like I
told you, the little baby locomotive, the three D printed locomotive,
it's the same idea here. That's all they did. They
(10:11):
just kind of copied it, or one or the other,
copied one or the other chicken egg, whichever came first,
and that's how you end up with this cool little design.
It does work forward, it does work backward, so it's
not a you know, single function. It's got to go
forward to make this work. It's got to go forward
to make this work. You can go forward or backward.
Not that your train's necessarily going to be going backwards,
(10:33):
but you know what, for whatever reason, if you need
to moving back towards the center. Here, we've got the
Holiday Express printed tiles here which are nice. The rounded
not rounded, I guess it'd be quarter rounded long tiles
here let's say Holiday Express on each side, and then
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you get back to your cab section. Your roof does
come off of your cab, and inside of here you
have your conductor, your captain, your engineer, whatever he's called.
I know he's not called a captain, but he is
on the inside of there. On the inside of this,
you've got some studs for him to stand and or sit.
I don't think they really sit in these kind of things,
(11:16):
but alas now on the inside they do have some
cheese cheese wedge pieces that are in here, and they
are in that trans orange to make it look like
the flame on the inside. That's kind of cool. You've
got your little boiler controls and whatnot right there with
a handle you've maybe it's the handbrake, I don't know.
You've got a coffee cup you've got to gauge in here,
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and you have a wrench in case you need that. Now,
there are windows on the side for you to be
able to look out, and there's actually some one by
one bricks that are transclaire to be able to look
out the front, to be able to see, you know,
towards the front of the locomotive. Now you've got some
handles so he can hold on to his to the
(12:00):
sides if he needs to. If you need to position
him that way, you can do so. So that's kind
of neat. But you just stick the top back on
and it has a one by two tile in gold
that has the set number as well, so you have
that there. We'll save minifigs for the end. Don't really
want to get into that kind of as usual. Just
(12:22):
kinda get it out of the way. At the end,
I say get it out the way. We don't get
it out of the way. But yeah, so now as
you hear me kind of rattling around here, we've got
this next part, and the tender is I believe the
tender is where your battery box goes. And this next
one I don't have mine in. I've got to go
(12:45):
find another one. I thought about just buying another one
because we've got quite a few trains, and we actually
have another train coming here very soon. We're going to
be talking about the Lego City Polar Polar Arctic Arctic train.
Now on this deal again, this is meant to be
more of your battery box housing, so you're not going
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to have anything down on the inside and the belly
of the beast. It's not meant to it's not meant
to be like that. But on the outside you do
have some reaths that are brick built here with some
flowers and some holly and some red leaves, so you
do have that to be able to go. These do.
I'm struggling with this right now. They do pop off
(13:28):
very very easily. The clutch on these is just really
not great, and I don't know why. I've messed around
with it quite a bit, and you can hear me
fiddling with it right now. It's just kind of a
pain in a butt and I don't know why it
doesn't want to stay on. It just does not want
to stay on for me. But anyway, moving on, on
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the inside, it's naked, there's nothing in there. You do
get some Christmas gifts that are not wrapped that you
could put on the inside of that if you wanted to.
Up top, we've got ah, well, we've got another little
gift here that they have list uh put on top.
It's just a round purple light colored purple piece as well.
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On top of it, it's a two x two round
brick and that's just up on top. But again you've
got your dark blue and your sand blue color that
is really really great accent around uh, the interior, around
the inside portion of this car. I'm telling you what,
(14:33):
I am driving myself absolutely bonkers trying to get these
reads back on. There we go. Finally, Now around the
top of this deal, what you have is you have
got your golden I guess if you want to call
it a railing perhaps around the top of this deal,
if you need to be able to, you know, put
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stuff up there so it doesn't fall, or maybe somebody
wants to sit up there, maybe a little bit of safety.
Backside of this where just before it clips into the
next car, there is a little removable door here in
that blue color. And all that is doing is giving
you access to your belief again your battery pack on
(15:14):
the inside, so that what you have it when you
need to get to it. Moving on. What we move
on to next is well, honestly, it's it's my favorite car,
without a doubt, and it is the car that has
the big old gift that is on here, and it
is a gift of the train, believe it or not. Now,
(15:39):
what is cool The little three D printed locomotive. What
is cool is they have some brick built wrapping, you know,
like the ends of you know people that put bows
and stuff like that, like actually wrap real bows, not
the ones that you pre buy. That's kind of what
this looks like. You've got the red tiles here to
accent that. You've got a letter letter going to the
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North Pole, maybe from or to Santa, maybe a letter
from Santa or maybe Missus Claus or maybe one of
the reindeer, maybe an elf h I don't know, but anyway,
we've got mail going to and or from And then
on the inside of this because you can remove the
top of this gift and you can put something down
on the inside if you want. There's some little gifts
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like I had mentioned. None of them fit down inside,
so you can leave it empty, or you can use
your imagination and put something in there if you so choose.
Now you put the lead back on top of this,
and all this is is kind of like a city scape.
You've got some micro builds as far as buildings and
trees and stuff like that, and then you have this
little stand for your locomotive. Now I gotta say, this
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has got to be just a display and not like
some kind of city scape, because this locomotive would be
bigger than a giant building. That's yeah, that's not a
thing anyway. So it just sits there and on top
it's just cool looking. You can clip that entire assembly
with four studs onto the I guess the trailer the car,
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if you will, and then that's it's right in front
of this polar bear. It's a gorgeously brick built polar bear.
There's some movement in the head, there's movement in the arms.
The same thing that we talked about with the three
D printed locomotive, the same thing we talked about with
the front end of the big main locomotive is happening
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here on the wheels just underneath below the bear. Tripping
over my words. There, you've got this ability for it
to move up and down. The bear is holding its
white all white bear, got some really nice curvature to it.
He does have. I'm assuming this is meant to be
a backpack that he's got on, so well, you know what,
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maybe it's a scarf. It looks like a backpack, but
I guess it's a scarf of different kind of colors
and stuff, different kind of it's like a turquoise and
in that hunter forest green. No eyes, true eyes on this.
I would have really loved if we would have got
a one by one round tile for the eyes. You
just have a hollow stud that is supposed to be
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the eyes, which is It's okay, it's not the end
of the world. Uh, but you know whatever. In his
one arm, his right hand, he is holding what is
supposed to be a bell and he's shaking it. So
every time that you go around, you're just imagining you're
hearing this bell shaking cock clean cooking, cookling, you know.
Going down the track, you can hear this thing from
miles away. Kids are coming out of the house. Mommy, look,
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look at the train. Here comes San Well, I guess
it's saying, is not on the train, but here comes
the train. We're gonna get on the train. I can't wait.
I'm gonna pet the polar bear. It's not real. It's
plastic anyway. So his head moves up and down. He's
kind of jamming to the beat, and then he's got
his arms moving, you know, shaking the bell, and then
the other hand is just kind of like, yeah, man,
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I'm feeling the jam we're in the Christmas mood, We're
in the holiday spirit. Before we move on with this
next part of the train, I've got to take a
quick ad break. You go to the potty, get yourself
something to drink. We'll be right back. Now moving on
to the final car, we have our beautiful, beautiful Caboos
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that has an actual brick built bow. Remember I just
said about people that actually wrap real bows on top
of gifts. That's what you have here. You've got a
real brick built bow, not a sticker, not a pre
molded piece. You got a bunch of pieces that you
got to smack together and create this puppy, which is
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cool that is sitting on the top. And then you
have again your pieces that hang down on the side
that make it look like a bove's. This actually has
the flag of England on top if you were to
remove the bow funnily enough, So that's kind of funny.
I thought it was funny. Maybe it's not funny to
somebody else. You can remove the roof of this thing
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so you can get down inside and look. There are
two chairs facing a table in the center, and you
have two pink mugs and a little table lamp right there.
You know, you can pretend you got anything in there.
Maybe you got some hot chocolate, maybe you got tea,
maybe you've got agua. I don't know you've got something
in there. These people are just having a lovely bundle
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of time, just a wonderful time. I gotta die you
just a lovely day here on the train. So you
can put your minifigs in here, if you sw shoes.
I've got some big tall windows here. You've got six
of them, believe it or not, three on each side,
and in its open air, on each end of the caboose,
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on each corner of it, what we have are another
green leaf with a red flower. And then on the
upper corners what we have are orange. We have yellow yellow.
I guess it's supposed to be a light, and maybe
not a candle light or anything like that, but we've
got some yellow lights there. So that's of cool. Upright
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lights up lights there, uplights like you would have in
front of your house kind of thing, I guess. And
then yeah, it's pretty simple. Not a whole lot to it.
I don't really know what else you could have done
to it. I'm sure there's something. I'm sure some one
of you right now is sitting out there saying, hey, look,
I know we could do this, or I know the
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Lego people, those design people, they could have done this,
or they could have done that, or they could have
taken one of those parts from that instead of using
it here. They could have done this. Some of you
are just incredibly creative and I appreciate that. So that
is your caboose with your brick belt bow. Gonna stick
that thing back on, stick the top back on. And
now we've got a few things here. We have a
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few different if you want to call them set pieces.
One is a set piece, another is the gifts. The
one gift that we have is a helicopter. It's a
little micro built helicopter, really cool looking and it's supposed
to be of a Lego City set, so I dig it.
Then we have another one that is a little micro
build of an excavator. Remember remember last year we got
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the cool wicked excavator yep, Lego City Baby kicking it
up a notch. The helicopter is supposed to be the
Arctic helicopter because it has the dark blue and the
orange on it, again from last year from the Arctic.
Now this one. I I was racking my b my brain.
(22:28):
This is a it's a some sort of ship. It's
got two sails. And the only thing I can think
of is, you know, like a like a Viking ship.
We got something like that. I think that was two
years ago, though I don't. I don't. I'm having a
I'm having a moment trying to figure that one out.
But you've got this little ship, so that is cool
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as well. It's not a ship in a bottle, but
I guess we can do without, right, it will be
just we'll be just fine. And then we have our
little set piece. You have your little train platform station here,
nothing really to it. It can't attach to the tracks.
It does have a little piece it sticks out so
you can attach it to the tracks. You've got a
little brick built bench here. And you have a really actually,
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really gorgeous looking lamp street street lamp that is here
because you've got your yellow on the inside of the
glass dome, which is really cool. And then you have
your Christmas decorations, your your leaf with the red flower
in it yet again here on the outside of that
that just it's very festive. It looks good here, doesn't
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look great on the locomotive. In my opinion, it looks
really good here. I guess it's synonymous with seeing that
kind of stuff on the street versus seeing wreathes hall
on a train, because it's not a common occurrence, I'm
almost certain. So let's get to minifigs here. What do
we have for minifigs. Well, you've got your your homeboy,
your old guy here that is driving the train, controlling
(23:53):
the train. He's got his captain's hat on here, which
is one of the police hats. And then he's got
just a single printed face, old white guy, white Beard,
and he's a little smiley, not too smiley, just kind
of like, you know, almost like a simple Santa smile
is the best way to describe it. You know, just
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a jolly guy, you know, enjoying driving his train. He's
getting ready to go home. He's taking all these people
and you know, he's getting ready to go home and
just be like, you know, sweetie, it's just been a
lovely day. It's just been gosh, it's just been terrific.
I've just been I've just blown away by how magnificent
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the day was. That's what I can imagine coming out
of his mouth. Seeing this face not a bad thing,
but that's what I hear in my head. He's got
dark blue pants, he's got a gold vest believe it
or not, with a little pocket watch there. And he's
got some gold accent lacquered gold kind of print on
the vest, with a blue tie as well. And then
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along the he's got a little little slider thing like
you would have like on a on your vest to
I guess, kind of tighten it up in the back.
So that is, uh, that's your train, dude. We've got
another guy here now. I don't I don't know if
this guy's working on the train. I don't know if
this guy just wants to take the train. I don't
know if maybe this guy's you know, tending to the
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polar Bear. I don't know if this guy is I
don't know. I don't know what he's doing. Maybe he's
maybe he's here to steal the gifts off the train.
How crazy would that be? But he comes with a
forward facing brimmed hat, one of those hats that the
older dudes wear. I know there's some of you, like
I wear one of these, and I'm not older, you
know what I mean? He comes with a red scarf,
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and he comes with a single face with a red
beard and a happy smile. He comes with overalls, believe
it or not, and the dark blue pants. Then we
get to our two lovely, happy festive folks. They're just
overly happy, my goodness. And when we have our female
first start with her. She's got her standard female face.
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We got the smiley face on the one side, and
we have the eyes closed in the mouth, the lips
closed but slightly pursed, just kind of like dreaming of happiness.
She's got hair that comes and curls around down in
the front and then hangs down in the back. She's
got a tannish version of pants here there. It's not tan.
It's like a dark nugy tan. I know color people.
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You disgust me with you with your ability to know
all these colors off the top of your head. Then
her jacket that she is wearing kind of it's got
straps across the chest, which is kind of funky. It's
really bizarre. I've never seen a jacket attached that way,
but I'm assuming it might zipper as well. Anyway, there's
some pockets in the front, and she doesn't really have
(26:48):
anything in the back. Now our homeboy here, what has
he got? He actually does have tan pants. Yeah, I
can get that one right, So you gotta give me
credit somewhere please. Anyway, he's wearing a jacket that zips
up in the front. It's it's got some accents of
being like one of those kind of more like a
puffy jacket, just the way some of the printing is
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on the front and then on the back. Same thing
with the different colors of his jacket. He's on that
dark red, beautiful color here. I love that for that jacket.
He's got the spiky hair with a spike up in
the front, and he's got two different faces. He's got
one where he smiles all around, the other one where
he's just you know, he's got his lips just kind
(27:32):
of like hello, my name is Bob and I'm happy today.
And he comes with a beard as well. It's actually
my minifig head. But that is not what I wear.
I've got my own little costume that I wear on
my minifig, my segfig. I bet you'll never guess what's
on my SigFig. Just kidding anyway. So that is your
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the wrap up of the set. That is the everything
that you need to know, the good, the bad, the ugly.
There's not really any ugly to it. There's not really
any bad to it. It's a holiday train, it's a
Christmas train, it's a Hanika train, it's a Kwanza train,
it's a I don't know what other festive festivus. Those
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of you that are Seinfeld buffs, I know there's a
bunch of you out there. It's a festivus train maybe.
But the four pieces to it, I think is okay.
By the way, I did not mention this. It comes
with all your track pieces to make your giant round track.
There are no straight pieces in this. They're all rounded, curved,
so you have one big circle that you can make.
If you want to make a different kind of train layout,
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you can do so. You just need to buy extra
train track pieces to be able to do that. I
think this is a really solid build in what you're getting.
I don't see this as being a home run. I
think there are some really cool things to go along
with this. I like the the the nods to some
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of the old Lego sets with the little mini brick
built gifts here. I really like the the caboose with
the brick built bow. I like the idea that the
the polar bear is able to move around, and I
like the idea of the chimney going up and down,
the chimney stack going up and down. I think that
is really cool. Some of you're gonna look like, look
at that and say that's kind of cheesy and dumb.
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I don't know, maybe maybe that's just what you were thinking.
I don't know. The battery tender car is not. It's
intentionally not crazily build up because you're removing parts, not parts,
you're removing a little bit of it to be able
to get access to it. They're not going to do
anything wild and crazy there because putting all that time
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and energy and pieces into that is only going to
be removed. So it's it's kind of a trade off, right,
you have the ability to be able to motorize this train,
so they do it that way, or they could have said,
you can't motorize it straight out of the box without
doing heavy modifications, and we did all. You know, we
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really deck this car out as well. They could have
gone that route they didn't, so again it's a trade off.
You know, you gotta pick and choose your battles here.
I really like the three D printing train locomotive piece.
I thought that was really cool. That alone, I think
is very unique. I think I think that piece alone
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is going to carry value in the future because while
people are going to go buy this, I think there
are a lot of people that maybe won't just generically
pass over it because it's a holiday set, but they're
gonna look at them like, oh, well, it's a train,
I gotta motorize it. I'm gonna pass It's already one
hundred and thirty bucks. I've got to spend another eighty,
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you know, or whatever to be able to motorize it
if I don't have a motor laying around already and
all that kind of stuff. But that train piece, that locomotive,
three D printed locomotive piece, is going to carry value.
I would not be surprised to see them selling on
Bricklink today. Honestly, It's something I didn't even stop to
think about until them right now. But I'm almost certain
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those are going to carry value, and they're gonna hold
value because it's going to be the very first piece.
So you're going to see people that are gonna go
buy five sets, five copies of this set, just to
be able to pull that locomotive piece out, that three
D printed locomotive piece, to be able to turn around
and sell it in the future, if not now, just
because somebody wants that. I can see that happening if
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it hasn't already. So how should we score this? The build,
I thought, is it's meant to be simple. There's not
any complicated techniques here, even the motion for the chimney,
for the polar bear. That they aren't pieces that you're like,
oh my goodness, I've never seen this before. I've never
really seen these kind of pieces put together like this before.
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They're flat gears, you know, and they meet it ninety
degree angle, that's really it. And they go through an
axle and you have your linkage, but nothing where it's like,
oh my goodness, I'm this is wild. There's not that.
So build wise, I would say it's solid. I would
say the enjoyment of the build was probably around in eight.
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The bow is really cool, and I do like the bear.
I'll give it in I'll give it a point two five,
how about that eight point three, We'll go eight point
three right there, the overall value of this. I don't
like it at one hundred and thirty. I really don't
like it at one hundred and thirty. I don't like
it at one hundred and twenty either. I really would. God,
I know it's not gonna happen. I would really love
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this if this were at one hundred, and I know
it's not gonna happen, and it's not. It's not gonna
be a thing. Maybe you get lucky and can get
this in a holiday sale, you know, at a Target
or I don't know if they carry this kind of
these at Walmart, but I know that they carry these
the holiday winter village stuff at Target. I would even
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one ten, I would settle for. I just don't see
the value one thirty for under a thousand pieces. I
just I really struggled to see it. And I know
it's more so around eight hundred pieces is getting you
one hundred what one hundred one hundred bucks these days,
but that's not always the case with everything, So it's
it's really it's really difficult for me to say the
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value though. I don't. I don't like the value. I
don't think the value is there. I think the value
is probably around to seven. I mean, you have your
little tiny platform piece, but you know that doesn't really
You've got your tracks. The thing is, the tracks are
more than likely what make this thing the most expensive,
just because it's a lot of plastic. Now and this
is this is something that you know, toy companies have
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done forever, where you buy this one thing and it
says batteries not included. Like we could do the same thing.
You could get the train and they could say train
tracks not included, sold separately. You know, kind of thing
like the old Gijoe commercials stuff like that where you know,
or teenage mutant Ninja turtles stuff like that, where it
was like, you know, they would show it and they
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show this turtle driving this vehicle or the g I
Joe flying this jet and it would be for it
would be for the jet and would say figures sold
separately or something like that. They could go that route.
I don't think anybody would enjoy that. I know, the
person that they're trying to reach is just your generalized consumer.
They're not trying to reach the harder core folks like
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you and I some of you that are harder core
or maybe not, but they are they're they're trying to
give this straight out of the box encompassing build play idea.
And also you can buy the powered up stuff separately. Right,
you can power this on your own dime. We're not
going to give it to you here. But what if
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they did give it to you, right, would you spend
two hundred bucks on that? Would you be willing to say?
You know what, I would rather take the train at
one point thirty or for two hundred to ten ish
to have everything in it? Would would you rather do that?
Because that is that's really gonna be the trade off.
The tracks are gonna come with it. They could say, yeah,
we're gonna sell it without, but I don't anyway. I dige,
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I digress it. I digest as well. I hope he
digested all of that. Uh, but I'm gonna go back
with us seven, and I'm gonna say the values at
A seven, you could probably give me a A six
point eight, six point nine. If I wake up crabby,
that's not today. But yeah, but as a whole, I
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think it's a good build. I think it's a fun set.
It's going to be a great holiday edition. Again for
stuff where it comes to somebody that wasn't able to
get in myself included early. You know, wasn't big into
Lego back then when the one of the original trains,
I think there were two. I could be wrong, but
when those trains came out, that train came out, you
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weren't into it. It's like the same with the modulars.
You weren't into it. Now you got to go back
by things. You don't have to do it unless you
want to be a completionist and get everything. But now
you have it. Now you have your train. Now you
can set it up with your winter village, your different
winter village builds from the past, and he can have
a train, and he can have a train go round
and round, round and round, run and around. That's what
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you got. So that's gonna wrap up the episode. I
hope you guys enjoyed it. I had a blast talking
about it, and I have a blast coming on here
and getting able to partake in your life in whatever
time the way that might be for these thirty five
minutes ish somewhere around there. So until we meet again,
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your minifit goes Matt, let's build on it.
Shut up and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the Bricks King Podcast, where I'm gonna bend
your year about Lego, review those amazing bricks and plastic
and discuss what is new and up and coming around
the Lego world.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm your minifigost Matt. Let's build on it. Welcome in everybody.
How you're doing today, hopefully doing quite lovely. It doesn't
matter what time of the day, evening, morning, whatever it is.
Wherever you are, I hope you are doing quite well.
And we embark on another episode today, and I would
be remiss if we didn't get our annual lovely happiness
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out of the way. I shouldn't say out of the way,
but we've got to talk about the new holiday Lego
Icons Winter Village set, and this year we get something
different for once. It's been a minute since we've had
this opportunity. We're getting a train. We're getting a train,
believe it or not. First and foremost, I have to
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thank the Lego group for sending this to me early
to review. We've we had some other things we need
to knock out last week and as we jump back in, uh,
but here we are today. So this is by the
time you're hearing this is sometime. Yeah, it's it's early
early October anyway. So the Holiday Express Train is exactly
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what we're gonna be talking about today. Another train, another
holiday train. If you're somebody that has not been able
to have an opportunity to be able to get the
original kind of Winter Village stuff, I know there are
people that the modulars and the winter Village stuff are
things that newer collectors that you know, have gotten into
that have kind of gone back and said, here, take
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my money. I'll pay this much as long as you
give it to me. And that is one happened. But
you know I don't have to do that. You don't have
to spend thousand dollars on a one hundred dollars set.
You can get this year set anyway. So the Holiday
Express Train one zero three sixty one is the set number.
It comes with nine hundred and fifty six pieces. One
of those is extraordinarily unique, retails for one hundred and
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thirty buckos here in the United States and one hundred
and twenty euros across the pond from all your lovely
people over there. Now, the interesting thing behind this, and
Lego made a point straight out of the gate to
say hey, there's a special, unique piece in this set,
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one of a kind, never done before, and I was giddy.
I was like, oh, man, I can't believe what is this.
I'm so excited. And it comes in a little a
little box that has printing of gift wrapped on the outside.
Really really cool. It's it's actually something I did not
choose to throw away. You know, I threw around away
the other packaging and stuff like that. This I couldn't
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part with because it's so unique. The box is really
kind of neat. I know some of your like, it's
just a box. You don't need that thing, man, it
get it out here. You're probably right. But in this
set is the very first ever three D printed piece
by the Lego Group, the very first ever, and it
mentions in the instructions I'm not going to get into
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too much detail because I want you to enjoy it yourself.
But the reason it is they've done three D printed
pieces before, they've never made it into sets, And the
reason for that is because they wanted it to be,
you know, the best as anything else that they send
out any pieces that are molded into the factories. They
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wanted it to be that quality, and until they reach
that ability to get it, they weren't gonna just toss
anything out there because their standards are ridiculously high. I
say ridiculously high as if it's a bad thing. It
is not. I would love if many, many, many other
companies had the high quality that they do, especially toy
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companies these days, you just don't seem to have that
as often, especially with the Lake Group. Anyway. The piece
that I'm talking about is a train. And the cool
thing about this thing, Now there are little parts that
you're gonna put on this train, but this little locomotive piece.
But what is incredible is it already has wheels on it,
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and it has the little I guess I don't know,
the brass looking colored pieces on the typical train that
make the wheels move, that connects the wheels that already
has those connected in there. And the other thing about
it is on the inside of this puppy, on the
inside of this thing. For the smokestack of this when
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you turn the wheels, what happens is on on the
inside it rotates the chimney stack up and down from
the inside. And you're gonna see that in part of
this as well in the in the train itself. But
how cool is that? Huh? But on this it is
a blue it's just a blue train locomotive. Now it
does have this little kind of like a bar attachment
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on the back that I could foresee. I could foresee
more things like this coming about to make this train longer.
I don't know. I don't have any inside information. I
don't have any underground sources, you know, any spies or
anything like that, So I don't know. But why would
you put it back there? Why would you put it
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back there? There's gotta be a reason. It's it has
nothing to do with sitting on the set itself. There's
gotta be a reason. The only thing I could think
of is you're going to attach something another train car
to it in the future. I can only hope anyway,
so that you got your little train right there now,
this actual train, the real big train, mind you, this
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tiny little locomotive is super duper tiny. But the big
train that you have comes with your locomotive. It comes
with your your tender car, it comes with your caboose,
and then it comes with a car that has a
polar bear. I was gonna say a snow polar bear.
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It looks like something you would make in the snow.
Granted we don't where I live in Texas. We get
lucky if we get an inch and a half maybe
two a year. For the year some of you get.
You know, it's already snowing where some of you live,
and I'm so jealous of that. There are days where
I wish we had that opportunity here. But alas so
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you have that, and you have the little display for
this tiny little locomotive as well. So let's go ahead
and start with, you know, the beginning. You start with
the main locomotive itself, the big boy locomotive. Now, before
I jump into this real quick, you can motorize this set.
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You have to have your own motor, the controller, all
of that, the control box. You've got to have all
of that yourself. It does not come with this, okay,
as it wouldn't. That's gonna put you I think what
it's fifty and twenty. It's gonna put you somewhere. If
you were to buy all three of those, it's gonna
put you over I believe, over two hundred bucks. Yeah,
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it'll put you over two hundred bucks. But you know,
maybe maybe you got one laying around and you got
one in the past. Who knows. AnyWho, your locomotive car,
we got really nice looking coloring going on. Here. We
have dark blue, and then we have that nice powdery blue.
Oh my god, it's so lovely. It's amazing. I love that.
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It's almost like the Carolina blue. Is this the sand blue?
I believe this is the sand blue. I think we
know we talked about sand green on the last episode. Yeah,
I think this is the sand blue. Anyway, So you
have that, and then you have all your gold accent
pieces that are all over the side. You've got it
for the drum in the middle, in the middle, in
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the front, in the center of the locomotive where you know.
I don't I don't know anything about steam locomotives or
any coal locomotives. I don't know anything about that kind
of stuff. I just know that they were a thing.
I'm not a big train buff. I've got a nephew
that could probably tell me exactly what kind of train
this is modeled after, what year it was made, what
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what town the boiler was probably built in. Shout out
to you Bent anyway, what we're talking about here in
the front. We've got some flower decorations on the front.
We've got some flower decorations on the side. Holiday train, right,
you've got to think holiday train. It's really funky at
first when you kind of put it together and then
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you have this these red flowers with the green leaves
up against the dark blue background. It just kinda it
just kind of doesn't feel right. But you gotta you
gotta keep thinking of your head. Holiday train. Now you
can on holiday this real fast by removing those So
there is that possibility. Some of the other stuff, you're
gonna have to do a little bit of a complete
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retail all over build, you know, retailing or not retail,
a whole complete detail of it. Redetailing. There's that's what
I was looking for, redetailing anyway. So yeah, anyway, back
to the locomotive, we're all over the place. It's just
it's been one of those kind of it's been one
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of those kind of days anyway. But in the front,
your locomotive in the front does rotate around. It's got
some weird gearing, believe it or not, in the very
front wheel section of this. And what that does is
as the wheels rotate around on the track. Your chimney
stack goes up and down like it's puffing pooh pooh,
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you know that whole deal. It's got a little steam
cloud that's up there as you're driving that looks like
it's wisping to the rear. So that's kind of neat.
I'm a big of the way that that is done.
It's real simple. It's not super complicated. But like I
told you, the little baby locomotive, the three D printed locomotive,
it's the same idea here. That's all they did. They
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just kind of copied it, or one or the other,
copied one or the other chicken egg, whichever came first,
and that's how you end up with this cool little design.
It does work forward, it does work backward, so it's
not a you know, single function. It's got to go
forward to make this work. It's got to go forward
to make this work. You can go forward or backward.
Not that your train's necessarily going to be going backwards,
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but you know what, for whatever reason, if you need
to moving back towards the center. Here, we've got the
Holiday Express printed tiles here which are nice. The rounded
not rounded, I guess it'd be quarter rounded long tiles
here let's say Holiday Express on each side, and then
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you get back to your cab section. Your roof does
come off of your cab, and inside of here you
have your conductor, your captain, your engineer, whatever he's called.
I know he's not called a captain, but he is
on the inside of there. On the inside of this,
you've got some studs for him to stand and or sit.
I don't think they really sit in these kind of things,
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but alas now on the inside they do have some
cheese cheese wedge pieces that are in here, and they
are in that trans orange to make it look like
the flame on the inside. That's kind of cool. You've
got your little boiler controls and whatnot right there with
a handle you've maybe it's the handbrake, I don't know.
You've got a coffee cup you've got to gauge in here,
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and you have a wrench in case you need that. Now,
there are windows on the side for you to be
able to look out, and there's actually some one by
one bricks that are transclaire to be able to look
out the front, to be able to see, you know,
towards the front of the locomotive. Now you've got some
handles so he can hold on to his to the
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sides if he needs to. If you need to position
him that way, you can do so. So that's kind
of neat. But you just stick the top back on
and it has a one by two tile in gold
that has the set number as well, so you have
that there. We'll save minifigs for the end. Don't really
want to get into that kind of as usual. Just
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kinda get it out of the way. At the end,
I say get it out the way. We don't get
it out of the way. But yeah, so now as
you hear me kind of rattling around here, we've got
this next part, and the tender is I believe the
tender is where your battery box goes. And this next
one I don't have mine in. I've got to go
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find another one. I thought about just buying another one
because we've got quite a few trains, and we actually
have another train coming here very soon. We're going to
be talking about the Lego City Polar Polar Arctic Arctic train.
Now on this deal again, this is meant to be
more of your battery box housing, so you're not going
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to have anything down on the inside and the belly
of the beast. It's not meant to it's not meant
to be like that. But on the outside you do
have some reaths that are brick built here with some
flowers and some holly and some red leaves, so you
do have that to be able to go. These do.
I'm struggling with this right now. They do pop off
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very very easily. The clutch on these is just really
not great, and I don't know why. I've messed around
with it quite a bit, and you can hear me
fiddling with it right now. It's just kind of a
pain in a butt and I don't know why it
doesn't want to stay on. It just does not want
to stay on for me. But anyway, moving on, on
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the inside, it's naked, there's nothing in there. You do
get some Christmas gifts that are not wrapped that you
could put on the inside of that if you wanted to.
Up top, we've got ah, well, we've got another little
gift here that they have list uh put on top.
It's just a round purple light colored purple piece as well.
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On top of it, it's a two x two round
brick and that's just up on top. But again you've
got your dark blue and your sand blue color that
is really really great accent around uh, the interior, around
the inside portion of this car. I'm telling you what,
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I am driving myself absolutely bonkers trying to get these
reads back on. There we go. Finally, Now around the
top of this deal, what you have is you have
got your golden I guess if you want to call
it a railing perhaps around the top of this deal,
if you need to be able to, you know, put
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stuff up there so it doesn't fall, or maybe somebody
wants to sit up there, maybe a little bit of safety.
Backside of this where just before it clips into the
next car, there is a little removable door here in
that blue color. And all that is doing is giving
you access to your belief again your battery pack on
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the inside, so that what you have it when you
need to get to it. Moving on. What we move
on to next is well, honestly, it's it's my favorite car,
without a doubt, and it is the car that has
the big old gift that is on here, and it
is a gift of the train, believe it or not. Now,
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what is cool The little three D printed locomotive. What
is cool is they have some brick built wrapping, you know,
like the ends of you know people that put bows
and stuff like that, like actually wrap real bows, not
the ones that you pre buy. That's kind of what
this looks like. You've got the red tiles here to
accent that. You've got a letter letter going to the
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North Pole, maybe from or to Santa, maybe a letter
from Santa or maybe Missus Claus or maybe one of
the reindeer, maybe an elf h I don't know, but anyway,
we've got mail going to and or from And then
on the inside of this because you can remove the
top of this gift and you can put something down
on the inside if you want. There's some little gifts
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like I had mentioned. None of them fit down inside,
so you can leave it empty, or you can use
your imagination and put something in there if you so choose.
Now you put the lead back on top of this,
and all this is is kind of like a city scape.
You've got some micro builds as far as buildings and
trees and stuff like that, and then you have this
little stand for your locomotive. Now I gotta say, this
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has got to be just a display and not like
some kind of city scape, because this locomotive would be
bigger than a giant building. That's yeah, that's not a
thing anyway. So it just sits there and on top
it's just cool looking. You can clip that entire assembly
with four studs onto the I guess the trailer the car,
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if you will, and then that's it's right in front
of this polar bear. It's a gorgeously brick built polar bear.
There's some movement in the head, there's movement in the arms.
The same thing that we talked about with the three
D printed locomotive, the same thing we talked about with
the front end of the big main locomotive is happening
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here on the wheels just underneath below the bear. Tripping
over my words. There, you've got this ability for it
to move up and down. The bear is holding its
white all white bear, got some really nice curvature to it.
He does have. I'm assuming this is meant to be
a backpack that he's got on, so well, you know what,
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maybe it's a scarf. It looks like a backpack, but
I guess it's a scarf of different kind of colors
and stuff, different kind of it's like a turquoise and
in that hunter forest green. No eyes, true eyes on this.
I would have really loved if we would have got
a one by one round tile for the eyes. You
just have a hollow stud that is supposed to be
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the eyes, which is It's okay, it's not the end
of the world. Uh, but you know whatever. In his
one arm, his right hand, he is holding what is
supposed to be a bell and he's shaking it. So
every time that you go around, you're just imagining you're
hearing this bell shaking cock clean cooking, cookling, you know.
Going down the track, you can hear this thing from
miles away. Kids are coming out of the house. Mommy, look,
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look at the train. Here comes San Well, I guess
it's saying, is not on the train, but here comes
the train. We're gonna get on the train. I can't wait.
I'm gonna pet the polar bear. It's not real. It's
plastic anyway. So his head moves up and down. He's
kind of jamming to the beat, and then he's got
his arms moving, you know, shaking the bell, and then
the other hand is just kind of like, yeah, man,
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I'm feeling the jam we're in the Christmas mood, We're
in the holiday spirit. Before we move on with this
next part of the train, I've got to take a
quick ad break. You go to the potty, get yourself
something to drink. We'll be right back. Now moving on
to the final car, we have our beautiful, beautiful Caboos
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that has an actual brick built bow. Remember I just
said about people that actually wrap real bows on top
of gifts. That's what you have here. You've got a
real brick built bow, not a sticker, not a pre
molded piece. You got a bunch of pieces that you
got to smack together and create this puppy, which is
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cool that is sitting on the top. And then you
have again your pieces that hang down on the side
that make it look like a bove's. This actually has
the flag of England on top if you were to
remove the bow funnily enough, So that's kind of funny.
I thought it was funny. Maybe it's not funny to
somebody else. You can remove the roof of this thing
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so you can get down inside and look. There are
two chairs facing a table in the center, and you
have two pink mugs and a little table lamp right there.
You know, you can pretend you got anything in there.
Maybe you got some hot chocolate, maybe you got tea,
maybe you've got agua. I don't know you've got something
in there. These people are just having a lovely bundle
(20:19):
of time, just a wonderful time. I gotta die you
just a lovely day here on the train. So you
can put your minifigs in here, if you sw shoes.
I've got some big tall windows here. You've got six
of them, believe it or not, three on each side,
and in its open air, on each end of the caboose,
(20:39):
on each corner of it, what we have are another
green leaf with a red flower. And then on the
upper corners what we have are orange. We have yellow yellow.
I guess it's supposed to be a light, and maybe
not a candle light or anything like that, but we've
got some yellow lights there. So that's of cool. Upright
(21:01):
lights up lights there, uplights like you would have in
front of your house kind of thing, I guess. And
then yeah, it's pretty simple. Not a whole lot to it.
I don't really know what else you could have done
to it. I'm sure there's something. I'm sure some one
of you right now is sitting out there saying, hey, look,
I know we could do this, or I know the
(21:21):
Lego people, those design people, they could have done this,
or they could have done that, or they could have
taken one of those parts from that instead of using
it here. They could have done this. Some of you
are just incredibly creative and I appreciate that. So that
is your caboose with your brick belt bow. Gonna stick
that thing back on, stick the top back on. And
now we've got a few things here. We have a
(21:44):
few different if you want to call them set pieces.
One is a set piece, another is the gifts. The
one gift that we have is a helicopter. It's a
little micro built helicopter, really cool looking and it's supposed
to be of a Lego City set, so I dig it.
Then we have another one that is a little micro
build of an excavator. Remember remember last year we got
(22:08):
the cool wicked excavator yep, Lego City Baby kicking it
up a notch. The helicopter is supposed to be the
Arctic helicopter because it has the dark blue and the
orange on it, again from last year from the Arctic.
Now this one. I I was racking my b my brain.
(22:28):
This is a it's a some sort of ship. It's
got two sails. And the only thing I can think
of is, you know, like a like a Viking ship.
We got something like that. I think that was two
years ago, though I don't. I don't. I'm having a
I'm having a moment trying to figure that one out.
But you've got this little ship, so that is cool
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as well. It's not a ship in a bottle, but
I guess we can do without, right, it will be
just we'll be just fine. And then we have our
little set piece. You have your little train platform station here,
nothing really to it. It can't attach to the tracks.
It does have a little piece it sticks out so
you can attach it to the tracks. You've got a
little brick built bench here. And you have a really actually,
(23:10):
really gorgeous looking lamp street street lamp that is here
because you've got your yellow on the inside of the
glass dome, which is really cool. And then you have
your Christmas decorations, your your leaf with the red flower
in it yet again here on the outside of that
that just it's very festive. It looks good here, doesn't
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look great on the locomotive. In my opinion, it looks
really good here. I guess it's synonymous with seeing that
kind of stuff on the street versus seeing wreathes hall
on a train, because it's not a common occurrence, I'm
almost certain. So let's get to minifigs here. What do
we have for minifigs. Well, you've got your your homeboy,
your old guy here that is driving the train, controlling
(23:53):
the train. He's got his captain's hat on here, which
is one of the police hats. And then he's got
just a single printed face, old white guy, white Beard,
and he's a little smiley, not too smiley, just kind
of like, you know, almost like a simple Santa smile
is the best way to describe it. You know, just
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a jolly guy, you know, enjoying driving his train. He's
getting ready to go home. He's taking all these people
and you know, he's getting ready to go home and
just be like, you know, sweetie, it's just been a
lovely day. It's just been gosh, it's just been terrific.
I've just been I've just blown away by how magnificent
(24:36):
the day was. That's what I can imagine coming out
of his mouth. Seeing this face not a bad thing,
but that's what I hear in my head. He's got
dark blue pants, he's got a gold vest believe it
or not, with a little pocket watch there. And he's
got some gold accent lacquered gold kind of print on
the vest, with a blue tie as well. And then
(24:59):
along the he's got a little little slider thing like
you would have like on a on your vest to
I guess, kind of tighten it up in the back.
So that is, uh, that's your train, dude. We've got
another guy here now. I don't I don't know if
this guy's working on the train. I don't know if
this guy just wants to take the train. I don't
know if maybe this guy's you know, tending to the
(25:20):
polar Bear. I don't know if this guy is I
don't know. I don't know what he's doing. Maybe he's
maybe he's here to steal the gifts off the train.
How crazy would that be? But he comes with a
forward facing brimmed hat, one of those hats that the
older dudes wear. I know there's some of you, like
I wear one of these, and I'm not older, you
know what I mean? He comes with a red scarf,
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and he comes with a single face with a red
beard and a happy smile. He comes with overalls, believe
it or not, and the dark blue pants. Then we
get to our two lovely, happy festive folks. They're just
overly happy, my goodness. And when we have our female
first start with her. She's got her standard female face.
(26:02):
We got the smiley face on the one side, and
we have the eyes closed in the mouth, the lips
closed but slightly pursed, just kind of like dreaming of happiness.
She's got hair that comes and curls around down in
the front and then hangs down in the back. She's
got a tannish version of pants here there. It's not tan.
It's like a dark nugy tan. I know color people.
(26:25):
You disgust me with you with your ability to know
all these colors off the top of your head. Then
her jacket that she is wearing kind of it's got
straps across the chest, which is kind of funky. It's
really bizarre. I've never seen a jacket attached that way,
but I'm assuming it might zipper as well. Anyway, there's
some pockets in the front, and she doesn't really have
(26:48):
anything in the back. Now our homeboy here, what has
he got? He actually does have tan pants. Yeah, I
can get that one right, So you gotta give me
credit somewhere please. Anyway, he's wearing a jacket that zips
up in the front. It's it's got some accents of
being like one of those kind of more like a
puffy jacket, just the way some of the printing is
(27:11):
on the front and then on the back. Same thing
with the different colors of his jacket. He's on that
dark red, beautiful color here. I love that for that jacket.
He's got the spiky hair with a spike up in
the front, and he's got two different faces. He's got
one where he smiles all around, the other one where
he's just you know, he's got his lips just kind
(27:32):
of like hello, my name is Bob and I'm happy today.
And he comes with a beard as well. It's actually
my minifig head. But that is not what I wear.
I've got my own little costume that I wear on
my minifig, my segfig. I bet you'll never guess what's
on my SigFig. Just kidding anyway. So that is your
(27:54):
the wrap up of the set. That is the everything
that you need to know, the good, the bad, the ugly.
There's not really any ugly to it. There's not really
any bad to it. It's a holiday train, it's a
Christmas train, it's a Hanika train, it's a Kwanza train,
it's a I don't know what other festive festivus. Those
(28:18):
of you that are Seinfeld buffs, I know there's a
bunch of you out there. It's a festivus train maybe.
But the four pieces to it, I think is okay.
By the way, I did not mention this. It comes
with all your track pieces to make your giant round track.
There are no straight pieces in this. They're all rounded, curved,
so you have one big circle that you can make.
If you want to make a different kind of train layout,
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you can do so. You just need to buy extra
train track pieces to be able to do that. I
think this is a really solid build in what you're getting.
I don't see this as being a home run. I
think there are some really cool things to go along
with this. I like the the the nods to some
(29:04):
of the old Lego sets with the little mini brick
built gifts here. I really like the the caboose with
the brick built bow. I like the idea that the
the polar bear is able to move around, and I
like the idea of the chimney going up and down,
the chimney stack going up and down. I think that
is really cool. Some of you're gonna look like, look
at that and say that's kind of cheesy and dumb.
(29:27):
I don't know, maybe maybe that's just what you were thinking.
I don't know. The battery tender car is not. It's
intentionally not crazily build up because you're removing parts, not parts,
you're removing a little bit of it to be able
to get access to it. They're not going to do
anything wild and crazy there because putting all that time
(29:50):
and energy and pieces into that is only going to
be removed. So it's it's kind of a trade off, right,
you have the ability to be able to motorize this train,
so they do it that way, or they could have said,
you can't motorize it straight out of the box without
doing heavy modifications, and we did all. You know, we
(30:10):
really deck this car out as well. They could have
gone that route they didn't, so again it's a trade off.
You know, you gotta pick and choose your battles here.
I really like the three D printing train locomotive piece.
I thought that was really cool. That alone, I think
is very unique. I think I think that piece alone
(30:31):
is going to carry value in the future because while
people are going to go buy this, I think there
are a lot of people that maybe won't just generically
pass over it because it's a holiday set, but they're
gonna look at them like, oh, well, it's a train,
I gotta motorize it. I'm gonna pass It's already one
hundred and thirty bucks. I've got to spend another eighty,
(30:53):
you know, or whatever to be able to motorize it
if I don't have a motor laying around already and
all that kind of stuff. But that train piece, that locomotive,
three D printed locomotive piece, is going to carry value.
I would not be surprised to see them selling on
Bricklink today. Honestly, It's something I didn't even stop to
think about until them right now. But I'm almost certain
(31:15):
those are going to carry value, and they're gonna hold
value because it's going to be the very first piece.
So you're going to see people that are gonna go
buy five sets, five copies of this set, just to
be able to pull that locomotive piece out, that three
D printed locomotive piece, to be able to turn around
and sell it in the future, if not now, just
because somebody wants that. I can see that happening if
(31:36):
it hasn't already. So how should we score this? The build,
I thought, is it's meant to be simple. There's not
any complicated techniques here, even the motion for the chimney,
for the polar bear. That they aren't pieces that you're like,
oh my goodness, I've never seen this before. I've never
really seen these kind of pieces put together like this before.
(31:57):
They're flat gears, you know, and they meet it ninety
degree angle, that's really it. And they go through an
axle and you have your linkage, but nothing where it's like,
oh my goodness, I'm this is wild. There's not that.
So build wise, I would say it's solid. I would
say the enjoyment of the build was probably around in eight.
(32:19):
The bow is really cool, and I do like the bear.
I'll give it in I'll give it a point two five,
how about that eight point three, We'll go eight point
three right there, the overall value of this. I don't
like it at one hundred and thirty. I really don't
like it at one hundred and thirty. I don't like
it at one hundred and twenty either. I really would. God,
I know it's not gonna happen. I would really love
(32:41):
this if this were at one hundred, and I know
it's not gonna happen, and it's not. It's not gonna
be a thing. Maybe you get lucky and can get
this in a holiday sale, you know, at a Target
or I don't know if they carry this kind of
these at Walmart, but I know that they carry these
the holiday winter village stuff at Target. I would even
(33:01):
one ten, I would settle for. I just don't see
the value one thirty for under a thousand pieces. I
just I really struggled to see it. And I know
it's more so around eight hundred pieces is getting you
one hundred what one hundred one hundred bucks these days,
but that's not always the case with everything, So it's
it's really it's really difficult for me to say the
(33:23):
value though. I don't. I don't like the value. I
don't think the value is there. I think the value
is probably around to seven. I mean, you have your
little tiny platform piece, but you know that doesn't really
You've got your tracks. The thing is, the tracks are
more than likely what make this thing the most expensive,
just because it's a lot of plastic. Now and this
is this is something that you know, toy companies have
(33:45):
done forever, where you buy this one thing and it
says batteries not included. Like we could do the same thing.
You could get the train and they could say train
tracks not included, sold separately. You know, kind of thing
like the old Gijoe commercials stuff like that where you know,
or teenage mutant Ninja turtles stuff like that, where it
was like, you know, they would show it and they
(34:07):
show this turtle driving this vehicle or the g I
Joe flying this jet and it would be for it
would be for the jet and would say figures sold
separately or something like that. They could go that route.
I don't think anybody would enjoy that. I know, the
person that they're trying to reach is just your generalized consumer.
They're not trying to reach the harder core folks like
(34:30):
you and I some of you that are harder core
or maybe not, but they are they're they're trying to
give this straight out of the box encompassing build play idea.
And also you can buy the powered up stuff separately. Right,
you can power this on your own dime. We're not
going to give it to you here. But what if
(34:52):
they did give it to you, right, would you spend
two hundred bucks on that? Would you be willing to say?
You know what, I would rather take the train at
one point thirty or for two hundred to ten ish
to have everything in it? Would would you rather do that?
Because that is that's really gonna be the trade off.
The tracks are gonna come with it. They could say, yeah,
we're gonna sell it without, but I don't anyway. I dige,
(35:15):
I digress it. I digest as well. I hope he
digested all of that. Uh, but I'm gonna go back
with us seven, and I'm gonna say the values at
A seven, you could probably give me a A six
point eight, six point nine. If I wake up crabby,
that's not today. But yeah, but as a whole, I
(35:37):
think it's a good build. I think it's a fun set.
It's going to be a great holiday edition. Again for
stuff where it comes to somebody that wasn't able to
get in myself included early. You know, wasn't big into
Lego back then when the one of the original trains,
I think there were two. I could be wrong, but
when those trains came out, that train came out, you
(36:00):
weren't into it. It's like the same with the modulars.
You weren't into it. Now you got to go back
by things. You don't have to do it unless you
want to be a completionist and get everything. But now
you have it. Now you have your train. Now you
can set it up with your winter village, your different
winter village builds from the past, and he can have
a train, and he can have a train go round
and round, round and round, run and around. That's what
(36:23):
you got. So that's gonna wrap up the episode. I
hope you guys enjoyed it. I had a blast talking
about it, and I have a blast coming on here
and getting able to partake in your life in whatever
time the way that might be for these thirty five
minutes ish somewhere around there. So until we meet again,
(36:43):
your minifit goes Matt, let's build on it.
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