Lemax Starlight Express Train & Other Toy Trains

[thetrainmiser828]

santa sounds like homesar

[andrewstartrekmario]

Hmmm...Lemax villages remind me of Department 56 Snow Village series very popular in the US. Although, Department 56 have glaze on their pieces, and break the bank to buy (Seriously, some buildings cost $70 USD before tax.) Luckily, the prices drop very fast, due to the very low production run (and how they get "Retired"). Every D56 piece is hand made, painted, and glazed for maximum detail.

[illiniguy34]

my grandmother (who's still alive) has a s*** load of lemax villages and accessories.

[Trainfanz]

Hey Leo, I just found out most of this train is re-molds of the earlier "Spooky Town Express"

[leokimvideo]

@Trainfanz spooky

[TehGallopingSausage]

When I read 'Starlight Express,' I thought it had to do w/ the musical. XD

This is a bit off topic, but that TOMY Diesel 10 looks different than the one I have (or had; returned it cos it didn't work :-P); do you remember what it came with?

[Ty43219CPV]

Lol i have that christmas train too

[Trainmaster189]

I liked Lemax because of their snow covered pine trees. I'm not a Lemax collector, but I wanted a winter theme on my O Scale layout year round.

[leokimvideo]

@Trainmaster189 from what I have seen the lemax trees are excellent, not sure how they are cost wise compared to model train scale trees which I know can be very costly

[Blur4strike]

I've got an N-scale Christmas train display which is made up of a Kato Unitrack oval set, Micro-Trains Christmas buildings, and an Amtrak Superliner consist with a Phase III P42 on the point.

[fryderweeniepopo]

santa sounds like homsar

[t4mercustomz]

is the black wheel on the caboose for the raindeer to spin?

[leokimvideo]

@t4mercustomz yes the black wheels have tiny traction tyres and power the deer

[LNER4771]

That sound chip is freaking annoying. Even Diesel #10 is trying to get away from it.

[minifigureproduction]

I can see why it done your head in !!!!!! cool video see you got the new (newish) lego passenger train please watch and comment on one of my vids u r awsome (=)}<-<

[bsquiklehausen]

Leo - it seems that the caboose is missing a wheel! Did it fall off, or just come with onlythree axles?

[leokimvideo]

@bsquiklehausen one of the axles at the rear are black, and they power the deer

[trainboy7]

I see you got another lego train =3

[leokimvideo]

@trainboy7 and guess what I also bought last years yellow freight train set and this years red one, I really do like the lego train system

[trainboy7]

@leokimvideo same here, I'm hoping I could get the yellow tran for christmas and I look forawrd to seeing it in one of your videos ^_^

[hornbyfan1997]

I think the lemax toys are really cute!

[penninefilms]

I have never seen anything about the Lemax but the models they make look good fun.

[ejcmoorhouse]

yeah see what you mean about the sound could do with a mute!

[leokimvideo]

@ejcmoorhouse from what I am told by my lemax collecting friends down the road the earlier lemax trains had a sound off switch, i'm still looking for that on this very noisy train

[huginmunin450]

@leokimvideo I have the same train at home. I ended up cutting the blue wire running underneath the engine. No more sound = a much merrier Christmas! ;)

[thomasrosiefan1]

Can Lemax adapt with Lionel O Scale trains?

[leokimvideo]

@thomasrosiefan1 is O scale larger than a lego train..?, I feel if the train gets bigger than that size the lemax will start to look out of place, sorry I am not familiar with O scale at all

[Stuingtion]

@leokimvideo well i don't know but I do know that Lego track's said to be L scale

[thomasrosiefan1]

@leokimvideo O scale is twice the size of 00 Scale. It's larger than Lego but smaller than G.

[2124reading]

You should go to a hobby shop and get some traction tires for tomas.

[ericpierre53]

Nice

[speedracer456v]

Lol. Diesel 10: kicking ass in the corners since 2000

[cyberkidmfb]

everything is good about the starlight express . EXCEPT FOR THE BUGGING SOUND!!!!

[leokimvideo]

@cyberkidmfb i think the sound chip has turned me off Christmas 2011, I may have to dig in there and tape up the speaker

[cyberkidmfb]

@leokimvideo well you must ! (and i dont celebrate Christmas sadly)

[DJDriveus]

I remember Lemax being sold at a hardware store near my house. They had the best miniature lights (street lights, spotlights etc...).

[HowToDs]

I absolutely love videos like this, great work!

[Auzziable]

All i heard from that train was, "ALL ABOARD FOR mufl mufl mufl mufl

[TrainzXtreme]

Do you know how long a TRackmaster/Tomy train lasts for on one battery?

[leokimvideo]

@TrainzXtreme well thats a bit of a loaded question as some of mine run on a single AA or C cell battery, Diesel 10 has a C but I can't tell you his duration on a good quality battery.

[MrOliverGWR11]

@leokimvideo other trains run on AAA batteries like the jet engine

[DTChapman1]

The detail and noises on the train in my view is a bit over the top

[leokimvideo]

@DTChapman1 i think we have to keep in mind it's a festive Christmas sort of train, and it does fit into the over the top Lemax miniature enviroments

[DTChapman1]

@leokimvideo agreed

[cubeproduktion]

those leomax toys are kind of scary and cheap looking with that paint detail.

[leokimvideo]

@cubeproduktion for $49 it's not bad, thats the part you have to consider here, also it has what I call Christmas tax applied

loads of people collect this stuff

[cubeproduktion]

@leokimvideo if I found this in any shop, it would be 500 dirhams :/ nothing is cheap here :(

[leokimvideo]

@TMRReturns maybe the old evil face was upsetting children, but every story needs a villain, just look how over the years Disney have weaved the magic of evil villains into every story

[cubeproduktion]

@leokimvideo in mean girls 2, they switched a funny goth girl with a stupid, botoxed idiotic supposed to be innocent girl from that dumb new show wizards of a place

[gavinfuzzy]

I never put trains with soundchips under the Christmas tree. It tends to piss the crap out of guests since my tree is usually next to the TV and i like to keep the train on.

I currently use the basic LGB model (green engine with red/blue passenger carriages) ... which i had for about 10 years. Its kinda big, but it still works.

[leokimvideo]

@gavinfuzzy my lemax collector friends tell me other lemax trains had a switch to turn off the sound chip, i failed to find one on this train

[cubeproduktion]

cool

[BeyPuller]

LIKE IF YOU LOKE THIS VIDEO =D

[Whizzer1]

diesel 10 looks very menacing and looks better with the black on his side

[leokimvideo]

@Whizzer1 i'm about to pull a full review on 3 new trackmaster items, whats really sad is the new diesel 10 has a much happier face compared to my other diesel 10's

i think we all want the old evil looking diesel10 back please..!

and well done being first

[Whizzer1]

@leokimvideo yeah diesel 10s old tomy face looks more evil than his new CGI happy face

[leokimvideo]

@Whizzer1 yes. it's a absolute epic fail to stuff with Diesels 10's face, not sure why you would change a classic great looking face