One year ago I got this set, and it ushered in a new era I have added 6 more chief locos and would add more, but no locos to buy, burplies in supply chain expect it for the next 6 months .unless of course something else happens.
Wow the most beautifully edited and modern train review I’ve seen so far, usually it’s some old dude rambling for 30 min with little to no editing and a crappy mic, def sharing this vid with other train folks I know. Ya got a sub from me!
@@ItsTrainBoy You’re definitely bringing a new and more entertaining side to the hobby, loved your darker side vids and would love to see more O scale vids. You have a beautiful layout and would love to get a narrated tour of it!
For the lamp figure, That coach was either re-painted from the Polar express set, or this came before the polar express set and The polar set re-painted this
Both are apparently repaints and re-tools coaches from the mpc era as the lionel logo from that era is present on both polar express and the blue comets coaches
@@saiah_yt795 Correct. The Milwaukee Special, 1973, The Broadway Limited, 1974, The Capitol Limited, 1975, The Southern Crescent, 1977, all used the original MPC Baby Madison tooling. In 1978, the tooling was altered to accept die-cast six wheel trucks. All Baby Madison cars produced since, whether they have four or six wheel trucks use the modified 1973 tooling... including the Polar Express sets.
In a way, a 4-4-2 Atlantic makes sense. While the iconic 4-6-2 Pacific class locos that regularly hauled The Blue Comet were all scrapped, the CNJ had a backup loco for The Blue Comet, a 4-4-2 camelback type that is now in the B&O Railroad Museum. The Blue Comet was advertised as the first train east of the Mississippi River to be equipped with roller bearings, so the fact the coaches have them is a nice touch. I love The Blue Comet, and as enough cars still exist, as does the reserve loco, I dream of some day aquiring enough coaches, and the loco, to return The Blue Comet to service as a special excursion train.
Awesome train. The Blue comet is my favorite train. I have a MTH Railking blue comet. I am excited for the legacy blue comet camelback that is coming out in a few months. I wish a real life blue comet locomotive was preserved.
That's not a "Sleeping Car" but rather a "Combo" car, half baggage/half coach. The Blue Comet had no sleepers, as it only traveled from Jersey City to Atlantic City, New Jersey. It did have a dining car. Maybe Lionel will make that as an add-on at a future date. The car tooling dates to 1973's Milwaukee Limited.
@@zainevenable6896 I didn’t critique the toy, but added missing information to the conversation. Knowing the history of each piece of tooling adds to the enjoyment of the hobby. You’re the only one here who doesn’t seem to understand that.
@@zainevenable6896 And there are National collectors organizations including the TCA and the LCCA, dedicated magazines like O Gauge Railroading, and Classic Toy Trains, collectors guides from Greenberg publishers, hundreds of published hardcover books on Toy train history, and dedicated museums all across the country.. There’s a big world out there beyond your moms basement.
Their Legacy and Vision Line is their realistic models. These are their traditional, toy train line stuff. In this case, their el cheapo entry train set stuff.
At 2:22 you made a small mistake, the first coach is almost never a sleeper, so this would be the combined lounge-baggage car, the large sleeping compartment you talked about was actually used to carry luggage, and mail. The SP Daylights had these cars instead of a single baggage car. Just felt like correcting and possibly teaching you all something new.
Looks almost like my comet set from the 70s, I wish for such a legendary set from lionel they would have at least made it a 4-6-2 instead of the standard starter set engine.
The locomotive and tender seem to use the same tooling as the late 1960s Lionel #242. I have a #242 myself as well as it's newer variations from the 80s and 90s. They all share alot of the same visual aspects and running characteristics. They run super well and if something breaks it's usually 2-3 screws and you're in. Nothing bad about it.
Thank you for this review. I just bought this set for myself and am wondering do you have any idea how many cars it can pull? I have a complete set of original Blue Comet cars from the early 70s Lionel MPC Blue Comet. There are like seven cars plus the diner car. It would be nice if it could pull them.
I have the classic lionel blue comet (from the 60s) and the mth blue comet (2016 I think) I dissed the 2020 becuase it’s to bright I stile love the blue comet and it’s one of my favorite trains of all time
The first coach is actually a baggage car even though that there is no blue comet never even had a mixed baggage car. I'm serious. The original one just had a male car. The blue comet of originally had a male car and did not have a mixed baggage car
@@ItsTrainBoy The.... set comes with smoke fluid? I guess I'm just not getting the concept of "I'm not going to be the one who tests this out". It's your locomotive. If you're not planning on selling it, it will never be anyone else's locomotive. So it's only ever going to be you who decides to use the fluid. Lionel's been making smoke units for 70 years. Your locomotive will be fine. I've been collecting for 30 years, never had a smoke issue. Just don't use the old 1970's smoke 'pills', and your locomotive will do just fine. Personally the smoke and sound are the reason I have Lionel instead of HO or OO. Your standard Lionel comes with features that are only available in HO scale on top-tier locomotives. You probably paid less for that entire set that you would pay for a single HO locomotive with smoke, sound and DCC control. Might as well use the smoke, it's a feature on the locomotive. Though I recommend upgrading to third-party smoke fluids, the Lionel brand stuff is pretty weak.
@Thomas Emard I think you’re mistaken, I’m not scared of putting liquid into it I just don’t care to do it because like you say it’s a feature that can cause issues and that I don’t really care for. I see what you mean but it’s never been a feature that I really care too much about. I don’t really do O anymore either so I don’t know the most about them, it was kinda a one off thing. :)
I feel this loco is a knock off because the package is the same as a starter set I have and the loco is smaller than the tender which is the same as a lionel lines steam locomotive. And that loco is poorly made with almost no detail.
You can't go wrong with the Blue Comet. I'm glad to see Lionel is still producing it.
Nice. I have the set and really proud of it!
One year ago I got this set, and it ushered in a new era I have added 6 more chief locos and would add more, but no locos to buy, burplies in supply chain expect it for the next 6 months .unless of course something else happens.
Wow the most beautifully edited and modern train review I’ve seen so far, usually it’s some old dude rambling for 30 min with little to no editing and a crappy mic, def sharing this vid with other train folks I know. Ya got a sub from me!
Thank you so much! That’s the aim, bringing a new side to the modeling community!
@@ItsTrainBoy You’re definitely bringing a new and more entertaining side to the hobby, loved your darker side vids and would love to see more O scale vids. You have a beautiful layout and would love to get a narrated tour of it!
For the lamp figure, That coach was either re-painted from the Polar express set, or this came before the polar express set and The polar set re-painted this
Nice fact/whatever
Both are apparently repaints and re-tools coaches from the mpc era as the lionel logo from that era is present on both polar express and the blue comets coaches
I have one of these from the early 2000s that I got new as a small kid, and it’s made of die-cast metal but either way the same. Love it!
I have a pa flyer that's the same as this it's from 2003 or 2004
Seeing such a large engine with only 2 driving wheels makes me have a massive OCD attack
Also those coaches are literally from a Polar Express model
The coaches are literally from the Lionel/MPC tooling first developed in 1973 for the Milwaukee Special set.
@@JonBrooks105 which were reused for the polar express model
@@saiah_yt795 Correct. The Milwaukee Special, 1973, The Broadway Limited, 1974, The Capitol Limited, 1975, The Southern Crescent, 1977, all used the original MPC Baby Madison tooling. In 1978, the tooling was altered to accept die-cast six wheel trucks. All Baby Madison cars produced since, whether they have four or six wheel trucks use the modified 1973 tooling... including the Polar Express sets.
They just want it to look like there old first model which had only two drive wheels on each side.
That type is a 4-4-2. It was an upgrade from the 4-4-0 American and competed with the 4-6-0 Tenwheeler.
In a way, a 4-4-2 Atlantic makes sense. While the iconic 4-6-2 Pacific class locos that regularly hauled The Blue Comet were all scrapped, the CNJ had a backup loco for The Blue Comet, a 4-4-2 camelback type that is now in the B&O Railroad Museum. The Blue Comet was advertised as the first train east of the Mississippi River to be equipped with roller bearings, so the fact the coaches have them is a nice touch. I love The Blue Comet, and as enough cars still exist, as does the reserve loco, I dream of some day aquiring enough coaches, and the loco, to return The Blue Comet to service as a special excursion train.
Awesome train. The Blue comet is my favorite train. I have a MTH Railking blue comet. I am excited for the legacy blue comet camelback that is coming out in a few months. I wish a real life blue comet locomotive was preserved.
That's not a "Sleeping Car" but rather a "Combo" car, half baggage/half coach. The Blue Comet had no sleepers, as it only traveled from Jersey City to Atlantic City, New Jersey. It did have a dining car. Maybe Lionel will make that as an add-on at a future date. The car tooling dates to 1973's Milwaukee Limited.
@@zainevenable6896 Look at that... six years and no content. Troll.
@@zainevenable6896 I didn’t critique the toy, but added missing information to the conversation. Knowing the history of each piece of tooling adds to the enjoyment of the hobby. You’re the only one here who doesn’t seem to understand that.
@@zainevenable6896 And there are National collectors organizations including the TCA and the LCCA, dedicated magazines like O Gauge Railroading, and Classic Toy Trains, collectors guides from Greenberg publishers, hundreds of published hardcover books on Toy train history, and dedicated museums all across the country.. There’s a big world out there beyond your moms basement.
@@JonBrooks105 my apologies for these rude comments, my step son had my phone a few nights ago and did this rude stuff. Again Jon my apologies
First trainboy video I ever saw. Right when it was uploaded
It’s not the right basis but it still looks good
Here is the right basis #mthbluecomet
Hmm...is it me or does the tender look abit taller then the locomotive?
the engine looks like one of those el cheapo christmas in some random store, looks nothing like a model train
@@the4tierbridge good poimt but I'm saying mostly it doesn't look anything like the og
Their Legacy and Vision Line is their realistic models. These are their traditional, toy train line stuff. In this case, their el cheapo entry train set stuff.
Great review! Definitely going to look into getting one :)
Tender looks a bit over sized with the loco
Finally someone other then me sees it
At 2:22 you made a small mistake, the first coach is almost never a sleeper, so this would be the combined lounge-baggage car, the large sleeping compartment you talked about was actually used to carry luggage, and mail. The SP Daylights had these cars instead of a single baggage car. Just felt like correcting and possibly teaching you all something new.
Looks almost like my comet set from the 70s, I wish for such a legendary set from lionel they would have at least made it a 4-6-2 instead of the standard starter set engine.
THIS IS MY SECOND FAVORITE ENGINE NEXT TO THE FRUSCO DECAPOD
Was considering buying this but I’m far too put off but the small size of the engine and the tender being taller than the engine itself.
3:04 kinda sounds like the conducter is saying "all aboard the blue cocket!"
Got this back in 2021. Love this set and run it any chance I can
I got it on Christmas 2020 so I was able to open it up immediately
The locomotive and tender seem to use the same tooling as the late 1960s Lionel #242. I have a #242 myself as well as it's newer variations from the 80s and 90s. They all share alot of the same visual aspects and running characteristics. They run super well and if something breaks it's usually 2-3 screws and you're in. Nothing bad about it.
Have you read the book of the same name? It's really good.
🤩OH MY GOD! THIS IS SO FAST!
The engine reminded me of the older lionel blue streak freight set
Why is the tender so big?
Awesome set and review
The model looks good but its not the right wheel confuguration and kinda bugs me _X/
Thank you for this review. I just bought this set for myself and am wondering do you have any idea how many cars it can pull? I have a complete set of original Blue Comet cars from the early 70s Lionel MPC Blue Comet. There are like seven cars plus the diner car. It would be nice if it could pull them.
I have a 2003 lionel new York central flyer trainset and the steam engine in the set looks like the one in this set just in new York central colors.
I love the set. It has a lot of announcements due to the announcement coach
The cheapest version of the blue comet Lionel ever made
I think the ornament one looks better then the actual one
the black canyon express is just this but G gauge
Where did you buy it?
My only gripe would be that it looks like the coal tender is actually sitting higher than the engine it kind of makes it look disproportionate.
I have the classic lionel blue comet (from the 60s) and the mth blue comet (2016 I think) I dissed the 2020 becuase it’s to bright
I stile love the blue comet and it’s one of my favorite trains of all time
1978. Not the 60's.
You should do a review of Lionel’s Polar Express set!
The 2nd coach does any recognize it
This thing is not AVAILABLE ANYWHERE I WANT IT SO BAD
I have a Broadway limited set which is more older and looks like that engine.
Thw whistle sounds like Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis 576
The first coach is actually a baggage car even though that there is no blue comet never even had a mixed baggage car. I'm serious. The original one just had a male car. The blue comet of originally had a male car and did not have a mixed baggage car
i don't really like this set because the tender is actually a bit taller then the loco
Hey do you have a discord?
You... realize the smoke unit is standard on all Lionels right? How would you mess it up? That's like saying "I'm not going to put this on the track."
Running it without liquid in it..? 🤣 That burns it out so I tend to keep it off lol
@@ItsTrainBoy The.... set comes with smoke fluid? I guess I'm just not getting the concept of "I'm not going to be the one who tests this out". It's your locomotive. If you're not planning on selling it, it will never be anyone else's locomotive. So it's only ever going to be you who decides to use the fluid. Lionel's been making smoke units for 70 years. Your locomotive will be fine. I've been collecting for 30 years, never had a smoke issue. Just don't use the old 1970's smoke 'pills', and your locomotive will do just fine.
Personally the smoke and sound are the reason I have Lionel instead of HO or OO. Your standard Lionel comes with features that are only available in HO scale on top-tier locomotives. You probably paid less for that entire set that you would pay for a single HO locomotive with smoke, sound and DCC control. Might as well use the smoke, it's a feature on the locomotive. Though I recommend upgrading to third-party smoke fluids, the Lionel brand stuff is pretty weak.
@Thomas Emard I think you’re mistaken, I’m not scared of putting liquid into it I just don’t care to do it because like you say it’s a feature that can cause issues and that I don’t really care for. I see what you mean but it’s never been a feature that I really care too much about. I don’t really do O anymore either so I don’t know the most about them, it was kinda a one off thing. :)
TBH I wish they brought back the mpc era blue comet Hudson #8801
This set is good
But the only problem I have in my case
The tender is oversized
Still good sey
I feel this loco is a knock off because the package is the same as a starter set I have and the loco is smaller than the tender which is the same as a lionel lines steam locomotive. And that loco is poorly made with almost no detail.
New addition to the blue comet sleep with your baggage
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THAT BLUE COMET IS HOT.🚂🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞 🔥
Da gang way
the front car being backwards triggered my ocd
You know I live whare the Blue comet ran.
That tenders taller than the engine
It’s a whistle not a horn
Honestly this model's great, but DAMN. Dat tender is triggering my OCD.
It reminds mr of the polar express
Bro said “legacy” for a lion chief wut
That is not legacy
this looks 1.99$ cheap