Hogwarts Express fun fact: Every year on the 1st of September, Harry Potter fans gather at King’s Cross to hear the once-a-year announcement about the 11 am departure to Hogsmeade from 9 and three quarters. A special voice is heard making it, the departures screen switches to Harry Potter scenes, and then the iconic music plays. Yes, the announcement part is weird as the train is never announced to muggles as it is supposed to be secret
The new one looks nice, but I was hoping for something like the Emerald Night. A nice looking train that can fit on the standard track and has the ability to be motorized. I was excited to see LEGO was making the new wheels and when they said they would make more train sets because of the new wheels.
i personally prefer the smaller set. it's not minifig scale or anything, but the train station is so good. the train station on the bigger set felt like an afterthought to fill the rest of the budget, let alone being hard to display, as the entire train. the play set is more compact and maybe even wholesome-looking compared to the new giant one.
As a rail enthusiast from the UK, I’m surprised that Lego has been able to make the $500 set look just like the basis. The coach looks just like the British Railways MK1 coach (both interior and exterior) and the locomotive looks just like a GWR 59XX!
The fact that lego released GWR 5900 Class Locomotive in this scale with that much detail is more amazing for me than Harry Potter theme! Would love to see the loco built in dark green colour with GWR letters on the tender.
$40 for the smaller Express set during the Black Friday sales. Worth every penny; we bought two. Good detailed build for its scale and meshes with most of the City and Creator builds well. My son is using one of the sets to augment 60198 Cargo train. He's not old enough to watch Harry Potter yet, but old enough to covet the Emerald Night lol. Hopefully Lego releases a steam train of that caliber again.
Ticket to Hogwarts? Bruh if you actually attended Hogwarts, you’d be the kind of guy to negotiate with the Sorting Hat to be moved to a different house if he gets your house wrong like you negotiate getting sets at lower prices at conventions
I'd take the 2018 set over the 2022 one anytime. How can a train set be made that doesn't have tracks to run on? And it's way too big, only someone living in Downton Abbey can display it
heres an idea alter the stud spacing the train wheels are either 5 or 6 studs apart meaning if the rails are 5 & 6 studs apart it can run but there are no rails only the 1x16 length straight rails which you can separate unlike the playable rails and they dont curve so try and compact the model but make it look good while making it run on normal tracks
The new Hogwarts Express is just beautiful and I’d really love to own it one day, but for now, I’m very content with my play-scale one, as it’s just a really great set, and it only costed me $50(on a sale), as apposed to $500.😂 Edit: 6:46 Dang, it is MASSIVE. I don’t even know where I’d put it lol
@@MandRproductions much easier to find a random black plate than a second gamorean guard. So thats par for the course. I definitely see missing minifigs as a bigger deal than a random plate...
Obviously the 500 dollar set was going to be alot better than the 100 dollar set, but, (at least in my opinion), the 100 dollar set seems to be a really good set for what it is.
I just realized, if you swapped out the red pieces for green pieces, and print out your own signboards and tender details. You can turn the Hogwarts expressed into Olton Hall, which is the basis of the Hogwarts Express
I have the playscale one and I love it! It fits on my harry potter shelves perfectly! The DTC one just is not worth the price in my opinion. Especially since I already have the Playscale one.
the $100 set is the best Lego-gauge Hogwarts Express produced so far, and is far superior to all versions previously made (for starters, it actually has driving wheels instead of two bizarre bogies at either end of the loco), but the $500 is by far the best train ever produced by LEGO (even if it is largest than lego-gauge), and is a phenomenal representation of a GWR Hall Class (they finally got the tender right!).
New one looks very nice but the 2018 wasnt bad at all and I own it, I think it is superior bc it fits on the standard track, right after building the 2018 one a few years ago the first thing I did was try to motorize it I think the new set could have would much better if they made a 200 dollar rc hogwarts express that was remote control and worked on standard track, and basically the same kind of station
GWR 5972, built in 1937 by GWR’s Swindon works, was rather unnoticeable until it was used in the Harry Potter films. The engine wasn’t the first of its class, and it wasn’t the last of its class. It was only the Harry Potter films that made it famous. 5972 made a few public excursions afterwards until 2014 when she was put on display at Universal Studios London UK.
The opening in the 80 dollar coach is a gangway door, so passengers can travel between coaches. If this where LNER flying Scotsman, not GWR Olton Hall, it would have a corridor tender, so they could walk through it.
God I'd kill for a lego British steam line of this quality, almost definitely won't happen, but hey, I can dream, the fact they made (unless I'm mistaken, its the first time ive seen them anyway) new larger train wheel pieces and new door peices for this set does give me hope they might feel more obligated to make use of them in other locomotive sets of this quality. Also love the fact that this engine is bigger than what we usually get for lego, typically I feel the sheer size of these machines is lost in order to make a more playable or affordable set. This is really the best train lego has ever made in my opinion, just a shame it has the Harry Potter license attached to it making it easily 25% more expensive than it needs to be
I would need alot of self control if it was in green. I reckon if you could get a copy of the instructions you could buy the pieces individually and make it yourself. It would be a bit of hassle but probably worth it
I’ve heard people saying “it’s too big, it’s out of scale”, but the fact is, it IS in scale (roughly) at least better than the small one which is borderline Narrow Gauge
with the cheaper set you can always just take another set's legs so they can sit down. It is cool that it comes with track and a lot of minifigs it comes with but not worth getting the more expensive set.
since the cheaper set is about 1/5 the price of the expensive set, do you think it's feasible to buy 5 of the cheaper sets in order to build a bigger train than the expensive set? i feel like the extra parts you get from 5 cheaper sets can get a much better train that still fits on the lego train tracks, and a better station too
I personally prefer the 80$ set because it can actually go on regular track and I think that a Tran isn’t a real train if it can do what it was meant to do and drive around. But the thing was a nightmare to moterise
Even though I can afford the big one, I'd still rather have the smaller one because it displays well already without eating so much of my space and money! And if I have the space, I can make it even longer and more complete and buying one or two more copies of the smaller version, which is discounted by 25% currently, and STILL end up spending significantly less than the big one!
I think the smaller one is more bang for the buck. I really like the interior of the passengerwagon on the expensive one - but overall the cheaper is More LEGO. Buy a metal-display-set of the Hogwarths train if you like to display that you are a grown up nerd.
I was honestly relieved when the set got revealed because i definitely felt like spending all the money on it wasn't worth it but after this video im kinda itching to buy this. Im not even that big of a harry potter fan but seing the scale and the grandeur of the train along with the platform that is beautifully detailed makes me just wanna BUY
@@theclassybaryonyx Im not gonna lie I can understand where youre coming from in terms of the size and attention to detail, as its not something you usually see in trains from lego. However, it definitely seems like an overly display set, as it cant really do much except look cool. That plus the price makes it beyond anywhere near worth buying for me, but if you just like the way it looks then go ahead.
Man, the LEGO Harry Potter Designers knocked it out of the park for both of them. They definitely know how to do bonuses, unlike the Star Wars designers
Cheaper set takes the cake all day long! I wouldn't touch that oversized $500 disaster with a 10 ft pole... sad really; I was fully ready to get it day one. Lego truly does hate train fans. hopefully one day we get a more detailed version that actually works on tracks and isn't the size of a cruise ship compared to the figs I will concede that the tender on the $80 version does look awful though; way way too small, but easily fixed nonetheless
This might be a minor nit-pick to some, but the drive wheels on the larger set isn't properly quartered and it's kinda messing with me. Other than that it looks like a fantastic set which I might buy in the future
this would be a perfect set to make in a different colour and start a line of actual locomotives. if you didn't know the Hogwarts express is a GWR hall class I think and you can go see it at one of the heritage lines in the UK in the Hogwarts express livery.
For the same price they could have made it a great train set that runs on tracks instead of a purely display set that's almost too big to display. This really only appeals to Harry Potter fans and not train enthusiasts.
Its real name is Olton Hall before it was repainted to look like the Hogwarts Express, and it deserves to be repainted and back on the GWR where it belongs now that the Harry Potter movies are finished
Ucs-looks amazing, but it is impossible to run it on standard tracks. Small one-run on standard tracks, but looks unfinished. It is really need some additional parts for better look. Also station bridge is too low, not all trains will path.
Man great vid. But I do think the comparison is other, the price increase is because the goals are different for each set. One is more a collectors edition, that I’d buy. The other is more a kids version to play 🚂
I got the og hogwarts express and I swear still love it more than the new one probably because I’ve had it so long but it truly just had more thought into it then this 500$ one.
I had the original hogwarts express when I was a kid I converted it to make it electric with parts from a electric train set I lost 90% of pieces for. all I had left was tracks wheels and controller
"Id' rather pay 400 dollars and not ge tthe platform." Well if you compare the small train to just the platform, it makes the smaller train seem like a steal!
i got lego train track pieces from 1980 (they are the same pieces they used for this set as for the tracks) they are brittle tho and should not really be removed quickly or in a very hard manner because of how old the tracks are they will just break ( they are also that good ol blu greyish color)
The bigger one just looks bigger but without more details (maybe interiors for which you are not going to open the cart all the time). For ex the conductor cabin on the smaller one has a fire and gauges. The bigger one doesn t . The size makes it hard to integrate it with other stuff. There are no tracks for it. The train station is bigger but doesn t have the newspappers clock and bridge and the trap wall
They shrunk the glasses but not because of outdated prints or design choices, but younger Minifigures have bigger eyes, so I do suppose the glasses on young Harry would have been intentionally larger, they do still use both faces to date just to represent different stages in his life
A sSet in line with the Creator Expert Trains would have been nicer. City train scale, many small pieces, good details, maybe 2 or even 3 cars to make a real train. this 500 dollar set is nice, sure, but there is an audience that was totally ignored again. I would not pay 500 for a usesless dust collector incompatible with existing playsets. and IF they really wanted to make an indredible display piece, just make the iconic red locomotive without a passenger car and the even larger with even more nice details.
I prefer small 90 euros set, because smaller with still good details and compatible with Lego City Trains, so good train for your Lego City with theme station. Minifigs selection is good in 90 euros too. More parts, more details and higher price + inflation. New Collectors' Edition is good for decoration, for HP fans, but small cheaper version have more option for you.
I have to say that you really do not pay a lot of attention that the old version can run on the lego tracks and works, where the new one cannot ride on the tracks.
I'd rather buy two of the $80 ones along with a few extra parts then modify them into my own version. The fact the $500 can't run on standard track (heard it fits on G-Gauge track, but even then, doubt it can make corners), and still has less detail then many custom 8-wide trains is just sad. The pistons are especially poor, better then the $80 set for sure as it actually has side rods, but it still looks plain and the fact the rod comes out the far end up the pistons when it moves is a fail.
I like the new set but jeez 500 buckaroos for it, I mean I guess, but I think it'd been nicer if lego had done a 7 wide or 8 wide or even a better city scale train and had just offered some track and more coaches. I mean the set itself is really well designed from what I'm seeing, just I think it's a tad too big. But hey that's just a opinion.
Hogwarts Express fun fact: Every year on the 1st of September, Harry Potter fans gather at King’s Cross to hear the once-a-year announcement about the 11 am departure to Hogsmeade from 9 and three quarters. A special voice is heard making it, the departures screen switches to Harry Potter scenes, and then the iconic music plays. Yes, the announcement part is weird as the train is never announced to muggles as it is supposed to be secret
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As a lego train fan as well, the worst part about the new one is the tracks don't match existing 6 wide tracks.
The fact they made a train that isnt compatible with any of their tracks is a travesty.
Are the wheels not 6 studs wide?
@@benmoore2253 correct
The tender looked like it could be modified for 6 studs pretty easily, but I don’t know about the locomotive
The very reason that I will not want that set
The new one looks nice, but I was hoping for something like the Emerald Night. A nice looking train that can fit on the standard track and has the ability to be motorized.
I was excited to see LEGO was making the new wheels and when they said they would make more train sets because of the new wheels.
Cheap is better just because it fits standard lego tracks
Real question, why does it need to?
Edit: I’m talking about the $500 set, not the $100 option
So dose the cheep one
@@GOOPgaminginc reading is fundamental
@@Nerdtendo6366 because people have cities they would like to add it to?
@@SkyKid002 or creating a harry potter world with a FUNCTIONAL train.
i personally prefer the smaller set. it's not minifig scale or anything, but the train station is so good. the train station on the bigger set felt like an afterthought to fill the rest of the budget, let alone being hard to display, as the entire train. the play set is more compact and maybe even wholesome-looking compared to the new giant one.
@@repticare101 I personally think you eat shit for your daily nutritional needs
As a rail enthusiast, the pathetic attempt at a hall class in the play set if almost offensive
@@repticare101 Your looking on comments for this review video. Dingus
As a rail enthusiast from the UK, I’m surprised that Lego has been able to make the $500 set look just like the basis. The coach looks just like the British Railways MK1 coach (both interior and exterior) and the locomotive looks just like a GWR 59XX!
The fact that lego released GWR 5900 Class Locomotive in this scale with that much detail is more amazing for me than Harry Potter theme! Would love to see the loco built in dark green colour with GWR letters on the tender.
Not being a harry potter fan.. i kind of agree, still think its 2 studs to wide
5:21. Absolutely hilarious. Idk why I found it so funny.
The new hogwarts express looks vert accurate to a gwr Hall class (the locomotive that was used for the hogwarts express)
$40 for the smaller Express set during the Black Friday sales. Worth every penny; we bought two. Good detailed build for its scale and meshes with most of the City and Creator builds well. My son is using one of the sets to augment 60198 Cargo train. He's not old enough to watch Harry Potter yet, but old enough to covet the Emerald Night lol. Hopefully Lego releases a steam train of that caliber again.
As someone who grew up with the 2010 version, I can appreciate all the newer versions out.
Nice! As someone who has the 2018 version, and the 2022 version, I personally think the Collector’s edition one is better.
Am I insane if I like the smaller one. It looks better to me and the station part is way better.
Yes
Lots of comments seem to prefer the smaller version. Myself included
I’m not the biggest Harry Potter fan but I absolutely love how lego portrayed the set and I think lego should do more steam locomotive sets
Especially the PRR T1 locomotive
Well, the Orient Express is coming soon.
Ticket to Hogwarts? Bruh if you actually attended Hogwarts, you’d be the kind of guy to negotiate with the Sorting Hat to be moved to a different house if he gets your house wrong like you negotiate getting sets at lower prices at conventions
Yea
What's wrong with that the prices are insane
@@melissalavin7967 it's a joke chill, nothing wrong with negotiating...unless you question the Sorting Hat
Big bruh moment
No need to negotiate with the Sorting Hat. It takes into account which House you want to be in ;)
I'd take the 2018 set over the 2022 one anytime. How can a train set be made that doesn't have tracks to run on? And it's way too big, only someone living in Downton Abbey can display it
heres an idea alter the stud spacing the train wheels are either 5 or 6 studs apart meaning if the rails are 5 & 6 studs apart it can run but there are no rails only the 1x16 length straight rails which you can separate unlike the playable rails and they dont curve
so try and compact the model but make it look good while making it run on normal tracks
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The set was designed for gauge 1 scale track. Unfortunately, the fixed bogies means it can only run on straight track.
@@ronniekenworth171 well did you try using technic pins so the 4 front wheels can swivel?
The new Hogwarts Express is just beautiful and I’d really love to own it one day, but for now, I’m very content with my play-scale one, as it’s just a really great set, and it only costed me $50(on a sale), as apposed to $500.😂
Edit: 6:46 Dang, it is MASSIVE. I don’t even know where I’d put it lol
Note, I think you may be able to keep the light bricks down if you connect a lego plate over the top to the studs at the side.
That was my thoughts exactly
Not included in the set for $500 🤷♀️
@@MandRproductions Yeah, but that's Lego, the company we all love where only the lowest budget and eyewatering prices are good enough.
@@MandRproductions much easier to find a random black plate than a second gamorean guard. So thats par for the course. I definitely see missing minifigs as a bigger deal than a random plate...
Smaller set has a wayyyy better price point. like 200 bucks is spent just on the tracks and tender, which aren't worth it, although they do look good.
Obviously the 500 dollar set was going to be alot better than the 100 dollar set, but, (at least in my opinion), the 100 dollar set seems to be a really good set for what it is.
I just realized, if you swapped out the red pieces for green pieces, and print out your own signboards and tender details. You can turn the Hogwarts expressed into Olton Hall, which is the basis of the Hogwarts Express
I have the playscale one and I love it! It fits on my harry potter shelves perfectly! The DTC one just is not worth the price in my opinion. Especially since I already have the Playscale one.
Easy win for the cheaper one. Not even a competition, it just blows the bigger one out of the water!
you could put some black 2x4s over the lights and they will stay on (maybe even some gray parts over the 2x4s for the detail)
0:32 the voice crack😂
the $100 set is the best Lego-gauge Hogwarts Express produced so far, and is far superior to all versions previously made (for starters, it actually has driving wheels instead of two bizarre bogies at either end of the loco), but the $500 is by far the best train ever produced by LEGO (even if it is largest than lego-gauge), and is a phenomenal representation of a GWR Hall Class (they finally got the tender right!).
New one looks very nice but the 2018 wasnt bad at all and I own it, I think it is superior bc it fits on the standard track, right after building the 2018 one a few years ago the first thing I did was try to motorize it I think the new set could have would much better if they made a 200 dollar rc hogwarts express that was remote control and worked on standard track, and basically the same kind of station
GWR 5972, built in 1937 by GWR’s Swindon works, was rather unnoticeable until it was used in the Harry Potter films. The engine wasn’t the first of its class, and it wasn’t the last of its class. It was only the Harry Potter films that made it famous. 5972 made a few public excursions afterwards until 2014 when she was put on display at Universal Studios London UK.
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I own the little one and I’m happy with just that. I’d rather buy Diagon Alley, but with that said I wouldn’t mind having the big one.
Agreed
the nostalgia of the $100 train, my first Harry Potter set. I remember opening on chirstmas and spending the rest of the day building it.
The opening in the 80 dollar coach is a gangway door, so passengers can travel between coaches. If this where LNER flying Scotsman, not GWR Olton Hall, it would have a corridor tender, so they could walk through it.
Am I the only one who thinks the new one is one of the best Lego display pieces out there? It just looks so good
The “thanks corey” got me 😭
God I'd kill for a lego British steam line of this quality, almost definitely won't happen, but hey, I can dream, the fact they made (unless I'm mistaken, its the first time ive seen them anyway) new larger train wheel pieces and new door peices for this set does give me hope they might feel more obligated to make use of them in other locomotive sets of this quality.
Also love the fact that this engine is bigger than what we usually get for lego, typically I feel the sheer size of these machines is lost in order to make a more playable or affordable set.
This is really the best train lego has ever made in my opinion, just a shame it has the Harry Potter license attached to it making it easily 25% more expensive than it needs to be
I would need alot of self control if it was in green. I reckon if you could get a copy of the instructions you could buy the pieces individually and make it yourself. It would be a bit of hassle but probably worth it
I’ve heard people saying “it’s too big, it’s out of scale”, but the fact is, it IS in scale (roughly) at least better than the small one which is borderline Narrow Gauge
with the cheaper set you can always just take another set's legs so they can sit down. It is cool that it comes with track and a lot of minifigs it comes with but not worth getting the more expensive set.
since the cheaper set is about 1/5 the price of the expensive set, do you think it's feasible to buy 5 of the cheaper sets in order to build a bigger train than the expensive set? i feel like the extra parts you get from 5 cheaper sets can get a much better train that still fits on the lego train tracks, and a better station too
“The sticker wasn’t applied great… thanks Cory..” “What?” Lmaooo 🤣🤣🤣✋😂
0:49 I’ve never seen someone open a thumb tack Lego box so smoothly-
I personally prefer the 80$ set because it can actually go on regular track and I think that a Tran isn’t a real train if it can do what it was meant to do and drive around. But the thing was a nightmare to moterise
Even though I can afford the big one, I'd still rather have the smaller one because it displays well already without eating so much of my space and money! And if I have the space, I can make it even longer and more complete and buying one or two more copies of the smaller version, which is discounted by 25% currently, and STILL end up spending significantly less than the big one!
They finally fixed it to make it look more like a GWR hall class locomotive.
Now it looks more British
And here’s me with the original 2001 version where the wheels are just car rims without the tires
Great video! I actually think I prefer the small one! 😅
I think the smaller one is more bang for the buck. I really like the interior of the passengerwagon on the expensive one - but overall the cheaper is More LEGO. Buy a metal-display-set of the Hogwarths train if you like to display that you are a grown up nerd.
I got the Lego Titanic already and im a huge harry potter fan so I think it's great!
I was honestly relieved when the set got revealed because i definitely felt like spending all the money on it wasn't worth it but after this video im kinda itching to buy this. Im not even that big of a harry potter fan but seing the scale and the grandeur of the train along with the platform that is beautifully detailed makes me just wanna BUY
If youre not a harry potter fan, it makes zero sense wanting to buy lol
@@youngderrick412 i guess my opinion is invalid because guy on internet 😓
@@theclassybaryonyx Im not gonna lie I can understand where youre coming from in terms of the size and attention to detail, as its not something you usually see in trains from lego. However, it definitely seems like an overly display set, as it cant really do much except look cool. That plus the price makes it beyond anywhere near worth buying for me, but if you just like the way it looks then go ahead.
Man, the LEGO Harry Potter Designers knocked it out of the park for both of them. They definitely know how to do bonuses, unlike the Star Wars designers
I know right. Two amazing sets, one of which comes with an ACTUAL bonus lol
3:42 it looks like the queen ❤😢 she will be missed
Finally, an accurate Minifig Scale train.
Cheaper set takes the cake all day long! I wouldn't touch that oversized $500 disaster with a 10 ft pole... sad really; I was fully ready to get it day one. Lego truly does hate train fans. hopefully one day we get a more detailed version that actually works on tracks and isn't the size of a cruise ship compared to the figs
I will concede that the tender on the $80 version does look awful though; way way too small, but easily fixed nonetheless
Maybe lego should just introduce 8 or 10 wide track in the future.
Is it me, or this is like a brick of duplo compare to a Lego piece when he compares the train together
Honestly at that price I could get a Lionel lion chief set for that much and that a real model train with working steam and lights
You could get a tiny hogwarts train in the christmas calendar, it would have been fun to include that in the video as well!
This might be a minor nit-pick to some, but the drive wheels on the larger set isn't properly quartered and it's kinda messing with me. Other than that it looks like a fantastic set which I might buy in the future
I like both but I prefer the $80 one cause I like to run my LEGO trains
this would be a perfect set to make in a different colour and start a line of actual locomotives. if you didn't know the Hogwarts express is a GWR hall class I think and you can go see it at one of the heritage lines in the UK in the Hogwarts express livery.
I love the look of the larger set, but I don't know where I'd put it, which makes me sad.
We might have been denied a Polar Express so that LEGO could make this when we've wanted Gringotts for two years.
For the same price they could have made it a great train set that runs on tracks instead of a purely display set that's almost too big to display. This really only appeals to Harry Potter fans and not train enthusiasts.
Its real name is Olton Hall before it was repainted to look like the Hogwarts Express, and it deserves to be repainted and back on the GWR where it belongs now that the Harry Potter movies are finished
I just got the 80$ version for Christmas, it’s much better than his $500 version
Ucs-looks amazing, but it is impossible to run it on standard tracks.
Small one-run on standard tracks, but looks unfinished. It is really need some additional parts for better look. Also station bridge is too low, not all trains will path.
Man great vid. But I do think the comparison is other, the price increase is because the goals are different for each set. One is more a collectors edition, that I’d buy. The other is more a kids version to play 🚂
In the books the train conductor is a ghost
I got the og hogwarts express and I swear still love it more than the new one probably because I’ve had it so long but it truly just had more thought into it then this 500$ one.
The smaller Hogwarts express set is $80…. Currently $73 on Amazon
I got most of the train parts of the old Hogwarts express for 1100 rupees (5 dollars) from some random market :O
I had the original hogwarts express when I was a kid I converted it to make it electric with parts from a electric train set I lost 90% of pieces for. all I had left was tracks wheels and controller
As a child I always absolutely hated the fact that there's only one passenger cart for those lego trains. :(
That voice crack at The start😂
still waiting for the lego polar express train set.
Have the 80$ set which is nice .. 500$ looks really nice , Cool part is Lego sets fit O scale Lionel trains which is what I collect …
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that newer hermoine does have more umm... mature(?) printing at the chest...😂🤔💀
"Id' rather pay 400 dollars and not ge tthe platform."
Well if you compare the small train to just the platform, it makes the smaller train seem like a steal!
i got lego train track pieces from 1980 (they are the same pieces they used for this set as for the tracks) they are brittle tho and should not really be removed quickly or in a very hard manner because of how old the tracks are they will just break ( they are also that good ol blu greyish color)
The smaller set is honestly a lot larger than I thought it was gonna be. Bought mine used for $30 less than retail and is a really fun build
The bigger one just looks bigger but without more details (maybe interiors for which you are not going to open the cart all the time). For ex the conductor cabin on the smaller one has a fire and gauges. The bigger one doesn t . The size makes it hard to integrate it with other stuff. There are no tracks for it. The train station is bigger but doesn t have the newspappers clock and bridge and the trap wall
Now imagine if lego did a polar express set like the $500 set.
This looks so Amazing!, it is a Huge set😮
But only like 5 figures in a Star Wars set
They shrunk the glasses but not because of outdated prints or design choices, but younger Minifigures have bigger eyes, so I do suppose the glasses on young Harry would have been intentionally larger, they do still use both faces to date just to represent different stages in his life
A sSet in line with the Creator Expert Trains would have been nicer. City train scale, many small pieces, good details, maybe 2 or even 3 cars to make a real train. this 500 dollar set is nice, sure, but there is an audience that was totally ignored again. I would not pay 500 for a usesless dust collector incompatible with existing playsets. and IF they really wanted to make an indredible display piece, just make the iconic red locomotive without a passenger car and the even larger with even more nice details.
The price for the hogwarts express colecters edition is insane and the colecters edition is way better then the original
I prefer small 90 euros set, because smaller with still good details and compatible with Lego City Trains, so good train for your Lego City with theme station. Minifigs selection is good in 90 euros too.
More parts, more details and higher price + inflation. New Collectors' Edition is good for decoration, for HP fans, but small cheaper version have more option for you.
I have to say that you really do not pay a lot of attention that the old version can run on the lego tracks and works, where the new one cannot ride on the tracks.
Yeah but there are two error in the new: the station is king's cross not king cross and the class isn't 5900 Is
4900
"It costs $500, it's ehhh a bit expensive"
Me who would have to save up money for like 2yrs to get it
Ron got killed
A MINI FILM WITH THE 500 BUCKS ONE WOULD BE AWESOME sry caps lock
The tender in the car it attaches like how you would attach a tender to a model train steam locomotive
If the Hogwarts express sets were Star Wars sets, then the price would be 700$ for the bigger one and at least 100$ for the smaller one
"Thanks Cory" "....huh?"
Comparing these two sets… Lego really said double it and give it to the next train 😂
I'd rather buy two of the $80 ones along with a few extra parts then modify them into my own version. The fact the $500 can't run on standard track (heard it fits on G-Gauge track, but even then, doubt it can make corners), and still has less detail then many custom 8-wide trains is just sad. The pistons are especially poor, better then the $80 set for sure as it actually has side rods, but it still looks plain and the fact the rod comes out the far end up the pistons when it moves is a fail.
That new trolly witch looks just like every old lady in the 1980s
Oh, and I really want that new set!
I like the new set but jeez 500 buckaroos for it, I mean I guess, but I think it'd been nicer if lego had done a 7 wide or 8 wide or even a better city scale train and had just offered some track and more coaches. I mean the set itself is really well designed from what I'm seeing, just I think it's a tad too big. But hey that's just a opinion.