It's not the Michael Jackson toothbrush you need to worry about. It's the Kiss branded condoms and the box set of Rammstein butt plugs in the shape of the band members that are in the post. (Those are actually real products btw(
They should have done one with Queen Breakthru train pack. As the video was filmed on the Nene Valley Railway. GWR class 2-8-0 3822 was used in the video
Nice pack here, a truly indispensable part of the British model railway scene. Hornby was quick in spotting this gap in the market, the serious collectors have been crying out for Beatles and Cola stock for years. To top it off, with the big couplings, Hornby have shown us this is an ultra up to date tooling. This really puts Rapido and Accurascale to shame. :)
Honestly if Hornby's gonna make a band themed train pack. One thing they should consider is the train depicted in Queens "Breakthru" music video and having figures of the band on a special purpose flat wagon . At least that would be relevant and could be a rather fun quality product; if it was done properly. However I'm not sure if "effort" is in Hornby's vocabulary where band memorabilia is concerned. Though I admit their Eurostar Beatles set was pretty nice.
The official Beatle merchandise shop online has this in their listing. Hornby evidently as well. Probably Beatle management, or their shop management, simply have commissioned Hornby again to come up with some stuff. As per usual, quality and price are little matters for merc. So they can just recycle their oldest and cheapest tooling. The online shop seems to have many products listed of questionable quality. But that's typical for merc. Fans just buy it because they feel identified with it. Purely an emotional thing...
I bet Uncle Fredrickson could make a better Beatles train. Balancing cars with drum sets, speakers, guitars on stands, and a traveling stage would be far more fun than these shabby looking box vans!
With an Elvis lawnmower on the back. I know it would sell out. Maybe to avoid getting sued by Hornby we could go for a Spice Girls train. I think Sam could sell out a limited edition of 1001 units with some heavy promotion on all of our favourite channels. Or maybe a McCartney train with Wings, the Frog Song and other nonsense. I am sure trolling could revive the model train industry.
The Yellow Submarine Eurostar was novel when it came out, just like when Hornby made the one Coke train to go round the tree at Xmas, but they go too far with those themes afterwards, not realising the novelty wears off.
Apparently the novelty is meant tk wear off. I have been told thst it is a "thing" in the usa thst EACH YEAR you buy this seaskns new Christmas train set.....bizare!
KLF last train to trancentral pack?, it's an old jouef model so Hornby should have the moulds somewhere, mibby include one of the Oxford ice-cream vans?
Next from Hornby the Hard Days Night Train. Standard sleeper carriages and another incarnation of Flying Scotsman or Mallard (even though the train left from Marylebone and headed to Taunton)
“…and I wish that they produce more industrials, and less crappy Beatles s#%t.” - The Unlucky Tug, ‘My ENTIRE Model Train Collection (2024) 150+ Models! - Tug’s Trains’ You absolutely deserve a medal for this, Sam. We all acknowledge your sacrifice. I will say though, I will be getting the Beatles E2. Despite the stink I raised, I’ve been wanting an E2 for the longest time. If I can’t find an umber one, I’ll get one of these and paint it BR black. It’s shocking how one of the blandest liveries is better than what Hornby is pumping out. Cheers, Sam. I’ll see what I can do about that medal. 🏅
@@DonaldTheScottishTwin57646 It would be 32 : 47, when he reaches the section on his industrials. Edited to nullify the timestamp, as it only affected this video.
Sam to this day i just find it hilarious that they still produce the clockwork thomas mold. Sometimes it a cheap easy way to get a thomas with a decent mechanism. Loved the video- Bailey :)
I told a friend of mine who is not a railway enthusiast but is a major Beatles fan if he had heard of these models. Quite obviously he had not, but as a Beatles fan he did show an interest in these models. So I would say these models are not aimed at railway enthusiasts, but at Beatles fans who have a mild interest in railways.
As a Beatles fan and rail enthusiast I quite like the idea of having them on rolling stock but they are absolutely way too overpriced, so not bothering with getting any
Nicely done Sam. "I need a bloody medaI" I cried at that remark. I haven't had a decent laugh for ages! Keep up the great work. No ticket to ride required for this set. Nige
Ok, I know I let you down Sam. Probably my family as well. Indeed I’ve let myself down. But I wish to confess I’ve got that set and I’ve got the next one on order. There, I’ve exorcised that demon. No forgiveness sought or expected.
Sabaton have made some of my fave songs, No Bullets Fly probably being my fave. The story behind it is nothing short of humanity at its best during the darkest of times
Haha enjoyed the review Sam! I'm a big Beatles fan, so I did pick this up, and I've bought all the previous Beatles vans and sets they've released. It's been a mixed bag for me. Some of the art for the album vans was thoughtfully and beautifully designed while some were rather uninspired. However, all the previous vans to have come out were at least printed well. For some reason this set seems generally to have poor printing on it, which is a shame. And yeah, I really don't know what they were thinking about the design of the engine. I don't mind the old toolings so much as long as the livery/design is good. All that said, I must admit I still do like this set. While most of my collection are nice, detailed models, part of me just enjoys the sort of toy aspect of this. And I really like all these Beatles vans going around my layout.
Thank God for correctly placed apostrophes! It still don't help me though... I cannot unread "The Beatle Shits"! 😂 Good job Bachmann did not produce this tat. Would have looked just as shite with the same with a price tag of £200! 😂 Well done mukka. (I think someone on Hornby's "management" team has a Beatles fetish.)
Sorry Sam, but... is it really necessary to make such a subjective, negative review? If you don't like this set, don't buy it. I will definitely not. But if someone likes this set, let them have fun with it. The model railway hobby is for everyone, isn't it?
I believe your sayings of "Excrement in model railway form" and "I've had bowel movements that have constituted better value for money than this" certainly apply here!😂
It's not just Hornby but everywhere these days. This is what happens when meetings stop becoming a good alternative to work and become an end in their own right. The self important attendees convinced themselves that it was a good idea and nobody had the courage to say 'er is this any good?'
My best mate bought one of the wagons when he came to an exhibition with me and two other pals - I was a bit amused, but he said he liked it as he loves the Beatles but doesn't have a layout, and it would remind him of a great day out - so it went on his shelf in the living room - now he wants another to go with it. Need I say more?!?!?!!!
I've got one of those wagons, with metal couplings but best of all it says "Heinz Beans" on the side ! For 1975, it is fantastic, I will probably buy some more and 'form up' a train (gas powered of course !)
Sam you legend, thanks so much for showing everyone what utter tat hornby are producing these days. Unfortunately alot of people are very much 'Blinded' by hornby and can be considered loyalists, so I hope this video reaches them!
Yeah, complete garbage. Except for the P2, the Turbomotive, the 2MT, the upcoming Flirt, Locomotion, the Black 5, and the new well-received TT range. Besides all those things people are buying, they don’t make stuff people want.
@@genericyoutubeuser3828 Tbh excluding that stuff, we have been mostly getting tat like the beatles stuff and random re-releasings of old toolings from 20+ years ago. I get this is a catch up year, however its been a trend the past 4 years. I think you missed the point I was trying to make.
Sam Again. I'm not a model rail enthusiast (probably my loss) but with great respect your videos are pure entertainment. By the way, it will soon be fifty years since ABBA won the Eurovision Contest 😅 👍
Hi Sam, I am 79 I do have this set and the Locomotive has gone straight back in the box ! As I only want the wagons ( not sold separately ) and I now have 16 Beatles wagons + the 2 Utility coaches that came with the Diesel Set. I ran this lot up my Club last night and quite a few photos were taken of them. It is a bit of fun and I get a great deal of satisfaction from my ‘O’ collection. Great Video & thanks, Ron 😊
@@tonyrobinson362 Hi Tony, I have booked my NHS check up and I only got to wait 5 years for it ! It’s all a bit of Fun for our hobby and I still have quite a few Beatles Albums and I got £100 for just one of them. So I have Pre ordered this year’s Train Set ( only for the wagons ) Regards from Ron 🚂👍🚂😃🚂✔️🚂
I’m not sure why they chose an 0-4-0 faceless Thomas for this “limited edition”pack. Kinda ironic considering that Ringo Starr narrated the first two seasons.
Because like the Hornby Christmas tat some mug will buy it , on the lighter side I bought the yoko Ono van it keeps making a terrible squealing noise that sounds vaguely reminiscent of music .
First Hornby did coca cola, then steampunk, and now this, what next a space adventure train pack. I honestly don't know anymore Sam. Cheers Jasper & Willow
Lionel released a complete collection of Beatles themed cars & F series diesel locomotive years ago, a friend has the complete collection, including the yellow submarine on the flatcar.
One of The Beatles, Ringo Starr, was the narrator for the first two seasons of Thomas and friends. Also, over two weeks ago, country singer Toby Keith passed away
Since the three serving members of Queen own everything to do with it, it would be impossible for something like that to happen. Brian May and Roger Taylor are very protective of Queen , also anytime they embark on something new they always inform John Deacon who has said no on occasion to things and they haven't gone ahead with it.
@@ThomasJM it would also be to expensive since they had to use a real locomotive and then also put actuall work in it to make it "screen accurate" and not having an unpaid intern to do the work with the design
They did, a pretty awful and unconvincing thomas body on the standard 0-4-0 chassis used under the L&Y Smokey Joe ST, the Barclay diesel, the ‘Queen Mary’ tank loco and Percy. it lingered in the range as slightly cheaper than the 0-6-0 Thomas into the 90’s before disappearing for about 10-15years and came back in railroad and as the collectors club loco without the face as a freelance loco.
I couldn't understand the comment 'I like The Beatles, but I think that will be tested today'. The only thing that ties the band to a 'tatty' train pack is Hornby themselves. I'm a massive Beatles fan and I'd never dream of buying such rubbish. Obviously, Hornby approached Apple Corps for a license, but that's about it. I wouldn't be surprised if Hornby was 'on the skids' trying to make quick cash grabs with product tie-in's like this, to save their skins. Sam has had a bit of fun trying to drop Beatle song titles in along the way. In this case if Hornby was asked to 'Don't Let Me Down', they failed miserably!
Before I begin: Rod Stewart has a HUGE collection of Hornby stock. HE should have a Hornby series instead of The Beatles! Okay...this set was a weird choice when I saw the announcement. Even weirder is the fact that they've used the old toolings for their 0-6-0 Thomas the Tank Engine and the 0-4-0 version available in this set. This year marks 60 years for the Beatles breakthrough as a worldwide phenomenon, such as their successful film "A Hard Day's Night" and tours of the US, Hong Kong and Australia, with albums being released in those countries as well as Japan. All that said, I've no idea why Hornby is doing this, and moreover using their toolings for THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE of all things. I doubt very seriously that the Ringo connection to Thomas has anything to do with it, either. This set does look like a waste of time. Novelty releases are fun when done right and this set misses the mark by quite a lot. And I say this as a huge Beatles fan.
As Sam mentioned in the video, they ride a train for the beginning of the "Hard Day's Night" film. How great would it have been if we got some sort of set with a nod to that? Could have been two Mark 1 coaches with an appropriate engine and creatively done artwork collage printed on the set. Or even better for a serious collector, you could have had someone research what loco was pulling their train and then include with it three mark 1 coaches each featuring scenes from the film detailed inside with figures: a compartment coach with the Beatles in their compartment, a dining coach with the Beatles and Paul's grandfather etc, and finally a utility van (I'm guessing that's what they were in?) playing their instruments to "I Should Have Known Better." Now that truly would have been a collectible train worthy of the Beatles.
Ok, the thing about this actually that gets me is that in Liverpool there are REAL trains with REAL Beatles livery on them but I swear Merseyrail must not allow companies to make models of their trains because no such models seem to exist
Hi Sam, I was in my local hobby store here in Australia not so long ago and there was a guy aged in his 60s and we spoke of our interest in 00 gauge rail and to my ASTONISHMENT, he was one of these Hornby Beatles railway collectors . He was looking forward to any new releases to add to his collection. I being of same age to him , was try not to laugh but I did then had to accept there is horses for courses. However I was relieved when he told me he lived on the other side of the country and Australia being a large place well. I was ok with that.
If they wanted to make something actually useful for modellers that involves The Beatles, I think they should do scale figures of them. One of the movies they made (A Hard's day night) has a scene on a train, and putting the figures inside a mk1 coach, to recreate the scene, could be a nice easter egg to have on a layout . Even if you dont want to put them in a coach, having them on a layout would be cool, just like miniatur wunderland has a lot of curious scenes there
Hmm. This is true tat! If i were hornby, then I'd make some different wagons - especially a madness or a ha one - to give a bit of variety, not just the beatles - great review as always sam! Also one final thing, hornby really shouldn't have put the "beatle's hits" like that on the wagon,as the s of beatles and the hits looks slightly innapropriate 😅😂
I had no idea Hornby still had this mold, It's their first ever thomas model from the early 80's but repainted lol. Ringo did narrate thomas in the 80's so that could be the link.
I spoke to a railway modeller once about such models abd he said that liveries and trains that never existed are practically worthless. Such aszwhen Hornby tried to sell models of the Southeastern HS Javelin units in an Olympic livery that never was.
I think the only good Beatles product Hornby has released, is the Magical Mystery Tour Wagon. The simplicity of just the logo rather than the album cover being slapped on works way better. It also feels like they used rolling stock for their "tour".
Every time I see the "THE BEATLE'S HITS" wagon, I find myself removing the apostrophe and moving the space between the S and HITS. Was it A Hard Day's Night, where the Fab Four were on a train (with Wilfred Bramble, of Albert Steptoe fame, playing Paul's dad)? That might have been more appropriate to replicate, with licensed scale figures of the band, maybe one set as standing figures, and a second set with them holding their instruments. Or at least a train that served Liverpool in the 1960s. I agree, a cynical cash grab from Hornby, the sort of thing that a well-meaning but ignorant relative would buy someone as a birthday or Christmas present, "Because I know you like trains and the Beatles". I was worried when Sam said that he was going to get his knife, that he was going to do something drastic!
Reminds me of an old Ashens quote about ‘this product is for idiots, I mean collectors’ or something along those lines. I have no clue why Hornby keep making throwaway tat aside from chasing easy money from people to spend far too easily for crap.
I seem to remember that Dinky (same company that made Hornby railways) produced a Yellow submarine model, so maybe they paid for unlimited promotional opportunities !
them using the old thomas 0-4-0 tooling is what's most frustrating to me. it bears resemblance to no real locomotive unlike the other slightly more detailed 0-4-0s
Hornby marketing manager: "Yippee, someone has bought one. Oh, it was Sam. $#@&."
There's easily enough Beatles fans in the world who will buy this. The sort who have every post 1970 album by Ringo and George!!!!
Hornby marketing manager:" nurse, fetch me my tablets please - the pink ones!"
Thank God it's a limited edition of 1000, they are going to struggle to sell 100
OH MY GOD YOUR LEGEND HAD COMMENT ON SAM'TRAINS 🤯🤯
are there even 1000 old sods still alive who remember who the beatles were?
@@matthewhopson964 And have money to burn............
You know it's a bad item when Leokimvideo calls it bad
Feels like Hornby just made this for a quick cash grab
I can't believe one of the trucks didn't have "ticket to ride" on it. At least it would have been vaguely relevant.
And I don't care!
That's the special super limited edition collectors release coming soon for a reasonable price of 99 pounds. 🤣
I think there is another set somewhere with that in it lol
The One After 9:09 - that was a Beatles train song. Or was it a bus…
Ticket to deride
I keep reading "The Beatles' Hits" as " The Beatle Shits". I suppose that it's quite fitting for this pack.
The model equivalent of Elvis’ Greatest Shits.
Glad I'm not the only one seeing that XD
I'm the same with Sam Strains.
I can’t unsee that now
Lmao
"Welcome back to the railway, God help us all!" You know it's gonna be a garbage train on that note 😂
It's not the train set that needs a certificate, it the buyer that needs to be certified. 🤔
0:14 I can hear Sam typing, "Royalty-free music that sounds like The Beatles" into Google.
The ruttles with John lemon
How dare you mock my Michael Jackson toothbrush
It's not the Michael Jackson toothbrush you need to worry about. It's the Kiss branded condoms and the box set of Rammstein butt plugs in the shape of the band members that are in the post.
(Those are actually real products btw(
@@DJ_K666 There were Batman Condoms in the 60's!
Schoolboy error - it turns your skin whiter not your teeth
They should have done one with Queen Breakthru train pack. As the video was filmed on the Nene Valley Railway. GWR class 2-8-0 3822 was used in the video
or the Visage Night Trainset or indeed the Kraftwerk Trans Europe Express HO scale?@@SNStuart
Nice pack here, a truly indispensable part of the British model railway scene. Hornby was quick in spotting this gap in the market, the serious collectors have been crying out for Beatles and Cola stock for years. To top it off, with the big couplings, Hornby have shown us this is an ultra up to date tooling. This really puts Rapido and Accurascale to shame. :)
azuma it,s sam here yet ?
This comment is gold
YES, IT is !
Not going to lie to you, mate. But if I remember rightly seeing a Boeing 747 at Heathrow Airport with the Iron Maiden logo on the sides
@@harrygrieves6812At least not gaudy
"I guess we should be happy this isn't printed in the comic sans font, shouldn't we?"
I DIED LAUGHING
The fact that Hornby still uses that ancient Thomas mold for “Modern” locomotives…
Maybe cause ringo use to voice thomas
@@RichardBough-yk2eitrue! But no
@@RichardBough-yk2ei fr?
Honestly if Hornby's gonna make a band themed train pack. One thing they should consider is the train depicted in Queens "Breakthru" music video and having figures of the band on a special purpose flat wagon . At least that would be relevant and could be a rather fun quality product; if it was done properly. However I'm not sure if "effort" is in Hornby's vocabulary where band memorabilia is concerned. Though I admit their Eurostar Beatles set was pretty nice.
Some VP acquisitions bought the Beatles license and now Hornby has to pay for it.
I'm holding out for the Pete Best Brake Van
The couplings always fail part way in the journey...
Just why when you could get the thomas brand back...
The official Beatle merchandise shop online has this in their listing. Hornby evidently as well. Probably Beatle management, or their shop management, simply have commissioned Hornby again to come up with some stuff. As per usual, quality and price are little matters for merc. So they can just recycle their oldest and cheapest tooling. The online shop seems to have many products listed of questionable quality. But that's typical for merc. Fans just buy it because they feel identified with it. Purely an emotional thing...
@@bobsemple07just imagine they could print by rereleasing Hornby Murdoch because Bachmann seem to refuse to make anyone not from the CGI era.
@@TiasVsEverything they would make a massive profit off selling hornby thomas characters. Huge loss for hornby
well ringo did narrorate TTTE so it makes sense that thomas is wearing a beatles livery
This, this is the only tangible link.
If anyone tries to claim Hornby is from Liverpool then they need to go do there homework.
@@groeacht8525- Some English homework needed too! (*Their). 😉
Would've been a better correlation if it was the normal thomas sculpt and not the crappy 0-4-0 one
@@AtheistOrphan not english thought
bro the 0-4-0 sculpt is more accurate than the E2 body shell. I have one and it's been good-ish.
I like how they used the baby e2 body to probably indicate Ringo’s narration of the first two seasons of Thomas 😂
"He Wrote Regular Law Breaker In His Book"
-Ringo Star 1984 Thomas In Trouble
I bet Uncle Fredrickson could make a better Beatles train. Balancing cars with drum sets, speakers, guitars on stands, and a traveling stage would be far more fun than these shabby looking box vans!
With an Elvis lawnmower on the back. I know it would sell out. Maybe to avoid getting sued by Hornby we could go for a Spice Girls train. I think Sam could sell out a limited edition of 1001 units with some heavy promotion on all of our favourite channels. Or maybe a McCartney train with Wings, the Frog Song and other nonsense. I am sure trolling could revive the model train industry.
This would be something worth buying 😂
They should have made a hopper wagon with "I am The Walrus" written on it.
Nice song references thrown in there Sam, well done!
Limited edition. Sam now owns 20% of the damn things that actually sold.
Hope Sam will give the set to a charity shop!
The irony of the wording on the side - S'HITS
A classic case of failing to proofread your decals to make sure they don’t spell or look like something else.
Put tape over THE BEATLE
What's worse is the red text on the black wagon looks like The Beatle Shits (you can't not see it now)
The Yellow Submarine Eurostar was novel when it came out, just like when Hornby made the one Coke train to go round the tree at Xmas, but they go too far with those themes afterwards, not realising the novelty wears off.
Had never thought about Eurostar being a submarine before, but I suppose it is, it goes under the sea.
Apparently the novelty is meant tk wear off. I have been told thst it is a "thing" in the usa thst EACH YEAR you buy this seaskns new Christmas train set.....bizare!
I think the packaging may be designed to resemble the sleeve of the band's Black Album (compilation).
Well spotted, that one went straight over my head
What's next, the Kraftwerk Trans Europe Express train pack?
I would rather buy that, at least there is a reference to a real train there.
I think Roco or Trix already make that, it's just a regular Trans Europe Express! Oddly, it's not so much of a complete rip off.
KLF last train to trancentral pack?, it's an old jouef model so Hornby should have the moulds somewhere, mibby include one of the Oxford ice-cream vans?
@@groeacht8525 Gladys Knight Midnight train to Georgia or Ghost Train by Madness
What's next, a Siouxsie and the Banshees branded HST set?
The worst part is, for us OO modelers in the States, these licensed cashgrabs are the only things Hornby sells over here.
Hornby managed to get a swear word in naughty naughty
It's hardly the Stiff Tour 1978 train, is it. At least that actually existed.
Next from Hornby the Hard Days Night Train. Standard sleeper carriages and another incarnation of Flying Scotsman or Mallard (even though the train left from Marylebone and headed to Taunton)
“…and I wish that they produce more industrials, and less crappy Beatles s#%t.”
- The Unlucky Tug, ‘My ENTIRE Model Train Collection (2024) 150+ Models! - Tug’s Trains’
You absolutely deserve a medal for this, Sam. We all acknowledge your sacrifice.
I will say though, I will be getting the Beatles E2. Despite the stink I raised, I’ve been wanting an E2 for the longest time.
If I can’t find an umber one, I’ll get one of these and paint it BR black. It’s shocking how one of the blandest liveries is better than what Hornby is pumping out.
Cheers, Sam. I’ll see what I can do about that medal. 🏅
I need to see the timestamp for this!
@@DonaldTheScottishTwin57646 It would be 32 : 47, when he reaches the section on his industrials.
Edited to nullify the timestamp, as it only affected this video.
Sam to this day i just find it hilarious that they still produce the clockwork thomas mold. Sometimes it a cheap easy way to get a thomas with a decent mechanism. Loved the video-
Bailey :)
I told a friend of mine who is not a railway enthusiast but is a major Beatles fan if he had heard of these models. Quite obviously he had not, but as a Beatles fan he did show an interest in these models. So I would say these models are not aimed at railway enthusiasts, but at Beatles fans who have a mild interest in railways.
As a Beatles fan and rail enthusiast I quite like the idea of having them on rolling stock but they are absolutely way too overpriced, so not bothering with getting any
Nicely done Sam. "I need a bloody medaI" I cried at that remark. I haven't had a decent laugh for ages! Keep up the great work. No ticket to ride required for this set. Nige
Dear Sam,
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down!
Best, Pete.
But I do appreciate you being round.....etc
Ok, I know I let you down Sam. Probably my family as well. Indeed I’ve let myself down. But I wish to confess I’ve got that set and I’ve got the next one on order. There, I’ve exorcised that demon. No forgiveness sought or expected.
The fact that the pack is numbered suggests that it is aimed at collectors of Beatles memorabilia, not by train enthusiasts.
Maybe if, with the Oxford rail brand, Hornby decide to do a Sabaton themed Boche Buster, I might buy one.
Sabaton have made some of my fave songs, No Bullets Fly probably being my fave.
The story behind it is nothing short of humanity at its best during the darkest of times
Wait wait!! I’ve found a silver lining. It’s 1000% better than Bradford Deranged.
Haha enjoyed the review Sam! I'm a big Beatles fan, so I did pick this up, and I've bought all the previous Beatles vans and sets they've released. It's been a mixed bag for me. Some of the art for the album vans was thoughtfully and beautifully designed while some were rather uninspired. However, all the previous vans to have come out were at least printed well. For some reason this set seems generally to have poor printing on it, which is a shame. And yeah, I really don't know what they were thinking about the design of the engine. I don't mind the old toolings so much as long as the livery/design is good.
All that said, I must admit I still do like this set. While most of my collection are nice, detailed models, part of me just enjoys the sort of toy aspect of this. And I really like all these Beatles vans going around my layout.
Thank God for correctly placed apostrophes! It still don't help me though... I cannot unread "The Beatle Shits"! 😂
Good job Bachmann did not produce this tat. Would have looked just as shite with the same with a price tag of £200! 😂
Well done mukka. (I think someone on Hornby's "management" team has a Beatles fetish.)
looking at those printed pictures on the locos, its seem to be John, Paul, George, and Spock
Sorry Sam, but... is it really necessary to make such a subjective, negative review? If you don't like this set, don't buy it. I will definitely not. But if someone likes this set, let them have fun with it. The model railway hobby is for everyone, isn't it?
He's a critic it's his job to be subjective
I believe your sayings of "Excrement in model railway form" and "I've had bowel movements that have constituted better value for money than this" certainly apply here!😂
It's not just Hornby but everywhere these days. This is what happens when meetings stop becoming a good alternative to work and become an end in their own right. The self important attendees convinced themselves that it was a good idea and nobody had the courage to say 'er is this any good?'
My best mate bought one of the wagons when he came to an exhibition with me and two other pals - I was a bit amused, but he said he liked it as he loves the Beatles but doesn't have a layout, and it would remind him of a great day out - so it went on his shelf in the living room - now he wants another to go with it. Need I say more?!?!?!!!
I've got a pair of joy division oven gloves, courtesy of half man half biscuit, I use it every day, sadly not dcc fitted!
Me too mate, and I got a Dukla Prague Away Kit for Christmas.
I bet you've got a dodgy transformer too!
Don’t forget Time Flies By (When You’re The Driver Of A Train)🤣
Metal wheels!! Someone at Hornby missed the opportunity of fitting plastic wheels to save costs there. That would have increased the profit margin 😆😆.
I've got one of those wagons, with metal couplings but best of all it says "Heinz Beans" on the side !
For 1975, it is fantastic, I will probably buy some more and 'form up' a train (gas powered of course !)
Back in the 60s the steam age Ringo actually worked on the Railways. I notice his hair dye matches the box colour.
Sam you legend, thanks so much for showing everyone what utter tat hornby are producing these days. Unfortunately alot of people are very much 'Blinded' by hornby and can be considered loyalists, so I hope this video reaches them!
Yeah, complete garbage. Except for the P2, the Turbomotive, the 2MT, the upcoming Flirt, Locomotion, the Black 5, and the new well-received TT range. Besides all those things people are buying, they don’t make stuff people want.
I think it reached them
@@genericyoutubeuser3828 Tbh excluding that stuff, we have been mostly getting tat like the beatles stuff and random re-releasings of old toolings from 20+ years ago. I get this is a catch up year, however its been a trend the past 4 years. I think you missed the point I was trying to make.
I'm going to make an Elvis themed lawn mower now.
In 1964 their solicitor set the Beatles' merch/tat royalty cut at 10%. Paul, Ringo, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono each got 2.5% of your purchase price.
Thank you for taking one for the team, I feel your pain.
Very good with the "so much younger than today" comment haha. I bet I've missed loads of these Easter eggs!
Sam
Again. I'm not a
model rail enthusiast (probably my loss) but with great respect your videos are pure entertainment.
By the way, it will soon be fifty years since ABBA won the Eurovision Contest
😅 👍
Hi Sam, I am 79 I do have this set and the Locomotive has gone straight back in the box ! As I only want the wagons ( not sold separately ) and I now have 16 Beatles wagons + the 2 Utility coaches that came with the Diesel Set. I ran this lot up my Club last night and quite a few photos were taken of them. It is a bit of fun and I get a great deal of satisfaction from my ‘O’ collection. Great Video & thanks, Ron 😊
Ron is your nhs check up due?
@@tonyrobinson362 Hi Tony, I have booked my NHS check up and I only got to wait 5 years for it ! It’s all a bit of Fun for our hobby and I still have quite a few Beatles Albums and I got £100 for just one of them. So I have Pre ordered this year’s Train Set ( only for the wagons ) Regards from Ron 🚂👍🚂😃🚂✔️🚂
I’m not sure why they chose an 0-4-0 faceless Thomas for this “limited edition”pack. Kinda ironic considering that Ringo Starr narrated the first two seasons.
Because like the Hornby Christmas tat some mug will buy it , on the lighter side I bought the yoko Ono van it keeps making a terrible squealing noise that sounds vaguely reminiscent of music .
That train the Beatles were actually on was pulled by a NBL class 22....over to you Dapol!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
They should have put the 0-4-0 diesel instead of the steam loco IMO it fits better.
First Hornby did coca cola, then steampunk, and now this, what next a space adventure train pack. I honestly don't know anymore Sam.
Cheers Jasper & Willow
The Hornby diversity hire at hard work in product development.
At least the steampunk thing was actually clever, this and the cokacola lisensing is just awful
I would love a space adventure train pack.
Space, oh no, please, please don’t give Hornby ideas 😭😭
@@Taggart00 We had Battlespace in the 60s - it was brilliant. Woof!
Lionel released a complete collection of Beatles themed cars & F series diesel locomotive years ago, a friend has the complete collection, including the yellow submarine on the flatcar.
One of The Beatles, Ringo Starr, was the narrator for the first two seasons of Thomas and friends. Also, over two weeks ago, country singer Toby Keith passed away
This is truly one of the train packs of all time.
I am surprised Hornby haven't release Queens Miracle Express used in the music video on the late 80s Queen hit ''Breakthrough''.
Considering they have/had a GWR 28xx loco in their range, i too am surprised thats not been released before now
Since the three serving members of Queen own everything to do with it, it would be impossible for something like that to happen. Brian May and Roger Taylor are very protective of Queen , also anytime they embark on something new they always inform John Deacon who has said no on occasion to things and they haven't gone ahead with it.
@@ThomasJM it would also be to expensive since they had to use a real locomotive and then also put actuall work in it to make it "screen accurate"
and not having an unpaid intern to do the work with the design
"I don't know who would want to collect this?" - Dustmen?
Something I just realized, they reuse the Hornby Thomas chassis again. Around the 1980's (I think) Hornby made an 0-4-0 version of Thomas.
They did, a pretty awful and unconvincing thomas body on the standard 0-4-0 chassis used under the L&Y Smokey Joe ST, the Barclay diesel, the ‘Queen Mary’ tank loco and Percy. it lingered in the range as slightly cheaper than the 0-6-0 Thomas into the 90’s before disappearing for about 10-15years and came back in railroad and as the collectors club loco without the face as a freelance loco.
@@gc7820 was that in addition to the clockwork Thomas and the rest of the clockwork range in the 1990s?
Believe they just heard something about som sort of beatlemania!
If they made a Rutles train set I might be interested
Perhaps Rapido could do one 🙂
@@paulmcwilliam7408 Don't believe they'd be that daft, but you never know! :-D
I couldn't understand the comment 'I like The Beatles, but I think that will be tested today'.
The only thing that ties the band to a 'tatty' train pack is Hornby themselves.
I'm a massive Beatles fan and I'd never dream of buying such rubbish. Obviously, Hornby approached Apple Corps for a license, but that's about it.
I wouldn't be surprised if Hornby was 'on the skids' trying to make quick cash grabs with product tie-in's like this,
to save their skins.
Sam has had a bit of fun trying to drop Beatle song titles in along the way.
In this case if Hornby was asked to 'Don't Let Me Down', they failed miserably!
Value:
Loco and stock: £120.
Certificate: less than a £1
Comedy: priceless
Before I begin: Rod Stewart has a HUGE collection of Hornby stock. HE should have a Hornby series instead of The Beatles!
Okay...this set was a weird choice when I saw the announcement. Even weirder is the fact that they've used the old toolings for their 0-6-0 Thomas the Tank Engine and the 0-4-0 version available in this set.
This year marks 60 years for the Beatles breakthrough as a worldwide phenomenon, such as their successful film "A Hard Day's Night" and tours of the US, Hong Kong and Australia, with albums being released in those countries as well as Japan. All that said, I've no idea why Hornby is doing this, and moreover using their toolings for THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE of all things. I doubt very seriously that the Ringo connection to Thomas has anything to do with it, either.
This set does look like a waste of time. Novelty releases are fun when done right and this set misses the mark by quite a lot. And I say this as a huge Beatles fan.
As Sam mentioned in the video, they ride a train for the beginning of the "Hard Day's Night" film. How great would it have been if we got some sort of set with a nod to that? Could have been two Mark 1 coaches with an appropriate engine and creatively done artwork collage printed on the set. Or even better for a serious collector, you could have had someone research what loco was pulling their train and then include with it three mark 1 coaches each featuring scenes from the film detailed inside with figures: a compartment coach with the Beatles in their compartment, a dining coach with the Beatles and Paul's grandfather etc, and finally a utility van (I'm guessing that's what they were in?) playing their instruments to "I Should Have Known Better." Now that truly would have been a collectible train worthy of the Beatles.
The 0-4-0 is loosely based an a dowlais class D morphed inta a generic mould not the E2
Behold! The cursed Beatles LB&SC 0-4-0T E2!!!!
Ok, the thing about this actually that gets me is that in Liverpool there are REAL trains with REAL Beatles livery on them but I swear Merseyrail must not allow companies to make models of their trains because no such models seem to exist
Hi Sam, I was in my local hobby store here in Australia not so long ago and there was a guy aged in his 60s and we spoke of our interest in 00 gauge rail and to my ASTONISHMENT, he was one of these Hornby Beatles railway collectors . He was looking forward to any new releases to add to his collection. I being of same age to him , was try not to laugh but I did then had to accept there is horses for courses. However I was relieved when he told me he lived on the other side of the country and Australia being a large place well. I was ok with that.
they might as well produce a "paint your own engine set" where they give you an un painted body and you have to paint it.
If they wanted to make something actually useful for modellers that involves The Beatles, I think they should do scale figures of them. One of the movies they made (A Hard's day night) has a scene on a train, and putting the figures inside a mk1 coach, to recreate the scene, could be a nice easter egg to have on a layout .
Even if you dont want to put them in a coach, having them on a layout would be cool, just like miniatur wunderland has a lot of curious scenes there
Hmm. This is true tat! If i were hornby, then I'd make some different wagons - especially a madness or a ha one - to give a bit of variety, not just the beatles - great review as always sam! Also one final thing, hornby really shouldn't have put the "beatle's hits" like that on the wagon,as the s of beatles and the hits looks slightly innapropriate 😅😂
'Slightly innappropriate'...!!😜
I find it hilarious how they used a Thomas-shaped engine for a Beatles train set which features his first television narrator Ringo Starr.
I really need an Elvis lawnmower now so thanks for that.
It isn't tat and just you continue to be blind by ego.
I mean, of course it's an E2. Ringo narrated that one show and played as Mr. Conductor in the US dub.
I'd rather they just made it in Thomas blue so I can make a cheep Thomas for the kids at my local club.
"Please, please help me" lol very good Sam!
I had a really rough day at work today. And then I saw this - I am smiling and feel a lot better! Thank YOU so much!!!
I had no idea Hornby still had this mold, It's their first ever thomas model from the early 80's but repainted lol. Ringo did narrate thomas in the 80's so that could be the link.
Wow that one car looks like it says "THE BEATLE SHITS" 😆
I spoke to a railway modeller once about such models abd he said that liveries and trains that never existed are practically worthless. Such aszwhen Hornby tried to sell models of the Southeastern HS Javelin units in an Olympic livery that never was.
due to Ringo narrating the first two seasons of the show, I find the fact that that the engine is just a repurposed Thomas weirdly fitting
Is a Yoko Ono catch point included?
I only feel like the reason why they added the E2 tank engine was because Ringo Starr was voiced for the UK, dub of Thomas and friends
Good timing as Paul McCartney's missing bass was announced as being returned last week!
I couldn't stop smiling at the lyrics references 😂
I think the only good Beatles product Hornby has released, is the Magical Mystery Tour Wagon. The simplicity of just the logo rather than the album cover being slapped on works way better. It also feels like they used rolling stock for their "tour".
The shape of the engine is at least somewhat related to the Beatles, if only tangentially
Every time I see the "THE BEATLE'S HITS" wagon, I find myself removing the apostrophe and moving the space between the S and HITS.
Was it A Hard Day's Night, where the Fab Four were on a train (with Wilfred Bramble, of Albert Steptoe fame, playing Paul's dad)? That might have been more appropriate to replicate, with licensed scale figures of the band, maybe one set as standing figures, and a second set with them holding their instruments.
Or at least a train that served Liverpool in the 1960s.
I agree, a cynical cash grab from Hornby, the sort of thing that a well-meaning but ignorant relative would buy someone as a birthday or Christmas present, "Because I know you like trains and the Beatles".
I was worried when Sam said that he was going to get his knife, that he was going to do something drastic!
Reminds me of an old Ashens quote about ‘this product is for idiots, I mean collectors’ or something along those lines. I have no clue why Hornby keep making throwaway tat aside from chasing easy money from people to spend far too easily for crap.
Just the tone in the “hello everybody” I knew what I was abt to watch! Hahaha
I seem to remember that Dinky (same company that made Hornby railways) produced a Yellow submarine model, so maybe they paid for unlimited promotional opportunities !
11:44 You can just HEAR the disappointment
Fun fact: Ringo Star was a narator for Thomas the tank engine, and the engine in this set is a old thomas mold
That mold came out like in 1985
@@justclosedtillwhenever that adds to the lazyness
them using the old thomas 0-4-0 tooling is what's most frustrating to me. it bears resemblance to no real locomotive unlike the other slightly more detailed 0-4-0s
"What Did Sam Waste His Money On Today" sounds like the name of a sitcom about my life.