Lionel Trains vs "Weather" Balloons
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Lionel's new “WEATHER” BALLOON DEFENSE 2-PACK
Model Number: $229.99
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Video Notes:
1) Don't miss the blooper at end of the video.
Glad to see another one of these modern remakes of vintage sets! I know that the pre war state set, the 261E, the prewar inspired freight set, the prewar and post war scale Hudson’s and many many postwar items have been remade over the years but to your knowledge has there ever been a remake of a MPC era set?
😂 nice 👍🏻
This is one of the best and most hilarious train sets I have ever whitenesses in my railroading life. 😂
That’s hilarious. So cool. Old school fun. We used that missile car to shoot ornaments off the Christmas tree!
Didn't know that Lionel did this in response to social media, it's definitely a good joke on their part and a surprisingly fast response to recent events. I always loved the missile launching cars, had one of the classics as a kid and recently found a reproduction of the "minuteman" version. I think they're a great example of putting more play value into the rolling stock.
I just received a package from Lionel. The box and label envelope appear to be made in USA. Anyways huge shoutout to Lionel for their excellent customer service they gave me! Super fast turnaround!
Fantastic, Eric. Truly brought back memories to me from the 1960 era with a great whimsical aurora about it. Kudos to Lionel for bringing a " joke " into fruition 🤣🚆🚂❣
Great seeing old Postwar classics again.
basically, its post war all over again.... Love it.
Postwar reproductions of cars and trains are always amazing!
Yes they are!
Haha very nice. See this is the reason why I and everyone else loves this hobby! It’s all about having fun. I love it!
Yep!
Ah, for once the armed train actually does something instead of getting blown up by some psychopathic mute of a fighter pilot.
That’s what this hobby is all about, Eric. FUN!!!!
This is so fun! Merry Christmas Eric 🎄
Now that I say is a lot of fun, it also looked good behind the space force engine 👍👍
This is hilarious! Definitely not something I’d a model train company to do. I love the “weather” in quotations
In N scale, Microtrains had a scaled down, but accurate 3D printed model of the Main body with a resin casting of a deflated balloon on a flatcar as a kit sold back in April.
I love old lionel cars because it was the time when toys were creative and different. I really love that they kept the tooling in service
I have to admit, that's good... Good for Lionel to capitalize on something like that. Hope they make a boatload off of it.
“Boatload.” Was that meant to be “punny?” 🤭
No, but it works!
Nice job capturing your excitement for this pack. I enjoyed the video.
What a fun set! Kudos to Lionel for actually making this! And it works surprisingly well! - Ryan
Big fun!😅
boys and there toys !!!! love it !!!!!
Too much fun!
You should have ran the cars with your new blue Marines FA's. They have the post war flavor as well.
I simultaneously love the toyish nature of certain models as much as I love a good realistic model. I would love a set of these.
This is awesome. And it didn't even fly all the way across America first 😅😅😅😊
Awesome that had me laughing out loud.
Great shooting Eric. R Doan. Awesome layout.
lol this was such a good video Eric. This one of the first reviews on this product that I’ve seen. Awesome work 🚂
Thanks 👍
@@Ericstrains dreams really do come true for us modelers 🚂
Very cool 😎 love the slow motion 👍
Can you run the train with the balloon floating or will it fall off? Awesome vid you definitely sold me 😂
Pretty sure it’ll fall off but didn’t try it so not 100% sure
Ive seen the old version the balloon definitely stays floating when moving down the rails.
Eric
You missed the point of the original Target Launcher car being a rail car. The Target Launcher car would suspend the balloon and the suspended balloon would follow the car, being pulled by a loco slowly around the layout using Bernoulli's Principle. How about that! This works best on a loop of track but should not have tunnels, bridges or signal bridges that would interfere with the balloon hovering above the car like my present layout.
Thus, the challenge of the pairing the Target Launcher balloon car and the missile car would be to have the moving Target Launcher balloon car, with suspended balloon, drive by on another track to let the missile car and operator try to hit the moving target balloon. Much more fun.
Charlie
Spectacular shots! Love the slow motion action shots! Fantastic! What fun. The consist at the very end was so cool 😎 Hey when we make our videos it takes A LOT of takes lol 😂 well done Big Guy!
Thanks so much!!
I have the dumbest smile on my face watching this.
Definitely an interesting piece
Thats really cool Lionel did this, funny too. I never even heard they were going to run this.
A train set that meme'd it's way into production
You could have a game with the launcher to see who has the best shot🤠🤠
Lots of fun !
I was watching the video like man. This would be really cool to be pulled by my Lionel ES44 AC 1775 US army black camo locomotive and then lo and behold. At the end of the video you have one. I must have missed that. I didn't know
This is awesome, so much fun
This is super funny! I love it!
That is freaking cool!
We have seen all of your engine videos how about a Lionel accessories video about the ones you have? And show how they work?
That is great. And hilarious at the same time
That’s so cool
I swear when I saw this on Lionel's website I laughed my butt off because first thing that came to mind was that balloon.
Eric, I'm still waiting for a knife review series on Kitbashed.
Thinking about it.
This is amazing I didn't realize they actually made it.
Very cool looking 👍🏻✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️
Thank you! Cheers!
Lionel trolling China is the best!
The cars, in my opinion, have some postwar charm because of the tooling
i've got good tone-Fox 2- splash! lol
absolutely brilliant
This is so messed up but so funny
You are having at to much fun!
I still have my original missile launcher with the Army barracks and the car. I have / has the ballon car. All are packed way as I get ready to move to SC. My brother, Steve and I must have used those items daily when we were small. Got mine from Madison Hardware. My grandfathers and my dad brought it home for Christmas
You gotta let me play with this when i come down next year. Please. 😂🎉
Sure!
there is an AIM-9L, it’s an older variant. Post Vietnam era
correct, but I wonder if they used the L on purpose because it's Lionel
Cool 😎
Marry Christmas eric and Lisa from me and alshea from spokane washington have good new year
Merry Christmas!
@@Ericstrains thanks eric
Cool old cars brought back I got the exploding box cars
Goodness me - a grown man playing with children’s toys and thinking its good. Well its not good - its awesome 😂😂😂😂 I’m 72 and serious want to get into building a model rail set again just to play with one of these (before the Safety Police ban it for being too dangerous or Politically Incorrect). The the things we could play with in our childhood and still live to a ripe old age - where’s “harmless” (?) fun gone these days. Love this channel even though I no longer have a rail set 🙁
Thanks!
So cute!
That is what needs to be done to the ( D ) 'party.'
Thank you Lionel 👏👏👏 I feel safer already ! 🥴😂
Nice piece. I wonder if PRC refers to the People's Republic . I can't see Lionel producing goods in a country, and being able to openly mock them.
People's Republic of China, correct.
Now that would be a sly dig at the US...or maybe Lionel's Chinese suppliers don't speak English?
Does it take a week for the missle to hit target?
It only took a few seconds to take out the balloon. It took a week to be sure the balloon was not over any land area. If the debris killed one goddamn cow we'd still be hearing about it.
Lionel has the balls to have this made in China, Wow! Outer box made in USA, shipped to China for China to ship it back to the USA with the product. Tell me again how it's cheaper to have their stuff made in China.
A few years ago, I worked with the Chinese on an animated film. My team and I would draw the characters, and settings in the US, then send them out to the Chinese in China. They would turn them into animated characters and send them back to us. We discovered the Chinese animators were receiving the equivalent of a $1.00/day salary and a dollar for lunch. That pay scale for the Chinese workers could certainly convince Lionel to buy there and sell here.
You know what I think the U.S. should do now: Build spy balloons of our own, and send them over china to "test out their air defense capabilities."
Do you know that a toy story dvd got recalled due to r rated movie play unexpectedly.
Cool ..
"PRC"=Peoples Republic of China 😊 which is the official name of China where everything is made.
No affiliation with the PRC! 😂
(Peoples Republic of China) lol
It's funny i have both the 6650 and the 6630
Put a pin on the tip of the missile...total destruction!
Needs a pin!
Plus a clean rocket landing without knocking a piece of equipment being taking out without any friendly fire hits, Maybe you can teach the woke military to aim & fire without any collateral damage, DOD needs to hire you!!!!
Dont yiu need helium to inflate the balloon?
No
If a ufo 🛸
🚂😎👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I thought that the balloon will pop when the missile hit it.
Missile's got a soft rubber nose, so no
i want that
What year is that es44?
2022
😂😂😂😂
AIM-9X
Better than our government!
Balloon car should have been written in Chinese
There is absolutely no way that this is a real product
Is this why the Dreyfus was so bad? Everyone too busy laughing while making this masterpiece?
That was fun, don't grow up its a trap. TY