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Re: Review of Hogwarts Express
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Date: 
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:13:49 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Frances Schroeter writes:

feel that the Hogwarts Express would have been better off to have come with
proper train wheels and bogie plates, even if the designers planned it as a
push-a-long model. In the past Lego had trains that came as push-a-long and
then could be turned into battery operated or electric trains later on, and
I feel they would have done better to do this with the Hogwarts Express, it
would still have had the same or even better play value.

They didn't include the 'proper' train wheels and such as they do not have the
license for an electric train, as Bachman has made an HO Scale version (at
least in the States) and it probably would have been viewed as too close to
Bachman's product even if it wasn't powered.



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  Review of Hogwarts Express
 
The Hogwarts Express my daughter won recently arrived today. As it rained all day, we spent the afternoon putting it together. Kathryn (aged 5) was able to put together the Hogwarts train platform, and also perfectly able to put all the stickers on (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

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