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Subject: 
Re: HP Hogwarts Express and normal 9V trains?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:42:31 GMT
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In lugnet.harrypotter, Frank Filz writes:
> all in all, I like the set. The coach is somewhat oddly built, and
> doesn't include real doors or glass, but looks decent all the same. The
> locomotive is pretty nice, though from a trainhead's perspective, the
> stuff inside the boiler is pretty bizarre (I don't recall anything like
> that from the book, is this some bizarre thing they've added for the
> movie?). The mechanism also doesn't really seem to work, at least not if
> it's supposed to toss the chest up in the air.
> 
> Frank

I built the train 3 days ago and I was pretty puzzled about the whole internal
spring thing as well.  I tried and tried and I couldn't get it to eject the
treasure chest either.  I was also wondering why they put hinges along the
entire side of the boiler.  I know its so that the whole thing opens up, but
why would you want to open it?  I can't picture them hiding chests inside of a
train boiler in the movie, and it certainly didn't happen in the books.  Must
be a "value added feature."  :-)

Katie



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  Re: HP Hogwarts Express and normal 9V trains?
 
(...) internal (...) the (...) but (...) of a (...) Must (...) I'm thinking it's probably because the set had to do *something* to ahve some play value, and this is the best that they could come up with. I think they should have just made it a real (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.trains)

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  Re: HP Hogwarts Express and normal 9V trains?
 
(...) That's presumably the reason, but I wonder how much more it would have cost to make it a push train? Certainly including a train motor would have dramatically increased the cost. All in all, I like the set. The coach is somewhat oddly built, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.trains)

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