Discuss the new train set!

[highlandcattle]

Finally after all these years a new train model! Yay! In the beginning I thought I looked like a cheap toy but the more pictures I see of it, the more I like it! People say it is small but if you read the dimensions on the website it seems big. Surely these can't be correct: Loc: Length 64 x width12 x Height 15 cm A shame that no extra wagons are for sale. A cool feature is that we finally have sound. I hope these will be realistic! I would have preferred a passenger train after all these years of the very ugly one playmobil had for sale. But I'll surely get this one!

So what are your opinions?

[BlackPearl2006]

cool, it's double headed?  I think I like it.  Though I wish they'd bring back the old euro steam engine, though it seems they are developing around a modern theme.  Are there PM crane loaders (like in the horizon) too?

[highlandcattle]

Yes, but it is a seperate set.

[zugpferdchen]

Surely these can't be correct: Loc: Length 64 x width12 x Height 15 cm

Length of the hole train (I think) are 64 cm, not only the loco.

Here is a link for the catalog 2012 from Playmobil (Anna Ermann). Please use it private and only in (Playmobil) forums!

Here you can see all new items.


For me the loco is too modern. I will make a train layout of 1920-30 (epoch IIa). And for using it digital on brass tracks it is not really suitable.

[Bill Blackhurst]

It kinda grows on you after looking at it for a while. Not my favorite version so far, but something is better than nothing, I just hope PM adds a whole new world of add on cars, & accessories to compliment this new contribution! Thank you for sharing this latest info with us, hlc!

[Hadoque]

It kinda grows on you after looking at a while.

 

Sorry, but I really had to laugh when reading, though you surely didn't intend it the way I interpreted it almost automatically 
It's just the shortest PM-train I've seen...

(yeah, the pirates' ships aren't really that big eather, I know I shouldn't laugh)

[tomegood87]

I'm really curious about the power of the motor. 

[bonniebeth]

Sorry, but I really had to laugh when reading, though you surely didn't intend it the way I interpreted it almost automatically 

 

[Baron Marshall]

if the price is right... i'll get one my guess is that it will come in at about $100 ...

[highlandcattle]

It is not the shortest train it is as short as the last two cargo trains.

According to the catalog it needs 1 nine volt block and 6 AA batteries. It also clearly states that the loc is 64 cm not the whole train. found two more pictures on facebook.