A project I did a while ago has the newer compact power functions which doesn't need a receiver.

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen, today we have Trackmaster Nia from Fisher Price/ Mattel. Nia is a new character from Thomas and friends Big world big adventure and she is from Africa, Nia is loosely based on a KUR ED1/EAR 11 class 2-6-2T but shrunken down to be about the size of Thomas in the show. It is a good looking set including the elephant the hay bale load and their trucks. The elephant is too tall to work on most sets which is disappointing, I had much better results after modifying her to run on the blue tracks too.

9/10 from me :)

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Hi Ladies and Gentlemen of youtube, I have today Trackmaster Lexi from the Journey beyond Sodor, I tried my best to make it run well but it is quite awful so sorry for that. I wanted the trackmaster track so I could show how these engines run unmodified but I guess I will have to go back to the drawing board and modify them to run on the blue track.

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Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the version 1.0 of the new smaller layout. It is of course a work in progress as always but I am very happy with how it turned out. Now I can finally stop rocking back and forth mumbling "30 inch curves 30 inch curves", I am kidding of course folks :D Soon there will be a full schedule of unboxings, reviews and maybe some other things ;)

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Sorry for the delay I had this filmed and edited for a couple of weeks finally got around to recording the audio and uploading today, work on the new layout continues with planning the new and teardown of the old layout, and sorting of track... lots of sorting!

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Hi Guys and Gals here we have the 2016 Trackmaster Flying Scotsman locomotive from the the Thomas and Friends special "The Great Race".

Flying Scotsman is a British locomotive of the A3 class originally built by the LNER, Flying Scotsman is also often called "the most famous steam train the world", I actually had to pleasure of seeing Flying Scotsman when I was a child when it visited Australia for the bicentenial celebrations in 1988.

This Version of Flying Scotsman is a decent looking version of the animated version seen in the special The Great Race, there are a couple of things I dislike the look of and I will let you know why.

* The awful steam clouds printed all over the locomotive and tenders are an eyesore and when viewed at a distance look like decals that have peeled away partially revealing glued paper left behind. They are printed on though so it will be an interesting task to remove them without damaging the plastic.

* The face is ok but the one eye with it's strange glare is a big put off and would have been better if they had made them match, I don't know why every engine from this special has to have either a half closed eye or a raised eyebrow. Please Mattel these are not lightning Mcqueen please leave the eyes alone! Kachow!

* The Buffers are roughly molded and barely there, I know these are for young kids and they get dropped and buffers could get broken etc but I have seen the gradual shrinking of the buffers since 2014 soon there will be no buffers!

OK enough ranting lets get to the good points...

* The shape of the body is really well done and as compact as is physically possible while still being able to fit over the drive unit, this translates to a better looking locomotive with better body proportions (This is not a repaint of Gordon).

* The way it runs and the pulling power is excellent even on the wrong type of track like I use, with a little shaving down of the activation/locking tab and no weights needing to be added it could easily pull it's own tenders and 2 full size coaches with little wheel slip in spots.

* Rarity, I am still to decide if this is a good thing as a collector and owning a couple of them I am happy and feel they are a good investment. But it took me a long time to find them and now I see ebay scalpers and resellers are having a field day charging up to $90 for one of these engines. This is very sad for the intended audience of these trains and that is kids. I have become familiar with the Mattel/Fisher Price cycle of production and it's waves of 3 different engines then they move on to the next 3. Leftovers get repackaged as single engines then are soon gone too. So snap this up if you see it in store as it is only 1 Flying Scotsman per case.


Overall I am happy with it and I have plans for at least one more customs video that will be nearly all TM2 and this engine will be one of them.

I give this engine a score of 9/10 (the ugly clouds hurt the score, it would have been a 10)

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Hi Guys and Gals here we have the fairly new, well new to Australian stores Trackmaster Thomas and the Jet engine!

I'm not sure of the reasoning for releasing these engines again in the revolution line be it for new episodes that will air with the themes or that they felt they would be a worthy addition to the trackmaster 2 lineup we will never know hehe.

In the original episode Thomas is sad because he is not fast like Gordon until one day he is tasked with delivery of a jet engine that activates by accident and propels Thomas down the line at super speed!

This Trackmaster version looks good enough on it's own but when put next to the TOMY Jet engine you can see the level of detail and craftsmanship differences. I understand the need for compact light rolling stock that can be used to climb the crazy hills and mega jumps etc so it's all fair enough. I personally use them to pull trains, shock horror! and I modify them as such with more weight and sometimes swap the wheels etc.

This loco is a good looking unique design and I like the removable hat while being a bit of a tacky gimmick I think it looks good and quite cute.


I give this Thomas and the jet engine a score of 8.5/10.

The jet engine was packed in the wrong order in the packet and would burn the truck of crates! No but seriously I don't have allot to complain about here, I kinda really do like it

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