Received special delivery from Australia, but it is not coffee! Love coffee though. This is something else. Will be working on the special video! Stay tuned!
So this is my most popular video to date. Percy is my favorite Thomas & Friends Character and we have more. Plus more on the way after winning the Leokimvideo Percy Giveaway:
The Thomas & Friends collection has become my most popular videos on my Train Tsar Fun channel. I have been searching for the best deals on the Bachmann HO Scale items. Actually found this set with Harold and Sir Tophamm Hatt on clearance at Hobby Lobby so I got it even though I had the smaller version of this set already. I didn’t have the best location for filming at the time of this video. Things have gotten better around here. So look for more Thomas & Friends HO Scale videos with reviews and play – and accidents!
Amazon is a good source for Thomas & Friends:
Bachmann Trains Thomas with Annie and Clarabel Ready-to-Run HO Scale Train Set
I have all the monorail sets made not counting the accessories like extra bogies. There were 3 sets – Futuron Monorail, Unitron Monorail, and Airport Monorail plus 2 add on track packs. This stuff is still in high demand by AFOLs and we wish they would make it again – though it does make those of us that have it have a very valuable collection! It was underproduced but perhaps it didn’t sell well back in the day.
I love the Santa Fe Train sets that LEGO made. Wish they would do something like this again with the possiblilty of getting individual cars and locomotives instead of sets only. Here in this video is another look at my old city under construction. New and better layout coming to TrainTsarFun and BrickTsar.
I will be doing more LEGO train videos. My goal is to get all the 12v sets (trains and locomotives – but not accessories). I love this era of trains.
The 12v track has a center rail that has 2 conductors to deliver the DC power to the motor pickups. It was designed so that 4.5v track could be used or upgraded to work with 12v. Of course, you still could not do reversing loops without having a short circuit (unless you modified it yourself).
So stayed tuned to see more updates of my LEGO train layout – the CA & ABS Railroad. I may change the name, but right now I like it. It has a double meaning. 1) CA and ABS are the 2 main plastics that were used by LEGO. 2) The letters represent cities or regions of sons of my favorite YouTubers. It’s the Columbia and Atlanta & Atlanta, Bayou, and Smithton. Those are actually 2 different Atlanta cities!
When I began taking YouTube seriously, I found like many others, it’s hard to get noticed and grow at first. I tried many different things. However, usually what I tried was already done. I noticed that most of the LEGO related channels stayed completely away from DUPLO. So I posted a few DUPLO train videos. This quickly became my most popular videos. My top ten from the last 2 years always included 8 or 9 DUPLO videos.
Sadly, others started to figure it out. Now that some of the more popular Russian and European channels have posted stuff, my views have suffered. It’s interesting that some posted videos a full 2 years after me, but now those videos are up in the search and mine are down. I’m going to be remaking mine and see if turnabout is FairPlay – lol
Percy had become my favorite Thomas & Friends character. This was my 1st video with the Lionel version. More videos to come.
Interestingly, some of the funniest mishaps (unplanned) have come from Percy in my collection. He won the train battle from the Trackmaster trains. He made a daring track change on my HO layout. Sadly, he has a defective coupler on my Lionel version, but that makes for some funny moments too since he leaves the trucks behind! I use tape to prevent that.
This is my old table and setup for my LEGO trains and city. This is about to get s major reorganization. I have my new area painted and set up. All that is left to do is paint the table and after the paint dries enough we can begin setting things up again. I also need to at some point change the fluorescent lighting to LED lighting, but that can wait for now. With my new set up the backgrounds and lighting should be much better!
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