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Post by calzephyr on Sept 17, 2014 14:45:27 GMT -8
This is unbelievable. Horses poking their heads out of stock cars that were not used for horse transportation as far as I know. If that is not sufficient for rail fans, they also offer reindeer animated in the stock car. Go figure. Larry Bachmann Industries 40' Animated Stock Car Bachmann Industries #19701 UPC: 022899197012 Union Pacific #43013 w/Horses Walthers Part # 160-19701 HO scale, $32.00, not currently in stock at Walthers, Expected: Unknown Yardmaster's Club Members save 10% off listed price! UP w/Horses SOU w/Horses CNW w/Horses Christmas w/Reindeer
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Post by mlehman on Sept 17, 2014 15:35:10 GMT -8
I suspect most of the folks here aren't in the target demographic for these products. I didn't realize they were doing a Xmas car, too. That might actually come in handy to put a smile on a kid's face -- or threaten that Santa won't let the reindeer out unless they behave... I suspect all of these are targeted more towards the first train set crowd than us. I hope Bachmann sells a bunch of them to inspire mo' betta animation. Hey, it does have knuckle couplers! That's an upgrade right there.
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Post by theengineshed on Sept 17, 2014 16:43:24 GMT -8
I don't know, I suspect some serious modelers might buy a car or two, they'd bring smiles to kids faces during open houses. If the animation is proportional to the speed of the car, it could get interesting when highballing...
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Post by atsfan on Sept 17, 2014 16:56:18 GMT -8
Kids love these!
Now get off of my lawn!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2014 18:05:15 GMT -8
Is there any word on multiple road numbers? I can't have a unit train of these if they all have the same number!
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Post by TBird1958 on Sept 17, 2014 20:49:28 GMT -8
30 of those U.P.cars behind a Genesis FEF-3 - imagine all those plastic horse heads bobbing up and down.........
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Post by mlehman on Sept 17, 2014 23:12:43 GMT -8
That would make a crazy Youtube video, flying along, going round and round a small layout, cow heads bobbing...every time the train gets near the stockyard, you get a small vignette of a cow bribing the conductor to just roll on by...
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Post by riogrande on Sept 18, 2014 3:46:25 GMT -8
Yes, this looks like it should be popular with kids. Folks with steam era layout may had one or two for grins too and modular layouts at shows.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2014 5:17:18 GMT -8
If this car had been done by Athearn or Atlas, we'd have something to talk about.
But this is Bachmann, who like MTH is targeting the three rail O toy train in HO scale buyer.
Is this car hokey? Yes. But so is the classic Lionel giraffe car in 3-rail which has been around since the 1950's. In HO Lionel gave us a copy of their O gauge missile car and the exploding target boxcar. I believe Lionel also did the helicopter flat car in HO, just like O.
Myself I wouldn't loose any sleep over it. This isn't like the sinister Athearn Genesis "GP9 B-unit gate", where a model is announced and then vanishes off Athearn's and retailers sites for reservations a week after announcement. Now there is something to discuss.
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Post by stevewagner on Sept 18, 2014 5:27:30 GMT -8
Well, I'm still glad I ordered a pair of Preiser's elephants from Walthers a good many years ago. One of them has his head down as if he's pushing something. I occasionally put him on my layout to serve as a switch engine, along the lines of the stegosaurus the late John Allen posed in such service on his Gorre & Daphetid -- but I won't paint a locomotive number on my pachyderm's sides, as the "wizard of Monterey" did with his dinosuar! (Elephants and draft horses actually were used to haul circus wagons onto and off flatcars in one of the earliest uses of "piggyback" technology.)
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Post by calzephyr on Sept 20, 2014 6:24:27 GMT -8
Yes, this looks like it should be popular with kids. Folks with steam era layout may had one or two for grins too and modular layouts at shows. It probably will be a hit with kids and visitors at shows. I remember seeing Lionel animated cars at Christmas displays when I was growing up and this certainly will have some appeal to visitors at shows. Larry
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