Excellent video and thanks for sharing. Dave

So ever since Honkai Star rail released it was bugging me....There was an Anime I saw as a child about a space traveling train. OMG Thank you!!!! This is GREAT! I'll have to try and find this and watch it again. So much memory so big da feels.

Great vid but no Diesels...only steam :(

This should’ve been the theme song or anthem for Strasburg Railroad.

My grandfather used to have this on cassette tape!

Took you long enough dingbat 😂😂😂😂 ........ Great recap video

John I like your entry. I just started in o scale. Just space is hard to find. But I was in N scale but switching over to O scale. Check out my layout you might like it. I will subscribe to your channel Help me out to by subscribing also. 8:36 8:42

26:11 that was one of my favorite shots!! I also love how you showcased the people that were there, not just the trains themselves👍🏼❤- Drewski

Awesome stuff John!

Looks like you got to visit some fine layouts!

Hey John, awesome recap! You really got some great train and layout footage. It was a wonderful last year getting to spend time with you and the fellas. I am so glad you put this video together. Great memories, thank you and I hope we get to hang together again. Bill B.

I appreciated the 'I Love Toy Trains' (I think) throwback intro.

Awesome footage as always! You always have a great eye and attention really highlight great moments from these events that I fondly look back on and attended with you!

Great recap video. Was super glad to have you here for Train-A-Palooza. Hope we can hang out again soon!

Great recap! I enjoyed attending so many of these events with you.

Lionel usually either makes trains or accessories based on IPs that boomers would recognize like Mickey Mouse or Looney Tunes, or stuff for the recent family friendly market like Thomas & Friends. But when it comes to mainstream Cartoon IPs like from the 80s, 90s or 2000s. Lionel has never made any trains based on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network IPs. Nor did they ever make trains or accessories based on Disney or WB’s newer IPs from their library like Ducktales or Animaniacs. Probably because they won’t sell well, and they’ll think that the kids who will be seeing them will mock at them or associate it with the stereotype of someone who is on the spectrum in a such an degrading manner? But in the case of MTH, they’d done something that they tried to appeal to the younger crowd who weren’t into model nor toy trains. They had made the SpongeBob Railking set and it looks really good. MTH had done a great job on the set. Unfortunately it only lasted for 2 years because the orders for the train are short, and not a lot of people seem like they wanted to play with it. That is why it became one of the more obscure pieces of SpongeBob merchandise in history. And that’s what happens when you produce a toy train that is based on a more recent or mainstream cartoon IP. That makes it the only time a toy train manufacturer had ever made a train or accessory based on a more mainstream cartoon IP, and not an IP that is something from back in the day like with Mickey Mouse.

The type of toy train set that gives 'odd 'ones a bad name.

Beautiful AMV

I agree. The tmcc RS11 is in the same category. Always liked those as well.

Lionel really should bring back the placemat and background for their ready to run sets. Great video guys! - Ryan

Neat set. Is this your favorite MPC set?

I remember that set! I was 9. I got my first lionel set the year prior.[Cross County Express] My dad wouldn't get me this set cause it was d.c. 😢

Awesome video !!!! Now I gotta bust my set out!!

Super cool and unique set! Thanks for sharing this oddity!

This set came out in 1982, the same year as Conan the Barbarian and the He Man toys - followed by the animated series. Thus, there was a lot of interest in this type of Dark Fantasy Barbarian theme from elementary school age children to teens and young adults. I was shocked at how close the skull and snake tunnel portals and art style are to He Man! Between the artwork, applying stickers to your toys and glow in the dark toys, Lionel was trying their best to check off all the early 80s fads here.

Seeing as how this set came out the year I was born I always thought it was a neat set. The play mat and backdrop keeps the eyes busy and the glow in the dark feature screams the 80s. Absolutely love it!!

Awesome set! Perfect time too for Halloween. Nice crisp box and a very crisp layout at train set. And I thought that Dr.Burnie Rubin had the mintiest of train sets but this is the mintiest of train sets I’ve ever seen.

Neat set! I think the backdrop is one of the sets neatest features. Great review fellas! Bill B.

This is such a cool train set, never seen a in dept review on this set before! MPC era had some fun with these. Great review guys!

That man said “we’re no snitches” 🤣

I had a fun time filming it with you. I love the way it turned out! Such a fun set to do a unboxing on.

Great show so 80 s .

Really cool set, impressive that while the set is lower end budget Lionel did put some effort into the presentation in the box and extras they included.

There was also a water tower, a Christmas covered hopper, and a handcar with SpongeBob and Patrick figures on it.

Feels like a repaint of The MTH I Love Toy Trains Set

Lionel, take notes

I'm 62 years old If you don't like this set,you have a problem I love Patrick star I am like Patrick I excel at being useless 😅😊😂❤😅😊

I’m sure if Nikelodeon partnered with Lionel this set may have been more well known.

Every time I see this I go “yikes”

What a fun set! Thanks for sharing!!

It’s obvious MTH put a lot of effort into this set.

Very cool set! I kinda wish I still had mine.

If Not for SpongeBob or Nickelodeon-I probably wouldn’t be who I am today. My Moto is to Never soil the good Krusty Krab name or the good Model railroad Name.

This set is so surreal.

Fun little set for sure!

That is such a great set! Well done collab between MTH and Nickelodeon!

That Dreyfuss is slightly out of quarter, FYI.

they dont make 0 scale. Over sized flanges, couplers, and moving pilots are not scale . they are very fine O gauge pieces, but not scale

This was a awesome video John! Great points on what makes these model collectable and actually being *rare* I'm jealous of that cranberry set of engines!

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