Lego and trains. Two great tastes that taste great together
April 27, 2016 4:16 PM Subscribe
A lego train with a GoPro on it touring 50 meters of track, indoors and outdoors. There were also horrible rail disasters
Lagniappe: Thomas The Tank Engine Crash Compilation (previously)
Lagniappe: Thomas The Tank Engine Crash Compilation (previously)
FROG.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 4:24 PM on April 27, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 4:24 PM on April 27, 2016 [3 favorites]
Train #242 will be delayed due to wildlife on the track.
posted by zachlipton at 4:30 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by zachlipton at 4:30 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
There's some dedication involved when you dig a trench in your yard to lay out your Lego train track.
posted by backseatpilot at 4:44 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by backseatpilot at 4:44 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
Looks like they've been playing with trains instead of doing yardwork and cleaning house.
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:45 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:45 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
I want to get some of those sets for my kids but hooo boy they are pricey. In this video that's easily thousands of dollars worth of Lego.
posted by zardoz at 4:47 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by zardoz at 4:47 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
Fire? Why was there fire?
posted by Mister Moofoo at 4:48 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Mister Moofoo at 4:48 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
I liked when it went under a kid's bed: dust bunnies, Nerf darts, assorted other stuff.
Looks like they've been playing with trains instead of doing yardwork and cleaning house.
As they should.
posted by not that girl at 4:49 PM on April 27, 2016 [25 favorites]
Looks like they've been playing with trains instead of doing yardwork and cleaning house.
As they should.
posted by not that girl at 4:49 PM on April 27, 2016 [25 favorites]
I want to get some of those sets for my kids but hooo boy they are pricey. In this video that's easily thousands of dollars worth of Lego.
LEGO trains is one of the more expensive genres to get obsessed with, which is all I could think of as I watch that LEGO track stretch on, and on, and on...
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:49 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
LEGO trains is one of the more expensive genres to get obsessed with, which is all I could think of as I watch that LEGO track stretch on, and on, and on...
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:49 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
LEGO trains is one of the more expensive genres to get obsessed with, which is all I could think of as I watch that LEGO track stretch on, and on, and on...
I had to look it up. A straight section of plastic track is 128mm long. For 50m of straight track you'd need 391 sections of rail which would cost you just over $500 on Bricklink.
posted by nathan_teske at 5:01 PM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
I had to look it up. A straight section of plastic track is 128mm long. For 50m of straight track you'd need 391 sections of rail which would cost you just over $500 on Bricklink.
posted by nathan_teske at 5:01 PM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
For 50m of straight track you'd need 391 sections of rail which would cost you just over $500 on Bricklink.
Wow. Just looked it up and you can get 50m of HO-scale track for like $20...
posted by thefoxgod at 5:07 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
Wow. Just looked it up and you can get 50m of HO-scale track for like $20...
posted by thefoxgod at 5:07 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
Nooooo, wait. More like $150. Bad conversion, me. Still a lot cheaper.
posted by thefoxgod at 5:09 PM on April 27, 2016
posted by thefoxgod at 5:09 PM on April 27, 2016
My favorite crashes are the ones that seem most true to my experience with Lego trains - the ones where they just suddenly fall over for no clear reason.
posted by Joey Michaels at 5:12 PM on April 27, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Joey Michaels at 5:12 PM on April 27, 2016 [4 favorites]
Custom LEGO Star Destroyer Is So Huge It Has A Three-Level Interior
posted by T.D. Strange at 5:31 PM on April 27, 2016
posted by T.D. Strange at 5:31 PM on April 27, 2016
SO MUCH TRACK. SO MANY SWITCHES. SO MANY OTHER TRAINS. Kid me, with his little blue track layout, is very, very jealous.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 5:40 PM on April 27, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 5:40 PM on April 27, 2016 [4 favorites]
The frog was great, but I also liked the part where the train bravely tried to ford the puddle (I think I can! I think I can!) before bogging down to full stop and tipping over seemingly as an afterthought (Oh, fuck it).
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 5:41 PM on April 27, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 5:41 PM on April 27, 2016 [6 favorites]
I liked that the cat flyby in the first video is paid off by a cat-on-track incident in the second. Because OF COURSE the cat's going to sit on the track.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 5:42 PM on April 27, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 5:42 PM on April 27, 2016 [8 favorites]
For some reason, my daughter doesn't find this nearly as entertaining as the googly-eyed Thomas of ramahfool.
posted by clawsoon at 6:07 PM on April 27, 2016
posted by clawsoon at 6:07 PM on April 27, 2016
Kid me, with his little blue track layout
I had the original kit #113. One simple oval, and flimsy as the writeup says. But we did all this stuff with Carl Sagan's GoPro of the Imagination.
posted by Bringer Tom at 6:12 PM on April 27, 2016
I had the original kit #113. One simple oval, and flimsy as the writeup says. But we did all this stuff with Carl Sagan's GoPro of the Imagination.
posted by Bringer Tom at 6:12 PM on April 27, 2016
$500 for the tracks is nothing. Each of the trains in the video is from a set that costs between $100-200, and there were a lot of trains in that video. But the Lego train sets are pretty neat. I got my nephew the bullet train set for his birthday and it was expensive but worth it (I need to do whatever I can to compete for the title of cool uncle because the competition is fierce). I am kind of worrying about what I will do if my own kids get interested in them.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 6:29 PM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 6:29 PM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
What does it say about me that I much prefer the fails to the 'Awesome' link with the nice music?
lelilo & I used to set up Addams Family style crashes with our A. C. Gilbert American Flyers.
posted by MtDewd at 7:38 PM on April 27, 2016
lelilo & I used to set up Addams Family style crashes with our A. C. Gilbert American Flyers.
posted by MtDewd at 7:38 PM on April 27, 2016
In this video that's easily thousands of dollars worth of Lego.
It would be cool if there was a little counter in one corner that added up the cost of the Lego as the train goes around the track. Bonus if you could change it to your local currency.
posted by sneebler at 8:08 PM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
It would be cool if there was a little counter in one corner that added up the cost of the Lego as the train goes around the track. Bonus if you could change it to your local currency.
posted by sneebler at 8:08 PM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
The one thing this video lacks is a mirror.
I was developing an affinity for the little train that was my body in this first-person video, and I really really wanted to see what I looked like as I chugged along :)
posted by -harlequin- at 8:14 PM on April 27, 2016 [4 favorites]
I was developing an affinity for the little train that was my body in this first-person video, and I really really wanted to see what I looked like as I chugged along :)
posted by -harlequin- at 8:14 PM on April 27, 2016 [4 favorites]
that's easily thousands of dollars worth of Lego.
Whaddiya mean thousands of dollars of Lego... that was easily hundreds of thousands of dollars of house.
No-one lets you build trains in their house like that. The only way you get to play with Lego like that is if you first buy a house! ;)
posted by -harlequin- at 8:17 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
Whaddiya mean thousands of dollars of Lego... that was easily hundreds of thousands of dollars of house.
No-one lets you build trains in their house like that. The only way you get to play with Lego like that is if you first buy a house! ;)
posted by -harlequin- at 8:17 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
What does it say about me that I much prefer the fails to the 'Awesome' link with the nice music?
I don't dislike the music in the first video, but just keeping the regular sounds of the train like they have in the fail videos would have made it about 10x better.
posted by straight at 8:22 PM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
I don't dislike the music in the first video, but just keeping the regular sounds of the train like they have in the fail videos would have made it about 10x better.
posted by straight at 8:22 PM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
I liked that the cat flyby in the first video is paid off by a cat-on-track incident in the second. Because OF COURSE the cat's going to sit on the track
Despite discouragement, one of my cats loved to sit on my G-scale tracks.
Then one day she decided to rub her head on the tracks while the train was at full speed.
She promptly got 20 volts across the brain pan.
She walked a little funny for an hour or two afterwards but since then gingerly steps over the tracks whether the train is in sight or not.
posted by madajb at 8:27 PM on April 27, 2016 [3 favorites]
Despite discouragement, one of my cats loved to sit on my G-scale tracks.
Then one day she decided to rub her head on the tracks while the train was at full speed.
She promptly got 20 volts across the brain pan.
She walked a little funny for an hour or two afterwards but since then gingerly steps over the tracks whether the train is in sight or not.
posted by madajb at 8:27 PM on April 27, 2016 [3 favorites]
I want the house, the legos, the kids that are inspired by this, and the spouse that allows it.
posted by HuronBob at 8:28 PM on April 27, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by HuronBob at 8:28 PM on April 27, 2016 [6 favorites]
With the megafauna attacks, the natural disasters, the sudden lack of bridge, the disaster clips need a Superman minifig to rescue that train. And again, and again, and again.
posted by Ghidorah at 1:28 AM on April 28, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Ghidorah at 1:28 AM on April 28, 2016 [1 favorite]
I made it 28 seconds in the animal noise version of that Pixies song, but I watched this whole thing. That is my statement.
posted by ob1quixote at 1:59 AM on April 28, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by ob1quixote at 1:59 AM on April 28, 2016 [2 favorites]
Why does this make me think of the Will Ferrell character in the Lego Movie?
posted by asok at 3:03 AM on April 28, 2016
posted by asok at 3:03 AM on April 28, 2016
That orange bullet train seems to be the culprit in about 75% of the crashes.
posted by prettypretty at 5:55 AM on April 28, 2016
posted by prettypretty at 5:55 AM on April 28, 2016
That house is so beige
posted by asockpuppet at 8:30 AM on April 28, 2016
posted by asockpuppet at 8:30 AM on April 28, 2016
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