LIONEL I
Reviewed in Mexico on January 7, 2025
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Steven C.
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2024
Lasted only 2 seasons and then the engine stopped working. Only moves a few inches and then quits. Tried new batteries, no luck. Of course it’s out of warranty now, so I disassembled it to see if I could fix it myself.Unfortunately, the digital controller in the engine failed and was not repairable. I ended up bypassing the board and hot wiring the engine; however, doing so rendered the lights, remote, and variable speed control inoperable.Bottom line: I wouldn’t recommend this train set. Frankly, it’s a disgrace to the Lionel name and a shame that such a renown company would sell such a garbage product. Very disappointed and I urge those that read this review to steer clear!
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2024
My son(6) absolutely LOVES his gift from Santa! He LOVES trains and wrote a letter to Santa he wanted a train set.I got the blue tooth train which took a bit to connect but got it working just fine. I have a samsung galaxy. Probably going to order the remote so I can have my phone back lol.The voice command does work (I see some people couldn't get it to work) just click it and say "All aboard" and the train starts moving. You can tell it to stop, reverse, increase speed.Train stays on the track just fine so far. He's been playing with it for hours. I ordered extra tracks and a few Y tracks and they just came today so super excited to make a very large track!I wish I could turn down the volume on the train tho, as much as he's been playing with it, the noise is a bit annoying after a while lol.Quality is great. I had one very similar when I was his age and still have it and it still works, we usually use it under the Christmas tree.Anyway, the steam is a little meh but my son still loves it. Just a few drops of water and it makes a tiny vapor cloud. It's cute. I read the vapor is created by the vibration of the train so if you put the water in and it doesn't vapor, run the train a bit and it will eventually.Great buy! He's happy so I'm happy.I got the protection plan just incase.
Adolfo Miguel Granados González
Reviewed in Mexico on November 3, 2023
El producto como tal está muy bien hecho; con calidad. Tanto el diseño como los materiales, me gustaron mucho.La calificación es de 1 estrella, porque faltaron las 8 piezas rectas de la vía. Uno espera bien emocionado poder disfrutar de lo que compra, tal y como lo espera, y lo compra... Peor aún cuando es un regalo.
Zane Howes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2020
Lovely for a 5yr old.
William A. Morales
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2020
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Javier
Reviewed in Mexico on February 8, 2019
Muy buen producto, cubre las expectativas, excelente tamaño, ideal para el árbol de navidad, el único pero que le podría sería que tiene sonido constante de locomotora y no hay forma de bajar el volumen del sonido o silenciarlo, fuera de eso me gusto mucho...
A E M M
Reviewed in Mexico on November 21, 2019
Es el tren económico de esta marca pero cumple totalmente su función y una espectativa acorde a y la calidad aceptable . A mi pequeño le encanta presumirlo Gracias Lionel por la sonrisa q veo en mi pequeño por tu tren Gx
PublicMe
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2018
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EdP
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2016
The set arrived about four days ago and I set it up very quickly following the instructions that came with it. It runs and performs as advertised and is beautifully detailed in plastic. Two problems; (1) on the fourth day, I was demonstrating it to a visitor and the train ran, whistle and bell worked along with the announcement, then suddenly it stopped, went silent, except for the flashing light on the engine and sound indicating that it had lost connection with the remote controller. The pilot light was out on the controller and when I felt the controller case, it was very warm to the touch. I opened the battery compartment and the batteries were too hot to touch. Something obviously shorted out in the controller. I replaced the batteries with new ones and they too began to get very hot. So I stopped everything removed the batteries from both the controller and engine. The engine batteries were fine. I believe the controller developed a short and was burning up. I report it to Amazon and they are replacing the entire train set with a new one. Hopefully this one will be trouble free. I checked other reports on this set and could not find any similar problem. It is a nice addition to the Christmas tree.