Shocked & Disappointed (Harry Potter Hogwarts Express)

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Buyer installed stickers which seems to be not what is liked by fans, I especially see that those curved side name plates being particularly hard to place straight especially for the younger purchasers. I am also wondering, maybe those familiar with the series could answer, why the stickers look like an amateur created them on a printer and cut them out. In the films, are all the graphics for the stickers so pixelated like they are in the video?

Yeah, I hadn't actually noticed the shoddy quality of the stickers, also it's a shame that the nameplates, number plates, crests and destination plates couldn't have had some chrome borders, that would have surely have lifted the model and maybe even some chrome accents on the chimney cap and safety valve bonnet could have been an even cooler addition, I'm sure it could have been done!

Didn't notice that either when I first watched the promo. I can only assume the finished stickers haven't been made yet and these ones are rushed placeholders. Since the films were live action and used an entire real train (as well as filming at King's Cross), all the names, logos etc. were (naturally) on par with authentic liveries in quality.

Whoever designed the placeholders even misspelt Castle as "Catsle" on the nameplates.

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Taken into account I had to zoom in on a small image the pixelation here is the sticker sheet but there is hope that LaG is correct and the finished stickers are better in the second image which is pixelated but still looks better. Maybe the Tokyo Plarail Expo YouTube videos coming starting tomorrow will show us better results if its shown there.

          

I pre ordered two of them, I plan on making one into a real-life Hall Class locomotive. I'm not a fan of the Harry potter Franchise but the locomotive looks really nice. One I may do is Dumbleton Hall in a GWR Green livery.

Like this but with a face:

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Sounds interesting T-Boy. Hope we get a chance to see it when finished. 👍

Yeah, I will be going with that green livery with the "GREAT WESTERN" on the tender.

What a funny coincidence. On top of the real name that sounds like a certain headmaster, it's ironically the same Hall that's now painted as the Hogwarts Express at the Tokyo version of the Harry Potter Studio Tour (so that the real Olton Hall can stay in the UK).

In other words, you technically plan to "revert" a toy version of another Hall from the current state of the one you're replicating to how it looked when it was operational.

Buyer installed stickers which seems to be not what is liked by fans, I especially see that those curved side name plates being particularly hard to place straight especially for the younger purchasers. I am also wondering, maybe those familiar with the series could answer, why the stickers look like an amateur created them on a printer and cut them out. In the films, are all the graphics for the stickers so pixelated like they are in the video?

just like the burger or restaurant commercials, the burgers and the foods looks better in commercials than in real life.

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Riveting!
Has there ever been a Plarail Train with this many rivets or any Trackmasters for that matter??