Happy Halloween

 

TRAIN TIME: 2023 Halloween Train Layout - Pt 3 Ruh-Roh! It's Scooby Doo

I have two Lionel Halloween-themed train sets. An earlier post highlighted the Lionel Set #2123060 Hallow's Eve Limited Graveyard Route from 2021 which was on the track for a week and a half or so. Then it was swapped out with Lionel Set #6-85241T Scooby-Doo The Mystery Machine Set from 2018. I have to say that of all my train sets, the Scooby Doo is among the favorites. It has a spooky bell and dialogue featuring the voice of Scooby and an assorted ghoul or two - a very fun set indeed! Enjoy! Opa Fritz

The set includes an engine, gondola with a ghost chasing Shaggy and Scooby, a boxcar, and a lighted caboose.

The large box has the track, the small one is just a filler piece.

This Year's Haunted Village (aka Spooky Town) Halloween Set-up - Pt 3

As usually happens with these holiday set-ups, I'll take a few things out to get started, then run trains and take photos, then take some more stuff out, and so-on and so-forth. The BIG news this year is the addition of Lionel's Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine ready-to-run set from 2018. This is an awesome toy and a must-have for the Scooby-Doo fan. It's part of Lionel's LionChief series of sets and designed to be operated from either the included bluetooth hand-held controller or Lionel's LionChief app on your mobile device. There are station announcements and crew talk in Scooby's voice and a monster's voice, and a standard horn sound. However, the bell sound is quite different: rather than the usual train engine bell, it's a recording of a haunting cathedral bell of the type you may hear in Scooby-Doo cartoons! hahahaha Also too, since the last post we have some more vignettes added to the overall scene and all those diminutive 1/64 scale cars were replaced with larger vehicles. The figures are bit all-over-the-place scale-wise but I'm okay with that - they're all there to have fun. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Lionel No. 6-85241T Scooby-Doo The Mystery Machine Set

The set comes with an engine, operating Shaggy and Scooby chase gondola, boxcar, and caboose

I did two 'unboxing" videos of this set.

A few vignettes

"Good morning!"

"Tourists! tsk tsk tsk Somebody tell these people the big kid is harmless"

"Family picture day in Spooky Town"

The hearse and Munsters Koach are new to this year's layout. I'll post photo essays on tem another time

2020 The Phoenix Mint No. 18370 '37 Studebaker Hearse 8

2021 Dept 56 #6007411 The Munsters Koach

Ecto-1 and The Mystery Machine were featured in previous year's past

Jada 1-43 Ghostbusters Ecto-1

Jada Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine

So my grand daughter says, "Opa, can I look at the Halloween layout?"

"Sure!" LOL

She played a little, watched the Scooby train and placed a couple of souvenir spiders from the Excalibur Hotel and Casino, and generally reorganised afew things hahahahaha

My Halloween Spookytown Village and Train Display For 2020

I get so wrapped up in other projects (or life in general) that, unfortunately, holidays come and go with me being absolutely, totally, zero percent prepared for them. Holiday train displays are few and far between, more so since room to make them has simply disappeared for the most part. There's no room in the house so I have to cobble together a display out in The Cave. It's still fun but, like I said, sometimes life happens and I just don't have time. This year I really wanted to do a Halloween display so I set my sights on it early, clearing off my small plot of toy train real estate out in The Cave. I also built another cardboard buildg this year - The Shadybrook Sanitarium - the first one in four years. I like how the display turned out but gosh what can I do to get more room out there for the next display besides bulldoze the joint? LOL Here's some pics from this years Halloween Spookytown Village. Enjoy! Opa Fritz