Lionel and Star Wars!

At least they have Comicon now to promote it.  The Star Trek stuff would have benefitted from the Lionel Comicon connection but it's too late now.

I hope the force will be with them.

The locomotives and passenger cars need to be produced with the design style of STAR WARS.

Andrew

@Grampstrains posted:

I'll take the Yoda car.

"Yoda car I will take."

Fixed that for you.  LOL!

@MartyE posted:

At least they have Comicon now to promote it.  The Star Trek stuff would have benefitted from the Lionel Comicon connection but it's too late now.

I feel like Star Trek didn't get a fair shake from them.

Hopefully Star Wars does.

They will need to 3D Print the shells or bodies that have the STAR WARS design esthetic.

Andrew

I see a Tie-jector (terrible joke) in their future...

I did not consider myself a collector when I reentered the hobby but I've caught myself seeing certain rolling stock and feeling like I just gotta have it. The Harry Potter Ravenclaw coach because the wife and I are Ravenclaws. Then it was the ACME Tunnel Paint tanker because my grandpa and I always watched the Road Runner together. Next was the Polar Express because I loved the book and movie as a youngling and hope to share the magic with my own kids when we get there.

Now I can tell I'm going to need a Star Wars car haha Hopefully this product line is a hit! I'm working through the animated Clone Wars series for the first time right now and I'm loving it!

With the exception of The Polar Express, the licensing programs tend to focus on (or even be limited to) traditional/semi-scale stuff. I completely understand the logic given the target markets. Having said that, I really liked the Acme scale PS-1 boxcars in a recent catalog. They are fun, yet the subtlety of them allows them to work great in a scale freight consist. I haven’t bought much Lionel scale freight since the truck redesign, but sprung for (no pun intended) the two Acme PS-1 cars (I’ll find donor trucks). I would 100% do the same for some Star Wars stuff.  I was eight years old in 1977 when Mom loaded my brother, sister, and me into the family station wagon for a trip to see Star Wars on opening night and I’ve been lost in the galaxy far, far away ever since.

@Rider Sandman posted:

Having said that, I really liked the Acme scale PS-1 boxcars in a recent catalog. They are fun, yet the subtlety of them allows them to work great in a scale freight consist.

This is why I bought the Tunnel Paint Car. Most people will accept it as a tank car being pulled around. People who are paying attention will get a kick out of it though and that made it especially desirable to me.

@BillYo414 posted:

This is why I bought the Tunnel Paint Car. Most people will accept it as a tank car being pulled around. People who are paying attention will get a kick out of it though and that made it especially desirable to me.

My Acme PS-1s showed up this week. They are fantastic!  They will blend right in with a scale freight consist and be a lot of fun. They definitely need to do more.  The Looney Tunes boxes are cool, too.

They absolutely need to do the same with the Star Wars license.  

H. Solo & Co. - “Concealed Freight Service”

Hmm... Flat car loads of x-wings or tie fighters.   Maybe a lightsaber shaped tank car.  A mint car with imperial credits.  Kyber crystal transport. Prisoner transport.   I think the Han Solo movie had the double decker armored train, perhaps something inspired by that.

I hope it's not just boxcars with pictures on the side.

Maybe a phantom (menace) inspired locomotive,  especially with @gunrunnerjohn style modifications.