Based on the surge of enthusiasm for the 10th Anniversary Polar Express Berkshire.....I decided to modify my NorthPole Santa Claus pylon with the Hallmark Polar Express ornament. Should be a crowd pleaser with the kids when I put it by the tree with the rest of the tree layout Christmas Eve.
-Pete
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I really like this idea. Looks very good and it will be a crowd pleaser.
Pete, this is going to sound like a strange question, but you have already deviated from its intended use anyway.
1) Is this roughly O-scale size?
2) Is Santa and his bag of loot, removable?
Dave
Dave, the pylon is an o scale acessory but like most of Lionel's accessories the figure, Santa in this case, is not. The Hallmark Polar Express ornament is also not O scale but it was a perfect replacement for the original Santa sleigh. The Hallmark Santa and his bag of toys are not removable. I kept the original reindeer which are in scale with the sleigh.
the Hallmark sleigh had no reindeer so I lucked out.
i just thought this was a better representation of Santa since it fits in well with my Polar Express Christmas theme not to mention my 10th Anniversary Polar Express Berkshire that I was lucky to get!
-Pete
That is pretty nice. I looked all over for a different sleigh than the one that came with the Santa Pylon. I'll have to steal your idea and check out Hallmark tomorrow.
Thanks for posting.
Brian, thankyou for the compliment, however I feel this would probably look much better on your amazing Christmas layout with the Gold Polar Express Berk and your Dept 56 village!
-Pete
Matt, you may have to check out EBAY for the ornament......I believe it is not a recent Hallmark release.
-Pete
Nice work on the mod! It looks really nice.
Pete, we are definitely going to look for one of these. Thanks for the heads up.
Very nice. I did something similar using the Santa and rain dear from the Lionel Christmas pylon I got from Lionel or E-bay.
AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alex
Good work and definitely an improvement for getting closer to an overall PE theme, but I just have to ask, where's the remaining 5 reindeer?
(I would say 6 but Rudolph was MIA in the PE books & movie).
John.....excellent question......my answer...........working on it!
BFI66 posted:Based on the surge of enthusiasm for the 10th Anniversary Polar Express Berkshire.....I decided to modify my NorthPole Santa Claus pylon with the Hallmark Polar Express ornament. Should be a crowd pleaser with the kids when I put it by the tree with the rest of the tree layout Christmas Eve.
-Pete
I know this is an old thread I'm resurrecting but if you're still active on this forum, Pete, could you please post the photos above again since they're no longer accessible on this thread?
Hi Ogaugeguy....I checked my photos......most were deleted when my photobucket account was deleted.....I have since replaced Santa with a flying saucer.....that is the beauty of the pylon, with a little imagination anything can be attached...Superman, airplanes, helicopters, etc. I did find one photo however. I replaced the Lionel Santa sleigh with a Hallmark Polar Express Santa sleigh....more prototypical...lol! Here it is along with the flying saucer video....
-Pete
Thanks, Pete. Would you happen to have the Lionel sku/item id number for that pylon with the reindeer? Based on the year you originally posted this, it's probably no longer being manufactured and available new but hopefully I can still pick up a used one in like new condition.
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