Kim Jong Un train set (Private Eye)

[RichardT]

From this week’s “Private Eye”:

 

I particularly like “Hornby-ong-yang”

So, Rapido, are you listening? You could call it “The Killing-Field Thunderbolt”. (Yes, I know that was the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, but KJU is the modern Asian incarnation of that epithet.)

 

Richard

Edited September 22, 2023 by RichardT
Adding a bit

[Edwin_m]

Free Tri-Ang Battlespace missile wagon with every order.  

[RichardT]

16 minutes ago, Edwin_m said:

Free Tri-Ang Battlespace missile wagon with every order.  

Of course - I knew this reminded me of something… 😂

 

Edited September 22, 2023 by RichardT

[J. S. Bach]

At Hornby pricing, it would not be affordable!

 

And if Dapol O, it would keep being postponed for many years! Just look at their proposed Class 66 offering.

 

Edited September 22, 2023 by J. S. Bach
To add some information.

[Gilbert]

Excellent.......

[Hroth]

4 hours ago, RichardT said:

From this week’s “Private Eye”:

 

I particularly like “Hornby-ong-yang”

So, Rapido, are you listening? You could call it “The Killing-Field Thunderbolt”. (Yes, I know that was the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, but KJU is the modern Asian incarnation of that epithet.)

 

Richard

 

Would the "tiny overweight model of the Supreme Leader" be a Fat Director?

 

[Danemouth]

4 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Would the "tiny overweight model of the Supreme Leader" be a Fat Director?

 

Fat Controller surely?

 

Dave

[Dava]

How about a Ukraine Freedom Train with a saloon business car used by all the leaders of the free world?

 

[Hroth]

29 minutes ago, Danemouth said:

Fat Controller surely?

 

Dave

 

Only until the PC Lobby decided it was "Fattist", body shaming or something and decided he would be the fatuously named Sir Topham Hatt...

 

[RichardT]

The Fat Dictator, surely.

 

OT but ISTR that there originally was also a Thin Controller, who faded out of the Awdry stories rather quickly.

 

RT

[Jeremy Cumberland]

10 minutes ago, RichardT said:

OT but ISTR that there originally was also a Thin Controller, who faded out of the Awdry stories rather quickly.

Not at all. The Thin Controller ran the Skarloey Railway (based on the Talyllyn). The Small Controller ran the Arlesdale Railway (based on the Ravenglass and Eskdale). The Fat Controller ran the standard gauge.

 

It's a bit of a shame the standard gauge lines were nationalised, because in the first book, the gentleman was called the Fat Director, which morphs rather better into the Fat Dictator.

[Steamport Southport]

Tut Tut!

 

You can't call them that anymore. You've got to call him Freddy Dictator!

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57305632

 

[rob D2]

They’ve stolen hornbys idea. That was to be tooled up next after they’ve shifted the god save the king 66s

[Hroth]

12 minutes ago, rob D2 said:

They’ve stolen hornbys idea. That was to be tooled up next after they’ve shifted the god save the king 66s

 

Although the KCIII 66s seem to have been quite popular!

 

[rob D2]

13 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

Although the KCIII 66s seem to have been quite popular!

 

Yes, we laugh but they always shift their tat to the collectors “ must have it “ market.

I’m sure if they did a Co-Co bogied Union Jack dog poop they’d still shift it 

[eastglosmog]

If it is a "tiny overweight model of the supreme leader" does that mean that the model is over scale weight for the portly person? Made of depleted uranium, perhaps?

[Steamport Southport]

6 hours ago, rob D2 said:

Yes, we laugh but they always shift their tat to the collectors “ must have it “ market.

I’m sure if they did a Co-Co bogied Union Jack dog poop they’d still shift it 

 

Only you laughing as you missed out!

 

Might be worth looking on eBay, now valued from £150 to £500. Some with bids on well in excess of what I paid!

 

King Charles III

 

 

[Dungrange]

On 22/09/2023 at 16:10, RichardT said:

From this week’s “Private Eye”:

 

I particularly like “Hornby-ong-yang”

So, Rapido, are you listening? You could call it “The Killing-Field Thunderbolt”. (Yes, I know that was the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, but KJU is the modern Asian incarnation of that epithet.)

 

Richard

I note that it doesn't state what the scale is (just that it is a perfect scale model), but 94 carriages for the equivalent of 37 pence would seem like exceptionally good value.  Unfortunately, it seems like the exchange rate is incorrect as there are only 1096 North Korean Won to the pound!  £81 million is a much less affordable train set.

[Titan]

On 22/09/2023 at 22:09, Steamport Southport said:

Tut Tut!

 

You can't call them that anymore. You've got to call him Freddy Dictator!

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57305632

 

 

Not according to this!

 

 

[Classsix T]

16 hours ago, rob D2 said:

Yes, we laugh but they always shift their tat to the collectors “ must have it “ market.

I’m sure if they did a Co-Co bogied Union Jack dog poop they’d still shift it 

As an enthusiast of Cl56 & Cl60, any General Motors traction to me could be classified as "Co-Co bogied dog poop" Union Jack or no.

 

Class 69? Well that's just taking the piss.

 

C6T.

[Classsix T]

15 hours ago, eastglosmog said:

If it is a "tiny overweight model of the supreme leader" does that mean that the model is over scale weight for the portly person? Made of depleted uranium, perhaps?

Indeed, poor intended English. Bad show.

 

As read, it means the tiny figurine weighs more than the manufacturer intended it to.

 

Order cancelled! C6T.

[phil_sutters]

Seeing 'God Save The King' on the 66, what do atheists sing when the National Anthem is played?

[phil_sutters]

On 22/09/2023 at 20:36, Danemouth said:

Fat Controller surely?

 

Dave

He's got a new job. He is a surgeon fitting gastric bands.

I think I could have done that. I used to reconnect the rubber bands inside my little sisters' plastic dolls, when they got dislodged and an arm or leg or even the head fell off.

[BachelorBoy]

That may be parody, but this isn't...

 

[rob D2]

2 hours ago, BachelorBoy said:

That may be parody, but this isn't...

 

That's bad enough , but imagine the Biden version .

 

It'd probably forget where it's going and end up in Detroit when it was supposed to go to Miami .