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I'm not talking about how it looks. I mean the fact there was no royal 🟣 regalia actually used at the ceremony. The horses were in royal 🔵 the abbey was decorated in royal 🔵 and every road banner in London and coronation notice used guess what... I think purple was just for the jubilee... Perhaps the china factory mixed a few gallons too much 😁

Well it's not too late but the biggest clanger that stands out to me is that for the coronation King Charles clearly dismissed the royal 🟣 in favour of royal 🔵

Tbf captain tom wasn't a club edition or purple nor fictional. This purely is a souvenir. You have pretty much eliminated half your buyers and the club and one only slows the pace. Coronation was not ltd but may for all we know have had a ridiculously small run Coronation weirdly does still allow you to buy from within the club. So a new run must be either planned or Hornby have just been a bit lax with web site (just for a change 🙂🤫) Doesn't help that Hornby marketing have as usual been so unsure what this product is they seem to have forgot to mention the inclusion of a tsx ready 21pin chip . As it is it seems to be an overpriced class 66 unless you happen to spot the sku and check with them.

The PRA wagon fleet comprised of only 14 wagons built in 1983 for one specific China Clay flow between Cornwall and Scotland. EFE Rail are bringing out six versions: three early livery and three late, the main difference being the frame colour. Available to pre-order today!

Ahem.. come sept that lucky deltic has a threesome to deal with.. 🫣

If that is the DC solution.. doubt it but then again this is Hornby... A quick pair of wire snippers deals with that.. 👑🤫 But I can't see how they could do it that way without messing with the tsx installation.

That may actually turn out to be prototypical as TfW did mention it at some point.

decided to ring Hornby and ask about the TSX HM7000 status... Think they had gone home for the coronation but somone eventually answered (didnt they use to have a collectors club private number to Simons desk ;) ) Eventually passed from pillar to post but seems it comes with 21 pin chip.. Im guessing then the sound profile for this simply has a unique god saves the king attached to a bell or horn function on the app - So nothing to stop you ignoring that and just downloading any 21pin profile.

I already did A price breakdown of how it's a bargain with the chip.. it's clearly marked tsx it's a 70£ chip with 19.50 back in rewards. Tbh the difference left most club members already will have banked. If it doesn't come with a chip.. return it. Simple

Or it could be ... The wallpaper special.

Anyone want to start a book on if this even a) arrives this year b) comes with the union jack applied the wrong way up. C) is a more hideous interpretation of a guess at royal 🟣 than we ever imagined.

reading the full description it's still not entirely clear to me but I just did some basic maths and came to the conclusion it's worth leaving the order in A member gets £17.59 back off it and the postage is free. Now here is the cancel or leave part - it includes a 21 pin tsx sound chip whose sound map includes the anthem. So nothing to stop up you downloading the normal 66 soundmap by the app or taking it out and using it in any other 21 pin loco the app supports. So the chip is 69.99 +17.59 so let's say 87.50 extra value included. I'm not including the fact it's hardly likely that points won't be put towards it in the first place. So 43.50 for a souvenir (let's be fair railroad standard) class 66 isn't that bad. Let's face it it could be worth thousands on eBay for Christmas 🎄😋😉😉

I'm guessing this is Hornby being bad at explaining anything as usual and it's not a case of it running around doing this all day. I suspect there will be a profile that assigns this sound to a function key press. It's all a bit oddly described.

Given me an idea.. I may add a few branded logos and weathering to it just to give it a more semi alt reality look. Tbf with using points and the points back from the buy it's quite a bargain if it is a 21 pin sound tsx

It will be I suppose as there's no such thing as a just a chip for the 66 (it's just a 21 pin tsx or at least I hope).. it will just have a profile available for download. I suppose technically you could download said soundset onto any txs.

If it's just a tsx with a different profile I may stick with it.. add some ⚡ warning flashes and the orange line (I'm having a brain blank at the moment).. a light weathering and stick with it.. just find a 00 Camilla to throw a 🍾 at it.. It's just a bit of fun and I need to spend these points

Hmmm. Think I miss understood this email. Talking of sound chips I think Hornby have missed a momentous marketing pricing opportunity. Why not s make it hm7000 ready and charge 40/ 50 more like the 73 and 47... At least I can keep the engine boxed and unused but get a chip out of it. 🤔. The great nephews can take it on the antiques roadshow of the future , probably to be told it's tat. Now I re read the blurb and realise it just runs around singing god save the king I feel a cancel pre order coming.

It's so bizarre I have actually pre ordered one.. 🫣

A busy morning at Tunstead Moor..

Picked one up vastly reduced from Arcade. I'm just making a start on weathering it as it is the most hideous of sheens out of the box. It's couplings are also bizarre as they swing so far on the horizontal plane from a non centering point that it makes the kadees almost unusable. Whilst the cast finish certainly adds some weight I'm not sure it helps in the detail though. Quite an unusual looking thing though. What would be a normal load?

1365 shunts an empty Loriot Y out of the Sidings.

I'm yet to see even a Hornby new tool wagon that has not got issues with having something as simple as free unbinding wheels.. it doesn't exactly give faith when it comes to a locomotive.. however I'm clueless as to if this has anything to do with the factory. Could it not be simply that the CAD supplied to a certain cost enforces the elimination of certain luxuries such as metal axle etc.. I suspect Hornby have to achieve higher margins in profit than a smaller or new company even if built in the same factory.

A one wagon pick up freight leaves Tunstead Moor.. You can feel Beeching's breath on the line....