When I walked into a hobby store in Tulsa Oklahoma and saw a Harry Potter Train set made by Marklin (OO hall and carriages made in China) would one of the wise persons on this group enlighten me as to whether this is a re-badged Bachmann product, or is it completely different. They were charging Marklin prices US$ 450 for the set. I think they will go out of business unless it is much better than Bachmann
David
Probably just a re badged Hornby product
wrote
You're not wrong about Marklin - they recently went into administration and the busiess has been acquired by a UK based finance house, so for the first time in their history they are not German owned.
I think (might be wrong) that Bachmann have exclusive marketing rights for the Harry Potter name in the model railway market for the USA.
John.
They do indeed.
-- Cheers
Roger T.
Home of the Great Eastern Railway
If it's the same as the 2004 set, the the loco and coach bodies were supplied by hornby - Marklin added the chassis on the loco for their stud contact system.
It was not avilable in the UK although did appear in the trade price list but orders for it were not fulfilled. Tim
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