While I'll never justify ever buying this set, I LOVE the Passenger Car design! So much room and references!

The "coal car" is called the tender, and it would contain not just coal or wood for the fire box, but also extra water for the boiler

Man, Harry Potter D2C sets are incredibly chaotic. You've got microscale Hogwarts Castle, prop replicas, Modular-Style-ish Diagon Alley, and a very large train. Can't imagine trying to manage a large display of Lego Harry Potter.

They could have saved the consumer money and saved a thousand pieces by not including the platform. Or used those pieces to have another train car. The fact it isn’t usable with City scale train tracks is another huge missed opportunity.

The coal car is called a tender.

Really makes the Diagon Alley and Hogwarts Castle look like mad bargains. LEGO will continue to raise prices to see how much people are willing to pay for this stuff and if people keep buying they won't stop. Just look at the recent 40 percent discount of the Camp Nou stadium.

Great review , the middle cart is called a tender 🙂

Here we go! Thanks for all the effort to review this set, Holly!

For me, it all comes down to color.  If they made this is DARK RED it would truly be a "collector's set" and definite must purchase, instead it is kind of just of a bigger version of the 2018 set.  I know, i know, it's "expensive" for LEGO to make pieces in new colors, but really??   For train fans, the Emerald Night, one of the most beloved train sets ever released was made in dark green, which to this day makes it so iconic in its look and not just simply another rehashed train.  The set sells for almost 10x what it costs new since many of those dark green pieces never appeared in other sets (and the tan windows..). Probably just going to wait another 5 years for LEGO to reissue this set,  hopefully with the proper color next time.  Imagine how truly unique and special this set would be if it was in the proper color!!??

So many stickers is simply unacceptable in such a premium expensive set.
There's not a single sticker in the new $400 Lion Knights Castle 90th Anniversary set; only printed pieces.

As a Lego Train builder, I'm ultimately happy this set exists. I had expectations for it when it was first announced and naturally was upset when it was a display set than a train set. So much could have been done with this but the internet has said my piece for me XD Lovely review, and for the coal car name: Tender. Locomotives that have a coal carrier wagon is called a 'tender', Just so the info is there ;)

the middle car is called a tender

They should have given epilogue Harry an alternate Face expression where his scar has disappeared.

I would love a set with like detailed versions of the ford anglia, knight bus and maybe hagrid's flying bike or something. Would be a nice companion set for this.

Wow, I didn't realise how dissapointing this set is until I literally picked up the system scale locomotive part of the train and watched you go through the different parts of this "UCS" one and comparing them. Outside of being bigger there is very little thats better about this one, from the lack of the drum lacquered
golden pieces, to the front which the system scale did with that great print and here its a crappy sticker with weird assembly and even the cab for the driver of it is miles ahead in detail with the smaller one... I dont get this set at all and my wallet is happy about that.

18:45 The car behind the locomotive is the tender.

If we get a LEGO Ideas Polar Express, let’s hope it’s a 6 stud train that can fit on normal tracks.

18:52 Tender is the word

Holly it needs to be a mini set with more passenger cars to go with the Hogwarts Castle

This train is so big and cool, Luna is still cute.