Intro clip told me all: "for God's sake"

How did Heljan reviews vanish from the channel for a year, then suddenly we are bombarded with one after another? I'm not complaining, Heljan reviews are always entertaining! 😆

That intro threw me off for a second. Thought my internet stopped. Lol

I still like old Cyclops, the Triang Dockyard Shunter...

What? Sam's Heljan 1361 is evolving!!!

(Evolves into the diesel)


Congratulations! Your Heljan 1361 has evolved into a Heljan 165DE!!

I'm trying to imagine the conversation in the main dungeon of Heljan head office now.

Hel: Hey, I've just seen how many Sam's Trains reviews there've been recently complaining about Hornby peddling overpriced shoddily made tat!
Jan: What?! That's unacceptable; Hornby are muscling into our territory! They're Titfield-thunderbolting us! We'll show them... everybody likes Hornby's cute little Rustons, we shall make a Ruston of our own which exemplifies everything Heljan is known for! Now... what more could we do, to go the extra mile for a really stand-out review...?
Hel: Well, Sam did review a diesel shunter from AliExpress not long ago, we could maybe try to aim for that kind of standard, I suppose? Or we could maybe attempt to make a good model for a change instead.... ?
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Heljan: Hahahahaha.... no.

So, I talked with Dekas (danish manufactor) CEO a few days ago, where we discussed the way Dekas run compared to Heljan, and he mentioned that Heljan had no passion for the hobby and were easy to say a locomotive wouldn't be profitable for them if they didn't sell at least 1500 of them. Dekas on the other hand will according to themselves make a model if they might be profitable in the long run, i.e after 3 or 4 batches and they know how annoying bad quality is.

I know I sound like a PR person for them, but I do really recommend their models, really some of the most detailed and quality locomotives that I own in my collection.

Thats whats great about your reviews. The honesty. Magazine reviews very rarely now included negative comments. Whats that about? Even a faulty model gets a glowing review! I bet Kernow and Model Rail arn’t pleased they are involved in this model!

another video that shows why i come to you for reviews. youre honest about the product. keep it up sam.

Put loco back in box and send it back. If your not happy with it you have a right as I customer .

As soon as you see the words Sam’s Trains and Heljen. You know your in for a good time 😂😂

Saw the word "Warning" in the title and knew I was in for a treat!

When Sam shows in the intro that the loco stops, you will know it will be a bad runner 😂

I just love your reviews, even though I live in germany and am a Märklin h0 scale modeller.

They're just so entertaining, especially the bad reviews. I just read the title and was like: I'm gonna love this one.

So.. at least this model served one good purpose: To give me and many others a fun time while you reviewed it. Cheers!

Hey Sam, its a definite tribute to your presentation skills that I must have watched 50+ of your videos despite running AC gear (Marklin) on my own layout, so zero 'crossover' info really. I must say, it doesn't give me a lot of confidence in laying out high amounts of money (given it has to be shipped to Australia) to buy new models. I believe I've had less issues with 2nd hand 40 year old Lima AC models and even less issues with 40-50 year old Marklin/Fleischmann gear. Keep it up - the plethora of fans prove you're on the right track!

I was having a rotten day and then your video showed up Sam. You turned my day around! GREAT WORK!!

Great vid Sam! Shocking that Heljan still produce crap like this!! Sorry I've not been commenting of late I've just been very busy with college amongst other things!

4 stars for mechanism where the motor is connected with plastic pipe? This is very generous!

What would be interesting is for Heljan to give a rebuttal.

When you do the history of the loco, id love to see real pictures of real locos rather than black and white ones of the model