LEGO Letdown? Holiday Express Train 10361 (2025) + Hot Chocolate Stand!

Happy Holidays, everyone! Today we're reviewing two LEGO holiday sets from this year’s big promo weekends — the much-anticipated 2025 Winter Village Set: the LEGO Icons Holiday Express Train (10361) and the Hot Chocolate Stand (40776) Gift With Purchase! From Insider Weekend and Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals all the way into early December, these seasonal builds have a lot of buzz… but do they deliver? We start with the Holiday Express Train, examining the build quality, design, play/display value, and whether it lives up to the hype. Then we take a closer look at the Hot Chocolate Stand (40776) a festive GWP! 🎄 In this video we cover: 🚂 Unboxing & first impressions of LEGO 10361 Holiday Express Train ☕ Honest look at LEGO 40776 Hot Chocolate Stand (hot chocolate mug stall) ❓ What works well — and what misses the mark 🔔 Subscribe for awesome new LEGO videos every week! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOMettsQdvrut0U6a-PfzoA?sub_confirmation=1 📦 Click here to Buy! https://amzn.to/4sdQDhJ - 🧱 LEGO Videos Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVQhk1p_FiQ&list=PLxLRPIexnk5w_JJ8MGbop2LJfrUsV1A8i 💥 LEGO Shopping Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjgq-GrFyHc&list=PLxLRPIexnk5xgBowJfM9DiGHu_piCoIAw&index=4 🏡 LEGO City Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVQhk1p_FiQ&list=PLxLRPIexnk5yetjnAHCaTPFNzHsdz8SeV 🚘 LEGO Speed Builds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtuK06C2Wso&list=PLxLRPIexnk5yiqEo1idO0kjRxvAxaGmv4 📲 LEGO Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNflOoufB70&list=PLxLRPIexnk5zKyh7Np_Bx4xZnsjnR1E-Y&index=2 - Subscribe on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOMettsQdvrut0U6a-PfzoA Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oldmountainbricks/ Threads - https://www.threads.net/oldmountainbricks X/Twitter - https://twitter.com/OldMtBricks Contact us: oldmountainbricks(at)gmail.com Link Tree - https://linktr.ee/oldmountain From the LEGO Website: TThe LEGO® Icons Holiday Express Train (10361) model train set has arrived. Craft a locomotive with a bobbing smokestack, coal tender, flatcar carrying a bell-ringing polar bear and an end car with a furnished interior. This adult building kit also includes 4 minifigures and a passenger platform with a bench and lamppost, plus miniature toys including, for the first time in a retail LEGO set, a 3D-printed train piece. Build the track around your holiday tree and add the LEGO Powered Up kit (sold separately) to motorize the locomotive. Climb aboard for an immersive building journey or gather friends and family for a fun Build Together experience in the LEGO Builder app. Here, you can zoom in and rotate models in 3D, track and save your progress and explore new LEGO models. This set also includes 2 sets of printed instructions for building together. Serve up a cup of creativity with this LEGO® Hot Chocolate Stand (40776) Christmas playset for kids aged 10 and over. Girls and boys will have fun creating this LEGO mug-shaped stall model, which is topped with brick-built froth, marshmallows and a candy cane, before discovering its sweet details. There’s a removable roof, outside seating area and 2 minifigures that spark a flurry of festive role play. We’ll take ours with extra marshmallows, please. Contains 255 pieces. #LEGO