Johnny Depp......... as Jack Sparrow........... as Tonto

While trade reviews have been so-so.....that's good news to me as i agree with them NEVER!

The train footage is wild....and if you have knowledge of trains you'll have to ignore the things like lobster claw couplers and box cars that can run down the track sideways......but I'll be fine as long as it's a decent story.....they can take a few Hollywwod liberties.

I kinda wish WbB had gotten the toy license as the locos in the movie look alot like WbB's newer 4-6-0 engine and I could see them do a cool movie train. I may have to myself if it's any good!

Well, with a collection of Fran Strycker (the originator of the Lone Ranger) books, and a fan of all those TV shows back when, I have serious doubts that those of us who lived that are gonna like Tonto with a buzzard sitting on his head.  For me,  the second "True Grit" did not measure up to the first.  I also am of the opinion that the guy who played the Lone Ranger in those, and, kind of eccentrically, tried to live the part forever, got rough treatment from the corporate license holders.  The guy they have playing the Lone Ranger in this version looks just plain skinny, like he was lost at sea for a few months and lived off what he could drag aboard.  But I guess if you sent

off a Cheerios boxtop for a Lone Ranger sparking pistol ring, you'd be hard to please, too.  To this day, I have to swat my hand to keep from starting a collection of cap

pistols including one very rare one I had as a kid and saw on eBay.

I have to see it.  The Lone Ranger.  A really cool Tonto.  And trains.  Hi Ho Silver, away.

I really, really wish, that you could stream it ahead of the theater release, like the movie Europa Report (pretty good actually) that we watched tonight from Amazon, a month  b e f o r e  theater release.  I'll skip the lines and noisy theater crowds this weekend, and go see it sometime late next week. 

Is Lionel making a Lone ranger movie train set? I know they made an o-gauge Lone ranger set a couple years back.

If the movie was titled Tonto, it would be more appropriate. What Depp will bring to the Tonto character will have you thinking "Lone Who"? after seeing the movie.

How bad can it be?  After so many monumental stinkers by Hollywood over the years, this looks like a fun, action packed, shoot em up of the old fashioned kind.  I'll be within 10 degrees of the lens axis at 2 times the diagonal of the screen come this Saturday. 

I have been in love with Westerns since I had the complete Hopalong Cassidy outfit when I was 4 or so.  I know I had every cap gun Hubley et al ever made.  Neither me nor my friends became serial killers I'm proud to say.

Was catalogued again in the 2013 RTR catalog.

Lego has actually a nice one and offer better play value, like always..yes it's non-powered.

Matt: That Lone Ranger set WAS the tie-in for THIS film... which was plagued with numerous cost over-runs & was almost declared dead more than once.  Perhaps now Lionel can start selling some of those sets if it creates some good marketing tie-ins!  Although Lionel's Lone Ranger set is better than it's tepid "Christmas Story" set... its not by much.  Its unfortunate too, because unlike "Harry Potter,""Thomas," & "A Christmas Story," it was the first time Lionel was actually on time & in line with a movie/TV-related product.  It turned out to be a mistake of all things!

Most of you never listened to the Lone Ranger on the radio, and some of you don't know what a radio is.

I listened to the LONE RANGER and CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT after school and before dinner every weekday.

The Shadow knows...

LaMont Cranston.

Have tickets for a Wednesday matinee in hand.  

"Better play value"...at least in ONE person's opinion.  Nice generalization....  

Of course I know what a radio is...my brother gave me a CB for my car one Christmas

(which I have never taken out of the box...and I think that fad has passed)

RadioRon, I did not know that. I always thought it was just a set to celebrate the old Lone ranger tv show or something, but thanks for the info!

I plan to see it.  I was a big Clayton Moore, Lone Ranger fan as a kid.  I'm also generally a Johnny Depp fan, and do expect him to steal the show.  He's no Jay Silverheels, but the TV Tonto seemed to serve as the show's conscience as much as the straight man or sidekick.  Unfortunately, the radio & TV show were both before my time, but the reruns on the weekends always had me riveted.  I'm hoping it will come to one of the couple drive-ins we have outside the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex...it would be a great way to catch it.

I debated getting the Lone Ranger set as a guilty pleasure, but read some cautioning details on quality here so I settled for the Lone Ranger & Outlaw Operating Car by itself.  HI-YO Silver!

I record and watch both the old Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers shows everyday.

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