Buy Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway - A Day at The Works SetThomas & Friends Wooden Railway - A Day at The Works Set Product Description:
- Thomas The Tank Engine, Thomas Wooden Railway, A New Way To Play With Thomas
- Works With all Thomas Wooden Railway Items, High Quality Track and Cars
- Best Play Value, Best Fun, Your Best Thomas Friend
- Recommended Age Range 3 to 5 Years
Product Description
When Thomas the Tank is feeling out of sorts, he goes to spend a day at the Works Set so he can get back into tip top shape.
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104 of 104 people found the following review helpful.
Great for 18 months and up! But expensive...
By Zossima
The Thomas train and train collections are durable toys. Their real value, though, is that playing with the toys allows children to act out the great Thomas and Friends children's stories they read and watch.
This is a nice layout that provides far more track than the usual figure 8 layout that gets purchased first. It also provides a scenic mat, a tressle, and a building. But it is very expensive. There is generic track available that costs far less. Our kids haven't noticed the difference. IT IS EASY TO CREATE ELEVATED TRACK AND BRIDGES USING LEGO OR DUPLO PIECES AS SUPPORTS. GENERIC CRANES ARE AVAILABLE FOR MUCH LESS.
Kids' imaginations can remarkably supply buildings and water towers and cranes, etc., so that they won't even miss what might be lacking from less expensive sets. And families can build some of these items themselves out of old boxes, etc.
Purchasing recommendation:* Choose which type of Thomas trains you will 'standardize' on. There are three kinds: This size of wooden trains from Learning Curve; larger, plastic, battery-operated trains from Tomy; and smaller, die-cast metal trains from Ertl. The wooden trains have the most products and accessories available.
* The clickety-clack (grooved to look like real railroad) track in the Thomas series is great, but it's expensive; I recommend buying generic track. ... You can literally save hundreds of dollars by buying these kinds of sets.
* Buy the Thomas and friends engines separately--and wait for sales. The kids care about the characters, so no short-cutting (ie., Brio or generic trains) here.
* Look for trains bundled with VHS videos. You can get a video and a train (on sale) for about the same price as a train alone.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.Granddaughters Joy
By L. Houghton
I bought this for my granddaughter who is 19 months old. She can't leave it alone. The other toys in the house have lost their allure and the trains occupy the bulk of her play time. They are well made, provide her with motor skills improvement opportunities and she loves them. The down side (yes we're indulgent) is that it has led to buying other trains, Thomas & Friends DVD's and books. This is a great starter set and is really all she needs. More track and buildings might be needed when she gets older but she has yet to tire of any of it in the last month and a half. Parents, grandparents, friends, this is a toy that will stand the test of time and worth every penny.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Thomas track
By D. Fuzetto
The tracks are overall good, except part of the tracks with the hill doesn't stay together.
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