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TrackMaster Thomas the Tank Sodor Adventure Set | 
| Brand: Thomas & Friends
Buy New: $44.99
Rating:  2 reviews
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 16 x 12 x 2.8
UPC: 045986640215
EAN: 0045986640215
Availability: Usually ships in 4-5 business days
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| Features:
| • | Thomas exits the sheds, crosses the bridge and passes by the signal house; shed doors magically open when Thomas enters or exits | | • | Children learn the switch track mechanism and guide their best friend Thomas to a new destination | | • | Set includes Thomas, Shed, a suspension bridge, track and more | | • | Assembly required; batteries required (not included) | | • | For ages 3 yrs. and up | | • | Batteries Required (Sold Separately): 1 AA Battery |
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Product Description
Thomas exits the sheds, crosses the bridge and passes by the signal house; shed doors magically open when Thomas enters or exits Children learn the switch track mechanism and guide their best friend Thomas to a new destination Set includes Thomas, Shed, a suspension bridge, track and more Assembly required; batteries required (not included) For ages 3 yrs. and up Batteries Required (Sold Separately): 1 AA Battery
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| Customer Reviews:
Nice Starter Set December 9, 2008
Beabea (Chicago, Illinois USA)
If you can buy this for around twenty dollars, then this is a nice starter set. This is a plastic, battery-operated train which is not compatible with the well known wooden sets. If your children like to push trains along the track by hand, you might be better off with the wooden sets. If they prefer to watch the train move along the track, then I would go with this. You can add onto this set with different engines, cars and track. This set comes with a Thomas engine and no additional cars. The shed is made of plastic and has to be assembled. The shed tends to fall apart and my childern have stopped using it.
Also, it might help you to know that to install the AA battery, you have to pull down on the middle wheels while pulling up on the engine body.
The Toy Expansion Set of The Season .... October 30, 2008
! Steffan Piper ! (Palm Desert, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For the last few years at the big-box retailers, model railways have been stocked as a niche item or an occasional product with minimal interest. Sometimes only a few of them on an end-cap, like an afterthought.
With TrackMaster's Thomas Adventure collection all of this quickly changed.
For the last four days, I've been stuck model railroading with my eighteen month old son, Fox. I first purchased him the Sodor Adventure set, quickly assembled it with no trouble and became hooked. Both of us laid there on the carpet, mesmerized watching the little blue engine continually circling the track.
Not feeling satisfied, like any parent obsessed, I ran back out and purchased:
TrackMaster Backpack of Track Kit -- $34.99
TrackMaster Track Expansion Kit -- $19.98
TrackMaster Mountain of Track -- $15.99
TrackMaster Sodor Lumber Yard -- $21.99
TrackMaster Thomas at The Station -- $14.99
TrackMaster Sodor Adventure Set--$15.99 (*)
So in total, I spent about a $125.00 You could actually do without the Backpack Kit and get two Expansion kits, as I later found it to be a better value. But it was more than worth the money I spent as this has really become the new time consuming thing to do all day long.
My chief complaints with the product is that the small bridge support pieces are not snappable or stackable like you would think, which would help you to elevate the track and keep it steady. To alleviate this problem, I had a flash of genius and pulled out some Lego sets and started building bridges, adding houses and some little people. Fox is going crazy over this stuff.
What I've found in the last number of days playing with Model Railroads, is that it's a good lesson for my son to learn to 'not touch' or 'watch', 'be gentle' and 'don't grab'. After untold hours, he knows now to be gentle, not to grab the trains or the cars, dismantle the track or other set pieces. He also avoids walking on the track, too. Which was the first thing he was all about.
The Remote Control Engines that are available are also nice as they add the ability to go backwards and forwards and stop thus preventing collisions. My mind wants there to be electronic switching (haha), but that's a bit advanced for Thomas and Friends.
This track is capable of being combined with the old blue track as well with a few adapter pieces which I've seen in the store and available on the Thomas website. Just be advised that some of these sets advertised are wooden, some are for the cars and some are both.
There are also quite a few engine sets, pulley cars, cabooses, containers, etc., available to add on to the track. All of them are battery operated and speed along very smoothly. They get high points for the low price point of between five and seven dollars per car or per set. Remember other Model Railroading equipment runs into the many hundreds. Also, the track is very flexible in terms of using other types of motorized vehicles and little cars.
Overall, this entire set is well worth the time and money and is durable and easy to install and quick to take down and put back up. We have a race to see if we can get all the track back in the box before bedtime every night too. Setting it up is actually part of the fun, too.
I'll be playing with the stuff well into the new year, as will my son.
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