Thomas & Friends CGM19 Minis Motorised Raceway Set, Thomas the Tank Engine Minis Toy Train Set

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They also are unlikely to change the format of the wooden ones after you’ve spent hundreds of pounds on Take and Fucking Play because your autistic son has the lifelong goal of having every single train on Sodor. Look - exactly the same track and trains just different connections so you can’t play with them together, ever.

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Also Bigjigs do replica real engines - we have the Mallard, and a Japanese bullet train, and the Duchess of Hamilton. Can I just get one set or will I need to add plastic track to it like we have with the wooden track?The Trackmaster sets each have an intended layout and instructions to make the layout - but the track itself can be made into any configuration, just as wooden track can , provided you have enough Trackmaster track. You can get loads of "knock off" brio (big jigs, ikea, tesco - all fit together with genuine brio track). I'm quite resistant to introducing a new strain of Thomas into the household but the tracks look so cool to a 4-year-old boy! Trackmaster trains are all battery powered too, which can get expensive when you have children who set them running and don’t turn them off. The Trackmaster track is the same gauge as the wooden track, so Brio style trains can be pushed around on a Trackmaster track and vice versa, although Trackmaster trains are bigger so don’t tend to work so well with wooden track tunnels and sharp bends.

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They’re a pita to put together and don’t have any flex in them so you have to put the pieces in the right places or they won’t fit at all. Sadly DS is past playing with it mostly, unless we get it out for his friends' younger siblings (at which point he suddenly remembers how much fun it is and will happily spend an afternoon with it). The super station from last Xmas I think can have the batttery trackmaster trains, minis and adventure/take and play trains on the same track. And you can keep adding to it (we now have a crate which contains enough brio to carpet the entire ground floor of the house).Trackmaster track is more fiddly to connect together, so there’s far more adult input demanded when setting up Trackmaster layouts. Invest in a load of bridges so you get the sections which enable you to change levels, then (pro tip! Take and play has recently been replaced with Thomas Adventures - exactly the same sizes but different connections for track and couplings for trains so you can’t mix and match at all.

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A massive heap of ugly plastic, but at least smaller than the others on offer and a good compromise. I’d stick with brio - you can get battery operated wooden Thomas trains online and BigJigs wooden track fits and is waaaay cheaper than brio of Thomas versions. Not that I’m bitter at all or have spent many hours writing complaints to the bastards who couldn’t give less of a toss.

My nearly-4-year-old has had a wooden train set (brio etc) since he was 2, and we've added to it over the years so he has quite a lot, plus tons of wooden Thomas engines (he really likes/liked Thomas the Tank). I found this article which is useful but has annoyed me at how they keep changing things (and no doubt have changed again since that article)!

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changing the name to 'thomas adventures' just seems designed to deliberately confuse people even more.I don't want him disappointed though (he has had expectations in the past of getting particular engines and it's horrible to see him wonder why he didn't get them (because we're not mind readers!