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

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I think it was my favourite toy when DS was younger, hours of fun (we once reconstructed the roller coaster at our local theme park out of brio and duplo).

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changing the name to 'thomas adventures' just seems designed to deliberately confuse people even more. Trackmaster track is more fiddly to connect together, so there’s far more adult input demanded when setting up Trackmaster layouts. I think he'll like it as the one he was studying intently (we got him a poster ages ago with all the engines on but it also has ads for take n play. 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.

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. 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! It's cheap (that super station looked great but way too expensive atm) and at least you can pick up minis cheaply. 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).

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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. Can I just get one set or will I need to add plastic track to it like we have with the wooden track?You can get loads of "knock off" brio (big jigs, ikea, tesco - all fit together with genuine brio track). Largish train, too big to fit on Brio style track, and most likely too babyish for a child already into wooden trains. I think they've officially been replaced by the 'real wood' engines that have some 'exposed' wood in their design. I’d avoid the Take n Play / Thomas Adventures style altogether - that track is completely incompatible with Brio style trains, and the sets we’ve had have been flimsy in comparison to wooden track and Trackmaster sets.

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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. 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! 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). 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.

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).