lego spring 2006-holiday2005

[Anonymous]

http://shop.lego.com/catalog/OnlineCatalog.asp

[Birds]

It's surprising how much electric train stuff Lego has. They have a nice range of engines, passenger cars, and rolling stock - even manually operated turnouts.

Their high speed train looks pretty good.

It's also interesting that you build the cars and engines around the frame. A hands on train. Imagine the non-prototype configurations one could come up with.

A number of years ago either Playmobile or Lego offered an electric train set that was basically a G scale setup. It came pre-assembled. This looks much more fun for kids - and even some of us adults.

[Brutus]

We've got a Hogwarts Express lego layout going with a lot of the Harry Potter sets. It's just set up on a table right now, though.

[danrunner]

HAS ANYONE PIDDLED AROUND WITH THE WOODEN OR PLASTIC TRAIN SETS?

My daughter loves trains but is only two (not quite). Those wooden train layouts look interesting. So do those Lego or Geotrax sets.

Anyone have any experience with them or any advice?

Dan

[Birds]

Playmobil has a couple nice sets in their "Playmobil 1-2-3" line of toys (the "1-2-3" line is geared towards your daughters age). I tried to post a link from the Playmobil website, but it was too long and wrapped so it wouldn't work.

My wife and I have purchased these for a couple of our nieces and nephews and they have all used them until about 2nd or 3rd grade. There are quite a few add-ons so it can grow with them and add play value.

[cmrj]

Dan, my son has a large collection of geotrack's . Great for aunt's & uncle's to add on to.And priced with in reach too ,draw back is that each train and controler need3 AAA batteries each. I bought nic. met. hyd.rechargeable's money well spent.
Mike