hehe magnets! reminds me of my grandma's christmas village from when I was a kid, she had a pond with ice skaters and they would move around with magnets under the "Ice" (mirror)
To entertain the kids who attended a Christmas party where I set up an indoor layout, I picked up a circus train this year. For added fun, in a boxcar I put a battery operated speaker connected to an IPOD. I downloaded a bunch of animal sounds into the IPOD I picked up off the web - elephants trumpting, lions roaring, etc. I also put in some monkey and baboon sounds which caused great hilarity when the kids started mimicking monkeys.
My only problem is each year the people who attend our party expect something new. This year I built a mountain with an LGB cable car going up and down, and sure enough, someone said "Bob, you've got to have the skiers moving". That will be a challenge.
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