Customer Reviews

BRIO Polar Express Battery Train

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My daughter (4) absolutely loves this train. We've had it about a year, and I found her sleeping with it the other night. The sounds are great, and she likes that it moves bacwards and forwards (although it needs help mastering steep hills). My complaint is that ours sucks the life out of batteries EXTREMELY quickly...it doesn't seem normal. I don't know if its just ours or if all of them work in the same way, but most of the time the batteries are dead and she just plays happily with it making her own noise. If I had to do it over I would consider the one without batteries -- I really think she would have loved it just as much. However, she is overjoyed when I put in fresh batteries and quickly wears them out again!

What a neat toy! This has been the BEST addition to our train set for quite awhile. My only complaint is that the coal car should be a little larger but other than that, this thing is nothing short of awesome. My little one plays and plays with this thing and we've had it for over a year now. It is clearly the favorite and I've now been told that I can get rid of all the other trains but we HAVE to keep the Polar Express. This is made by Brio so it doesn't really have all the details the Thomas trains have but it's no less entertaining. It doesn't use batteries that much - ours last at least a couple of months before wearing out. It's just a very neat way to bring the movie to life in your own home and quite the treasure. If you can find one (try ebay), grab it. It certainly is worth every penny. Great toy, highly recommend!

I bought this train and some of the other items in Brio's Polar Express line because my son wanted the Polar Express train to go around our Christmas tree. Well, the train moves okay on it's own, but if you connect any other trains to it, it barely moves (sometimes not at all) and we end up having to push the train anyway. Too bad Brio couldn't have designed it a little better.

As a big fan of the Thomas trains my little boy likes this engine even though it does not have a lot of detail. The fact that it has train noises, goes backwards and forwards and the lights work go along way! We went to the movie and have read the book. Now we have been sucked into buying the train. I love America!

My boys love their trains! I got two so they could each have their own. They work well on Thomas the Tank Engine tracks.

This little engine is so much fun -- Santa always gives us some new Brio pieces every year, and we have this little train to travel around the tracks.

It is a PAIN to change the batteries -- the little smokestack screw needs to be aligned just so. It's something I can't just have my kids do (even though they are certainly big enough to change toy batteries by themselves in most other circumstances) -- I have to change them myself.

This engine has trouble handling hills if it is pulling more than a couple of cars.

We love our Brio Trains and play with them a lot. This train by going forwards and backwards just adds more to the fun. It has held up to a lot of play at our home. The sounds are fun as well.

TWO Negatives:
1. It eats batteries. and 2. It doesn't go up steep hills. Actually, it goes up steep hills fine but it doesn't do so if it has anything connected to it.

Enjoy.

Great little hand-held or floor toy for the youngest train enthusiast. Two train sounds are great. Moves very well. Too bad it has been discontinued from the company, especially since Polar Express is still popular.

It's very cute, but it's not made for play because it breaks easily. What's the point?

This train is awesome. The battery lasts a long time, it can pull a bunch of other train cars, and it has a light on the front. I would recommend this train to everyone, my kids love it!