Customer Reviews

BRIO Two-Way Battery Powered Engine

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My 2 1/2 year old son absolutely LOVES this car! He has had a Brio train set for a few months now and was delighted to see the train take on a life of its own and move by itself! This train can only pull about five cars or so with any speed, but my son loaded all of his up and it still pulled, just VERY slowly! Enjoy!

Our son is not yet three, so he has a hard time pushing the trains around the tracks he builds. However, this train enables him to really bring the tracks to life. He loves the train, and sleeps with it every night. In spite of the admittedly rough treatment, it has held up very well. Nice addition to any Thomas or Brio set.

It's true that this toy eats AAA batteries. However, I've located rechargable NiCad AAA batteries, and tried them out.

The train will run for somewhere between 40 and 50 minutes continuously on a fresh charge. My 4 year old does not run the train continously, so a single charge lasts longer than his attention span for any given day.

Rechargables do carry some maintenance, however. In particular, if you leave the unit on much past when the battery is drained, you can permanantly kill it. My four year old seems to be able to handle this responsibility. It has been a learning experience.

We have this little engine and it is just fun. It adds to the fun of building a track, testing the track, and using the track.

This little engine is just that- little. It can not go up hills with a lot of cars attached to it. IT simply will not make it and will become the little engine that can't. However, if you have a lot of tracks and a lot of cars and several engines, as we do, this engine is an excellent one to have on hand. Or if you have little children who will not expect it to haul 5 or more cars up a hill, then it is great.

The bright colors are nice.

The one complaint we would have about it, is not about it's hauling capacity. The complaint that we have is that the button on top, while easy to operate in your hand, is not easy to operate when it is in motion on the track. If your train is going along and your mom calls you to dinner- it is difficult for little fingers to turn off the engine without pulling it off of the track. IF your train is going forward and you want it to back up, it is difficult to do without taking the engine off of the track. It is possible, but hard for little fingers.

Other than that complaint, we really like this little train. It is a staple and often one of the first we put on our track.

Enjoy.

it amazes me that they can make products that simply don't work. This train can't even climb a hill with more than two cars attached. It derails almost instantly as it approaches curves. My son wants it to work so bad that he just squeals with frustration.

My 6 year old boy had much fun with the battery-operated train. Yet hairs were sticked with wheels, the train stopped operating. When you play on the clean tracks, you can have much durability on that train.

Our battery operated train is almost 20 years old! It still operates and looks brand new. We adopted two babies, and I have to buy one more so they stop fighting over it! Worth every penny. Batteries last a very very long time.

This train is great because it stays on the track. But it is slow, not that strong, and runs through batteries like crazy. My 2 year loves it, but he often leaves it running and it quickly runs out of batteries. I think it can pull about 2 of his train cars up a hill.