Customer Reviews

Bachmann Trains Thomas And Friends - Thomas The Tank Engine With Moving Eyes

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shipped fast..arrived in perfect condition. Used it to pull many cars and it worked perfect.. eyes move back and forth. My 4 yo nephew loves it.. supervised play only.

Got this online for my son for Christmas. He and his brother have an HO scale model railroad layout. He LOVES this Thomas engine. Very cute. Runs well, and the eyes move side-to-side. Pretty durable and a good deal for the price.

This train is far too light to run nicely on a track. It has a specialized coupler that doesnt play nice with traditional train couplers so you can't really connect anything except other "Thomas" trains to it. If you don't own other ones then all you can chug is this one train, but being that it's so light in weight, you won't last long with it. Its so light the wheels just spin on the track at high speed and it easily is bumped off buy the slightest track disturbance. If you can take apart the train and tape a few nickels to the inside if the plastic housing it should add enough weight to make it better.

To begin with, I am quite satisfied with this locomotive. However, I did find that the wheels needed to be cleaned before it would operate smoothly. When the locomotive was not operating smoothly, it did jump the track a couple of times. After getting it to operate smoothly, I did not have it jump off the track again. As a side note, I have found that this locomotive can easily be converted to DCC. I was able to find room within the locomotive cover to house a small Digitrax DZ123 decoder.

I purchased this Thomas thinking that it was the larger scale model train that I had seen in at a Thomas event. I was a little disappointed by it, but kept it as a decorative display in my sons' room. They both love Thomas, but my little one most of all. I used that train as his cake topper. A few weeks later I saw the actual set with Thomas, Annie and Clarabel for the price I paid for this Thomas. I was floored, but after all, if one Thomas breaks, I have a back up. My boys love watching and being able to control the speed of the train!! But you need to get the track along with the train!!! Sounds dumb, but you don't realize these simple things until you've already spent the money.

I bought this for my son as his first train. He was very excited and played with it for about one hour and it stopped working. I did a quick check online what could be wrong and found some other people with the same problem.

Turns out the engine housing is made of plastic and playing with it for any length of time warps the plastic so bad the housing melts and the engine stops running. Sure enough when I took it apart that was the problem, and its unfix able.

I was about to buy some additional Thomas and Friends engines and cars to go along with this but will now totally avoid them.

There is no excuse for making something this cheap and then charge the price they do.

I would avoid.

I bought this train even though some of the reviews were bad. It was overpriced for what it is, but I knew Poppa and his grandson would love it! Problem with mine was that there is no give in the wheels. They are so straight that the train can not make it around a very wide turn even at a very slow speed. Hops right off track every time. I contacted Bachman since no one else mentioned this as a problem, but I never head back. The company I bought the train from on Amazon refunded my money quickly, but really I just wanted the train to work. If anyone has had this problem and knows if there is a way to fix it or if I just got a lemon, please let me know because as of now, this train is useless.