Expansion Track Pack

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000098XFQ
• Our recommended age: 36 months - 7 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #232,741 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

A perfect compliment to most wooden railroad sets, this 21-piece expansion track pack is guaranteed to stimulate new layout ideas and creative play experiences. Including 17 pieces of straight track in numerous different lengths, two pieces of curved track, and two curved switch sections, this basic track pack can be paired with other name brand starter sets to create any number of elaborate and imaginative railroad systems. --Deb Oroszlan

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Durable!, July 26, 2004

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Carol (Albany, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Expansion Track Pack (Toy)

I have two extremely active boys that play with these train sets. We have some of the name brand sets and a LOT of the Imaginarium sets, the only peices we have had to break (splinter) are the name brand peices. They are well worth the money!

The only problem I have is the tressel bridge, which doesn't seem to stand up to very active play--mind you though that my boys are extremely active! The bridge just keeps falling down during play.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not enough curved pieces, September 2, 2004

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S. Novak "novak_s" (Agoura, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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The tracks are great although with just this set one can not make a complete track - you have to buy more sets to do that.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to beat for the price, December 14, 2005

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PghYinzer "more of myself after winter" (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Expansion Track Pack (Toy)

We only own Imaginarium train sets... with the exception of a few Thomas cars that came packaged with videos/DVDs. We have played with Brio track at my MIL's house, Thomas track at my neighbor's house, and of course the Thomas track set up everywhere trains are sold, for the kiddies to play with.

I don't know what to say about this set other than I have no complaints. :-) For the money you get a decent amount of pieces. Of course you have to acknowlege that this is an EXPANSION set to augment your other train sets, it doesn't come with any train cars or little accessories.

The only difference I can see between these pieces and the Thomas pieces is the Thomas ones have ties printed on them. For that reason even though the pieces fit together, they might look a little weird together. Not somethiing my kid would be too bent out of shape over, but some kids can be more particular about that sort of thing.

The elevated portion, as mentioned, doesn't stay up terribly well, but this seems to be the case across brands. It's not exclusive to this line. The solid tunnel/bridge thingie is a much better way to go to elevate the track and I wish this came with one of those, instead. (Comes with the figure-8 set)

As for people who complain about the Imaginarium track pieces breaking too easily, I have *no* idea what their children are doing with their toys. My child is very active and very into everything he can possibly get into and he has broken his share of toys that may have been labeled as toddler-appropriate but were not really built to stand up to toddlers... but I can't imagine him breaking one of these track pieces. I can't even see my husband or myself breaking one. They are quite sturdy!

Good choice to add on to what you have.