KidKraft Ride Around Train Set and Table

by KidKraft

• Two bins for convenient storage - 100 colorful pieces
• Airport includes runway and helipad - Hospital with ambulance
• Large enough that multiple children can play at once - Made of wood
• Sturdy construction
• Compatible with Thomas and Friends wooden train sets and Brio wooden train sets

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 49 x 34.5 x 16.2 inches ; 43 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 51.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0019NJCQA
• Item model number: 17836
• Our recommended age: 36 months - 8 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 36 months - 15 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,803 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #33 in Toys & Games > Play Vehicles > Play Trains & Railway Sets > Train Sets
  • #46 in Toys & Games > Preschool > Pre-Kindergarten Toys > Activity > Trains & Train Sets
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)

Product Description

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The young conductors in your life will have an entire community at their fingertips with the fun Kidkraft Ride Around Town Train Table and Set. Made of composite wood products, this set includes 100 colorful pieces such as figures, animals, vehicles, and structures. The set is large enough for multiple children ages three to eight to play with at once, providing hours of imaginative fun. For convenience, a table helps keep playtime off the floor and closer to eye level, while a handy storage bin tucks neatly underneath for a tidy play space.

Ride Around Town
Train Table and Set

• Ages: Three to eight years
• Requires: Phillips screwdriver for assembly

At a Glance:

• Hand-painted wooden figures and vehicles
• 100 colorful pieces include a plane, helicopter, and moveable crane
• Tabletop setting enables kids to be closer to the action
• Tongue-and-groove track pieces are easy to connect
• Compatible with Thomas and Friends and Brio wooden train sets

Large tabletop setting lets kids create their own community. View larger.

Handy storage bin keeps toys neatly contained under the table. View larger.

Board and Track Provide Real-World Setting

Providing a colorful, real-world environment, the Ride Around Town Train comes with a large landscape board setting. This highly detailed melamine-coated board features lakes, bridges, pastures, and an airport runway. There's even an area to place a plastic mounting setting with a moveable crane and working winch.

Designed to link all the areas of the board are a multitude of train track pieces, ranging from straight and curved to inclined. The small wooden track pieces fit together with simple tongue-and-groove connections, allowing for easy, custom assembly. Support beams and bridges make it possible to arrange the track in a raised, crisscrossing configuration for multi-level fun.

Quality Hand-Painted Figures and Vehicles

The Ride Around Town Train offers a variety of colorful pieces to encourage imaginative play. Kids can place hand-painted wooden figures of farmers, construction workers, and doctors throughout town while racing the ambulance, fire truck, and magnetically connected train cars along the track. Sign posts, trees, and farm animals add to the fun of populating the landscape. When it's time to take the fun vertical, an airport with helipad allows kids to fly an airplane and helicopter for jet-setting excitement.

The Ride Around Town Train is compatible with other wooden train sets for added fun. Kids can combine the Thomas and Friends train set, as well as the Brio wooden train set, to create the ultimate bustling community.

Tabletop Setting Raises Playtime off Floor

To keep playtime off the floor, the Ride Around Town Train features a large table for display. Measuring 49 inches long by over 34 inches wide, the table stands 16 inches high so that kids can be closer to the action while sitting. The MDF-constructed board also includes T-molded edges to help prevent chipping while providing a smooth, safe surface for kids to play on. As an added convenience, the Ride Around Town Train comes with a storage bin to house all the pieces underneath the table when not in use.

Our testers found the Ride Around Town Train set to be well-built and fun to play with. Using the detailed, step-by-step instructions, assembling the table required less than 30 minutes to complete. The artisanship and variety of the hand-painted wooden vehicles and figures added a charming touch that seems to be missing from most plastic toys. Parents will likely appreciate the simple, heirloom quality that the set offers while kids will enjoy playing pretend in the various environments.

The Kidkraft Ride Around Town 100 Piece Train Set and Table is backed by a 90-day warranty.

What's in the Box

Kidkraft Ride Around Town 100 Piece Train Set and Table, two-piece storage bin, hardware, Allen wrench, and instructions.

Product Description

With the exciting Ride Around Town Train Table Set, the young conductors in your life have an entire busy community at their fingertips! The train set will provide kids with hours of imaginative play, while the table helps keep playtime off the floor and closer to eye level.

Features:

• 100 colorful pieces
• Moveable crane
• Airport includes runway and helipad
• Hospital with ambulance
• Large enough that multiple children can play at once
• Made of wood
• Sturdy construction
• Dimensions: 49" x 34.5" x 16.25"

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic! December 21, 2008

By Rhiannon Ellis

Durability: 5.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 5.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

My kids recieved this as a gift from their grandparents. It is fantastic! Very sturdy, looks great, everything you need for a train table! This company shipped it very fast and packaged it well. Assembly was time consuming, but kinda fun to set everything up! The best part is that it goes with Thomas the Train and Brio stuff, so you can mix it up. 5 stars all the way around!

82 of 94 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars O.k. for the money - I'd buy Thomas brand if had it to do over again. June 28, 2009

By W. Crawford

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Durability: 4.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 4.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

This set claims to be compatible with Thomas Train. Well for the most part it is, but not 100%, especially if you plan on using Thomas Engine motorized. There are some other drawbacks as well. The track is metric and slightly narrower than true Thomas track so Thomas cars don't fit completely down into the grooves. The supplied Chinese cars that come with this set do fit better, though their quality is not even close as good as Thomas brand. The bridge in the center of photo shown is positioned too close to the "downhill" slope of track and taller cars will not fit underneath it. Because the track is slightly narrower, motorized Thomas Tank Engine, especially, tends to run off of the track and will not stay on. I removed the "rubber band" edging on the front wheels only which allowed more slippage and kept Thomas Engine on the track more reliably. I know this set is not really intended per say for Thomas otorized engine, but a Thomas brand set would work much better being Thomas brand track is wider, and deeper grooved. You get what you pay for as they say, and if I had to do it over again, I'd spent the extra money and went authentic Thomas brand. Also, the crane has a small wooden dowel that sticks into a hole with no latching or locking it in so my two year-old pulls the crane out regularly. After using some extra Thomas track I had laying around, I modified the layout enough to position the bridge farther down toward the front over the flat portion of the "downsloped" piece so that the cars would fit under the bridge and then glued the entire set down to make it all permanent. If you're a handy type, you can tweak it to work decent, but if i had it to do over knowing what I know now, I'd just paid the extra for genuine Thomas brand stuff.... The wheels ont the Chinese cars are not attached as well either as on the Thomas brand, so if you're like me with another smaller child to be in the room as well, you might want to avoid any possiblilty of loose wheels and stick with Thomas brand, which is much higher quality, and the wheels seem to be actually round, and attached in safer fashion. Other than that, my 2+ year old doesn't know the difference and has a ball playing all day with it. If you're just buying it to use the cars included as a push only set, it's definately fine for that. Read more ›

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of fun! January 8, 2009

By K. Breault

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Durability: 5.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 4.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

Bought this for my 2.5 yr old. He absolutely loves it. Keeps him entertained so I can make supper! That right there is a winner in my book.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars My son loves this table and it's totally compatible with Thomas January 10, 2012

By kr0520

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Durability: 5.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 4.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

My son is obsessed with trains...especially Thomas and Friends. I looked at buying the Thomas table and set but it truly was so expensive and I thought the table wasn't all that. I took a chance on this one hoping that it truly was compatible with Thomas and it is! I had read one review where they said that it wasn't really compatible with Thomas and I'm not sure what type of trains they are talking about. The wooden Thomas Trains fit perfectly on the tracks. The plastic trains fit on the tracks but not through the tunnels...but then again, the plastic trains do not fit through the tunnels on the wooden Thomas set either. Wooden trains are for Wooden tracks and plastic trains are for plastic tracks. So if you're looking for tracks that are compatible with wooden Thomas trains, rest assured that they will fit. :-) My son loves this set and it's very durable...at least so far. Also, it looks nice so it's not a total eye sore even though it is big. Be prepared to commit to this toy as it takes up a lot of space. For us, it's totally worth it because my son LOVES trains. Also, I got this set for $125 in November but noticed it went up quite a bit in December...if you have time and can watch the pricing, I probably would. Also, the Thomas Trains were much cheaper on Amazon...or at least they were in December 2011. Hope this helps!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for my imaginative toddler! February 7, 2010

By Kate

Amazon Verified Purchase

Durability: 5.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 4.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

Purchased this train for my 2 yr old daughter. She LOVES it and plays with nearly daily. It was very simple to put together (both table and track), but pay close attention to the directions for the track as a couple pieces have to lay in a particular direction to connect properly. It is well made and so far very durable. We really like that there are different theme areas on the table and toys that fit with each theme (e.g. farm with lake, airport, mountain/quarry, and park). Our daughter is imaginative and this set lends itself very well to adding in other toys she has (e.g. she likes to put her Playmobile diver set and fish into the "lake" on the table and let the divers get things out of the water that are delivered by train to the mountain/quarry section of the table). Also, its great that all the cars, trucks and plane all also fit on the track. The track easily fits with Thomas the Tank brand trains. This set is popular with both boy and girl children of a variety of ages that come over to play. Finally, the 2 under table drawers are great for stowing away things. Many reviews recommended gluing down the track. We opted not to do this and so far and I'm glad because we can use the table for other purposes if we choose to. It hasn't been an issue - none of the children who've played with it have messed up the track. You may want to test it out with your child before permanently gluing things down. The only complaint is that there is a part of the track that goes under a bridge, but the space under the bridge is not really tall enough for the train to go under without bumping the top of the tunnel. This was an easy fix with thin pieces of wood to boost the bridge up higher and now it works smoothly.