Customer Reviews

RoomMates RMK1081GM Thomas and Friends Peel & Stick Giant Wall Decal

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I bought this mural last year for our 3-year-old. I was able to easily apply it to the wall, and although I had to pick it back up and re-apply it a couple of times to get it straight, it never lost adhesion and never made a mark on the wall. I'm not sure I would describe it as a "Giant" mural, but it is a nice size and my son has loved it. It's beautiful, colorful, and has so much going on. We put his bed next to the wall and applied this onto the wall right beside him. He sits on the bed and talks and talks and talks about this mural. Now, my 1.5-year-old has discovered the mural, and he spends so much time on his brother's bed, talking about Thomas and the other engines. It has become one of out most useful tools in developing their vocabulary. A really great product.

The characters included are: Thomas, Bertie, Sir Topham Hatt, Edward, Emily, Gordon, James, Percy, Cranky the Crane, Toby, Harold, Mavis, and a freight car or two. :) There are also bridges, tunnels, trees, several sheep (great for counting!), houses, and a station.

(1) only difference between this and a poster is that this is vinyl and sticks to a wall

This comes in 2 pieces - which you'd think lining it together would be a breeze, we needed 2 set of hands and had to pull the top piece to stretch it out a little to line up.

My biggest grip - the backing comes off in 1 giant sheet, instead of it being scored into sections. I had to do it myself to make it easier to stick on the wall and line up. Our walls are textured so it's great that this stuck on. It's flat texture so minor raised bumps.

We painted our walls a calming sea blue...the vinyl is clear and so on a sea blue doesn't show up as sharp/vibrant, but it still looks good. Our fault for not sticking it on a white wall.

It's nice that this thing is still sticky when you need to reposition it. Which we had to with the top piece a couple of times b/c you do have to overlap the 2 sheets to make it into 1 panel. If it was for MY room, I don't think I'd be too happy with it being in 2 pieces and that for the life of me I am about a mm off in lining up the photos. HOWEVER, for my son's room (he's 2), it's fine. I'll be surprised if he doesn't try to rip it off the wall soon. But for now, he gets excited when he see Thomas, he loves that it's there and it does tie his room together.

HOWEVER, If I had to choose between this or the Thomas Border (sticker) - I'd go with the border - it's way cuter and doesn't have an issue showing up on my blue wall.

My two year old loves to stand in front of the mural and tell me what every object is. It is a great addition to his "train" room.

The day before Christmas I set up his bedroom with Thomas The Train stuff.
He is a typical little boy. Trains N Trucks! It was easy to put up as well.

My son loves Thomas the Train so I thought this would be a great way to decorate his room. It is easy to put up on the wall, but it comes in two pieces, and it isn't as easy to get the two sections to line up perfect. I got it as close to lined up as I could. You can't tell unless you look really close. It does look nice on the wall though.

My son loves Thomas so I thought this would be great for his room. I was a bit worried if it would work since our walls are slightly textured. It works very well and it was very easy to put on the wall. I needed something to take up a fair amount of space and this does.

This came in 2 pieces. All except a few inches from the top was on one piece. The pieces didn't match. One was significantly shorter length wise than the other. We had to stretch it a lot to make it almost line up. The installation was difficult because of this. It looks ok on the wall after the stretching, but still doesn't match up perfectly. I'm sure my son does not care, but it bothers me.

My rating may not be fair, but I had a very difficult time applying this. I took it off the paper and two ends stuck together and it was a fight from that point. I would get it partially seperated only to have another two edges meet up. I finally got it and it has stuck well since, but I don't think I will ever bother with a large peel and stick again. A poster would have been much easier.

I gave this item 4 stars because the manufacturer should have made this item in one piece. There is a bottom piece and a top piece that had to be lined up exactly with the bottom piece in order for the mural to look right. I found it difficult for only one person to apply. After going through the trouble of apply the bottom part evenly onto the wall, I had to go through even more trouble of lining up the top piece(Plus the fact that the material stretched which made it hard to line up). I think it would have been easier to go through the trouble of lining up one big piece. The quality is good, thick material.

This was really easy to put up. It only took a few minutes, and it lined up just fine. When my 2 1/2 year old son first saw it, he spent about ten minutes naming all the characters, saying "I like trains!", and jumping on his bed from excitement. It is a little bit transparent, as other reviews have said, but I think it looks just fine on our blue wall. I highly recommend this--my son just loves it!