Customer Reviews

Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway - Battery Powered Sir Topham Hatt Figure 8 Set

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This set is a good value for the price considering a battery power train alone costs around $[...] to start. The track is of good quality although does not fit easily with our existing other wooden track (from Ikea- great quality). Thomas comes with a caboose and they derailed at each corner as the turns were too tight. We tried to supplement with other track to widen the curves but they did not fit together well. After my 2 year old fit a couple of other cars making it four long, it seemed to do well. I guess the weight slowed down Thomas enough and held it down during turns. My son loves to turn the switch for Sir Topham Hatt on and off. Overall a good track and great starter set for anyone looking to start with Thomas. Just a few bugs though.

If you've decided to buy Thomas brand track this is a nice starter set, but you should also invest in some expansion sets like the Freddie Exp Set, the Cross & Switch Exp Pk, Conductors Figure 8 Exp Pk, male & female Track adapter pks. For Thomas trains, I bought most of mine on ebay new.

I really wanted a battery-powered train for my son, and at the time, Thomas and Friends train sets were the only ones I could find that were fairly priced. This train set is "okay". I read reviews that this falls off the track while going around corners and to buy a couple more train cars to prevent this from happening. I purchased two more train cars at the same time as purchasing this train set. Yes, it helps having about 3 cars being pulled to avoid the falling over around corners, BUT this also creates more weight for the engine to pull, thus creating a problem pulling all that weight up the hill to go over the bridge! The train set is also a lot smaller than I anticipated. The train engine and cars are about 2 inches long. The track itself is about 1.5 inches wide. I am a little disappointed in this product. I plan to look into GeoTrax train sets now- which were recommended to us by a friend.

My boys love playing with this train set! It is wood so I know it can withstand anything! It is not to big either, it fits perfect on their train table we got them! I would recommend this toy to anyone!

I bought this set mostly for the battery powered Thomas (as it really wasn't much more to buy the set over bp Thomas alone). Our biggest trouble with it were all of the small curves and the way the ascending track pieces worked with battery powered Thomas (they worked fine with most of the other engines except Mavis, but they would still catch occasionally), he would get stuck if you didn't run him toward the ascending piece's female end (even then, occasionally he would get stuck going up instead of getting stuck when going down), it didn't happen every time, but enough that it was a little frustrating. The little pieces posed a problem because it left a little more extra space between the tracks then the 6" curves, and occasionally it would catch a wheel. One of the small curves also broke the very first night when dismantling the track (a very small piece chipped off along the grain on the female end). In the end, this is a GREAT add-on to existing sets, especially if you have the switches and such, but I don't really like it as a stand-alone figure 8 set. I like the water tower and conductor shed figure 8 sets much, much better.

We purchased this set for our son's 2nd birthday. It is obviously a bit too complicated for him to put the tracks together himself, but he loves to watch Thomas go round and round the track. We are looking forward to adding to the set and for our son to be able to build new track designs himself. The only downfall is that the battery-powered Thomas EATS batteries! We went through 3 AA batteries (3 battery changes) in a week! So, if you get this as a gift for someone be sure to give AA batteries as well.

I gave this toy to my oldest granddaughter (age 4)at a group birthday party for three granddaughters. All the little girls were over playing with it. It's a good toy for short people and, if you buy the extra track, for taller people too.

I bought this set for my 3 yr old son for Christmas to go along with an old set I had for years and he was very happy until the engine stopped working.The old engine Ive had for years and went through two previous boys still worked but the brand new one lasted 1 day.Disappointed.

I bought this train set along with an expansion pack, as a Christmas gift for my nephew who just turned 2 years old. He is a HUGE Thomas fan. His mom and dad set the train up tonight after we were done opening all the Christmas gifts. He played with that train for hours without losing interest.

He loved to watch Thomas and his caboose go around and around and around. Thomas isn't made for just staying on his tracks. he can move around freely on any surface. (although without the tracks to guide him, he obviously just travels in the direction he's pointing until he runs into something.) He is even heavy enough that he can move on a carpet with ease.

The one thing I do have to say, Thomas derails pretty easily. If the tracks aren't placed JUST SO, he can derail or gets stuck. Many times he will derail when making a sharper turn, especially if the caboose is attached... but all in all, he generally moves around pretty well. The instances of falling off the tracks or getting stuck didn't damper my nephew's fun one bit. In fact, I think he found it more fun to help Thomas along the harder parts of the journey and get him moving again.

The only big problem that came up was bed time. My nephew did not want to stop playing with the train. He was having too much fun watching mom and dad arrange and rearrange the tracks, and watching Thomas chug along, occasionally being stopped by Sir Topham Hatt to "have a drink of water".

I'd say this toy deserves an A.

I bought this set for my son's 2nd birthday. He loves it and plays with it eveyday!

The trouble is he disassembles it all the time, eg. knocking the bridge down or pull the tracks apart. So mommy and daddy have to put it together again and again. I found that you can take some tracks out and make it a smaller oval shape, since then my son seems to be more interested in putting the tracks together by himself. Great for fine motor skills and imagination play.

The battery operated Thomas eats batteries. Might be a good idea to get rechargables to keep the cost down. Although it was descriped that Thomas has free-wheeling capabilities for non-battery play, it does make a squeaky noise that makes me feel very uncomfortable to "push play it" and maybe that's the reason why it broke in 3 weeks.

I contacted Amazon for replacement and they are amazing! They replaced the whole set with no problem. I read a lot reviews regarding Thomas toys break down easily but with Amazon's world class customer service you can purchase without worry!