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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: johny5 on 09 August 2010, 18:31:34
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Ive just bit the bullet and decided to buy my 2 yr old his first train set, much to my wifes dismay lol.
Whats everyones thoughts on this, i thought he mite love it as i did when i was young! and secretly want to relive my childhood hehe. Its something though he will be able to add to and collect through the years.
Obviously he wont be able to play properly with them just yet as hes abit to young and will probably destroy them lol. But i think he will enjoy it.
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Nothing wrong with it.
I my dad got my first train set when I was 4. 8-)
Kevin
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I was born in 1961 it seems my Mum and Dad bought me the Hornby Britania Loco oval set, wwhich came with 3 pullman coaches and a mail coach.
Allthough I have sold all the track I still have the Loco and couch units. The steam engine does/did real smoke if tou put a drop of oil down the chimney. Have lost the coal from the tender and cracked a ein seide deflector, but I doubt the train will ever get sold, and will be 50 years on in the next year or 2.
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Ive just bit the bullet and decided to buy my 2 yr old his first train set, much to my wifes dismay lol.
Whats everyones thoughts on this, i thought he mite love it as i did when i was young! and secretly want to relive my childhood hehe. Its something though he will be able to add to and collect through the years.
Obviously he wont be able to play properly with them just yet as hes abit to young and will probably destroy them lol. But i think he will enjoy it.
Hope you've got a big house. These things tend to grow.
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Sounds to me you're buying it for yourself? ::) ;D
2 year olds get more fun out of cardboard boxes IMHO, so if you buy a really big train set, you'll BOTH get something out of it! ;D ;D ;) :y
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Yea there are so many cool things u can collect with these, i looked about recently n saw u can buy didgital sets now which look really good!
I realise over time its gonna grow and get more expensive but compared to alot of toys on the market, these seem a good investment.
I still got toys even now that i had as a kid. They are safely boxed away though so they dont get wrecked or pieces missing.
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Of course not phil... he does need to be supervised of course ;D
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Train sets are of great play value for kids and may well eventually develop various skills relating to the real world.
Go for it Johny, and let the train layout grow - in the garage - spare room or around a bedroom! 8-) 8-) 8-):y :y :y
My ex built a lovely one for our kids that ran in multi-tracks around the garage with eventually 25 locos, 100 coaches....etc......etc! 8-) 8-) 8-)
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Brilliant idea; model railways are "proper" toys for children.....so much better than video games. :y
Share the this joyous time of his childhood; it`ll be gone in a flash!
He can graduate later to "big-kid`s" garden trains! ;)
This is my Cody; showing he`s "well trained" (Groan!) on my friend`s garden layout.
(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/WellTrained.jpg)
Anyway, what`s wrong with adults reliving their inner "Big Kids" ;)
(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/DieselDevil.jpg)
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Wow thats pretty cool, my misses would kill me if i built one of these lol
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Wow thats pretty cool, my misses would kill me if i built one of these lol
A lot of women will, but with me my dear dad started my interest off in anything to do with railways so I supported my ex fully in him developing a layout for the kids - and him - and me!!! :D :D :D 8-) 8-) ;)
My advice is you buy the Railway Modeller Magazine for advice, ideas, and great mail order offers for everything you need for a layout. I assume you have bought a OO gauge set, but if space really is a problem, try the N gauge sized layouts, or even Z gauge! Small to say the least Johny, but they are an answer! :D :D ;)
PS There are great O gauge sets for your garden if that is a long term solution for your son ;) ;)
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Yeah i see what u mean Lizzie, i probably need to look more into this for ideas n layouts, i dont want it to just be a set that he gets out then puts away coz over time it will deteriorate.
Ive bought a honrby OO set, the midland flyer? comes with an extra track pack, thought id buy small first then see how he gets on with it. We have a perfect place for a decent layout in his room which has a wood base so ideal for setting up etc. We just need to construct a way so as he cant get to it but is able to see it if you know what i mean.
Cheers for the support, i knew this wud be a crackin idea :D
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So if anyones looking to sell any hornby bits i mite be interested :)
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I fell out with mine as the track altered, cant remember if it was called super 5 and then went to system 6 but the wheels on my trains used to catch the sleepers and make it vibrate, so obviously system the rails were not as high. :-/
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Was that hornby?
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Great photos Debs!
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I bought my 2 year old one 4 years ago. He still plays with it a lot and its grown quite a bit.
It was only a basic set for around 40 quid as then it didnt matter if it got damaged
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on your phone Mark?
we have another phantom sticky maker ;D ;D ;D
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Yeah same here mark, im hoping though he wont break it when it arrives, ill prob tack the track down onto the board so at least if he breaks one of the carriages they can be replaced need be.
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Any traditional toy is surely better than kids spending too much time on "games" consoles...bravo! 8-)
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Any traditional toy is surely better than kids spending too much time on "games" consoles...bravo! 8-)
totally agree Mudlap! As a kid I had a hornby trainset that I liked, though I was more into building Airfix planes and building up dioramas of ww2 airfields with all the tenders /gun emplacements etc that used to drive my mum mad as I had to store them under the bed and they were dust magnets! Sad I know! Didnt have playstations in my day ;D,though I do remember that tennis game you played on the telly (atarri?). THought that was brilliant at the time :-[. Its a bit sad how kids these days cant play outside like we used to or (Lego aside) dont do the building sets we used to, but rather spend most of their time on games consoles. Our youngest has AS and when he was little he was totally absorbed by Thomas and he had this quite large track layout but , as is common with AS, he moved on to subsequent obsessions and now spends a lot of time on his DS/Wii/PS2 and we try really hard to get him to spend more time outside on his bike or scooter or playing football but its hard. Did buy him a cowboy capgun which he likes-much against my wifes wishes ;D-but at least its a kind of role play game for him. Maybe Im just getting old.....
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You will be amazed how well they get on, I found it taught him to treat things with care.
Hes now just bought the Mallard anniversary loco with his birthday money which he saved up
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Oooh thats a fine train, i saw that one and wanted to get it but i thought id see how he gets on with this set first.