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(More customer reviews)I'm all for toys with some challenges. But this one is just defective. First off the packaging indicates you can 'launch' the trains. Nothing short of a hammer slammed into the button would even come close to 'launching' the trains. It barely moves when a child presses it. It hardly made it to the sheds when I gave it a very hard smack.
Secondly, the turntable depends upon moving the track around. That's the turquoise blue segment in the picture shown. Trouble is that part has a very weak connection to the base. Even as an adult you have to carefully press the track in toward the sheds, lift it slightly, move it and firmly hold the sheds in place. Otherwise the launcher segment pulls away from the base (and it rather tedious to reconnect). This is next to impossible for a child. The sheds have latching doors that can only be opened when you turn the track around. So if the child wants to open one of they'd have to slide the track around, more frustration.
Then there's the amount of track, come on, barely a 12" circle? That's it? That's ridiculous.
A simple shed setup, a la the Thomas Tidmouth Sheds set would be a much more welcome product.
Save yourself the stress of having your child get almost instantly frustrated trying to do even the simplest things with it. I strongly recommend you DO NOT BUY this toy.
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