New Old Tomy Thomas Stuff and New New Advance

little tip ... only use distilled water

Yes indeed and thanks for mentioning it but I have been, I had some around already for use with making aromatherapy oil for a catalytic lamp lol

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I must admit, the advance sets get my vote. They are so detailed and also the layout can be small and hold more action. They are also great value IMHO. Shame they don't make single locomotives, that would be really cool.

I think Tomy should be applauded for making them (mostly) backward compatible with the existing track as well - I know they have a few issues with things like points, buts its a lot cheaper just replacing a few points and stop/go sections than having to replace the entire layout. On top of that having two running side-by-side looks pretty realistic in stations etc...