2014 Trackmaster redesign

[Ucwepn]

Hi Super, you are indeed correct my friend it is 2x AAA! I do not know which track and sets they refer to myself either haha. I honestly could see a lot of store returns occurring due to this new series of "Trackmaster" where children get very upset due to the drastic change (especially some of the special needs children) and regular consumers too who do not like the change and have large Trackmaster/TOMY collections. I don't feel this new track system is any good, its flimsy, it doesn't connect properly, it warps out of shape, there's a lack of enough support piers in the Gordon's hill set specifically.

If you watch Trackmaster village's videos of late he has the new system up and running and it just seems to lack any sort of quality that we were used to. I'd say we were very spoiled compared to what they sell now.

My guess (let the conspiracy theories begin lol) is that TOMY hold the rights to the designs for all the previous locomotives and for Fisher price/Mattel to use the designs they are required to pay some kind of royalty or fee. Now if they come up with a new track design and a new loco design they no longer have to pay the royalty or the fee because it is their own design. This is where it gets bad for the consumer who expects Trackmaster 2 to be compatible with Trackmaster 1 and so forth.