A Silver Metallic Thomas Winner & Unboxing

i hate the ones where they have track floating in the pool and put trains on, then of course they fall overboard and are on the bottom of the pool, wheels spinning away. to me, stuff like drowning, crashing and running over is not "playing", its destruction for no good reason. not meaning like a kid lining them up on the same track to head on, but crashing them off highly elevated rails etc.

a friend of mines 7 year old nephew has a decent collection of trackmaster and tomy, some from me for birthday and christmas. he got in the habit of pulling them apart to see how they work, and could never get them back together. every time i saw him, he would say he needs this part or that part, since i have provided replacement hooks before. i just tell him, i have no more spares, and if he wants to take them apart, i wouldnt help fix them, he could ask his uncle instead. to my knowledge, they are in bits scattered between rooms of the house. i dont give him trains anymore, and the value of what i do buy him has dropped considerably.