Thanks for your encouraging words!
Indeed I try to refrain from using the 'Thomas' scenery parts but as it's a joint effort sometime I am 'forced' to use one of the older parts, so often it's a mix of the two themes. Same with Mega Blocks (and recently some Lego trees). I try to give him freedom and if he wants to build a bridge for the layout I'm ok with that.
I know it's not a very 'purist' approach, but those are the compromises I have to make in order to keep my son focused enough to let me shoot the video
Our collection is basically made up of what we can find on local FB, plus some more targeted purchases on eBay (but those aren't cost efficient), so odd parts will appear here and there. The plan is to get rid of all the dark-blue track and replace with light-blue only, get some more Tomica buildings and accessories (recently bought quite rare motorised kit for the scenery, for one of the coming videos). I definitely need more of the raised curves for some of the stuff I want to build.
Thanks for watching and your suggestions. Happy to take some advice from more experience Plarail fans. We're just getting started and hopefully he won't lose his interest anytime soon! Failing that, we have another boy, at 9 months old, and he likes just sitting there and watching trains go past him, so there's always a chance he'll be into it too
Indeed I try to refrain from using the 'Thomas' scenery parts but as it's a joint effort sometime I am 'forced' to use one of the older parts, so often it's a mix of the two themes. Same with Mega Blocks (and recently some Lego trees). I try to give him freedom and if he wants to build a bridge for the layout I'm ok with that.
I know it's not a very 'purist' approach, but those are the compromises I have to make in order to keep my son focused enough to let me shoot the video
Our collection is basically made up of what we can find on local FB, plus some more targeted purchases on eBay (but those aren't cost efficient), so odd parts will appear here and there. The plan is to get rid of all the dark-blue track and replace with light-blue only, get some more Tomica buildings and accessories (recently bought quite rare motorised kit for the scenery, for one of the coming videos). I definitely need more of the raised curves for some of the stuff I want to build.
Thanks for watching and your suggestions. Happy to take some advice from more experience Plarail fans. We're just getting started and hopefully he won't lose his interest anytime soon! Failing that, we have another boy, at 9 months old, and he likes just sitting there and watching trains go past him, so there's always a chance he'll be into it too
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