Hi All,
I am sure this all is here somewhere, but maybe you can enlighten me.
Whats the difference between the new Thomas trains. I bought my son a Percy with those hard plastic wheels (the stronger faster or whatever they are). then I went back to walmart and got a 'regular' one that had the old school rubber tires. were using the blue track. I have done a lot of research on all of this and I am blown away at how complex it all is. I tried to alter the percy with the hard plastic wheels to the rubber ones but ended up breaking it.
1. I have seen some posts on alter the new ones to old ones (wheels)
2. I see that TOMY still makes the Thomas trains in Japan? (and the chuggington). Are these better quality? IE: is it worth paying more for a train to get it from Tomy in Japan.
3. Lastly, I saw somehting about making alterations to trains (wheels and power) to make them faster and stronger. I just wanted to get some thoughts on that in general. Is it overkill? is it fun? easy? etc.
Thanks,
Kevin
I am sure this all is here somewhere, but maybe you can enlighten me.
Whats the difference between the new Thomas trains. I bought my son a Percy with those hard plastic wheels (the stronger faster or whatever they are). then I went back to walmart and got a 'regular' one that had the old school rubber tires. were using the blue track. I have done a lot of research on all of this and I am blown away at how complex it all is. I tried to alter the percy with the hard plastic wheels to the rubber ones but ended up breaking it.
1. I have seen some posts on alter the new ones to old ones (wheels)
2. I see that TOMY still makes the Thomas trains in Japan? (and the chuggington). Are these better quality? IE: is it worth paying more for a train to get it from Tomy in Japan.
3. Lastly, I saw somehting about making alterations to trains (wheels and power) to make them faster and stronger. I just wanted to get some thoughts on that in general. Is it overkill? is it fun? easy? etc.
Thanks,
Kevin