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Pros & Cons

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Pros

For a polar expressed and train obsessed 4 year old, it’s the greatest toy he owns. My son is obsessed with trains and recently discovered the polar express.

My only complaint is that the battery door on the locomotive is a bit annoying to get off. The battery tray slides in and then locks in place. He loves it but has fairly easily bent some of the smaller rods on the cars, not to the point it’s broken.

Some people obviously have no idea how a train works and it shows -- you have to be smarter than the toy. The remote works well and the sounds are realistic. I wish you could control the volume of the train sounds some, but we're able to put it in a s...  Read More



Cons

This train is obnoxious. It makes loud noises and beeps that cannot be turned off. Disgusting and extremely disappointed.

The train is very difficult to set up onto tracks. The connector pieces are barely functional. There are no diy instructions on the box. There is no instruction on how to straighten a wheel. It is very loud.

It just keeps beeping and rear engine light keeps blinking. Only way to get sound is by pressing * on remote.

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Highlights

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Quality


Very impressed with the quality of the train


5yearold kindergartner absolutely loves redesigning the track and playing with the train

Price


This is a good train at an unbeatable price

Packaging/appearance


Was a great bargain was 34used like new34 but was still in orignal unopened packaging

Competitiveness


As an adult of a certain age i loved my dads old handmedown lionel o gauge that i played with

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    set, great, easy, made and old.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 12.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 9,356 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 5 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Too big for a thomas kinkade christmas village scene


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Only wish it had simple instructions


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    As a parent i groan every time he asks to pull it out of the closet


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Because i just spent the last 15 mins trying to help my 3


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    For about the 78th time in the 6 months we’ve owned this set


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    My biggest gripe and what led me to write a review even though i’m more of a review spectator and not a review writer is how easy it is for these train cars to derail


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    And then it’s takes macgyver steady hands to pivot each wheel so that it goes back on track

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