“trains are beautiful. Rail tracks are awful.”
Toys about Thomas are very confusing. Three different type of toys (metal, wood and plastic) make very difficult to create a consistent set. I have bought some of each one and now I have a collage of trains. I have my own assumptions about the reason the brand owner had to launch different type of toys, but it would be very useful to understand if there was any "safety" reason to stop producing the metallic ones and start producing the wood ones and/or the plastic ones. It is very likely to find all three type of toys simultaneously at many stores.
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