| Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway- Down By The Docks Set | 
| Brand: Learning Curve
Category: Toy
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $86.00
as of 9/10/2010 17:40 CDT details
You Save: $63.99 (43%)
New (14) from $86.00
Seller: kawsgames
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 4,808
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 3 - 7 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.9
Dimensions (in): 39 x 27 x 11
MPN: LC99533
Model: LC99533
UPC: 796714995335
EAN: 0796714995335
ASIN: B000062SPX
Release Date: June 12, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Exclusive Bulstrode the Barge, dock, lighthouse, and Sodor bay playmat | | • | Includes Sodor Bay Bridge, Cranky, Percy and more | | • | 45-piece set | | • | Playmat measures 27 x 39 | | • | Thomas Wooden Railway products are not compatible with Take Along Thomas vehicles and destinations |
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Product Description
It's going to be a busy day down at the docks! Cranky, Percy and Lorry 1 are already hard at work!
This 45-piece set also includes a Sodor Bay playmat, exclusive Bulstrode the Barge with fish cargo, Dock attached to 6" of straight track, Lighthouse, Cranky the Crane, Sir Topham Hatt, 23 pieces of track, along with other trees, signs, and a worker.
Thomas Wooden Railway vehicles, track and destinations are not compatible with Take Along Thomas items.
Age: 3 years and up
Item (LxWxH / WT):
39.00 " x 27.00 " x 11.00 " / 23.58 lbs
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 13
 Great Starter Kit July 26, 2010
Vicky
Pros: I bought this for my son's 2nd birthday. He flipped when he unwrapped the box. It's very beautiful. Nicely painted wooded trains! He loves trains and have been building LEGO trains himself or lining up blocks to make trains and track. This Down by the Dock set is his first train set. It's a little expensive but I think it's a nice starter kit. We plan on adding more tracks and scenes to it.
Cranky is a lot of fun to play with. He also loves the bridge and all different kinds of tracks: short, long, curved, switch tracks, etc. Very nice variety.
My son would make up stories while playing. Mommy and Daddy have fun watching him plays.
Cons: There are 2 missing tracks in the box!! I was rather disappointed. I contacted the seller but did not have any response. If this rating is for the seller and not the product, I would have given a much lower rating.
When I was looking for a train set, I was looking for a set that has a play mat like this one as I thought it would make the set more realistic and fun. The mat does curl up on the side and needs to be pressed somehow... I am thinking about pressing it then gluing it on a board. But the mat doesn't matter to my son as he "designs" his own path that extends out of the mat. So the mat has been kept folded on the shelf. Perhaps when he is a little older and learns how to play nice, I will bring it out again.
Bottom line, don't let the mat affect your decision on buying a train set. You can always make one on your own too.
Unsure: The toy is 3 weeks old so it's hard to judge the quality yet. I found the paint on Bullstrode got chipped (only a VERY SMALL area though). But seeing the way my son plays it, or any 2-year olds, I think it's inevitable. Other than that, they look pretty durable to me. Definitely not the flimsy type.
 Nice set, but the mat is disappointing January 9, 2010
JJ Owen (Austin, tx United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Overall, the Down by the Docks set was a good deal (at $90 before Xmas) since it includes Cranky, a decent track with two elevated portions along with Percy and a truck among other items. The greatest disappointment was the playmat. It is plastic over fabric. The fold creases have still not come out of it and about a week after we set it up, all the corners started rolling up. The fold creases made it hard to initially keep the train track together (and of course, he's 2 1/2, so he wanted to play immediately!). The only way to make the playmat usable that we can come up with is to glue it down to piece of heavy duty cardboard or plywood. I think my husband is going to make a custom train table for the playmat, but that portion of the set definitely did not live up to expectations and was a major reason we purchased this set.
 Thomas Dock Set December 21, 2009
Janeen M. Corsones (Springfield, Pa United States)
Excellent quality and shipping was extremely FAST!! I would recommend this product to others and my son LOVED it.
Thomas Down by the Docks Wooden Railway June 9, 2009
Evelyn Weissman (Malone, NY USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This toy is compatible with other wooden Thomas railway sets. My grandsons enjoy this toy every day!
Thomas & Friends "Down by the Docks" Set March 27, 2009
D. DeSpain
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm very pleased with this purchase. My 2-yr-old grandson is obsessed with Thomas & "choo-choos" and he loves this. It's durable enough for a pre-schooler with enough different items (ship, "Cranky," the bridge, hills)to keep play interesting. The item was well-packed when shipped, so no problems with returns and replacements.
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