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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Adding on - if they are 4 I would absolutely skip the "train table" and get lots of track they can set up on the floor. The table is very limiting in terms of the size and complexity of the track you can set up, and it's really best for a 1 or 2 year old who just wants to stand there and push trains.[/quote]

I have a 5 year old train kid. He is probably going to be the 43 year old person here who is also into trains. The train table was never used for anything other than storage.

He is on the floor building wooden trains inside the limits of his Lionel train set as I write this. Some are Brio, some are models of actual transit trains we've been on--another option to make them a little more early-elementary and less toddler-friendly. It's like a DCUM train parody.

He's also got Lego trains, but we built those together--he can easily manipulate and re-lay the Lego tracks, but the trains themselves are too complex. You might get and set up Lego trains and lots and lots of Legos as another alternative.[/quote]

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