Mini Thomas Trains on the Matchbox Train Track
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Mini Thomas Trains on a Train Track
We have had a lot of fun over the years playing with the MIni Thomas trains and adding to our collection. We got most of the trains from the blind bags. We discovered a very useful website which helped us make sure that we didn't get duplicates when purchasing the blind bags (mini.ixbyix.com/ ) and eBay has also been good for sourcing elusive trains. Funny story about the Golden Thomas - Mummy secretly sourced him on eBay and then secreted him among the blind bags in Waitrose so that I could find him, but thought she had better tell the shop assistants what she was doing so that they didn't think she was some crazy shoplifter, She was met with very blank stares when she told them what she was doing! Mummy was even happier when she got to the checkout and the man asked her for ID as he thought she looked under 21 (she's really not) so a good day for all :-) |
So, we have many Mini Thomas trains but no track to run them on - most of the fun with trains is running them on a track. By chance we picked up a package of vintage Matchbox Lesney Trains and track (circa 1970s) on eBay and lo and behold, it fits the Mini Thomas trains!
The Matchbox Lesney trains are really good trains - they are very robust and good fun to play with and the train track is also quite solid. It's a shame Matchbox don't make these anymore. The question is how to power these trains... We have also found that the Mini Thomas trains fit on the Power Trains track so we managed to attach the mini Thomas trains to the Power Trains Engine to get them moving (using blue tac), Items used: Mini Thomas Trains: amzn.to/2xO5KXA Power Trains Track: amzn.to/2yrfQx2 NEXT >> |
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