To be pissed off with DH for building a new railway track for DS?

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Because I was going to!!

I took the last track to pieces, vacuumed the floor under where it had been and I stacked it all neatly ready to build. I even told DH I was going to use a circle at the centre.

He's just started building. With a circle at the centre.

AIBU to throw a piece of track at him and stomp off in a mood?

It was twenty past 9 at night. I suppose I could have woken DS and made him build the track...

He's just turned three, making him build the track from scratch each time would be like giving a young child a pen and saying 'go on, write!' They need to see how it should work and then have a picture in their head of how they can achieve it.

He loves coming down in the morning and seeing a new track, he then adds bits to it during the day.

Sheesh, lighten up!

Ds I used to have trees and animals and a whole town with people and car parks. We even had a zoo or farm.

Track layouts are far too important to be left to the DCs!

See DS just gets cross if I put things in between the tracks as he likes to move around and then they get in his way!

Trapper that's also my opinion but don't tell the grumps

You don't let children build train tracks They'd do it wrong!

We found most of the "compatible" tracks quite disappointing compared to the proper Brio stuff, TBH - lots of sticky out bits broken off

Brio, Playmobil and Lego are the things that I plan to pack up carefully when I finally have to acknowledge that the DC have outgrown it, and store until I have DGC or other random children as an excuse to get it out again. The rest can go.

Lidl do lovely wooden train sets, fully compatible with all the others and include electric trains. They also do a port with a crane, interlinking road, and airport that all fit together with it.

Yeah yeah. The track-building is fun, I grant you.

But then you have to crawl around on the floor, inadvertently kneeling on bits of track, pushing the less desirable engines around your lovingly-created masterpiece, going 'choo choo' until your mind explodes with the sheer boredom of it all.

We have a mixture of Ikea, Brio, Bigjigs, Wilko's and Carousel track, it all just about fits together. DS is 2.5 so we have to have enought track to build a really wide layout (honest ) otherwise he causes carnage moving about. It has lots of loops, a turntable, a cross over and 2 suspension bridges, oh, and an engine shed as the trains have to have somewhere to sleep!!

We had a minor crisis over christmas when we realised that his new Thomas and Percy engines wouldnt fit under the bridges. I briefly considered carving up the carpet...

Have you seen the big viaducts you can get on Amazon? Great things and made by the dh of a mner.

l love making a good train track. built an awesome one for ds2 yesterday in the 5 mins he was being happy. Sadly the grumps then returned and he attacked it.

Building the track was definitely the best bit for my son, he wouldn't have enjoyed it anything like as much if we'd built it for him. I did build tracks with him. But he learnt an awful lot of skills by seeing how the track fitted together and what curves just broke or made the trains whizz off.

DC's teenagers now but many a wonderful track was built in our home when they were little (and in bed). Oh how I miss those days.

I'm sure you DH has had a good go at it but he probably just needs you to coach him through the finer points of track layouts - of course once it's perfected it will all be down to his brilliance.

If ever there was a clear cut case of LTB, this is it!

I used to love building train layouts (agree, the crawling around left me cold). Alas, DS has now outgrown that phase.

When DS1 was 3 he loved waking up every morning seeing what train track we'd built him!! DH and I would actually have phone conversations during the day on what we would make that night...... We may have even moved furniture out the way to get more space for the ultimate zoo track - yes we built a zoo out of duplo and used all the plastic animals in it and made a track around it.

But I loved it!

look what I just found!
play-trains.com/building-dreamup-toys-wooden-railway-block-platforms/

does anyone know where to find this in the UK?

Stealth me too, it's cost a bloody fortune though so always think how much I'd make if I sold the lot!

HooHa we have a new Lidl here, I may go and check those out. Our Plan Toys garage and road interlink, that's pretty good too

Shodan I'm lucky, DS tells me I'm 'doing it all wrong' if I try to join in so I have escaped that nightmare!

Offler it still is a cause of annoyance in our house that the Thomas engines don't fit under the ikea bridges (and lots of them don't fit through the ELC mountain tunnel either). I considered getting DH to make sloping pieces to fit underneath and bits to stack up the height but may look at the viaduct instead. DH has enough to do around the house

It's not like I don't let DS build the tracks, he just prefers us to do it and he then ruins it adds extra bits or runs a branch line or something. He literally dances with excitement with a new track.

Oh dear. He's going to be a train nerd, isn't he?

Middlefinger

I HAVE to get those!!!!

Shit, they are really expensive! I wonder if there is a British alternative.

I've lost interest in building the track now, I'm on a mission to find these!

Only GB one I could find

Looks like people just shave the lego bits off and then stick the bits on the top...

The ship to the UK, but it really is quite expensive - nearly £38 for a pack of four (with shipping) from dreamuptoys.com/

But I really want them now....

our track is Happyland.
We're not advanced enough for proper track (when she's older, we'll let her "play" look at and watch nicely without touching DH's hornby stuff.
Happyland's fine for now

We got some spare track and road from ebay - a massive bundle (and I'm very tempted to get more it's so fab), and it's got junctions too, so we can make quite a few variations.
Most of the time, we have to add road pieces to make the circles fit properly.

What I really want from Happyland track, which you get with Brio, is the hills and viaducts and tunnels.

I agree some of the track wasn't much cop. But we just chucked it. Still had plenty of junctions track suitable left. We did also have a mixture of brio Thomas and lidle and Sainsbury, there water towers, cranes and engine sheds were brilliant. The plan city stuff was fantastic. We still have all of the tracks and city stuff in 2 huge storage boxes. We had the carwash, fire station and police station from the plan stuff. Think I might have to drag the boxes out hinking about it now

Of course YABU. Nice sharing and kind hands the two of you!

Huge Viaduct sets

Awwww, I miss the track-building days. I used to spend hours getting it all to fit together perfectly and hunting through the big box for the elusive tiny pieces to get a tricky bit to go together. I DS would have loved those viaducts! He does still very occasionally want to get the track out but he's nearly 8 now so its days are numbered.