girly train set

[Isaidno]

My dd is 2 and a half and I'm thinking of buying her a train type toy.
We already have a brio set.
I don't want Thomas or Chuggington.
I'm not keen on the ELC happyland one.

Any suggestions welcome. It doesn't have to be especially pink, I just don't want it especially boyish.

[lifeinagoldfishbowl]

What's wrong with Thomas/Chuggington?

Why a girlier the ot one? It's a train it's not 1 other :)

[Omarama]

Brio is the best, does she need another? You can just buy extra accessories eg bridges

[Valpollicella]

Why are trains boyish? Surely trains are trains?

[everybodysgotone]

Duplo train set? I got a fake duplo hello kitty one from Amazon for DD last year.

[everybodysgotone]

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[sharonanne]

Brio is best but playmobile and duplo do good sets

[OracleInaCoracle]

le toy van do a fab fairyland train set. I got it for my niece and she loves it.

[DirtyMartini]

Brio isn't especially boyish . It's full-on lentil-friendly gender-neutral.

[gillybean2]

My neighbours dd aged 5 loves playing with ds's brio set, particularly the thomas trains...

[coatgate]

My DD has all the Thomas engines built up over years of birthdays and christmas. She never plays with them now but will not be parted from them. We used to love watching Thomas on the tv. Why stereotype? As others have said, a train is a train.

[FreudianSlimmery]

Wow.

Just get another brio set or one of the many cheaper wooden train sets which fit in, so they can have one big train set.

Not sure whether to be or or :o or :(

[DandyDan]

Don't know why you need a girl's set as opposed to anything else.

We bought the Tomy train set (not the Thomas version) and added lots of extra rails and junctions and slopes to it, and a variety of trains + carriages - steam, bullet, etc. We got them out the other day when a pre-schooler came to visit and they were brilliant as ever and much appreciated.

[Isaidno]

I don't want it be necessarily pink, although I do like the hello kitty one!
My dd doesn't watch chuggington or thomas which is why I don't like those. The happyland stuff is a bit babyish imo.

Fact is I am failing to find any train set suitable for a nearly 3 year old. We have Brio and I don't want anymore of that.

[mumto2andnomore]

I dont think happyland is babyish, Ive just donated my sons old set to my class of 4-6 year olds and they love it.

[Isaidno]

Just googled for Tomy and found the Tomica range, but that's looks a bit old for her.
(Sorry, being awkward now.)

[Isaidno]

She quite likes the Brio but gets frustrated that it comes apart and she can't rebuild it.
So I suppose I would like something more toddler friendly in that respect.

I'd quite like it to have some figurines as she likes to put people in and out of things. (We have some animals on the brio which fit on the carriages.) We have some happyland stuff but she isn't very interested in it.

I don't want something too huge either.

Nature or nurture - I don't know - but she is more attracted to "girly" toys. We have plenty of cars and stuff which belong to her older brothers so she has plenty of non gender specific playthings. It's not as if she is my little pink princess and I can't bear her to play with something blue.

[greenlotus]

You can get wooden "village" accessories that would go with the Brio - try googling Bigjigs, they have lots of extras.

We had so much wooden railway I resisted getting another kind of track too. you may find soon that your DD gets the hang of putting the track together so it's not such an issue.

[Isaidno]

Thank you - playmobil do this one which might be ok, and it's not actually pink.
www.amazon.co.uk/Playmobil-Push-Pull-Train-6760/dp/B000N20NNE/ref=sr_1_4?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1290517369&sr=1-4&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21
(Not sure if it's a bit young, but their next train set is a massive £140 affair.)

Going to see if there is stockist nearby so I can see it.

[DirtyMartini]

Honestly, the more Brio you have the more fun it becomes, and soon enough she'll be able to rebuild. And it has really lasting play value, years' and years' worth, if you have a good setup.

[Isaidno]

Ok, thanks everyone, I've ordered the little playmobil one and a zoo to go with it.

[FreudianSlimmery]

I agree the more brio (or in our case the cheap version) you have the better. You can make awesome tracks that span the whole room or floor even! I just got DD some buffers and a turntable for her stocking to make the track more varied.

Sympathise about the frustration she gets but it'll get better with practise :)