Parents with older AS dcs - do they ever outgrow Thomas?

[SammyK]

Took DS into ELC today to assess his reaction to the tower of doom, which I was wanting to get him for christmas.
He said oh yes that's nice (in a very montoone bored voice) - the spotted all the Thomas toys behind it and became hysterically excited and ran across the store to them!

I told DP about this and he said Thomas is too babyish, and he will outgrow it soon. If DS wasn't AS I would agree but don't think DP has his head around this as much as I do. DS is 4 next month, in 5-6 clothes so looks old but is very 'young' in behaviour.

I kind of realised he may still be in 'preschooler' type toys for a while now and felt guilty and sad for trying to push him on when he is happy as he is.
I am now thinking I should buy him Thomas as his main present (to go with his cuckoo clock and tardis.) WWYD?

I dunno.

ds1 is into cars and always has been. ds2 who is now 8, loves teletubbies and in the night garden. he also loves ben 10 and wall-e, so . If it makes them happy, what the hell, eh?

I thought it was rather lovely recently when DS1 (9, very high functioning HFA) took down his old hardback complete Thomas story collection and re-read them all .

As a serious answer, SammyK, I don't think that Thomas is too babyish at all for any four year old, AS or not. My NT DS2 still plays with the Brio railway quite a bit and he's 7.

Ds3 (ASD) absolutely adores Thomas and has just learned to say the names of quite a few of the engines other than Thomas, whichwe are terribly excited about .

DS has AS, and he is a real Thomas anorak now. He is 7 at the end of this month. We bought him the box of 50 books for Christmas, and we always had to read them to him because he had no interest in reading. Well now, all he reads and reads and reads his Thomas books.

His railways are getting more and more complicated, and he still wants Thomas for his birthday. We were trying to decide if 7 is too old to buy more Thomas. 4 is certainly not too old!

Just wanted to add we have wooden Thomas AND takealong Thomas. Both serve different purposes. He has about 100 takealong Thomas trains now . The wooden one he doesn't have many trains but a LOT of track - we bought a box off ebay secondhand.

Hello there, first post:

Buy him the Thomas for Christmas.

My son is 28 and has AS. He bought himself some Lego last year as it was reduced in a sale and is still obsessional about Warhammer models.

He has learned as he's matured that most guys of his age would not be into this sort of stuff and has learned on the whole to keep his mouth shut about it, but is not ashamed of still liking the stuff (and there are far worse things he could be doing).

I personally think Thomas IS suitable for a four-year-old anyway!

Haven't read all the messages, but would (I assume) reiterate that 4 is in no way too old for Thomas the Tank Engine!!! He'll be into that for at least two or three more years whether AS or NT. And a bit unkind not to get him what he really wants for Christmas just because someone else holds the view he shouldn't like it. It's nice that he has such enthusiasm for something.

"a bit unkind not to get him what he really wants for Christmas just because someone else holds the view he shouldn't like it."

Wow thanks for that. Have you read my OP? I felt guilty in the store fgs at getting him to look at something other than Thomas.

Sorry! Feel very bad, now... I should have read your message more carefully - I was just so surprised that Thomas the Tank Engine should be seen by your DP as something for children under the age of 4.

ooh yes...get him what he likes
My ds liked the thomas books but wasn't that fussed about the trains and tbh the films frightened him. He had a brio wooden trainset untill he was about 6 or 7
He still likes trains (he hides it a bit). but lego took over and he go really into lego trains/city.He was captivated by the idea that he could build the whole city from lego. He likes hornby too (or any kinds of models come to that)
He's 11 btw