Features:

  • Multi-Shaped Colored Blocks: The engine and two train cars comes loaded with 15 brightly colored wooden blocks come in red, yellow, green, and blue
  • Versatile: This versatile train set allows kids to build, stack, and roll—and to build developmental skills, too
  • Great Gift for Ages 2 to 4: This Stacking Train Toy makes an ideal gift for kids ages 2 to 4. Add the Melissa & Doug Wooden Railway Set to round out the imaginative play experience and give kids another engaging option for screen-free fun.
  • “The Gold Standard in Early Childhood Play”: For more than 30 years, Melissa & Doug has created beautifully designed imagination- and creativity-sparking products that NBC News called “the gold standard in early childhood play”
  • 100% Happiness Guarantee: We design every toy to the highest quality standards, and to nurture minds and hearts. If your child is not inspired, give us a call and we’ll make it right. Our phone number is on every product!
Good quality wooden educational toy for sensible price

I purchased this darling little stacking train made of colored wooden blocks for my 2 year old grandson. He immediately began to shout "Choo-choo" and was impatient to get the plastic wrapping off. After getting it on the floor so he could push it around, his 8 year old brother got interested and talked him out of part of the "train." They both played with it intently for almost an hour while waiting for parents to pick them up. The toy stays at my house so I get to watch the activity. Since I am a retired teacher, I'm always interested in educational toys for youngsters. This one is perfect for 1 yr plus...I won't set a max limit on the age because children of all ages can play with this in different ways. The colored blocks teach color and shape; the holes fit large pegs on the wheeled "cars" which help develop eye-hand coordination; building the "train" is like putting a puzzle together requiring higher level thinking skills, including memory; the "cars" can be separated and used as three rolling vehicles; and the blocks can be used to stack alone or used interactively with other building blocks. I love wooden toys and so do my grandsons! This one is well-built with no small parts that come off to be swallowed or lost; there are no plastic parts to break off or crack; and this toy can be played with inside or outside. I also like the fact that there are no sirens, bells, flashing lights, or talking voices which distract from a child's imagination...and the best part...NO BATTERIES REQUIRED!! Simply made just like back in the good ol' days!

Fun Toy, Complex Enough That It Takes a Little Thought To Remember Where All The Pieces Go

This is a fun toy for children. The train itself and the pieces are thick enough that you don't have to worry about it breaking, and despite teething children biting them, I haven't noticed any places where paint has flecked off. I'd recommend a little box or something to keep it in - the pieces are easy to loose and if you loose any of the pieces the train looks kind of funny since some of the pieces "depend" on the others.

So glad I took a picture of the train right out ...

So glad I took a picture of the train right out of the package before it got disassembled because I honestly couldn't figure out how it went together the first time, but this train is super cute and my kiddo loves it. She will get various levels of enjoyment from this toy over time because for now she just loves to chew on the blocks and make noise with them, but soon she will be able to move it across the floor and later take it apart and put it together again. It's very well-made and I would definitely recommend it.

how to win a child's affection inexpensively

it's sturdy, it's colorful, it's smoothly finished, AND IT'S GOT THE KID'S NAME ON IT. i win for aunt of the year (until next christmas that is). the blocks fit together in a specific way so this is an excellent toy to teach tetris skillz. rolls very smoothly as well. when the kid's all growed up, the train makes a super cute deco item to display as well.

Nigh Unto Indestructable After 2.5 Years of Abuse

So this is a toy we've had for nearly 2.5 years now. What I love about this thing is that it is durable as heck-it takes a ton of abuse, and the paint is still mostly intact on it, despite the fact that our son, who is a heavy oral stemmer, chews on its pieces incessantly. This is a cool developmental toy because it does allow for different ways of putting together the blocks to set the train up. Sometimes, we're still working on that in this house...like today, when he growled at me after I put the pieces on it and then proceeded to rip them back off again, because he wanted to play with it bare. He's definitely a boy who knows his own mind about how he wants to do things, and it's not always the way a toy is designed to be used. But that's the beauty of this toy, you can use it for different things...teaching colors, shapes, and orientation of putting blocks on pegs, because some of them have holes in directions our son doesn't expect, and because he struggles sometimes to generalize things, it's something we're still working on with him, but I do really like that feature of this toy. Overall, I think this is a super cool, fun developmental toy, but by far the most awesome thing about it is how indestructible it seems.

Sometimes the simplest toys are the perfect toy!

Sometimes the simplest toys are the perfect toy! As soon as my 1.5 year old boy glanced the colors of the toy still inside the box, did not hesitate in grabbing (the supposedly Christmas toy) and began to play. The joy and happiness is very hard to describe. Highly recommended, not only is good for playing but to put them to think on what configuration they like or can build.

Perfect for small hands

My one year old loved playing with this toy so much at our friend's house that I knew he needed his own. We bought this piece at Christmas and my son has loved it. I love all Melissa & Doug toys because they are durable, simple, and beautiful. There are some many learning possibilities packed into this wonderful toy. We can work on colors, shapes, fine motor skills with stacking, pushing, and connecting the train cars together. The pieces are the perfect size for toddler hands to work with. I like that there really is not a wrong way to put his back together, except for the engine. I like for the engine part to be put back together correctly before putting it up. We keep it on the top of the toy cabinet my husband built. It works as a very cute book end when my son is not playing with it. Another thing I love about Melissa & Doug toys is that they are beautiful display pieces. This toy makes a great gift for any toddler in your life. I can see this train set being around for a long time.

Many years of play.

This is the fourth time I've purchased this product. I bought one 10 years ago for my nephews. I have one now for my baby. He's still too little for the train aspect but loves to take the blocks off and knock down the towers I build with them. They hold up well with hard use. The 10 year old one looks new except for a young artist attempt to transform it into the polar express with an ink pen. Somehow that just made it more dear. Just bought 2 more as shower gifts because we have enjoyed ours so much.

Beautiful train

This toy train puzzle is awesome! The colors are bright and vibrant, it is sturdy and extremely well made. The pieces are smooth, so no worries about splinters or anything like that and the corners of the blocks are not sharp. My toddler loves this train and it was the perfect gift for his first Christmas. It looked great sitting in front of the tree! I will admit that this toy is a pain in the butt for me sometimes because I have to rebuild it so often and there are a lot of pieces haha! But overall it is a great toy and it will grow wonderfully with my son! I'm hoping in a few years he'll build it for me.

A part broke off, but the kids can still play with it

The kids like it, so that's good. One major problem, though: the blue stick used to connect the engine to the middle train car came out. I pushed it back in, but it came out again. I've put it away till I can glue it in there. I expected the train to be sturdier than this, to last longer than 6 months before breaking. UPDATE: I called the customer service people who commented on my review. The lady said the train has a warranty and there is a label on the bottom of the train. I looked, and there was a label with their phone number! She said they will mail me a new train and she'll tell the toy-making department about the peg coming out. Wow! I'm changing my stars to five because now I know that mine must have been a fluke, not the normal quality of Melissa & Doug, and their guys will figure out how to make sure it doesn't happen again.

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