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Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway – Felt Playmat A durable surface for Thomas adventures! (Engines, Vehicles, Buildings, and track not included)
Customer Review: Thomas playmat
I bought this for my son’s extensive Wooden railway system. It is great for traveling to see our family. He then uses the mat on the floor to set up his train set. He also just uses the map to play with his trains. Our son is two and I think we will get a lot of use out of it. when he grows out of it I will use it as a door mat in the muddroom!
Customer Review: Doesn’t hold up
We purchased this playmat for our 18-month-old son for Chirstmas because we felt he was too young to spend so much money on the train table. The first mistake was assuming that the mat was the same size as the table. The mat is not designed for use with the tracks. This means that the figure eight set is too long and extends past the edge of the mat, making the tracks uneven. The biggest problem, however, if your child sits on the mat or crawls across it while playing, the felt top comes unglued from the rubber backing. This makes the felt top really wrinkle up so that his trains do not run smoothly across it. I tried to smooth it out, but it seems to have warped and will not smooth out. So far, this doesn’t seem to have bothered our son too much, though. He continues to play with it, although he does prefer to use his train table that his grandfather made for him to put his tracks on. Much cheaper than a [...] train table!