What can a 18 month child play with ?

Brio offers two circular circuits:
- 33700 My first railway train
- 33701 My first battery powered railway train

The most important questions is to choose or not to have a child start with a battery operated system or not...










The battery powered engine does not make special noise, cannot be run in push-along mode and must be stopped manually by pressing the button or the batteries will wear out...
Afterward, it is recommended to extend the circuit by adding a crossing or a bridge to make it a bit more attractive.

Begin at the beginning

The aim of this blog is to start a discussion on ta very interresting subject: the first train toy for children (18 months - 7 years).

This simple toy that can evolve along with the children is not very present in France, but very present in other countries.

A simple search on ebay with Brio keyword gives:

• ebay.fr : 150 (half are only real used items)
  
• ebay.co.uk : 1517
  
• ebay.de : 2174
  
• ebay.com: 10000
  

UK has a culture of Thomas & Friends, train and vehicules with human like faces, along with books, magazines, movies... In UK, Thomas is mande and distributed by Early Learning Curve (ELC), which is relatively cheap. ELC provides a lot of buildings and elements that make the scenes more realistics, and a lot of trains and cabooses. Thomas & Friends is very popular among children. Big retail shops have their own brands (M&S, Tesco...) that are compatible with the reference standard (see below on Brio).


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