All aboard! These trains are steaming into the station, bringing with them a world of exciting and imaginative play! Find your way around the Island of Sodor with Thomas and Friends, laying track into massive networks and helping keep the island’s industries happily at work. Explore the fun of conducting your trains through mountain passes and over huge bridges. And don’t forget to watch out for obstacles on the track!

Playing with trains, children will explore the many different possibilities of imaginative play. By telling stories with their trains, they will learn how to structure events in time, becoming familiar with cause and effect reasoning. A multifaceted train system like the Thomas and Friends line also encourages children to learn to sympathize with many different characters, furthering social development by allowing children to play out different roles. Finally, the many challenges afforded by the different units of the Thomas and Friends track allow children to come up with many exciting, innovative train track layouts, helping stimulate spatial reasoning and creativity while allowing the imagination to move in countless directions.