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Tag: Trains

Celebrating 65 Years of BRIO Trains!

May 25, 2023May 24, 2023Jenny Bristol

Live out your childhood dreams, on your own or with your child or grandchild, with BRIO’s new set celebrating 65 years of BRIO trains.

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‘Sabotage on the Solar Express’ and ‘Epic Adventures’ Expand ‘AoT’ Series

March 19, 2022March 18, 2022Sophie Brown

‘Sabotage on the Solar Express’ and ‘Epic Adventures’ (a non-fiction spin-off) add to my favorite ongoing middle-grade series this month.

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Between the Bookends, Image by Ylanite Koppens from Pixabay

Between the Bookends: 7 Books We Read in October 2021

November 1, 2021November 1, 2021Sophie Brown

As Spooky Season wanes and the Holidays kick off in earnest Sophie, Nivi, Lisa, and Scott have been reading a wide variety of books.

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Pride Month 2021: ‘One Last Stop’ by Casey McQuiston

June 5, 2021Sophie Brown

‘One Last Stop’ by Casey McQuiston follows August who falls in love with a girl trapped in a time loop on the NYC subway since the 1970s.

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Adventures on Trains

Adventures on Trains: My Favorite Middle-Grade Book Series in 2021

April 14, 2021April 13, 2021Sophie Brown

This month I picked up the next books in the Adventures on Trains series: ‘Kidnap on the California Comet’ and ‘Murder on the Safari Star’.

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Deluxe Board Game Train Sets, Image The Little Plastic Train Company

Kickstarter Alert: Deluxe Board Game Train Sets Upgrades

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021Sophie Brown

Deluxe Board Game Train Sets are high-quality replacement train sets for many popular train board games inspired by traditional locomotives.

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The Eurostar by Hornby, Image Sophie Brown, Logos Eurostar and Hornby

Hornby Brings Traditional Toy Trains Into the Modern Age With Eurostar

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020Sophie Brown

Bring an element of international travel glamour to your holiday season with the Eurostar electric train set from Hornby.

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2020 Middle-Grade Books for Back to School, Background Image by Michael Schwarzenberger from Pixabay, Cover Images as Below

5 Fantastic Middle-Grade Books Perfect for Back to School

August 21, 2020August 20, 2020Sophie Brown3

I’ve put together a bunch of fantastic middle-grade books covering a variety of genres and styles that I hope will inspire your young readers.

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Hornby’s Hogwarts Express Electric Train Set Hits the Tracks

September 1, 2019September 1, 2019Sophie Brown1

The Hogwarts Express electric train set is a model railway starter set designed for older collectors and model railway enthusiasts.

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Hogwarts Express Wrebbit 3D Puzzle, Image: Sophie Brown

Build Your Own Wizarding World With Wrebbit 3D Puzzles

March 19, 2019March 22, 2019Sophie Brown1

The Wizarding World Wrebbit 3D Puzzles are a range of 3D puzzles that allow you to build famous Harry Potter series buildings and vehicles.

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Brio Toy Trains for the Tech Generation, Image: Sophie Brown

Are Brio’s Smart Tech and App-Enabled Toy Trains Worth The Cost?

September 20, 2018September 19, 2018Sophie Brown

We spent some time with the Smart Tech system and the App-Enabled Engine from Brio to see what these tech-enhanced toy trains are all about.

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‘The Brain Train’: All Aboard the World’s First Mathematical Railway!

July 24, 2018July 23, 2018Sophie Brown

The “world’s first mathematical railway,” ‘The Brain Train’ from The Happy Puzzle Company is an easy-to-understand single-player puzzle game.

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Goodbye, Thomas: Train Geeks Growing Up

September 1, 2017December 12, 2017Amy Weir6

True train geeks don’t really outgrow their early childhood obsessions. They just change the focus to more grown up styles of train.

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GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #1: Toys

November 8, 2016December 9, 2017GeekMom

Welcome to the start of this year’s holiday gift guides! The GeekMom guides will run each week on Tuesday mornings. We start it off this year with Toys, with a few of the GeekMom writers’ favorites.

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The Cost of Licensing a Birthday Party

February 27, 2014December 15, 2017Sarah Pinault1

A birthday party using licensed characters is no mean feat, as GeekMom Sarah found out while planning her son’s Thomas themed party.

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GeekMom 2013 Holiday Gift Guide: TOYS!

December 6, 2013November 24, 2017Cathé Post1

Toys that push, toys that inspire art, toys that look like famous geeky characters, and more!

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HIT Entertainment’s 2013 Holiday Preview

July 9, 2013January 13, 2018Jackie Reeve3

HIT Entertainment was in New York City last week to preview their new Thomas the Tank Engine and Mike the Knight toys.

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Map of London Showing "Live" Positions of Underground Trains © Matthew Somerville

“Live” Maps of UK Railways to Aid Your Procrastination

April 12, 2013November 24, 2017Sophie Brown1

A collection of maps at Train Times show the approximate real-time positions of trains on the London Underground and those at and surrounding many major UK stations.

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App Review: All Aboard the Toca Train

July 31, 2012Melissa Wiley

Toca Boca delivers another quality kids’ app with Toca Train.

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Are You the Parent of a Train Geek? Throw a Birthday Party at a Tourist Railroad!

April 21, 2012Patricia Vollmer4

I almost didn’t post anything for Birthday Week. It wasn’t until GeekMom Kelly posted about banning the goody bags that I remembered a clever goody bag idea… which was in itself part of a wonderful birthday experience for my oldest son. In 2006, when the family was living in Apex, North Carolina, we had the […]

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