The Hogwarts Express electric train set is a model railway starter set designed for older collectors and model railway enthusiasts. Read More
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Hornby’s Hogwarts Express Electric Train Set Hits the Tracks
Tag Archives: Trains
Build Your Own Wizarding World With Wrebbit 3D Puzzles
The Wizarding World Wrebbit 3D Puzzles are a range of 3D puzzles that allow you to build famous Harry Potter series buildings and vehicles. Read More
Are Brio’s Smart Tech and App-Enabled Toy Trains Worth The Cost?
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. Read More
‘The Brain Train’: All Aboard the World’s First Mathematical Railway!
The “world’s first mathematical railway,” ‘The Brain Train’ from The Happy Puzzle Company is an easy-to-understand single-player puzzle game. Read More
Goodbye, Thomas: Train Geeks Growing Up
True train geeks don’t really outgrow their early childhood obsessions. They just change the focus to more grown up styles of train. Read More
GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #1: Toys
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. Read More
The Cost of Licensing a Birthday Party
A birthday party using licensed characters is no mean feat, as GeekMom Sarah found out while planning her son’s Thomas themed party. Read More
GeekMom 2013 Holiday Gift Guide: TOYS!
Toys that push, toys that inspire art, toys that look like famous geeky characters, and more! Read More
HIT Entertainment’s 2013 Holiday Preview
HIT Entertainment was in New York City last week to preview their new Thomas the Tank Engine and Mike the Knight toys. Read More
“Live” Maps of UK Railways to Aid Your Procrastination
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. Read More
App Review: All Aboard the Toca Train
Toca Boca delivers another quality kids’ app with Toca Train. Read More
Are You the Parent of a Train Geek? Throw a Birthday Party at a Tourist Railroad!
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… Read More
Spending Time With Walter Wick
Back in our preschool years of parenting, my family spent a great deal of time with Walter Wick’s books. To be truthful, we spent a great deal of time with a great many books–almost universally those that created anthropomorphized-machine worlds filled with earnest steam engines, recalcitrant backhoes, or steam shovels of derring-do. Mr. Wick’s I… Read More
The Rise of the Play Center
In Maine we are housebound for much of January through March because of snow. Often this can include April, and it can also include the restrictive cold weather of December. Last year was my first year with a toddler, so gone were my housebound days of curling up in front of the woodstove with a… Read More
Ode to a Great Geek Dad… and his Geek Hobby
No, he isn’t one of those GeekDads… although he’d certainly fit the bill. After all, he’s getting Brian Greene’s latest book for Father’s Day! My Dear Husband Dave is a great Air Force professional, husband, and father to our two Geek Spawn sons. He has several other great hobbies, from art to Civil War reenacting.… Read More
