BRIO World Deluxe Wooden Railway Train Set for Kids Age 3 Years Up

We ordered this Brio set for our twin boys. It came with a small storage box. The set contains a very wide range of pieces and needs to be assembled by an adult. There is a great variety of track sections, stations, and types of vehicle. This includes a crane, tube train with inbuilt flashing head lights (excellent), boat to dock with train/cranes, and figures that fit in the trains. The pieces are beautifully made, with great attention to detail. For example, the lorry has a cab that opens to reveal the engine, and the rear section slides to release "cargo" (which can in turn be picked up by the crane with the magnet). The set in its entirety is (a little) advanced for our two year old boys in terms of having the skills to construct it and not pull it apart - but they are playing with all the vehicles/trains on sections of the track. Overall, a big hit with them, and a good investment for future play. I wouldn't change anything about the set, I'd just make the storage box a little bigger - especially as we will be buying additional bits. Recommend.

Bought for our sons 5th birthday. He really loves the set but needs help assembling it. It's good quality wood, and a very nice town set. It is not cheap, clearly. But it will be his to treat well, play with, and pass on to his own kids one day. It is durable wood after all. Goes well with the RC engine and even the smart tech engines.It's quite large and will need some floor space, so bear that in mind when your child won't let you put it away :)

I rarely write reviews but compelled to to review this train set. We bought it for our 26 month old train and car set obsessed little boy. He has a simpler much cheaper train set with bridges which he loves but was clearly getting bored with. This set has been a huge hit and he has ignored all of his other Xmas presents including a tablet from granny in favour of this. He loves operating the station doors, the lift and putting all the passengers into the train. The crane is a little tricky for him but overall a wonderful well built little set. Only minor gripe is that the upper level tracks tend to come apart easily given the slight lack of support but it's easily rectified. We managed to get this in the black Friday sale when it was sub £100 and an absolute bargain at that price for Brio. Highly recommended.

A beautiful and good quality brio set with lots of interesting things for a train obsessed toddler to play with. Love the multi level play, the little lift in the station and the loading dock for the boat. My 3 year old plays with this every day and is very pleased with the gift. Hours of fun ahead.

Well built, great product.

Great addition to existing brio train sets

My 3 year old is obsessed with trains, so this was always going to go down well. There is lots do on this with the 3 different trains, tunnells, stations etc. Its quite expensive, but if you look at what you get compared to the other products, I think it's relatively good value.

After owning similar IKEA train sets, I took the plunge and order Brio thinking they were better quality and they were the original of this style. It seems other manufacturers have developed it further but Brio hasn't. As someone else pointed out the pieces break easily at the joints, IKEA solved this with stronger plastic joints. Again as another person pointed out, the pieces fit together too loosely and your child ends up knocking the down the bridges easily and gets frustrated with the whole thing.Another bug bear with this set is it is not motorised, at this price range Lego and Duplo sell motorised sets, both of which I would rate higher than this. To motorise this set you have to spend another £20-30 on a new train, and then that causes new issues with the junctions, you need switchable junctions, which not surprisingly you have to buy separately as well.Another side point is this whole set is small for the price range, we expected a bigger set, the rock shape bridge pieces are fillers for the box making it look like you're getting more than you really are.My son loves trains, but he played with the IKEA version a lot longer than this, and combined with the above issues, so I really cannot recommend this set, nor Brio over IKEA trains, Duplo or Lego train sets at this time. If they improve the joints strength, machine tolerances of pieces and include motorised trains with switchable junctions then this would be the right price point.