wooden Thomas the Trains

[whodey]

Ladies-

Hi! I am mainly a lurker on this board, but I have gathered many sales and shopping tips from all of you – thank you for posting your great finds!

I bought my son a train table, tracks, and wooden Thomas trains off craigslist. The table and tracks are in great shape and so are ½ the Thomas the Train cars, but I want to get him some new ones too – is there a store or website you use to purchase your wooden train cars at a discounted price? There are a number of sites that claim to sell authentic Thomas the Train cars, I don’t know if I can trust them (I don’t want to buy trains with paint that will come off if he puts them in him mouth or break easily) or should I just suck it up and purchase them for $14 each at ToysRUs (I think the majority of their coupons excludes Thomas the Train accessories)
Thanks again!!

[Deleted]

Other trains also fit on the Thomas tracks, if your kid isn't into the characters. IKEA, Brio, and Kidcraft for sure.

[Nenibay]

I just saw a TRU flyer for $10 off a $50 Thomas purchase.

[Ashley&Scott]

Toys R Us will price match Amazon. I would also keep looking at garage sales for engines, we've had awesome luck.

Do you have a motorized engine yet, they are awesome as well.

[whodey]

@tokenhoser - no he's not really into a brand, but everything else is Thomas so I was planning to stick with Thomas trains (superficial I know, but I have some OCD about things not matching)
Nenibay - I'm going to look for that flyer
Ashley&Scott - I shop Amazon a lot I'll check out their prices more and look for the motorized engine

[katiescarlett]

Not sure what stores are local to you, but we often grt them at AC Moore with a coupon or when they are on sale for 40-50% off

[Diana Prince]

Ditto what katiescarlett said ^. I was just in AC Moore last week and they have an entire aisle full of the wooden ones.

[dbsk8dance]

I've used trainsgalore.com

[auntie]

Meh, the littles outgrow Thomas and friends pretty quickly. DS played much longer with his Brio wooden replica trains and the Lionel ones that are based on real locos and have a story to go along with. 

It's more fun to mix it up.

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[Ashley&Scott]

Sept 2, 2014 11:58:48 GMT -5 katiescarlett said:

Not sure what stores are local to you, but we often grt them at AC Moore with a coupon or when they are on sale for 40-50% off

I am so jealous of this, we don't have AC Moore in the Midwest.

[pattieice]

No AC Moore in the South either. It is totally hit or miss, but my TJMaxx had a bunch right before Christmas. Your best bet is probably amazon. I will say that my train loving 4.5 year old much prefers his generic engines and some that came in a Melissa and Doug set.

[usuallylurking]

Toys R Us has Thomas on sale this month. Various things and different cars (take 'n play, wooden, trackmaster) but if you go on their website I think it will tell you!

[megs68]

I have found Thomas wooden trains at TJMaxx or Marshalls. They are like $7-10 there vs normal price of like $10-15, so a few dollars savings at least. My son much preferred his Thomas trains to the generic ones.

[redheadbaker]

I look for them at consignment sales.

[whodey]

Thanks for all the suggestions ladies-I've checked out trainsgalore & ToysRUs websites and I'm going to a store next to Marshall's this weekend so I'll check it out too - I'm disappointed we don't have an AC Moore, but it looks like I have a few options for buying trains - now I have to keep my spending in control!