BRIO Advanced Expansion Pack

This Brio set is a get addition to advance our ever growing wooden track collection. These tracks are made out of high quality wood and hold really well. This set has a couple of random shapes that make building a track that much more fun. I highly recommend this Brio set!

I was really impressed with the new life these special track pieces can breathe into a standard set. My son is pretty young so I typically set up the track and then he "choo choos" his trains around it. Dad was getting pretty bored with building the same 5 tracks every day so I decided to pick up this expansion pack so we could try something new. As others have mentioned, I wish they would have replaced one of the diagonal 4-way tracks (which you will rarely use) with another 90 degree 3-way track or possible a cross track with the male and female ends at opposite sides... but otherwise these pieces are fantastic. Would definitely recommend!

Anyone who has kids who really "like" their wooden railway will need additional track beyond the basics that are provided in any starter set. This is especially true with less expensive brands, but can be an issue if parents buy a "Thomas" set that is actually not a full wooden railway in a box but is instead just an "add on" like a log loader or a mine tipple. For an interesting railroad, your kids will need LOTS of extra straight and curved sections of varying lengths and radius, but remember: that only expands the basic loop. The real fun comes with creating a wooden railway with multiple switches, crossovers ("diamonds"), inclines up to and down from bridges that can cross over your own line, and even "merging" track sections. This becomes an endless type of children's puzzle: the more pieces you have for the puzzle when you give it to your kids, the more interest they will have in playing with the wooden railway system. It holds their interest longer to have the challenges of making up various track designs. No two track designs are ever exactly alike. The reason for this long-winded review is this: you absolutely need this track Expansion Pack. You may need two or three of them. It depends on the interest of your kids. My 2 1/2 year old grandson has as much fun with building and design-building these wild intricate floor railways as my 6-year old granddaughter does. Big suggestion: the fact is that lots of kids get tired in a week of the "train table" wooden railway you gave them for Christmas because it does not have any flexibility to become something else. It is completely limited by the size of the train table. "No space" equals limited creativity. They can have this extra space just by taking the track off the table, adding the Expansion Pack (AND about 30 more straight tracks of various lengths, 30 more curve sections of the two standard radius types, and at least two sets of up and down ramp tracks WITH PIERS to carry them), and laying it all out on the floor every few days. And don't forget the short male/male and female/female transition tracks! You MUST have them, too! The wild flowering puzzle railroads your kids will create through the house will be fantastic, and the "simple" little wooden railway will be played with and used over and over for many months to come. It will make them better at doing everything, parents. Who knows? Your grand daughter might become the president of the Union Pacific. At the very least she will have fond memories of the golden days when she played with those little wooden trains. Go for it. Steve Hites, Skagway, Alaska

What sets this expansion apart is the crossing tracks that allow you to make setups that loop back on themselves. This isn't a big deal if you can make your tracks work with up and down inclines, but for a 3-year-old that is prone to knocking them down, it makes a huge difference. Where it also makes a large difference is with battery-powered trains. The crossings solve the problem of getting battery powered trains with lots of cars to go up and down inclines. They don't have to. So, while the price point is high, if you want to solve one of these problems it is an excellent purchase. Having three useful crossings is great and the only other way to get them is to buy the classic figure 8.

You pay for Brio and you get quality products. I still buy off-brand pieces for the track, but they are never as good as Brio.

Kids love them and love adding to their sets

With these unique connector pieces my son can make so many cool track designs! Highly recommend! We use them with our Hape track and they work together just fine.

You can never go wrong giving a child Brio. It's one of the best toys to stimulate minds with creative designs and then fun usage of the vehicles. We now have 2 generations worth of Brio and I will always buy more!

Die Qualität ist sehr gut. Mein Enkel hat sich gefreut und sofort damit gespielt.

Great addition to the existing Brio.

Mycket uppskattad julklapp

It's BRIO....obviously a toy. It was a birthday gift for my grandson.

Me ha encantado este pack, anteriormente ya habíamos cogido otra ampliación más básica que nos permitió hacer circuitos más grandes, pero sin novedad. Con este pack de vías avanzadas puedes hacer circuitos realmente muy atractivos, especialmente por la variedad de piezas de cruces que incluye. Yo disfruto muchissimo haciendo los circuitos. Al niño le cuesta más montar los circuitos ahora, va más perdido, pero le ayudo un poco y luego tiene entretenimiento para rato.