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(More customer reviews)I was really excited when Fisher Price announced that a roundhouse was in the pipeline for Geotrax. Our family loves the Geotrax line and we have quickly lost a room to our ever expanding layout. As we've added the clock tower, suspension bridge, and numerous remote trains we've always had an issue. Getting those trains turned around.
As cool as the remote trains are, they only go forward. So when I heard about the roundhouse I thought this would be a great way to swing the trains around. And to a degree that's just what it does. There is a turntable in front of the roundhouse that spins an engine a full 360 degrees. It even features the new Geomotion option that allows the drive wheels of the remote trains to swing around by itself.
The thing is, when the trains wheel into the roundhouse for washing, servicing, etcetera... you still have to manually back them out. And where they could have made the ends of each fork modular, to bridge from one fork to another with track, they opted to put a permanent stop at the end of each of the three forks.
Its a neat idea, and maybe my beef is more with the unidirectional nature of the trains, than with design issues on the roundhouse. The roundhouse does provide several new options for imaginary play. Its well built, quite colorful, and integrates nicely with the existing Geotrax layout. Most kids(large and small) will be quite happy with this Geotrax addition.
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The Workin' Roundhouse is part of the GeoTrax "Power Series." Bring this accessory to your system to play with it in many ways. With an RC Engine, you can activate the great "power" feature. Drive an engine over the specialty track, pull back on the lever, and activate the spinning action of the turntable. Take your engine for a ride, and let it loose at the pull of a lever to go wherever you want. Take it for a wash at the wash bay; or for a tune up in the fix-it bay. Or take it for a 90-degree turn, and continue on your way on the track that extends out of the station. The spinning turntable can be activated by hand as well. Set comes with a non-powered engine vehicle.
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