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Re: Lessons learned in pre-school
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:04:51 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:

Since the kids love that full power setting, they would just floor it
the second they got to the controller. If that didn't pop a knuckle, and
it almost always did, then the second favorite maneuver was more than
sufficient to pop a knuckle. The second favorite thing to do was, of
course, rapidly change from full power foward to full power reverse and
back again. If I didn't get back in time to pop the power supply off the

Chris,

Thanks for sharing that story!  I was laughing as I read it because my own 3 year old daughter loves to take the motors OFF of my locomotive and run the motor by itself on the track.  Much faster forward/reverse combinations are possible in this configuration :)   Sometimes I will hook up a second transformer to the track and we'll "battle" because I can negate her controller and vice versa.

Oh, and high speed collisions impress kids. (obvious!)

Eric



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  Re: Lessons learned in pre-school
 
(...) It seems kids not only like the high speed of Lego trains, they love to race their trains against each other. Even on a standard dual oval track ((URL) will race each other, although they know the trains are not running equal distances. So we (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)

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  Lessons learned in pre-school
 
On Friday, I brought some trains to my son's pre-school. It was a crazy and hectic event. I thought I would share with you the ideas that worked and the ones that didn't work. First, they loved seeing all the trains, and they were more than happy to (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)  

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