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Re: Lessons learned in pre-school
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Sat, 22 Jan 2005 04:07:10 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Chio Siong Soh wrote:
   Yes, we certainly are. But the pre-school kids don’t find drag-racing *cool*. Maybe for the bigger kids and adults...



Oh I’ll have to disagree with that. When we run the Rail Racers at shows and events the kids line up, big and little. Maybe it’s the lights, maybe its smell of train tires burning, maybe it’s the cool space age trains, maybe its screaming fans....but I think it all comes down to the need for speed! Every little kid wants to know “how fast can they go”!! And with Rail Racers they get to find out.

I do agree that running road course track can be fun as well and we’ve talked about incorporating some kind of road course standards into the Rail Racers. But first I have to finish my Rail Racers Stunt Spectacular, with jumping trains :)

jt



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(...) Yes, we certainly are. But the pre-school kids don't find drag-racing *cool*. Maybe for the bigger kids and adults... The younger kids much prefer train layouts they can go round and round many laps like the Grand Prix. And ones in which they (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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