LEGO DUPLO Town Steam Train 10874 Building Set (59 Pieces)

My 2 year old son loves this set, but had to buy the extra train track set to make it worthwhile combination wise. Took a gamble that this track would be compatible with other duplo trains, it is (see picture of Toy Story 3 Train), which made it even more fun, because you can have the moving motor part on the carridge, not just the main train. Great set!

Purchased this for my 2.5 year-old son, and we love to play with it. I was looking for something that is versatile enough for me too, because we play a lot together, and this set, along with the bridge and the additional tracks, ticked all boxes on my list. I knew that if I get excited about a toy, my son will too, and the fun multiplies. The push and go motor is a brilliant thing, it works really well, although we don't use the mobile app. There's no need for that, you can play without it perfectly fine, and mobile devices are off limit for my son anyway. Not a cheap toy, but considering the many hours of play we'll put into it, it's a good investment. After a few days of play, one morning my son started building tracks on his own. He's yet to figure out how to build a loop, and this is the kind of challenge he needs right now. I'm very pleased with this toy, it moved all our other Duplo sets to a new level. I will probably buy the cargo set too, but that only for Christmas.

1, This train uses 4 AAA batteries. 2, This train's underneath contains a camera-light liked colour recognised sensor to recognise the action blocks. Actually you can replace the action blocks with the same coloured material like paper, the train can still read it and implemented the relevant actions. 3, The tracks are compatible with other Duplo's manual push trains, as long as you don't fit with a switch-track from other Duplo track set like 10882. You can push along the manial train with these tracks, or even connect the manual coach/car to this batteried train and pulled by it. 4, You cannot change the speed or this train manually on this physical train blocks. But you can choose the speed of this train via the free Duplo train app available in App Store. The default speed of physical train is maximum. You can slow it down only via this app. 5, This app connects between the device and the train via Bluetooth.

I decided to write a review after reading the bad reviews about this set. It works perfectly fine with good set of batteries like Energiser. We have had it for over 6 months and we've not had any issues with it since we've put it together. My 2.5 year old daughter loves it and we just bought the bridge.

Great train set for my two year old toddler and his friends love it too! The train is intuitive to operate and syncs easily with the Lego train app. We bought the bridge and expansion track sets as well. Just wish Lego offered additional action bricks as separately sold accessories.

My boys aged 3 and 6 both really enjoy this set. I got the additional tracks and bridge. It's easy enough for my 3 year old to help build tracks and operate the train; and my oldest likes making more complex designs. When their friends are here there's enough for 4 kids. Both girls and boys enjoy this set. This also goes with other Duplo bricks and some vehicles fit on the tracks too, it can even be raised up off the floor. If the kids have imagination there's lots to do with it. I haven't had issues with it, and it goes up and down the bridge easily until batteries run low. *I would have liked a second option to get another/different train, the cargo train has been out of stock for awhile. And also an option to buy spare and different coding/function tabs would be cool. I would recomended this product.

Santa gave my 18mo this for Christmas. It is simple to set up and use. We bought it so that our older son could play together with youngest. Works perfectly for that. Making the set is easy, i'd recommend getting extra sets so there's more track. App Set up is easy and straightforward and worked straight away on our Apple devices (IoS 12) Youngest loves the push and go so no app needed. Our 4yo loves the app and the extra interactive games. We had a lot of old style black track from years ago, it works perfectly with that. Ths only issue is the old style bridge doesn't have enough grip. This was fixed with a thin wipe of PVA of the track surface! We now have a hump back bridge!

The set and smart functions really left me grinning like a small child. However i would like a coal carrying cart behind the engine and three passenger carts in total so that the train has some substancial length. At least the carts should be available separately or the cart wheelset chassis so that the kids can build a cart on it.

This set is great and my son really like it. I am writing this review to help out - as the title indicated, the steam train requires 4x AAA batteries. This needs to be easily found on the Lego website, but it is more difficult than expected to figure this out when I was getting batteries for my son without carrying the box. Too many questions required when writing a review - explains why there are only so few.

My two year-old son received the train for Christmas and was super excited to set it up and try it out. Unfortunately, we couldn't get the train to work due to issues getting the batteries lined up with the contacts and had to return the train to the store. Our second set has also been a dud: one of the batteries got very hot and started melting upon putting it together. Needless to say, we have not played with it yet, and I will returning this set for a second time. As an avid LEGO parent, I am very disappointed in the quality of this toy.