Originally Posted By Rsey103 I'm shopping for a birthday gift for a boy who will be 10. He enjoyed riding the monorail during his WDW visit and I would like to give him the WDW Monorail Playset. I am discouraged by the user reviews. There are negative reviews of this product and even the people who "love" it have some negative comments about it. Cheap materials, falls apart, train moves slowly, not worth the price, etc. I was thinking this was going to be a real winner of a gift, but now I'm not sure. I was going to add on the Contemporary and Polynesian hotel sets, too. Any thoughts on this product?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I bought mine several years ago at Disneyland. The train announcements about the Walt Disney World resort surprised me a little, since I bought it in California, but other than that, it has worked pretty much as I expected. I set it up around our Christmas tree some years and it works well for that. In terms of playing with it, once you've assembled the track, there isn't much to do but turn it on and watch it go along the track. (Not sure if it's basically the same now or if they've added some remote control or something) It does move slowly. I think if the boy is a budding Disney geek, he will appreciate it. I wouldn't say that it's made cheaply, but you'd want to be careful handling it.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I wish Disney would come out with a high quality HO or N scale Monorail set. Have it run on low voltage off a transformer rather than batteries while being able to control speed, direction and switching... just like the quality equipment used for model railroading. Now of course the downside is that a starter set like that would probably have to sell for at least $250 - $300, so the market would probably be limited to rail geeks like myself who are used to spending more than we should on our big boy toys.
