Spinmaster Aquadoodle Thomas Toot N Doodle :: Education by Design Store

Customer Reviews

Complete waste of money!

2007-12-29
Out of all the toys I bought for my twins for Christmas, this was the only bad one! It was a complete waste of money. The mat must be completely flat with absolutely no bumps, and your toddler must draw the track applying his total body weight to the roller with no flaws in the track print and no sharp turns! The train will not follow the track unless your track is perfect! What toddler is going to be able to do this or even want to do this? Mine ended up more entertained by popping the bubble wrap!

Spend your money on something that is better quality and offers your child at least 5 minutes of enjoyment!

Don't waste money on this

2007-12-28
After several attempts, my children and I were unable to even get the train to move on the tracks we made. Very disappointed in this product and would recommend you spend you money on something else! My children had a great time with the mat itself without the train. The train doesn't appear to have settings for sound, so it continues to "toot" away and is loud and annoying, in my opinion.

Disappointed

2007-12-27
The train doesnt seem to follow the tracks good and it took only 1 day for the train to break.

Why So Negative???

2007-12-23
I purchased this item for my 3 year old Grandson. I tried it out before I put it under the Christmas tree. I CAN NOT believe all the negative reviews of this toy. I almost did not purchase it because of the reviews. I am so happy that I used my own judgement because this is a wonderful toy for children. Frankly I do not understand what everyone is compaining about. The price is right, the toy is well made, and it works! I know my Grandson is going to love it. I CAN NOT believe how negative people can be over absoutely nothing. What did you expect, the train draw its own line??

Follws track well

2007-12-09
I don't understand why people are saying that the track has to be perfect for Thomas to follow, because it doesn't. The sensors do a great job of following any water trail no matter how faded. The engine will have a difficult time if there are tight corners, the tracks overlap, or get close to the edges, but those seem like reasonable limitations to me. There isn't a real engineer in there, after all, but a small sensor the swirls around searching for dampness. It does take awhile for for the mat to clear once it's been used, but that is because it's covered in water and needs to evaporate. Complaining about that would be like complaining that a coloring book is useless once it has been colored in.

It's cute, fun and a great combination of the Thomas brand and aquadoodle.

I do have two small complaints:
1) The repetitive, annoying music that Thomas plays while chugging along. Toys don't need to play music to make them fun.
2) The caps on the 'markers' are reverse laced, I suppose, so toddlers can't open them and soak the mat. But an older child who wants to fill them all by himself will dump water all over the mat because he can't close them.

I do think that $40 is a bit much, but on sale it is a great value.

toot toot

2008-04-02
Aquadoodles are a big hit around my house and this one is the favorite.My 4 year old son adores all things Thomas and he's had a great deal of fun drawing and having Thomas following all his doodles.He liked it so much I even bought him the Sir Topham Hat that goes with it.Cute toy,enjoy!

Regret buying it.

2008-01-26
This toy wasn't what I expected. The train does it's own thing and doesn't follow the track like it's suppose to. My son loves Thomas the Train, but he is not interested in this at all. He played with it only twice since he got it for Christmas.

Train broken out of the box

2008-01-10
I bought this as a Christmas present for my 3 and 6 year olds. Out of the box the train was broken. We've had aqua doodle mats before and they are wonderful - but I'd skip the train or other bells and whistles and stick with the original product.

MESS FREE!!!!

2008-01-07
This is great!!
My 2 yr old son and his older sisters love to play with this.

you can find a better toy

2008-01-07
My son received this toy at his birthday. He didn't find it too interesting and is hard to draw the tracks evend for us.
I think for this amount of money you can find a better toy.

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