We are collecting these for my 3 year old son , they have given him hours of fun they are very hard wearing and are still in excellent condition despite being played with daily.
these toys encourage my son to use his imagination he makes up reasons why action chugger is having to rescue the other characters and makes the sound effects, where as if he had the interactive chuggington figures he wouldnt be as likely to use his imagination ,as they are preprogrammed with phrases , the only limits on these ones is my son's imagination. welll worth the money!