Lionel Pennsylvania Flyer Train Set - O-Gauge (Toy)

   (This is the first train set I've ever used in my nearly forty years on this planet, so take this review with that frame of reference.)Feeling shortchanged by our own upbringings, my wife and I had been talking about creating some Christmas traditions for our toddler and, in the back and forth, we wondered if people really did put trains around their Christmas trees (clearly our families did not and, apparently, neither did our friends' families). There was something that felt a little too Norman Rockwell/Saturday Evening Post about it, but when I saw this set pop up on a Gold Box deal I decided to pull the trigger. I'm glad I did.Setup was quite painless, taking about 15-20 minutes from unpacking to the maiden voyage around the tree. All the instructions were straightforward and, if you've got the patience I didn't have, the Lionel site has a 20-minute video about the set. Size-wise, it fit pretty perfectly around the base and skirt of our 7-foot tree with the...Read more if (typeof amznJQ != "undefined") { amznJQ.onReady('jQuery', function() { amznJQ.available('popover', function() { var widgetDom = jQuery("#R36ZY8KL4X8JLA_imageSection_1551F240-8D95-11E7-96E4-C3CA9FFB69FD"); var images = widgetDom.find(".review-image-thumbnail"); for (var c=0;c