Good to know I'm not the only person here with that song stuck in my head! 
Anyway, this makes me wonder if Takara Tomy contracted with a new factory to handle the Chuggington production and the quality control was not quite up to standard.
Chuggington is kind of a source of ambivalence here at Chez OTR. The kids like the show well enough but the toys don't appeal to them like Thomas stuff does. So far, we haven't gotten any Plarail items and die cast items really don't get played with. Are we missing out on something here?
An alternate theory is that the noise level was an unavoidable design consequence of having a relatively powerful motor and driveline running on a double-A battery. They seem to run really well, so that shoots holes in my previous theory about manufacturing QC.
(This post was last modified: 03-15-2017, 02:23 PM by Off The Rails.)
Anyway, this makes me wonder if Takara Tomy contracted with a new factory to handle the Chuggington production and the quality control was not quite up to standard.
Chuggington is kind of a source of ambivalence here at Chez OTR. The kids like the show well enough but the toys don't appeal to them like Thomas stuff does. So far, we haven't gotten any Plarail items and die cast items really don't get played with. Are we missing out on something here?
An alternate theory is that the noise level was an unavoidable design consequence of having a relatively powerful motor and driveline running on a double-A battery. They seem to run really well, so that shoots holes in my previous theory about manufacturing QC.
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