Visit with Thomas at the Grapevine Vintage Railroad April 13-15 and April 20-22
It’s that time of year again when little ones who love Thomas can see him in person. Your little ones will love being able to ride with Thomas himself and taking a photo with Thomas too! A Day out With Thomas is presented by the Museum of the American Railroad and takes place the following two weekends at the Grapevine Vintage Railroad in April 2012: April 13-15 & April 20-22.
Your family can look forward to a fun day filled with a host of activities!
- 25 minute ride with full size Thomas the Tank Engine (12 rides a day — purchase tickets for a specific date and time)
- Meeting Sir Topham Hat
- Live Children’s music & Magic shows from the main stage
- Petting Zoo
- A model train layout featuring Thomas characters
- Build with Mega Bloks
- Sandbox Fun Dig
- Arts & Crafts with local arts & cultural institutions
- Temporary tattoos, coloring activities, games, Thomas play tables and much more
For more information or to buy your tickets, visit www.grapevinetexasusa.com.
North Texas Kids is giving away TWO sets of tickets to Day out with Thomas on Friday April 20th! The tickets are for 9am so you’ll be able to avoid the long lines!
For a chance to win one of the 2 sets of tickets to Day out with Thomas, do the following:
1) leave a comment below and tell us why your child loves Thomas the Train.
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Noah is now 2 and LOVES trains. Of course, his favorite is Thomas, which he rightfully calls “blue choo choo” – Funny enough, even though he doesn’t watch the show, he knows that his Thomas leads the train … even in front of his two Percy trains! We can’t WAIT to bring him to this!!!!
My son is one of the biggest Thomas fans!! He learned to talk and the alphabet with Thomas and it is still one of his favorites shows!!
My Daughter is 4 and has LOVED Thomas since she could walk! She loves to push them around the tracks and pretend to fix them when they brake. Never could get her interested in dolls. And Now her 2 year old sister loves him too!!! This would mean the world to my girls to see Thomas, she talks about wanting to “drive” him someday : )
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My youngest kids are 2 & 4 and they both love Thomas! My 4 yr old has the theme song recognized & when he plays with his toy trains he’ll mimick what he’s seen done on the show.
My youngest daughter is a huge Thomas fan, she watches the shows and plays with her Thomas and friends trains all of the time. She even has a Thomas outfit to show her love. I really enjoy reading her the books, they teach such good lessons.
My son loves Thomas the train. We watch it every day.
My daughter, Isabelle is almost 4 and she loves anything and everything to do with trains. Especially Thomas! We have several small Thomas train sets and she plays with them all the time. She loves to pretend that she is the conductor and She loves to push them back and forth on the track. I would love to see her face if we got a chance to attend the day out with Thomas. I have wanted to take her for the past couple of years but haven’t got a chance to.
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My youngest LOVES trains! She loves Thomas & any other kind of train. She is obsessed with trains. She didn’t even want to bounce in a bounce house at a local indoor play place because they had a train, so she just rode the train over and over and over. She would LOVE to ride Thomas the Train!
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I’ve got two kids, 5 and 2, who both love Thomas and would get the biggest thrill in seeing a life size Thomas the Train. Thanks for the contest!
My 4 year old twin boys love Thomas and love to create their own track designs, the floor of their playroom is one giant train village.
My 3yo loves trains! Especially Thomas and friends! He would be so excited to see Thomas in person!
My 4 yr old loves Thomas! He is always talking about shunting and coupling. And he wants a real working train in our backyard!
Tre has been watching Thomas since he was born, he is 5 now. He has learned some wonderful lessons. It would be a HUDGE surprise if he could see him in person!
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My 3 year old loves the theme song! And don’t tell anybody but my 9 year old still likes watching Thomas. 😉
My 3 year old is crazy about trains and specially about Thomas :)..everytime time we go to a toy store she wants to buy a train or a book on trains..also she loves to travel by train..she would imitate the engine sound and start playing with her dad.
My son loves Thomas and he eveb has the train table. (I am already subscribed to the newsletter)
My child loves Thomas he loves him so much that he has a pillow with thomas on it and has to have the pillow to sleep every night. He wakes up asking to watch thomas the tank engine on Demand. Pretty avid watcher.
Thomas rules for my 3 year old son Truman. We have recently discovered something else that he loves, videos that combine Thomas the Tank Engine with Transformers. They are called trains-formers http://trains-formers.com/. They are really funny and I recommend to anyone that loves Thomas. I actually wish that we could find such a toy combining Thomas and Transformers. My son knew all the names of his trains before he was speaking really well. You could ask him and he would point to the correct train long before he turned two.
My 3.5-year-old son just LOVES Thomas. His love of Thomas started before he even turned 1, so his 1st birthday was Thomas themed! He also has several Thomas books that he wants me to read to him all the time. Now he’s starting to get his 15-month-old sister interested in Thomas too – she loves the books as well!
Kelton is a huge Thomas fan. He loves that Thomas can “smile” and talk and LOVES riding trains. Already a subscriber.
I’m already subscribed and my son loves Thomas…just because he’s a train.
My two youngest are all boy and love trains! We always seem to miss Thomas and would love to go see him!
I have identical twin almost 4 year old boys that L-O-V-E trains – we drive all over town to wait and watch for trains, they name each one we find! We drive out of the way to cross over train tracks. They would be thrilled to meet the real life Thomas!
All 3 kids love Thomas because they adore trains!
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My son is 5 years old and when he was about 2 I took him to see the trains and it was raining and most of the activities were closed because of weather. I always felt bad because he never got the full experiance. He loves him still to this day and I know he would be SO excited for a chance to go again!
My youngest boy is a Huge Thomas fan. He does everything with Thomas.
My 3.5 year old is obsessed with THOMAS! All things Train! That same day he has a dr. appt, so I’d love to surprise him after the appt with tickets to his favorite thing – Thomas!
Son loves, loves .. no seriously he loves Thomas the train
The kids love Thomas because he’s a train…that talks!
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My almost 3 year old, absolutely loves Thomas the Train! He has almost every single train that there is. We have been collecting them for years, as his older brother is now 9 and most trains got passed down to him. When he is asked what he wants to watch, he always responds with, “Thomas!” He brings all of his trains with him on mini road trips, and the trains are always his pick toy. 😉
My two boys loved Thomas because he is always helping his friends and he is a really useful engine
My son Alex is just getting into Thomas, but we love hearing him say, “CHOO CHOO! CHOO CHOO!!” every time he sees him!
My son Alex loves thomas the train and has about 100 trains and all of the movies…
My son is 4 and still plays with his Thomas the Trains and the train table. When he gets “into” something new, like Legos, he just adds that into the mix of playing with Thomas. So Thomas has tons of new friends monthly that he tows around 🙂 He will always love Thomas though and especially trains!
My older son loved Thomas, we saved most of his stuff thank goodness because my 2 yr old is totally crazy about Thomas. He will not get in the bath at night unless he has his Thomas bathtoys, and will not leave for school until we pack Thomas, Henry, Gordan and we can not forget Percy in his bag hahahahahah. Everynight he wants to wear his Thomas PJs and will have a fit if they are all dirty. This child is crazzzy about Thomas. When we drive over any set of tracks before we even cross he is yelling “slow down, Thomas track” ” Wehere is Thomas”
My 3 year old Edward is personal friends with Thomas and Edward! He loves playing with trains since we live in between 2 tracks and hear train whistles all the time. He loves the show, especially when Edward the train is on 🙂 Micah, my 1 year old is also a fan and already says Choo Choo when he sees his Thomas bath toy and “drives” him around the tub!
Liam is turning 4 and crazy about trains, especially Thomas!!
A a mother of 9kids getting out to events is hard for us but we use your magazine as a guide to fill out kids days full of activities and fun. We have a 2 year old that LOVES the big cho choo and I would love to take him to ride on one! If he loves to see real ones I know riding one would just make his day
Our little boy now 5 years old has enjoyed Thomas the Tank Engine for 3 years. It has given him a great appreciation for trains and railroads. He also enjoys the Railway Series books.
I love the joy he gets when he plays with him Thomas trains. He knows all the characters in the books, but Thomas is by far his favoirte!
Emily Elizabeth is such a huge fan of PBS, and is fascinated with Thomas the train. She was handed down Thomas the Train sets from my little nephew that is now 11, whom was also a HUGE fan in his day too! 🙂
How many times can we enter? I know my 3yo would love to see Thomas in person!!
My kids really like Thomas….My daughter even brings our Thomas the trains into the bathtub!
My twins love the Thomas show because of the great music and the stories have always a great lesson to learn. And of course because Thomas is blue, their favorite color.
We have watched Thomas on Sprout since my oldest daughter was crawling, I love how calm the show is and the good values they weave into the storyline about how to be “useful” (i.e. helpful!) and being a good friend. I would love for my husband to take our almost 3 year old to it, she would have such a blast on a real “twaaaaiiin”! 😉
Through Thomas & Friends, Haden learns life lessons and can gain social lessons in a mechanical context which he relates to.
Through Thomas & Friends, Haden learns life lessons and can gain social lessons in a mechanical context which he relates to. As he grow, he notices and learns new things from the same fascinating books, episodes, and movies.
Both of my kids love Thomas & James. They love to sing along their favorite from the episodes. They have learnt a lot of great lessons watching them. They would love to see Thomas in person. Already subscribed.