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Thomas & Friends Building the New Line | 
 enlarge | From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $11.85
You Save: $8.14 (41%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 12561
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
ESRB: Early Childhood
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 3 - 17 years
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 1
UPC: 742725237353
EAN: 0742725237353
ASIN: B00006BN8J
Release Date: September 25, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com Review
Sir Topham Hatt is facing infrastructure problems: the island of Sodor needs more lines if it is to accommodate its increasing number of rail travelers, and Sir Topham has asked for your help in Building the New Line. Load the CD-ROM, sign in, and meet Thomas and all his familiar friends. Choose "Junior" or "Senior" Engineer mode, depending on ability (or confidence!), and start laying your track. Once your track is in place, move through the activities to deliver cargo and add landscaping features such as trees, bridges, tunnels, and so on. Once you have your track laid out to your satisfaction, advance to "Play Mode" and bring your new line to life. Your engine can now travel around the track, interacting with all the other familiar personalities and sights of Sodor. Click on the items you put in place in build mode and complete the resulting activities. For example, click on the hay bales in the Farm Yard and watch as they spill on the track. Get your engine to help clear them away, so the track is safe and debris-free. Switch tracks, control your speed, and visit the Works if you need any maintenance. Similar to previous CD-ROMs in the Thomas & Friends series, the sound and graphical quality of the package is great, and all the characters are faithful reproductions of their book and screen counterparts. The package is fun and will amuse as well as challenge first PC users, as they learn mouse control and hand-to-eye coordination, as well as other basic PC skills (clicking, moving, cause-and-effect of onscreen activities). There are plenty of rewards to keep little ones interested, and lots of fun to be had along the way. (Ages 3 to 5)--Susan Naylor
Amazon.com Product Description
The Island of Sodor is busier than ever and it's up to kids ages 3 to 5 to lay down new tracks to help Thomas and the other engines keep things running smoothly. Customize five different track layouts, choose your engine--Thomas, James, Edward, or Percy--and click into play mode to see your creation come to life. Be ready, though--you never know what surprises you may encounter. Building the New Line brings track building onto the computer screen in a brilliant 3-D-like environment and is designed with one objective--Thomas & Friends fun!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Pre-schoolers love this game December 12, 2007
Perhaps the adults who have reviewed this are reviewing it for themselves. Yes, it is a little slow, but I have grandchildren from age 2 through 6 that can not wait to play it again. They love selecting the track layout, seleting the engine, bulding the track, encountering the obsticles during the game, and finally taking the train to the grand opening.
This game is by far their favorate. I get a little board watching it, but then I have held them on my lap for literaly hundreds of iterations of the game by now. I have all the lines of Sir Topen Hat memorized, so yes, it is time for me to move on, but they still love every moment of it. We wore the last CD out, so I am definately purchasing the second CD so we can start playing it again.
 Would be better if it would stop talking January 14, 2007
Attention to all makers of children's computer games: please, please, PLEASE do not make games where there a long, dull instructions that cannot be skipped. This would have been an 'ok' game if it weren't for the directions that are repeated every single time you play the game. Maybe there is a way to skip past the directions, but I haven't found it yet. The kids I work with get annoyed and lose interest by the time the directions for each new activity are repeated.
Thumbs down September 14, 2005
My daughter loves trains and is adept with many software packages, but this game is just annoying.
The layouts are too simple. You can "choose" but they're all really small. You can only put a certain number of plants on the layout. You can only put one cargo item on the layout.
She would enjoy just watching the train run, but it doesn't just run - there are always mishaps - things spilled on the track, stuff that has to be done. They're difficult to understand and kind of boring - having to click every rock away. I can see the point but a "no disasters" mode (a la the original Sim City) would be an improvement.
The decoration feature is similarly lame, and it doesn't do anything. It should at least let you watch the train go around the track with your decorations.
In general the interface is clumsy and unintuitive. There are many games that my daughter can play all by herself - but when she plays this one she constantly needs my help to figure out what to do. And I don't really enjoy clicking on boxes one at a time.
Geotrax (plastic train toys) is less expensive, easier to use, more fun, and still works when the power goes out.
 WONDERFUL FOR SMALLER HANDS April 19, 2005
I have a 3 year old daughter who LOVES Thomas. When I saw this available on computer, I jumped on board. She loves this game! When I tell her we can't play with it today, she gets very upset. Because the graphics are big, it is easy for someone with small hands whose fine motor skills are still developing to play this game. I would strongly recommend this to anyone especially if they are working on fine motor skills. I just wish they had more Thomas products for an iMac.
 skip this one October 19, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
My son is also an avid Thomas Fan and we bought this since he had played the Great Festival Game several times. We run Windows XP and couldn't get the game to load properly. When we finally got into the game there wasn't much to do. The Great Festival Game is a much better deal.
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