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BRIO Smart Engine and Tracks | 
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| Brand: Brio
Category: Toy
List Price: $34.99
Buy New: $26.33
You Save: $8.66 (25%)
New (6) from $26.33
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 23991
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Age: 3 - 6 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 4.7 x 1.2 x 2
MPN: 422.200.6
Model: 33761
EAN: 7312350337617
ASIN: B0001WGI94
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Set includes a battery-powered smart track engine, one piece of stop track, one piece of signal (horn) track and signs to place next to the track | | • | Comes with manual buttons for forward and reverse | | • | Engine is 4.8" L | | • | Engine is powered by 2 x AA batteries | | • | 3+ |
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Product Description
Part of the BRIO Wooden Railway System Interactive Railway Adventures! You can build a track layout that comes alive with sound and movement! This cool new technology from BRIO combines a "smart engine" with "smart track" and "smart accessories" that i
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| Customer Reviews:
 BRIO Smart engine February 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We bought the BRIO smart engine for our 5 year old grandson, along with the reversing and speed-changing track sections. Our grandson has an extensive set of Thomas the Tank Engine pieces, along with track from BRIO and "Thomas". The track sections are compatible with the old track, but the engine will not negotiate the sharp turns on some track sections.
The 3 "driver" wheels on each side of the engine are too close together, and force the lead wheels off the track. This is disappointing, since the toy is well-made, and could be very exciting.
 Programming 101 for toddlers October 21, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is the reader engine to the smart track program from Brio. Instead of buying this set, you can also buy the Brio Smart Track Starter Set, which in addition to the engine with the Stop and Toot track also includes normal tracks, the smart track tree, and a crane. The Starter Set may be the better value.
I bought the Brio Smart Track system for my 1 year old daughter as an introduction into programming. Brio's Smart Track is a system out of a reader engine and track pieces with an embedded RFID chip. When the engine runs over this piece of track, then an action and a sound is triggered. The current actions are: Stop, slow down, speed up, and reverse direction. The are also 9 different sounds. There are 9 different track pieces available, including the smart track station, a repair shed, and a falling tree. The different track pieces combine sometimes multiple actions and sounds. Like with the station the train stops with a squeak, buzzing train station sounds sound, then the engine starts again with an engine sound.
This reader engine is the only one available. None of the other engines from Brio can read the smart track. But there is also a smart track capable wagon available, which makes all the sounds when towed by a legacy engine. You can combine the smart track pieces with other vendor's train sets, such as those from Thomas, Maxim, or Eichhorn. But you need the Brio track reader engine or the smart track wagon to make use out of the smart track pieces. The smart reader engine appears to be similar to the legacy Mighty Red and Green engines from Brio. They are all two-wheel drive but can easily tow a bunch of wagons up the hill. The engines shuts off after a few minutes automatically to save battery. It takes two AA cells.
What I liked about it is that my daughter can put the different pieces anywhere in her layout and observe what the engine does. This is like writing a program without having to know how to read and write, yet. My daughter in particular loves the sounds and loves trying out what happens when she puts the engines at different parts of the layout.
For those people who want to tinker around a bit, the RFID chip is coded by an 8-bit jumper. It is easy to build a little bit of logic to change the function of the chip on the fly. You could have a computer controlled wooden train system. Or you could just observe your child discovering the world of programming by changing the location of the smart track pieces.
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