Only get if free offer or bargain price (Thomas & The Magic Railroad Print Studio (PC))

Member Name: mateypeeps

Product:	Thomas & The Magic Railroad Print Studio (PC)
Date:	17/02/01 (114 review reads)
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The product Thomas and the Magic Railroad was bought for my two young sons, both of whom love Thomas merchandise.

The product does what it says, produces reams of different things on the printer, so quickly using up expensive (£25 or more) colour ink cartridges.

I liked the jigsaw function. At its lowest difficulty level an A4 sheet of the children's favourite picture (from the CD, not your own) can be cut into 4 quarters for the very youngest child. It can go up to 16 pieces for a design. Obviously use a card backing for the printed sheet, or use very thick paper.

The only function that can be done without needing a printout is the `Colouring with Dodge` and `Cut out and build with Lady`. The colouring in is simple flood fill from 40 colours, no chance of mixing to a different hue or chroma.

Another function I liked was the ability to print out colour models that can be cut out and stuck together, for example railway stations, houses, signal boxes, all of which can be coloured in before printing.

Ultimately however, I would be unhappy to pay the asking price of £19.99, so I only got it as part of an inducement to join a book club.

At around £5 it is quite acceptable. Otherwise a bit too limited in only 7 different functions, and no decent games to play while on the computer in addition to the print function.

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