3D Creative Magic Stereo Track Car - Luxury Version

The TF211091 is a construction-style track rather than a moulded playmat. Interlocking track segments in blue, yellow and green slot together into towers and switchbacks, with white uprights holding the elevated sections, and the finished layout sends a white high-speed train down through a series of drops and turns instead of running it flat. Traffic signs, a bridge section and a small station piece are included. The set arrives packed flat in a 42 x 29.5 x 8.5 cm box, so what the customer carries home is a compact carton and what the child builds is roughly half a metre of vertical structure.

The packing is unusual for this catalogue and worth reading carefully. One carton holds only 6 sets, at 0.074 CBM and 32 kg gross, which comes to 5.33 kg per set, the heaviest per unit of any model here. The density is excellent, 378 cartons on a 20GP for 2,268 pieces, but the carton is heavy to handle and expensive to send by air. The 30-piece minimum is the lowest in the collection, five cartons at 0.37 CBM, which makes this the easiest model here to trial.

At $17.45 it sits below two track models, the TF208740 at $24.46 and the TF211082 at $20.54 for 121 pieces in a multicolour palette, and above the TF209512 at $10.80. The distinction between this and the TF211082 is the palette and the audience: the TF211091 is blue, yellow and green with a realistic train, which suits a transport-themed display; the TF211082 is bright multicolour with sports cars, which suits a general toy aisle. Both are construction sets, so a buyer usually takes one of the two rather than both.