Customer Rating: 
Summary: Lose your train tables!
Comment: This roundhouse is a wonderful addition to a complex layout. You don't necessarily need to use all the branch lines on the turntable, and I believe building the track layout on a raised table is very limiting. Get down on the floor and enjoy! Yes, the doors do occasionally pop off, but only when the kids are pretty rough. Usually, they stay on just fine, and I am quite impressed that none of the plastic hinges have broken.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Flimsy doors and misproportioned size
Comment: I am not gonna fuel more gas into the fire about the flimsy doors (let say I become an expert in fixing those doors, ok?). But one thing I dislike most about this is its huge size. I have the official Thomas Tank Engine play table, and once you got this roundhouse plus the turntable on it, nearly half of the play area is GONE. You will need some really creative way to jam the rest of tracks there.
So, do yourself a favor, get the SMALLER version of this roundhouse. You will have much more space to put tracks around.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The roundhouse doors are not "3-year-old-proof"
Comment: Not only did the doors get knocked off in the first two hours of play, one of the door mechanisms broke as a result, so that the door couldn't be replaced. While my 3-year-old seems to glean as much enjoyment out of it without the doors (I simply leave them off, now), I'm disappointed with the poor durability of a ~$100 toy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Doesn't hold up to light use
Comment: We received one of these for my son's Christmas present in 2005. Immediately one of the doors came off. So I returned it and got a new one. A couple of days later the red door came off again. I should have returned it but never did. I find the unit frustrating. I would probably buy the simpler model without doors that open and close to save the frustation and money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Another Great Piece
Comment: This piece is pricy and large; so I would recommend that you have the room for it for starters. My son (5) saw this in the floor model in a toy store and loved the fact that it made noise; the doors opened and closed; it comes with the turntable to go every which way and the fact that it was huge:) He enjoys making his trains ride by the house; or go in for repairs as well as "sleeping" when they need a rest. He has many many other pieces and track, so we have no problem connecting it into our current sets. We use to have a train table but found he would rather make it on the floor, his way, then bunched up in a rectanglular table. No whe makes them on his floor, every direction he wants; and is excellent about cleaning it up after a day or two goes by. He loves making new setups which keeps it more fun I think then just having it setup and left that one way forever. It gets his mind going and he has come up with some pretty smart setups. Overall I give this piece 5 stars, company is great, pices is fun; little pricy but it is quite large. Most pieces aren't cheap but they are durable and last. We first started him on Thomas stuff when he was 2. He still has every piece and part looking as the day we bought them and they have been throuh yell and back, and you would never know it :)
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