TrainDad

I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been locked deep in the Top Secret Under­ground Lab­o­ra­tory, wear­ing my big gog­gles while stir­ring large vats of bub­bling green goo. I’ve finally emerged, and beyond the crazed look in my eyes you might notice a bit of a sparkle, because I’ve got some­thing good for you Geo­t­rax fans.

Yup, easy add-on cou­plers. Has any­one else noticed that fewer and fewer Geo­t­rax vehi­cles can be hooked together? What really got me going was the Friend­liest Team–twin trol­leys, Chatty and Chirpy, that are so friendly they can’t cou­ple to each other or any­one else. No hooks, no loops, noth­ing. What does that mean to my 3-year-old? The trol­leys sit off to the side, because play­ing with them means it’s hard to play with any­thing else. No trains, no long lines of every-car-we-own con­sists. For a kid who loves trains, that’s what it’s all about. So I decided to do some­thing about it.

What I’ve ended up with are molded plas­tic cou­plers that can be attached to any Geo­t­rax vehi­cle. (Or any­thing else in the world, for that mat­ter, though I’m not sure why you would, but hey–you buy, I’ll sell, whether you stick them on your Geo­t­rax or on your pink plas­tic flamingo. No dif­fer­ence to me.) Since the Geo­t­rax line has a wide vari­ety of “bumpers” where there should be cou­plers, I’ve made them with a mount­ing sur­face that fits as many as pos­si­ble. Over time, I might make a few dif­fer­ent vari­eties to fit a few spe­cific vehi­cles that are prob­lem­atic, but don’t hold your breath… this generic ver­sion fits almost everything.

I should have pic­tures and more detailed infor­ma­tion up by tomor­row, along with pric­ing and order­ing info. My goal is not to get rich off of these; they won’t be out­ra­geous. Stay tuned!