Thomas obsession

[edanna]

My little boy loves Thomas so much it's near impossible to get him to play with other toys, read other books, or watch anything else. Not to mention the multiple requests every day to make up a story about Thomas and Percy delivering something or other. I now have encyclopaedic knowledge of Thomas characters and it's bearable. But the question is how much longer?! What have your little ones been obsessed with and how long did it last?

[pebbles]

Mine is OBSESSED with Bob the Builder and basically DIY in general. He won't play or talk about anything else. I quite like that he has an interest but talking about it non stop drives me to distraction. When we go away I won't take any of his tools away but he'll make tools out of sticklebrick or just use spoons and forks to do the business for him!!!

It did come in useful when the World Cup and Wimbledon were on. I'd bring out Daddy's big ladder and climbing up and down that kept him occupied for hours.

In answer to your question how long will it last I have no idea but mine has been obsessed since about 1 and he is now nearly 3 and doesn't seem to be going off it.

[Claire29]

I know only too well about obsession's with Thomas, my eldest who is now 5 has been mad about him since around age 2. He is train obsessed and has dare i say it nearly most of all the thomas train characters (and theres a lot!) he has got them at birthdays and christmas, we have tons of train track and all the bits that go with it, ie bridges/turntables etc.

He doesn't use the thomas trains now when he plays, he has real trains (ie brio kind) but anytime anything thomas related comes on the TV he says lets get that.....even though he doesn't actually play with them anymore! We have most DVD's and i've sat through god know's how many hours watching it.

So he has outgrown the thomas phase but now is just obsessed with trains in general!!!

[womanofdulwich]

The Thomas one is so funny, you get caught up in it yourself- our son is 18 now, but we were punting on the River Stour in CAnterbury yesterday and my husband could not stop himself saying " look there is a Thomas in the river we can almost reach it for you..." we managed not to rescue it. But I am sure we had duvets, bins, lights, pencil cases, PJ's the lot. Not interested in trains now at all.

[sglanzer]

Fireman Sam in our 3 and a half year old's case. This is a bad choice, as he is incredibly preoccupied with throwing water over things and people, thinking how he could start a fire, and trying to turn the hosepipe on. So if I could swap to Thomas, I would, even though the books are remarkably tedious!

[ryedalema]

Our eldest (3) is a Dora nutter. I have to come on here when it's on - I can't bear the inanity.

Delicioso!

Swiper no swiping!

Makes it easy for birthday presents though :)

[dullwitch]

My son was really into Thomas from about 18 months to 3 years-ish, he then became totally obsessed with Dinosaurs and still is. He's 6 now, and I see no signs of it ending just yet.

Thankfully my 2 year old is now interested in Thomas, so at least alot of it's getting recycled :))