It will immediately expand the size of your layout since your track will have to go around it, and it’s the size of a figure 8 set (roughly).

Part of BRIO’s Fun Park range, it has two roller coaster cars with passengers which ride up to the top of the roller coaster, before riding the roller coaster back down to the bottom.

For years, I had dreamed about a Brio system that would ramp cars up and down the side of a “mountain”, with a mine on the top and a dock at the bottom, with a winch system pulling up cars on a steep grade in between. The roller coaster doesn’t exactly look “prototypical”, but it doesn’t look that out of place either.

The stuffed animal could preferably have been double bagged inside the packaging though, since the package had a small rip and thus the toy was in risk of damage.This one is a real beauty, and for those fortunate enough to have the vintage Amusement Park and Merry-go-round sets it should be a wonderful supplement. Like all BRIO track the joints are flexible and the plastic supports mean that the track can scoot around during use, so you eventually get a crooked coaster track that has to be pushed back into shape, but by and large it really does work as advertised.