Train rides and illusions

My daughter loves Thomas the Tank Engine. She's got the tracks, the engines, the little figures of the engineer and Sir Toppem Hat. She watches the TV show every day that it's on, owns several DVDs. She's gone through the Thomas the Tank Engine catalog and circled everything she wants that she doesn't have: the Roundhouse is the big one. In the way my adopted nephew loves (or, thank God, used to love) Pokemon, so does K love the adventures of the little blue, "very useful" engine.( courtesy snip )