The Lionel 3376 Bronx Zoo ducking Giraffe car is the most kid pleasing car I have. They really enjoy seeing a string of 5 or 6 giraffe cars in a row duck their heads and pop back up in sequence when going under a bridge or tunnel.
The Lionel Giraffe car is easy to find, cheap to buy, easy to rig up a rail to trip the ducking lever and very reliable. It is very simple and has no switches or solenoids to miss with.
What car is the favorite of the kids visiting your lay?
Charlie
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I have a couple G size for around the tree, and you are right, kids never tire of them.
At Christmas its a toss-up between the reindeer car with Rudolph's blinking nose and the Manger car.
The army train and my Tropicana train are also popular. Aquarium cars get interest, too.
Many any of the kids/parents are blown away when I show them my 3435 Aquarium car and tell them : Santa brought it to me Christmas morning 1959!
Peter
I don't have very many operating cars, but the brakeman car from 1956 is a big hit here.
Any of the gondolas where characters chase each other around are a big hit - for Christmas, it is the Elves chasing Reindeer gon (6-26874) or Santa moving around a pile of presents (6-28656)
The best I have is the missile car exploding the boxcar. I can't reload fast enough.
i've discovered that a gondola full of m&m's or Hershey kisses is quite often a popular car with the kids.
John H posted:The best I have is the missile car exploding the boxcar. I can't reload fast enough.
I spent a lot of time growing up at Christmas time with my Uncle Jim doing just that. I was reliving some of those times after I brought his trains home last week.
The MTH Helicopter car they can launch "on the fly" with the TMCC remote.
Electric Railroad circuit board is in "toolbox". See conversion
With my kids it's aways the caboose. It doesn't really matter what's between the engine and the caboose to them. I don't run whimsical trains, so there's nothing inherently fascinating about box cars, stack cars, hoppers, and tank cars, but some of the flat cars with trailers catch their eyes occasionally.
This is the car most called for when it isn't running.
BANDOB posted:Full length dome cars with people in them.
How did you manage that 
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It's a tie! 3662 operating milk car and Bronx Zoo giraffe car.
Pete
For reasons I don't know my kids all like my newer Lionel New Haven Walking brakeman car or my old Barrel unloading car.
My son likes my hibernating aliens floating in green goo aquarium car from the early 2000s.
My girls both love my K-line Cola Cola handcar with the polar bears and ore car trailers filled with ice and soda.
Well, since I technically am a kid, I guess my favorite car is my Vision Line Ethanol Tank Cars.
Well I am a 50 year old kid so I used to love box cars the best.I used to put my hamsters in there and let them go for a slow ride.Trained professional,do not try this at home.Nick
For my grandkids, it's hands down the Lionel 3472 milk car and 3656 cattle car...even when the latter does not work so well.
Michael
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