My 2-year-old grandson loves trains and school buses. So when I saw that Menards is offering a flatcar carrying a school bus--with lights and sounds--I jumped at it. I picked it up today, along with my free “Mystery Train Gift,” which turned out to be a nice diecast and plastic Menards box truck.
This is my first piece of rolling stock from Menards. It seems to be well made and it looks good. My wife thought the deck was real wood. The diecast school bus is a nice model.
One thing I--and, it seems, my grandson--find odd: The school bus sounds include children speaking--in Chinese! I saw in the online pictures of the school bus that it’s from the “Chinatown District Schools.” I thought that was cute, but, to say the least, I never expected it meant the sounds would be in Chinese.
My grandson has no idea what the sounds are. I know they are children speaking, but it’s much less charming than if the language were intelligible to me. I really don’t understand what Menards was thinking.
Cheers!
Keith
