Farming toys- recommendations

Considering buying our near 3 year old terrorist a set farm yard set of toys for Christmas. I was wondering if anyone knew which manufacturer or even scale size would be best to get? It's a far different thing compared to the stuff I had as a lad that is for sure, looked in a shop the other day and was bewildered by the sheer variety now. The big models look amazing but it's going to fill up his room pretty fast with his fleet if they are all that size.

I would like to get him a few buildings and enough stuff, livestock etc to start him off, maybe £200 or so). Which brand of toys is best and would give value for money? Or should I get the wife to knuckle down and build the yard and buildings? She is very crafty and quite able to make a lot of cool stuff.

Thanks in advance.
 
I was tempted by this one for Christmas, but the reality is that ours, 2 and 4, will trash anything half nice that you give them. It's £140 from millwood products.
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Farmer Fin

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Arable Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
The bruder plastic 1:16 stuff is really good. The sisu 1.32 is also good but metal so it hursts more when they hit each other with it. As for farm sets most of them are out of stock already (brushwood / farmtoys online).
 

Horn&corn

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1:16 bruder is my 5yr olds favourite but it takes up a lot of room. I bought a job lot second hand but it was old and brittle so not a great idea. Siku was pretty resilient when I was a big kid
 

icanshootwell

Member
Location
Ross-on-wye
Considering buying our near 3 year old terrorist a set farm yard set of toys for Christmas. I was wondering if anyone knew which manufacturer or even scale size would be best to get? It's a far different thing compared to the stuff I had as a lad that is for sure, looked in a shop the other day and was bewildered by the sheer variety now. The big models look amazing but it's going to fill up his room pretty fast with his fleet if they are all that size.

I would like to get him a few buildings and enough stuff, livestock etc to start him off, maybe £200 or so). Which brand of toys is best and would give value for money? Or should I get the wife to knuckle down and build the yard and buildings? She is very crafty and quite able to make a lot of cool stuff.

Thanks in advance.
A fendt pedal tractor was a big hit here, still going strong as well.
 

24/7 farming

Member
Location
Donegal
1:16 stuff here for a 2 n 4 year olds at the min and gets a fair bit of use, more than the few bits of 1:32 they have (more fluttery for little fingers, and very dangerous if launched!!). as someone said their stuff spent most of the summer in the sand pit and garden, recently cleaned up and back inside again.
Can't wait till they a bit older to see if I can find all my old 1:32 stuff from parents house, gonna be interesting to see what I had!!
 

stablegirl

Member
Location
North
We have a 4 year old and a 2 year old and they have 1.32 Britains and siku with Brushwood buildings.

The problem is the 2 year old wrecks everything. Alfie (4) is just the right age but Toby (2) has spoilt so much we will have to replace a lot when he's a bit older.

The big Bruder stuff is really tough they had them first and they are 99% intact and have been demoted to outside toys now.
 

mrs mtx

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Location
Pembrokeshire
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so we are a brushwood family for buildings. Stay away from Britain’s sheds, they are pathetic.
We made the fields etc.
Then 1:32 Britain’s and siku for tractors. He’s 5 and has had this set up a few years. We used to be a 1:16 bruder when he was little as they are less breakable but he sold them all to fund his new 1:32 set up when he was about 3. I appreciate his carefulness etc may not be common practice for a small child!
 

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