Gibson, for example, is drawn to the toy train, so his teacher frequently uses this as a tool.
His decision had nothing to do with the lackluster toy train market, according to Neil Besougloff, editor of Classic Toy Trains magazine.
"The toy train market is not a growing market, " agrees Donald Carlson, a collector and friend of Kughn's who put together the Carail toy train catalog.
In 1986, Kughn's obsession led him to purchase the premier toy train maker, Lionel, from Kenner Parker Toys, a division of General Mills (nyse: GIS - news - people ).
There is a massive, wraparound glass staircase, and dropping down from the 24-foot-tall ceiling is a 12-foot-long "found art" light sculpture made by a local artist with steel rods and old trumpets, toy train tracks and parts of old pistons.
But for much of this century they were essentially a preparation for serious adult roles: baby dolls and toy kitchens for girls, erector sets, toy trucks and train sets for boys.
More reviews will roll out over the next two days but as of Thursday afternoon the film had a 97% fresh rating making it one of the top five best reviewed films of the year along with Toy Story 3 and How to Train Your Dragon.
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The technology helped push Toy Story 3, Despicable Me, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek Forever After and Tangled into the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2010.
Seventy percent of the first weekend gross for Alice in Wonderland came from 3-D ticket sales, 68% for How to Train Your Dragon and 60% for Toy Story 3, according to BTIG Research (subscription required to follow the link).
The toy is distributed in the U.S. by Brio, a public Swedish company known for wooden train sets.
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