We’ve seen a lot of videos that send things up into the stratosphere, but Ron Fugelseth and his 4-year-old kid did this, plus one (animated) step more when they sent the kiddo’s favorite toy train eighteen miles up!
Lifted by a weather balloon, and accompanied by a taped up orange styrofoam box with an HD camera and a GPS-equipped phone, the train traveled up to see the earth’s curvature and then came falling back down, landing 27 miles from where it launched.
Looks like the train had fun.
Thomas the Tank Engine goes to space.
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a technology job is no excuse 
Speaking as a mother with a son that spends hours a day with Thomas, I have to say this is one of the best videos I have seen in a long time. (And I kept Sebastian from it so we would not need to replicate tonight. ;)
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His little eyes just kill me. The train, I mean.
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