Toy train puzzle

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I was thinking today of a puzzle and I can’t remember where it’s from… maybe NGUHD? But I’m not finding anything in David Welbourn’s walkthrough. Or maybe it was a ParserComp game?

There was a toy train going around a track, past a number of little characters/automatons, and you could trigger each one to do their action as you went past. IIRC one of them would drop a penny in your train, which you could then trade for a hot cross bun, there was a guard with a spear that would stab something (maybe the hot cross bun?), there was a dragon that flamed… is this ringing any bells for anyone?

Edit: or could it have been a set-piece in Moondrop Isle? But it had an old-timey tin-toy feel and I thought it was almost a museum exhibit and I’m not quite sure where that would fit…

Heh. This is going to bug me until I think of it.

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Curse you for putting me in the same position as yourself. I know this puzzle. But I don’t remember which game it’s from. I hope it’ll come to me…

EDIT: It’s the toyshop train track puzzle from Not an Ordinary Ballerina by Jim Aikin.

Here’s the link to David Welbourn’s walkthrough of that section:

Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina - map and walkthrough | Key & Compass

EDIT²: Well, that’s the one I was thinking of. Rereading your description makes me doubt if it’s the same one you had in mind though.

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Woah, that’s cool. I guess I’m going to have to actually tackle that game.

Way more complicated than the one I was thinking of, though. This was just a single short loop, maybe 6-7 toys long, and I’m pretty sure it was a single puzzle in a bigger game. This was pretty limited-parser, though I don’t know if the whole game was…

Oh! Wait. I bet… yep! The “Contraption room” from Vambrace of Destiny. Not a train, huh. But a miniature brass man on a circular track.

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