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>>11719194
Since when is the approach to the Tidmouth Sheds turntable from the side?

>>11719206
The new toys are based on the upcoming cgi reboot. There's also a videogame coming this year.

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Hahaha, wtf were they thinking?

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>>11719191
Was trackmaster era peak Thomas?

>>11719191
Mattel should have never taken over the franchise.
>>11719260
This was the worst shit

>>11719382
Mattel always owned the franchise

>>11719384
Mattel didn't own it during the model era, which is the only era that counts.

>>11719384
retard, they didn't own it until 2011
>>11719392
based

>>11719191
2021 Covid restrictions sent Tom to a dark place

>>11719191
I wish they did thomas micro machines

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Wouldn't it be cool if they extended the license out to model trains as well? They have to know there's an adult audience that would be all over realistic renditions the TTTE characters.

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>>11719779
>Wouldn't it be cool if they extended the license out to model trains as well?

They do.

>>11719647
Same

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>>11719260
Not even close.

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>>11720083
They kind of did back in the Ertl diecast Thomas days. My younger brother (who is the reason I got into TTTE despite being too old for it) had most of these. They were like a combo of Mighty Max and Micro Machines.
https://ttte-diecast.fandom.com/wiki/6-Piece_Adventure_Playset

Chugginton is better

>>11721159
Lol

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Are there Thomas toys with expressions? specially any of the ones at the bottom?

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>>11721492
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRz7jRoBqBE

>>11721872
I came very late to the party... well, thanks anyway.

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Is wooden railway still dead?

>>11722508
Sad, but true. Supposedly, Mattel's planning to reboot it, next year, but nobody is for certain.

>>11722550
Fug even if it came back, they'd use those ugly reboot faces huh?

>>11722508
No

>>11722508
It's been dead since 2008 (2012 if you're feeling generous)

>>11722508
Speaking of wooden railway, is it nonexistent in retail? I've only seen like a small slot of thomas stuff in target and walmart but never wooden railway stuff. Only places that I've seen them is the train museum in Sacramento and this one up in the foothills, think it was jamestown but they were like 50 bucks for like hiro.

>>11719214
I love how all the promo art for Percy makes him look like a smug asshole. After spending decades being marketed and written as a literal retard, this is the face of someone who stopped caring and is just here to watch the neighborhood catch fire.

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>>11723840
Percy was always a little troll, especially in the early seasons. Sometimes, he would be worse than Thomas .
https://youtu.be/T3X47PVveLU?t=84

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>>11723840
>>11719214
Same feeling

>>11723692
mattel/fisher price got a hold of it in 2013, ran it into the ground because of course, tried rebooting it 2-3 times (each time worse than before), retailers told them to fuck off

>>11722550
I don't dislike Wooden Railway, but with the diecast & motorized lines both having magnets and compatible playsets, there's 0 reason to have WR around anymore. Sure, it's nostalgic, but a nostalgia line is the last thing Thomas needs after Mattel shat all over it's legacy.

>>11725810
Is the new diecast line the same gauge as wooden railway? I thought they were wooden when I first saw them. I'm almost tempted to buy them and some cheap ass wooden track.

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This is peak

Why was AEG so hated anyway?

>>11726056
I have only seen a few clips of it, but the biggest issue is how insanely unrealistic it was. Ignoring the movie, TTTE has almost always been pretty grounded in reality apart from the fact that the vehicles have faces and can talk. CGI added stupid little movements to make the characters more animated, but I barely acknowledge it's existence so I don't know how much more unrealistic CGI got.
AEG had Thomas using his front wheels as hands and doing 360° ollies between lines and jumping half pipes. He doesn't even have a driver or fireman.
It was no longer a show about sentient trains working on a railway, and was just a generic cartoon that happened to have the characters look like trains.

>>11726098
Do fans even watch the show? I thought we only care about the toys, like they hated the toys for it. I watched Thomas when I was a kid but wouldn't do it now as an adult, it would be cringe.

>>11726107
>it would be cringe
Watching AEG? Very cringe.
Watching model era episodes? Perfectly normal. The details in the models and sets are pure art. Sure, the stories are overly simplistic because it was made for little kids, but there is something soulful about those first 5 seasons. Even the Gullane era isn't too terrible. The Hit era is where it really starts to wane, but they're is still something to it.
I didn't even get into Thomas as a kid. My younger brother was into it and I was a teenager by then. But I'd read him the books and watch it with him while I was babysitting him, and I liked it. But I was a teenager, so I sure as fuck wouldn't admit it back then because that would be social suicide. These days though? Nobody cares.
You are already collecting baby toys. I don't understand how watching the show could be more cringe than that.
Try it. You might realise it's kino.
Ringo:
https://youtu.be/Mv3YPxi2OpM
Carlin:
https://youtu.be/y7LM6ejCN3w

>>11726158
They are collector items not baby toys.

>>11726038
Retard zoomer

>>11726056
It was the MLPfication of Thomas. The total opposite of what the original creators intended.

>>11726357
Why? Its kino

>>11719191
What's your bets on them including Railway Series characters out of the blue? Shit like
>Neil and some of the Culdee Fell engines being marketed for a while in ERTL and Take-Along
>D199/Spamcan getting merch from three different companies
>The three main Arlesdale mini-engines coming outta fuck nowhere in Brenner era Thomas

>>11722550
Why reboot wooden railway? Seems like a waste to do it when you have both diecast and motorized going

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New photos of the 2026 Diecast Toad, the Diecast Assortment’s Store Display, the Motorized Cranky’s Dock Set, and the Motorized Thomas’ Lion Rescue have been found!

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>>11726727
Looks like shit
>>11726649
Kill yourself

>train tracks
>they're all orange and green and pink and yellow

>>11726864
>kids toy is a kid toys
Surprise pikachu face?

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Why not get Plarail instead if you're getting bright-colored tracks?

>>11719191
Are there any actual model train for thomas? Bachman or what was the name?

>>11726874
Why were they always gray or brown until recently, then?
>inb4 plarail

>>11726951
Thats a lie

>>11726958
Provide me with examples when the tracks came in a rainbow of colors within the same set prior to 2020.

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>>11726724
Aside from my general concerns about the couplers, the only thing I don't like about him is the fact that the back-facing wall of his balcony is taller than his side walls.

>>11726997
Amazing

>>11727004
Well and the face looks like they ran it through an AI, most generic "Thomas face" ever

>>11726670
Considering this line is being overseen by the guy who did the Pixar Cars range, I wouldn't doubt it.

I only ever cared for the ERTL diecast range, since they actually looked relatively accurate. I was disappointed when they discontinued it, since now I'm an adult with disposable income, I'd probably end up collecting every new one they put out. I still intend to go back and complete my collection one day of the old models.

I never liked the Tomy plastic motorised things, I guess the easiest way to describe it is they were a Funko Pop style, like every vehicle had the same 4 wheeled chassis and size, and they'd just squish different body design onto it, fitting in the same dimensions. I was surprised to learn later on that it had such a huge following, even more than the ERTL range.

Don't really care for these new toys, since they're again not accurate, but all squished and have giant wheels/under chassis. Basically the only current range of Thomas I'd be interested in is the N gauge stuff, but even though I have a disposable income, that's really too expensive to collect all of them. Make those as static dummy models for like $40 or something, then we'll talk.