Thread 715280194

never watched thomas the tank because it always freaked me out as a kid

>>715280252
This desu and I liked trains too. Far right looks okay actually.

>>715280194 (OP)
Did they add nigger trains?

>>715280252
As a kid I thought Thomas was ok
Pic related however...

>>715280945
this is unironically scarier than silent hill

>>715280194 (OP)
So do the engines have any control over themselves or not? And what about the cars like Annie and Clarabel?

>>715280194 (OP)
The SNES Thomas game was pretty fun back in the day. I unironically think a Thomas the tank engine train line builder could work in the modern era.

>>715280945
And this was after they decided to ditch the original models which honestly look just as bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDnYM_9BClM

>>715281287
To my understanding from watching with my kids, they have basically full control provided they have fuel, so the crew on the train are there to tell Thomas and co. What to look out for/be aware of.
For example, the green tank engine gets a paintjob and refuses to leave a tunnel/his home because it's raining and he doesn't want to ruin his neat paint. Another instance is Thomas "racing" the local bus or trolley or whatever they call it. Another is Thomas or Percy trying to be as strong as Gordon and they end up carrying more cargo than they can reasonably transport.

>>715280194 (OP)
I only watched the first one and really the last one is the only acceptable one for a kids show.
Look into the first one's eyes man... Does a kid need to see that ?

>>715280945
It's DARE

>>715281506
to add to this anons post when hit entertainment bought the rights and soft rebooted the show in 2004 they phased out the drivers so the engines had full control of themselves... i think? i haven't watched those seasons since they aired.

>>715280194 (OP)
It loses more and more SOUL with each iteration

>>715282152
>this scares anon

>>715280194 (OP)
The new one looks most fuckable so it's better.

>>715281474
>they're fun! AND they're funny!
https://youtu.be/DDnYM_9BClM?si=H2GgRF_FXKFnbJ0M&t=43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3R9OAOOAaM&t

>>715280194 (OP)
I only just realized he's giving a toothy smile rather than it being the reflective surface of his bottom lip

>>715280406
Unironically yes

>>715280194 (OP)
WTF Thomas looks like a GoAnimate character now. What a shame

For me it's TATMR

>>715281287
I remember that they could go by themselves, but I'm pretty sure they needed a driver to stop.

/v/ - Thomas the Tank Engine Discussion and Lore Posting

>>715280194 (OP)
Always thought Thomas is terrible and I genuinely think the rightmost option is an upgrade.

>>715280194 (OP)
I know there are Thomas autists who make Sonic fans look normal. They must be really violently opposed to the new design, it looks terrible.

>>715280945
I don't know how I used to watch this shit.

>>715284065
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>715280194 (OP)
Where did the soul go?

>>715288548
Better than a lot of threads up now.

>>715291785
Correct.

>>715291451
left after magic railroad

>>715288938
This. I never understood the fascination with making kids stuff and giving them faces with realistic eyes, big nose, puffy cheeks, detailed lips, etc. like garden gnomes.
That's why the japanese won the commercial war over cuteness, they got that shit down to a t.
If you hate nu-thomas, you're literally one of these guys: https://youtu.be/Efo4nkIZ_78?si=OYR-Pry-h-7PGuY7

>>715291176
Kids are somehow less but more judgemental

>>715280194 (OP)
Does everything ever have to turn gay and lame?

>>715280321
It looks like it's made for babies.

>>715288270
Learning about the production hell this face is fucking astounding.

>>715282946
It wasn't until All Engines Go that drivers were completely phased out. There were still some occasions when the drivers interacted with the engines in the previous series. In "Big World Adventures" when Thomas meets Nia and pisses her off, he wrecks somewhere far away. His driver is there trying to figure out how to fix the issue.

>>715288270
The cast of this film is fucking surreal. Baldwin and Fonda headlining, the girl is Ben Shapiro's cousin, and Percy/James were voiced by anime dub voice actors.

>>715288938
>Always thought Thomas is terrible
Fuck off Chuggington

>>715282332
I understood this reference.

>>715294647
well isn't it?

Shed 17

>>715295728
shit yeah you're right. Forgot about that

>>715296115
>Even the simple bloke who could only say where he lived.
"Sodor"
Still the funniest joke.

>>715296115
>tfw anon is into alternative lifestyles

>>715296206
There's so much Thomas shit that it's really hard to keep up with it all. My 3 year old is a huge fan, though. Those fucking trains are gonna bankrupt me, but it's worth it to keep him from turning into one of those ipad kids.

>>715298147
Gordon's cool, but Duncan is the most based

>>715294793
They cut an entire major character in post production because test audiences didn't like him, and so the plot is a disjointed mess as a result. It's hilarious.

>>715280252
I just thought it was fucking lame. Dumb ass looking face ruined the cool tank engine design. This was literally my thought as a kid

>>715280945
i seriously need to know what the fuck were they thinking with this shit

>>715298147
Put your trip on you big, blue faggot. We know it’s you.

>>715280194 (OP)
did people in the 80s not think this was creepy as fuck

>>715299128
I bet you watched Caillou and Veggietales

Finally a chance to post this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwaa7Gr0bGM

>>715300048
I almost didn't know who this was. What the hell happened?

>>715300135
It looks better in motion. It's literally cheap plastic with eyes that move, just toys moving around on screen, so it doesn't come off as weird. It got much worse when they went CGI.

>>715300309
Top professional child soul fucker uppers carefully removed anything even tangentially soulful from the show to ensure that children watching it would not be inspired or left to their own imagination. The goal of modern childrens television is unironically to overwhelm the child with colors and quick cuts to simulate drug addiction.

>>715300703
bitch turned into Jerma

>>715298147
t. gordon

>>715300203
What fucking correlation are you seeing there? I disliked Thomas because it was a lame ass design, why the fuck would I love other "put a face on a random object" cartoons?

So, my kids are obsessed with Thomas, but I personally can't stand the new style. I, too, was one of those kids that was put off by the weird faces, but All Engines Go completely eliminates any of the realism. The trains are all made of rubber and they can bounce around the tracks and extend their wheels like fucking Speed Racer. It makes all the moments when they suddenly become glued to the track for dramatic tension silly. They need to pull levers to change tracks directions, but they can also just hop onto the next track or do complete 180s. A tree is blocking the track, but they regularly jump over each other so they're lined up properly for the next shot. Thomas freaking off roads in one of the movies like he could have done that all along.

The lack of drivers and the Fat Controller's diminished presence also means the majority of conversations are amongst the trains themselves, and they facilitates this by having ludicrous amounts of tracks lined up all over the island. There are frequently three, four, five lanes all bunched together so the trains could realistically talk to each.

It's like, way even have them be trains at that point? They just wanted to use the brand for recognition while they make their shitty FiM knock-off. None of the personalities really transfer over. Gordon is now the adult of all the other kid trains and orders them around more than Topham Hat. And they added three new girl boss trains that are better than everyone at everything as well as an autistic train. Yes, he is literally autistic.

Toby is super based. He's the best engine and I won't hear otherwise.

If engines could game, Henry would be king of Xbox Live

>>715300135
I'm a zoomie and loved watching it while growing up. It's a really comfy show and I like the toys. I feel the show threw away its main selling point the more it got animated.

I just retwatched all the original series while watching my baby nephew. My sister in law got all upset once because its "capitalist propaganda" but he fucking loves the show now so i got my mom to give him our old thomas table with all the sets, hope she was seething.

>>715301543
>My sister in law got all upset once because its "capitalist propaganda"
god she must be insufferable

>>715292416
>an hour and a half long
I swear I’ve seen these guys before

>>715288270
To think we're going to get another Thomas movie directed by Marc Forester

https://deadline.com/2020/10/thomas-friends-new-movie-in-the-works-from-mattel-films-marc-forsters-2dux%c2%b2-1234591950/

>>715288270
god i forgot about this fever dream of a movie, this was one of those movies my brother hyperfixated on as a toddler so he had to watch it at least five times a day.

>>715280945
I used to watch Jay Jay as a kid, and I have no idea why. It seemed like the kind of thing that would've creeped me out, like Thomas.
Picrel too.

>>715300965
>trammies
You will never be an engine.
You will never pull the express.

>>715288270
I still remember the old, baseless /tv/ rumor that Mike Stoklasa played an extra in it.

>>715302003
kek

>>715302003
Back to the quarry diesel

>>715300905
The realism part is important. Awdry was insanely autistic about the authenticity of everthing in the series and how it needed to exactly match the way railways and trains operate. In this new shit the realism is gone, and with it went the soul.

>>715280945
That's nothing. This is easily the most satanic baby show in existence. And honestly the content was YouTube kids Elsagate brainrot tier before that stuff existed. Fuck Teletubbies too genuinely zero educational value they just make stupid noises. Kids that grew up watching nothing but these shows probably grew up into non verbal autists or sociopaths.

>>715300889
hit dog gonna holler

imagine being a cailloufag

>>715302362
https://youtu.be/asszLZP0eLM

>>715300965
Toby's lyrics are literally "what can we say, he's square"

He has no good qualities whatsoever

Never forget that Thomas memes came from here and are /v/'s heritage.

>>715280194 (OP)
My train autism is better than yours

>>715302689
Oldies but goldies, anon.

>>715302720
Densha de GO TO THE POLLS

>>715301543
>"Capitalist propaganda"
What? How?

Fascists and Communists both need trains

>>715296115
>Shed 17 Threequel just came out

>>715284065
>that pot
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaank yooooooooooouuuuu.

>>715302746
I'm just a narrow gauge fag, love the Skarloey railway fellas. I'd say Flying Scotsman is my favorite non-narrow gauge engine. About lost my shit when I saw they made a new FS toy in the classic design, the vintage ones are like $300+

>>715303029
>I'm just a narrow gauge fag,
Based. You're alright anon.

>>715302291
The dedication they put into building these practical tv sets is insane, modeling in film is a lost art and it is sad to see it go.

>>715280945
>Jay Jay
Oh man! Discovery Kids probably shouldn't have aired this monstrosity.

>>715302695
Trainwiz is still kicking and that's wild to me

>>715300048
NICE MAKITA FAGGOT

>>715302996
They made a third one? DESU the first two were actually decent

>>715300048
>Can we fix it?
No, they fucking can't. Look how they massacred Bob.

>>715296115
>Shed 17
>it has a wiki
NIGGA WTF?!
https://shed-17.fandom.com/wiki/Thomas_The_Tank_Engine_:_Shed_17

>>715300048
No it's fucked.

>>715303892
>surprised an autism show has autistic cataloging over fanworks
Bro

>>715280194 (OP)
Thomas on the rightest is easier to make

>>715303941
I'm impressed more by the fact that there's a wiki for a single video. It even has a transcript section referenced below.
I know Thomas has very enthusiastic /o/tists but this has taken the cake.

>>715300048
#notmybuilder

What the fuck was his problem?

>>715302291
>>715303380
Thomas got me into model train collecting because it was so cool that it was a show where the main characters were literally model trains in a big train set. There's nothing wrong with cartoons, but the effort they put into the original series was amazing.

>>715304141
Is he a rock on the hill?
It's been decades since I've watched an episode of Thomas.

>>715304093
They made two more videos

>>715304093
>single video
3 videos.

>>715304274
>>715304302
>it is a trilogy
https://youtu.be/8k_WSI_36Dk?t=8

>>715302854
the fat controller looks a bit like the monopoly man

>>715304013
And it shows

>>715300905
lol an autistic train and girlbosses
The next generation of women is going to make even the most ardent of feminists today look like child's play

>>715298335
i've been a life long fan since i was a kid, lov dem trains. Here's a little help the first 5 seasons are the best of the best

>>715300048
SEEGA PLEASE LISTEN

>>715302854
A lot of the punishment is just not allowing the trains to work and anytime they mess up they are always like
>ohhh woe is me I wont be a productive tool for the state the fat controller will be displeased!
But i don't see how that applies to capitalism specifically.

>>715304578
>how many chuggas do you say before choo choo?
About 6 or 7, doro.

>>715294793
>>715298968
A workprint of it got leaked a couple of years ago. It has all the timestamp and info cards on it, but it's the full movie with all the old PT Boomer stuff still in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPBfW6R9AxA&list=PLaopKPG7Ns6zDFlBec_s4dXSoiaPBsWPd

>>715280945
All I remember from this show was that green plane trying to figure out what his favorite color was and he picked a rainbow, but then a later episode backtracked and had him pick a singular color because the rainbow made viewers think he was gay or something.

>>715304665
If anything it sounds like soviet propaganda than Capitalist.
>"Oh no, now I am Lumpenprole!"

>>715304362
That's the sort of surface-level nonsense I expected

>>715304665
Sounds like she's being more autistic about cartoons than the autists who like TTTE in the first place.

https://youtu.be/Rk0aCenwQDI
This is ostensibly still a /v/ thread, so I'll just say that OpenTTD is really fun for train 'tism.

>>715300309
Modern children's programming devolved into elsagate tier garbage in the corporate pursuit of making cheap and effective kids slop. It now acts as yet another device to shut your kid up for a few minutes with as much educational value as giving your kid a rusty spoon to play with. It'll get to a point where every kids show will be some variation of "Learn your ABC's and colors" with some character they dug up from their archives that zoomer parents will recognize and shove their kids in front of with the hope that it will be on the same level as they remember it, yet it won't.
Just more brightly colored, cheaply produced garbage to keep your kid in front of the advertising box a little longer, breeding consumerism and media worship from a young age.

>>715301543
>he fucking loves the show now so i got my mom to give him our old thomas table with all the sets
your nephew is going to grow up to be autistic as hell, but he will also look back fondly and decide he had the best goddamn childhood possible. getting a whole table with the wooden tracks and all is right up there with growing up with lego (the good lego, not bionicles).

>>715298492
This guy was an asshole.

>>715298335
I was the same way with my parents. I loved the wooden railway stuff and would always have the show playing in the car TV when we went anywhere. Apparently I could name every train and their relationship - like getting mad that Toby was carrying trucks instead of his wagon. My dad built me a little wooden bridge that would fit for the rails to go on. Maybe you could do the same for your son? I keep that bridge even though I don't have any trains just because it's sentimental to me. Avoid the plastic ones. Too expensive and I never liked them as much as the wood ones.

>>715305349
A mirror into what we would all grow up to be

>>715304578
Three chuggas. No less, no more.

>>715298335
>>715305372
There must be someone autist enough on /co/ that may have made a collection of links with many details on rentry.
Also, there's tons of Thomas stuff on archive.org
You can do it, anons.

>>715300965
What kind of train was he?

>>715305372
>car TV
look at mr moneybags over here

>>715305372
>always have the show playing in the car TV
I don't know if I'm really old or really poor compared to you.

>>715298335
>worth it to keep him from turning into one of those ipad kids.
You're a good dad anon. I have siblings who are 10 years younger than me, and my God they are fucked up beyond repair thanks to tablets and internet. Parents who do that shit should be imprisoned.

>>715305541
NO!
You do 8 to get a nice rounded 10 sounds in total.

>>715305676
>>715305582
NTA but didn't you have one of those japanese small TVs that get attached on the top of the car?
It wasn't very expensive, besides you could play DVDs on it.

>>715305372
>car TV
Lucky you, asshole.

>>715305582
>>715305676
>>715305976
From what I remember it wasn't something actually built into the car but an after market thing my dad did to our old suburban. It was a DVD player under the backseat that had the AV hook ups to a small screen that was screwed to the ceiling of the car. Aux cord to the speakers from there. Maybe 7 inches at most?

>>715305918
FAGGOT
The ONLY correct answer is chugga chugga chugga chugga *quick pause* chugga chugga chugga chugga *quick pause* chugga chugga chugga chugga
CHOO CHOO

>>715306102
>It was a DVD player under the backseat that had the AV hook ups to a small screen that was screwed to the ceiling of the car
Exactly! Something like this but with the corners more rounded and more retro. I think these babies played DVDs up to 480i.

>>715305576
Kid me didn't know. He was just the wooden box one. He's apparently a tram.
>>715306343
The one in our car was like this, but way smaller and also bulkier since it was the mid-2000s.

>>715298968
Who was cut?

>>715306327
Thanks for your insight, volunteer janny.

Did Thomas have any video games? I only remember that boring one for the Sega Genesis.

>>715306524
Mine didn't have that keyboard-like frame on top. It was just a bulky rounded player with the circuit board behind the screen.

>>715306528
PT Boomer. He was a geezer who drove a motorcycle and hated Peter Fonda's character. He was meant to be the one who caused Lady to crash and now just wants to destroy her like Diesel 10 does.

>>715306537
I had Grand Festival Adventure as a kid.
https://youtu.be/uNdJJKx4Zco?si=MjVhRbFagtfcekFn

>>715288270
Thomas taking place in another dimension from the real world was weird.

Genuinely a great thread.

>>715301543
Well, knowing that she's like that, she's probably going to throw them all out and give him Johnny Johnny Yes Papa Spiderman poisons Sprunki in Minecraft mystery egg satanic shit instead. At least you tried.

>>715302689
>using the HiT intro
pleb
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2me354oxjRI

I dunno why Ringo did it but I'm glad he did.

>>715304665
Weren't there threats of being scrapped or just left abandoned?

>>715306970
I relate to Toby deeply. Vidya sucks ass now and I long for the good old days.

https://archive.org/details/thomas-the-tank-engine-friends-the-complete-series-1-1984
https://archive.org/details/thomasfriendss2
I don't know if these links aren't dead but here I for some reason bookmarked these from a previous thread ages ago.

>>715288760
There is no Muv Luv anime, delete this.

>>715307038
George Carlin was also very good. Very odd role for him knowing his career.

>>715306970
Shit's so cash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjyC6vBfy4k
Also, I think Fluttershy (LATAM Spanish) sang the intro song. I remember when I used to watch a few of the original Thomas episodes on Discovery Kids.

>born late enough to enjoy these shows for a few years before watching them slowly stop airing and get replaced with "updated" versions, and for local homegrown shows to almost die out entirely until Bluey
>born early enough to avoid being raised as a baby by a tablet and subject to Elsagate Cocomelon visual AIDS, but with the cost of getting handed one as a horny 12 year old with unrestricted internet porn access instead

>>715307293
Scratch never said this. Robotnik doesn't like slandering, even if it's about his robot minions.

>>715307293
Australian kid's television had something going on for it for a while until now where the only notable output is Bluey.

>>715307048
If an engine isn't able to perform anymore, they get sent to the scrapyard to be dismantled. Every engine (except diesels) are piss scared of it and there's more than one episode where an engine finds another one left to rot in the yard and saves them so they can become a part of the cast (and get toys made of them).

>>715280945
Theodore Tugboat Chads ww@?

>>715307293
We get it faggot, you're a zoomer. So is everyone on this board. We all experienced the same shit as you, you don't need to repeat it to us.

>>715307379
NUKE GERMANY/NETHERLANDS/whatever country that's from!

>>715307103
>toby chilling and playing his old vidya
>sitting back and laughing at engines like thomas not getting the fancy new console just because he had an accident the other day the trucks deserved it

>>715307382
smells like the smash fag that packed it.

>>715280194 (OP)
Why does everything have get its soul sucked away?

For me it's theodore tugboat

>>715307498
It's so fucking cursed https://youtu.be/SfbWWF_nM0o

>>715280194 (OP)
The fucking show scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid. And my parents would constantly put it on tv.

>>715307430
>mfw I find of my comrades-on-rails decaying in a dark and scary place called the scrapyard
>I save him and now for some unknown reason the railroad workers and the rest of the cast act like if the new train or tram was never sent to be dismantled and it becomes a new member of the cast for it to become marketable toys
I didn't remember Thomas being this grim.

>>715307826
I remember that scene but I think he was later taken out of it, right? He learnt his lesson and they rescued him. RIGHT?!

>>715306970
The original songs they made had no right to be as good as they were

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmCA2yJHGfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz4FJKhq0mk

>>715302428
The people who made Boohbah also made Teletubbies.

>>715304362
It's the hat, isn't it...?

>>715307767
It's one of the most off things in the entire franchise. Like them being scared of a scrapyard because trains can be scrap is one thing, but having it actually be a real thing that happens is just oddly dark all things considered. There's a whole movie about Thomas going off on a wrong track and finding a Japanese import engine rotting in the woods for a half century. I think that was the last time they did anything remotely close to it.

>>715307826
>>715307917
Anyone remember that one train that was left somewhere or maybe reconstructed into something else or and remained there for a long time until the whole area was reclaimed by the land?

>>715308229
They're ghost trains though

>>715302428
UGH. Hate that show so fucking much. I didn't see it until I was older, but I pity any kid who was violated by this literal demonic brap fetish garbage as a small toddler. I probably lost a few IQ points from watching teletubbies as a toddler, but at least that was just brainrot and it wasn't as evil and vile as boohbah.

>>715288548
The only reason to come to /v/ is the off topic threads and you know it

So we can all agree that he was the Best Train right?

>>715308229
>There's a whole movie about Thomas going off on a wrong track and finding a Japanese import engine rotting in the woods for a half century.
TAKESHI MIYAMOTO SUBARU NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

>>715308229
It was an easy thing to get away with since they were trains, not living things like humans or animals, so you didn't really think about it much as a kid, but it was still fucked that these sapient trains were basically destined to be dismantled or left to rust if people saw no need for them and the trains were afraid of that.

>>715307634
Maybe I'm just imagining this since it was forever ago but I swear there was one episode where after the conflict he and the girl tug exchange a "I love you" and "I love you too". Not in a romantic way or anything but it still felt kinda weird to see in a show like this so it stuck out to me

>>715308420
My favorite engine was always Percy but I remember Edward was usually very nice and polite.

>>715288270
Sparkle sparkle sparkle!

>>715308420
>James, but blue and not a jackass.
Yeah, Edward was cool.

>>715308507
Kino

>>715308273
You're thinking of Duke who was one of those little trains who went into a shed one day and a landslide covered it up. No one knew he was there until they realized there were buried tracks. The restructured one is Smudger who was also a little engine who was such an asshole that they just turned him into a steam generator with his face still on.

>>715307924
>enitre song dedicated to reminding thomas he's a fucking retard for blatant tractor racism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_F0dAH-rHs
>>715307826
>>715308273
season 4 mystified the fuck out of me the first time i saw it, the narrow gauge have probably some of the best stories.

>>715308420
This is a Percy board

>>715307826
>>715307917
ACKSHUALLY, the train, Henry, wasn't lazy, he didn't want to ruin his fresh coat of paint because it was raining. In order to prove a point, they dismantled the railway and partially bricked up the tunnel after he refused multiple attempts to forcibly remove him from said tunnel (even Thomas got involved). He was kept there for a few months and had to watch other trains on the train tracks and tunnel next to him pass by him every day, but he couldn't speak as his fire had gone out. He was eventually let out when Gordon, another train, broke down and Henry was offered the chance to redeem himself and save the day. However, Henry would go on to be one of the more depressing engines in the series because he was always breaking down, wasn't as strong as the other trains, etc.

>>715308507
>it was still fucked that these sapient trains were basically destined to be dismantled or left to rust if people saw no need for them and the trains were afraid of that
That's pretty much what life is like for humans though if you think about it.

>>715304578
Four.
Chugga-chugga chugga-chugga CHOO CHOO
Anyone who disagrees can ride a train to auschwitz.
But real.

>>715307826
>I think he deserved his punishment, don't you?

>>715307917
He was, but it's not shown. The episode just ends with him wondering if he'll ever be let out and the narrator saying he fucking deserved it.

>>715308668
>Henry was offered the chance to redeem himself
Yay
>>715308668
>However, Henry would go on to be one of the more depressing engines in the series because he was always breaking down, wasn't as strong as the other trains, etc.
oh

Literally me

>>715308819
>Anyone who disagrees can ride a train to auschwitz
I'm already on my way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq5GWhwfbuM

>>715308910
Post hand, Jamal

>>715308827
>NOOOO! I DON'T WANT RAIN ON ME! IT'LL RUIN MY PAINT!
He DID deserve it.

>>715307654
>this is a real show
>this is not just a shitpost photoshop someone made
What the actual fuck. I don't like this.

>>715308668
>However, Henry would go on to be one of the more depressing engines in the series because he was always breaking down, wasn't as strong as the other trains, etc.
You now remember the Flying Kipper accident.

Man the American version of this sucked hot liquid ass.

>>715309252
Michael Brandon sucked but the other US narrators were pretty good
Too bad Brandon was narrator for the longest amount of time

>>715296115
This is the most retarded funny thing ever

>>715309425
The narrators were fine I'm strictly talking about the live action segments

>>715309252
George Carlin and Alec Baldin were great. They made a pretty distinctive voice for each train that actually made them sound like their own character. Couldn't care for any other American narrators after them though which coincidentally coincided with the Thomas series going down the drain.

Go and watch Ringo's narration again. He was honestly pretty fucking flat for his voices.

>>715308668
>he was always breaking down, wasn't as strong as the other trains, etc.
Sounds like he had... ehhh other lifestyle choices.

>>715305917
My mother in law sees the kids once or twice a year now, and if they are watching them so the wife and I can have a semi-annual date night, they instantly shove a phone or tablet in their faces to keep them occupied. My wife screams at her mom every time, but the old cunt just complains about the kids being too much for her after watching them for 3 hours.

Honestly, I wanted to get my kids ipads at one point because my son shattered my wife's vertebrae and she was getting overwhelmed. The most she ever did was get them leapfrog handhelds, which are fun but not nearly as dopamine-fiendish as ipads.

>>715302428
fuck you for reminding me

>>715309752
>you now remember alec baldwin made James extremely fucking flamboyant

>>715309824
>my son shattered my wife's vertebrae

Fat Controller is a BITCH name
Really niggas called him Sir Topham Hatt

>>715308596
Remember that one episode when Edward was a complete cunt to the new crane? Apparently it was supposed to be a James episode, but the James model was being touched up.

>>715309752
They were okay but Thomas is quintessentially British. It doesn't sound right with an American doing the voices.

I wasn't the only one who thought Duck was female, right?

>>715309996
>Thomas is quintessentially British
That's how known nonce Stephen Fry refers to himself. Thank God he never narrated Thomas. It was bad enough listening to him narrate Little Big Planet.

don't tell no one https://archive.org/details/thomas-friendstm-the-complete-season-1-gc-hd/Thomas+%26+Friends%E2%84%A2+The+Complete+Season+1+(GC+-+HD).mp4

>>715288270
Was there a female train love interest in this?
I feel like a vaguely remember a Thomas movie that had that

>>715310587
There was a female train, but she wasn't a love interest.

>>715309824
finally got my mom to force my kids to do things. she thought asking them and them saying 'no' was reason to plunk them in front of screens. made it clear the kids will go along with whatever you want if you make it mandatory. now they go for long walks and go sledding and such.

now to get the in-laws on the same page. the kids instantly run to a screen and get agitated when denied one there. terrible.

>>715307826
I remember some episode where there was some train who kept misbehaving or something so they took his wheels off or something and made him into a generator

>>715308191
Suit and cane too

>>715300309
What modern cartoons are to children, arewere the same thing for us

Damn I only just now learned Michael Angelis died in 2020. That guy was the goat narrator, rip

>>715310802
Always low-key dark, yet unique how the trains were frankly treated as objects and not just humans on wheels and were subjected to being junked or reconstructed into other things and left like that without a care if they weren't "useful".

>>715300048
I will be honest. The only real problem I have with this design is the babyface.

>>715311137
It's completely soulless

>>715310667
maybe I was just horny for her or something

>>715311314
Anon, you can't fuck a train.

>>715309824
>my son shattered my wife’s vertebrae
WHAT

>>715292416

https://youtu.be/iWJPk0gNY6U?t=3867

That's not even their most unhinged moment

>>715304578
You START with a choo choo since the horn is louder than the pistons
then chugga chugga 2-3 times
then CHOOOOOOOO CHOO
then chugga chugga freely until the next track event

>>715311589
Where there's a hole there's a goal

>>715311773
THIS USER

>>715306273
> quick pause
THAT'S NOT HOW TRAINS WORK
I BET YOU RUB OUT TO DIESEL ELECTRICS

>>715307430
Topham Hat keeps his engines well cared for and regularly buys and restores engines other lines have scrapped.

>>715280194 (OP)
Thomas was always soulless, but in the "This child is the anti-Christ" kind of way.

>>715311589
Maitetsu disagrees

>>715280945
My nephews really like this horror version of that, looks like some kind of SCP. They can't get enough of it. I should take away their tablets.

>>715312273
>giving them tablets
That was your first mistake

>>715312273
>their tablets
What's it like condoning child abuse?

>>715312273
>I should take away their tablets.
Tablets are pandora's box. There's no saving these ones. Pull a Chris Watts, it's the only way.

more children had thomas the tank engine toys because their parents saw them watch it once and assumed they liked it than children actually liked thomas the tank engine

>>715311773
Jashon Gomeshz the dinoshaur

>>715309648
> live action segments
what offbrand repackage shit were you watching

>>715311314
she was a tram and also a dumb bitch

>Should I do it? Should I do it, kids?
>Noddy, don't!
>That's right officer, I'm gonna run em alllll over!! Vrooommm!

>>715311915
Chugga's should always come in pairs, an up stroke and a down stroke. Any more than four is dragging things on for too long, so you need a pauses to breathe.

>>715305541
You're mixing it up with Holy Hand Grenade rules.

>>715280194 (OP)
rip George Carlin

>>715312587
reading rainbow

>>715302428
This was my favorite as a kid but my big sister hated that I would watch it. Was it really that bad?

>>715312945
>you fucking NODDER!

>>715312945
Lmao I didn't notice the Rajesh in the pic hahaha

>>715312587
>read a book, retard

>>715280945
https://youtu.be/JBJtQjykq_4?t=42

>>715280194 (OP)
>Jeets are afraid of this

>>715296115
Dis gon' be gud

>>715308420
I always confused Edward with the other ones

This the creepy kids show thread? Can't have this on /tv/ because they're busy shitting up the catalog with Superman
https://youtu.be/j5e9yCB-hiw

>>715288270
>those scenes where peter fonda is talking about a train getting fucking murdered

>>715313357
Yeah anon, have fun, report back when you are done with part 1.

>>715296115
I hate "niggers

>>715313357
Buckle up

>>715296115
I first watched this shit at midnight when the power was out and I did not sleep that night

Tripple shit games suck ass now

>>715313357
Is this a Youtube piped instance? Which one is it?

>>715313765
Nothing about it unnerved me until Thomas ripped himself out of his own body.

>>715313997
No, it's Freetube

>>715312587
When I was growing up all the kids shows were on the same channel. Preferences had nothing to do with it. You just watched whatever the fuck was on PBS until Masterpiece Theater drove you off with some period drama bull crap.

>>715314137
>Freetube
Oooh, nice! I had another selfhosted (I think) Youtube frontend or whatever it is called but it was barebones. This one looks nicer. Thanks

>>715314306
Only problem is I don't think you can watch age restricted videos with it. It's pretty nice otherwise, though.

>>715314494
>Only problem is I don't think you can watch age restricted videos with it. It's pretty nice otherwise, though.
Same with PipePipe on Android. I don't mind very much. If it's similar, then maybe Freetube allows to sign in using a Google account but I don't think I will. There's no need for me to risk my account getting banned for any petty reason Jewgle thinks.

Mavis best girl

>>715307379
>>715307654

>>715300048
>>715280194 (OP)
wait these are not official....right?!?

>>715314958
>Sweden
BURN IT TO THE GROUND! But when Joel isn't there so he can be spared.

>>715294647
>baby show is made for babies

>ctrl-f
>no mention of Tugs
Did anyone watch this? It only had one season but was basically Thomas with boats, made by the same company with a lot of the model detail of the early seasons if not even better. Pretty sure it's all on youtube last I checked.
I remember there was one character who was a lazy Mexican tramp freighter wearing a sombrero who was constantly trying to sneak into the harbor with contraband and bypassing customs, so they were ahead of their time in that regard.

>>715280406
Indians too

>>715314992
They ARE official. UK is decaying even in cartoons.
>>715315110
>Tugs
It was mentioned a few times but only on images afaik. About the show, I don't know much. I think it didn't get to America. I don't know.

>>715280406
Yes but she cute and also there's a few drawings of her getting some dick on r34. It's from the most recent TTTE series.

>>715280945
What is this face trying to convey?

>>715315352
Fun

>>715281287
Whether they're in control or not is based on the plot.
I don't remember if the original books mentioned having crew or if it was just the Fat Controller in a sea of sentient trains.
>>715281506
>To my understanding from watching with my kids, they have basically full control provided they have fuel
I think I recall
>Thomas mines episode: kicks the engineer off, can't stop (no engineer), crashes down a mine
>Henry tunnel episode: refuses to start
>Thomas and the Magic Railroad (fucked with the canon in retarded ways): no engineers, trains die when they run out of coal???
>>715282946
I think the phase out was already happening.
Remember Britt Allcroft basically jumped ship from the UK to the US because of the show. She herself didn't invent Thomas so when she had to write the film it was... retarded and Americanised and obsessed with a girl train (played by herself), no offence burgers I just don't think it's Thomas the Tank Engine after you picked her up.

My only memory of this show was this one episode where one of the trains is trapped inside a tunnel and there's a ghost or something
Fucking traumatizing

>>715280945
I think Thomas works because he has a grey face. These dudes have flesh toned, baby faces with bulging eyes and wrinkles and laugh lines.

>>715312957
Yes I was talking about sets. That's why it's chuggaS.

>>715307654
>immigrant voice actor

>>715313581
>>715313750
That...was....kino

>>715307654
Sweden yes!

There's something inherent in a people's genes that allows them to understand what is and isn't cute.

This drawing was made in 1735 in Japan. Imagine growing up in the 1600's post civil war Japan that was a horrifically violent period, and still being able to draw a really cute shark.

So what is wrong with Br*toids? why can't they design cute?

>>715316210
It's only been 45 minutes fucking liar

>>715315246
Japs did it better.

>>715316415
Is part 1 not the first 34 minutes? I guess youtube comments lied to me again.

>>715282946
i think a couple episodes still had a few times where the drivers said something but yeah, it was the beginning of the engines basically doing fucking everything i mean shit season 8 has an episode where a tired thomas still perks up to do multiple jobs only to get them all wrong because he's so drop dead tired he can barely even fucking think

>>715315246
Who is this for?
I can't tell if someone let aliens, animals or AI into a studio to create this, but I can tell a human didn't.

>>715309947
>>715311661
She was doing yoga stretches and he jumped off the bed and slammed ass first on her lower back. He was 18 months old at the time and about 20 lbs, but the force was enough to shatter the vertebrae nearest to her tailbone.

It took four different doctors and moving to a different state (with better medical facilities) in the span of a year before she found relief.

>>715281287
>>715281506
>>715288441
I always interpreted it as machine spirit like the adeptus mechanicus.

>>715280945
wasn't the human woman in this show super hot or something

>>715316930
>>715317001
>>715317073
>>715317123
Always loved these as a kid. I used to insist on having the original books with the soulful art and not the crappy newer ones with the more cartoony styles.

>>715317223
>>715317123
>>715317073
>>715316930
>>715280194 (OP)
>books play to train enjoyers
>OG TV show faithfully adapts book aesthetics while playing to model train enjoyers, adjacent to train enjoyers
>TV show becomes too popular or runs too long and falls into profit-maximizing enshittification; first CGI, then glorified Flash animation
Tale as old as time

>>715280194 (OP)
Last one is Advance Wars Reboot Camp

>>715317223
>>715317123
>>715317073
>>715317001
>>715316930
Soul

>>715317461
https://trainsimworld.com/gb/thomas-and-friends

>Step onto the footplate and embark on a special journey! Drive with Thomas as he makes his way to the West Somerset Railway with Annie and Clarabel. Diesel’s also tagging along for the ride, what mischief will he get up to?

>>715282332
Better belieeeeeeeeve you can surviiiiive

>>715317695
>first person train conductor simulation
It's not the same

>>715284065
I feel sorry for some zoomers, genuinely speaking

>>715281287

I was born in the 80s and only watched the original series (?) but they sort of had a limited will over themselves, but required a human to function properly. Someone else mentioned "machine spirit" and that seems apt.

Now I am imagining a WH40K titan with thomas' face on it. Lol toot toot BRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

>>715280194 (OP)
Sometimes things get improved!??!

>>715310578
Holy fuck

>>715305251
It was always like that you stupid nigger. That exact reason is why Mr Rogers started his own show.