“Backrooms” director Kane Parsons has reportedly replaced Marc Forster as director for the live action “THOMAS” movie for Mattel.
“Who the fuck is 98462?” He asked when prompted. “Who is that? I thought I was making a movie about trains, like Salty or Hiro”
He is 20 years old.
Worst character. Think of how impactful the introduction of diesels was for the series, how many banger stories we got out of dieselisation, how that all started with Diesel. Now imagine if we got none of that and the first diesel was Norman. That's what Stafford is to electrics.
Giving the Breakdown Train faces was a good idea, but it did break the cranes a little bit. Previously, it seemed the railway had a vaguely sized fleet of cranes scattered across the island, but now it's just these two (and Rocky). Previously you could also see only one crane in-
Been in the back of my mind since I saw this- is this the first time the Mid Sodor Railway is actually name-dropped, within the context of the TV Series universe, in an official capacity? 🤔
One of my favorite rws illustrations is this one with the BBC train wheee you can kinda tell Henry just does not want to be there and is staring directly at the camera. Wonder why!
If you're not careful and you're diverted off the Mainline in the wrong areas, you'll end up on the Branchlines. Where it's nothing but the creaking of rusty rails, the stink of rotted wooden sleepers, and millions of miles of randomly segmented junctions to get lost in.
Duncan's lightweight model is the only one to have a correctly oriented whistle. That horizontal cylinder at the bottom should be perpendicular to the front of the cab, per the function of a real whistle of this type
"Welcome to Duck's Basics in Educating Gordon Day. That's me!"
I know it's a little late, but, Happy Educating Gordon Day!
Don't take too much coal and water BTW!