Red Engine Rambles

Old private account created in 2021. He/Him, fan of Thomas, Tugs, Star Wars, Mario, video games, legos, music, film & TV, physical media and more

[Red Engine Rambles @RedEngineProd]

I've been on a huge TATMR kick recently, and after rewatching the Final Cut of the film, I found myself thinking of several "what if" YTP ideas...so much so that I made one for the first time!
https://t.co/5fFxTOfuNK

[Red Engine Rambles @RedEngineProd]

@SirWelcome2 was so troublesome that the fat controller sent him to the Slate quarry

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@SirWelcome2 Steam Troller: Sir Handel gets a Steam account and hacks his way to becoming the top player on the Island of Sodor, to get back at the kids who made fun of his wheels.

Unfortunately, after playing so much Call of Duty, he became increasingly profane around the passengers and-

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@wariocolosseum not in this house

[The Sudrian Tug @SudrianTug]

I have a TUGS production theory that popped into my head while discussing Trapped on discord.

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@marvellous_main

[ᴍᴏʜɴ @NKSchwarzwalder]

Sometimes I want to interact more with other RWS folks, I really do (since, at heart, I've been a RWS purist myself for a really long time), but then I remember the absolute inferno most of them are to have a conversation with due to how terribly parasocial some manage to be.

[Red Engine Rambles @RedEngineProd]

@ChanceSnod90960 It’s just the most pretentious RWS purists you’ll ever meet, the same kind of people still trying to claim Britt single handedly ruined Thomas because of TATMR and blah blah blah

They’ll never change, unfortunately

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@SudrianRails Happy Birthday!

[The Sudrian Tug @SudrianTug]

You know just cause Thomas is a children’s property you don’t all need to act like children. People so desperately for this fandom to be taken seriously but that’s kind of hard when the general immaturity amongst this fandom makes the Star Wars fandom seem level head and mature

[Red Engine Rambles @RedEngineProd]

@SodorMapped That could definitely work.

I think Maron being “the station at the end of the line” is a result of S1 not really having the budget to depict some big terminus station, so they just used a station they already had to represent that kind of place.

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@SodorMapped the time of S4 when Crovan’s Gate got introduced and was implied to have been around for a while (Edward knowing Skarloey for example). Just my own opinion of course

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@SodorMapped I always kinda liked the theory that YCW takes place during Trouble in the Shed, when Thomas and Edward had to run the main line together.

Tbh, while the main line ending at Maron theory makes sense with what we see in S1-3A, I also kinda think it might’ve been retconned by-

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@MintyIndustrial I’m honestly surprised they’ve never released the Stoltz rushes given Back to the Future is one of the most well known films of all time

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@Oliver11GWR @LOTTracks @Yeen125 Here's another source for the same info:
https://t.co/RQDGQ0eknS

It does acknowledge TATMR as a flop but still states that overall Thomas brand sales were going up

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@EdwardKing02 *prefer it

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@EdwardKing02 but I do prefer towards the previous two eras for sure.

Honestly, my opinion on this whole debate is that Thomas has always been a kids show, but still has an enduring appeal for anyone of any age

[Vincent⚡️🔥💫 @Vincente22films]

It's also born from a sentiment mostly bygone that talking down to kids stunts their development, so like yeah I do think it's a bit more sophisticated than a lotta kids shows but anyone who cites s5 as an example usually isn't since their reasoning is "wow scary explosions!"

[Vincent⚡️🔥💫 @Vincente22films]

Classic Thomas is so enduring cause the characters deal with realistic social conflicts and use grown up language to do so. It's not especially mature, but as you get older you realize adults are mostly big kids and Thomas is somehow still a pretty accurate blueprint for that

[Ryansock @Ryans0ck]

@Vincente22films The quote from Rick Siggelkow in the 70 Years of Friendship doc on YouTube where he says he came from a generation of producers who truly believed that quality children's television could change the world