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At this point saying Super Rescue is cheating.Let's get this thread rocking n' rolling. What's your favorite Railway Series story/Thomas episode/etc?
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At this point saying Super Rescue is cheating.Let's get this thread rocking n' rolling. What's your favorite Railway Series story/Thomas episode/etc?
True. But someone had to post it eventually, so we might as well get it out of the way.At this point saying Super Rescue is cheating.
there's a lot of batshit loremakers that get compared to Tolkien, but that dude might be one of the few to really be worthy of itI forgot to post The Unlucky Tug's latest RWS lore video. It's a breakdown of every station, and railway, that's ever existed in the book series. Wilbert really went hard with his lore for a kids book about talking trains.
I wonder if part of it is because of how there's very slim pickings for Foamers in the USAAmerican fans are generally just autistic man children though.
The UK really did have a long and intertwined history with it's railways, with lots of railwaymen's stories to go along with it, lots of history from towns and all kinds of things. The Rev's knowledge of the railways was almost encyclopedic, so rich pickings. If you genuinely know your subject and have an imagination you can craft great things. Doubly so if you can visualise it with, say, the model railway he built.there's a lot of batshit loremakers that get compared to Tolkien, but that dude might be one of the few to really be worthy of it
I wonder if part of it is because of how there's very slim pickings for Foamers in the USA
Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunderI didn't know the restored versions of the classic episodes were so fucked.
Boy, autism's a hell of a drug.I didn't know the restored versions of the classic episodes were so fucked.
The Thomas faces are superior to the nightmare fuel known as Jay Jay the Jet Plane.I don't understand how anybody could like this show, full stop
I kind of tolerated it when I was a kid, but I always thought that human faces on trains or other vehicles were seriously uncanny and uncomfortable to watch. The human voices and the way they talked in Thomas specifically made that impression even worse, and I remember going out of my way to ask for regular trains when my dad was considering getting us a small set to play with when we were little (prompted by him looking at Thomas stuff). Same reason I didn't like Cars (alongside a number of other things), though that was a different type of autism where I was more mad that they made the windshields into eyes instead of the headlights like I thought would be more interesting. I was genuinely upset because "every car's eyes looked the same" instead of being circles or squares or sideways eggs.
Unrelated final sentence aside, I'm unsurprised that there are adult lunatics who fawn over this show like there's no tomorrow, but I am far more repulsed and disgusted by this shit than I ever could be by something like My Little Pony or Bluey ever having a similar fanbase. At least those shows are visually pleasant to watch, assuming you get used to the weird bug-eyes of MLP; Thomas the Tank Engine constantly looks like a freaky fever dream made by a sick autist who was on the verge of snapping.
Maybe that relatability is why there's such a huge cocoon of autism around this franchise.
I think I either pointed it out in this thread or another one that the topic came up but Jay Jay was originally something similar to Thomas production wise, but was the first one of these things to reboot itself as a cheap cgi nightmare show and naturally suffered for it immensely.The Thomas faces are superior to the nightmare fuel known as Jay Jay the Jet Plane.
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