New Great Race characters

I like the look of the SAR 520 but dislike the choice of name, the only famous Aussie named Shane I can think of is Shane Warne the cricketer lol hardly a role model for kids with his past transgressions.

Also makes me wonder how they will tackle the gauge difference as the Shane is broad gauge running on 5' 3" track where British Track is 4' 8", Gauge conversions are possible of course but it makes me wonder if they will ignore this.

I also heard that this will be the first Thomas musical but I don't know how much truth there is to that...

A wikia member commented about Shane possibly being named after Shane Warne. Apparently his livery is the same colors as Australia's cricket team. All I know about cricketing is that Ross "RubberNinja" O'Donovan and Arin "Egoraptor" J. Hanson played it once on Game Grumps's sister show, Steam Train.

The gauge difference has been entirely ignored like with previous characters that are too small or too big, like Gator being standard gauge even though he has a narrow gauge basis, and Sam being too large.

The trailer claims that it's a musical. I really hope it isn't as musical as they're making it out to be. I like a few songs, but I wouldn't like hearing sing-a-long after sing-a-long after sing-a-long after sing-a-long when I'm already hyped up on candy, popcorn, and candied popcorn. I'd have the biggest headache.

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You could probably make an Ivan using a DD51 and a bit of fancy airbrush work for the paintjob. Although in this case you'd have to do a reverse Super and re-face it (you never know he may have some spares lol!)

Where's the british representative?

The British representatives are Gordon and Flying Scotsman of course!

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Anyone else think Yong Bao sorta looks like a cross between Hiro and Murdoch? In regards to shape, that is.