I like me a good detective story but I wish we had more to go on.
My, uneducated, 2 cents...I agree that when I first saw this I was guessing that it could have been a normal Annie but, a normal Annie has her 'Hook' on her front face side and would have a short vertical slot in her shell to accommodate that and not a horizontal slot to accompany the side to side movement of that coupler on it right?. I also thought that they may have added that fixed coupler to a regular Thomas just so a child could not take it apart but this coupler has holes in it to go over a post which a normal Annie would not have. Also (see picture below) we can see that Annies axles looked to be fixed as you can see the metal whereas with Clarabel and original Annie you can not...right? To me, this would indicate that Annie has some mechanics inside her. Taking in all the testimony so far, I am in the arena of thinking that the reason the seller says it doesn't work is because the wire is missing and the original shell has been swapped, like Muddy says, with a looking down Thomas on a white plated Thomas chassis. Is this more food for thought?
Muddy, is this, looking down with a smile Thomas face rarer?
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My, uneducated, 2 cents...I agree that when I first saw this I was guessing that it could have been a normal Annie but, a normal Annie has her 'Hook' on her front face side and would have a short vertical slot in her shell to accommodate that and not a horizontal slot to accompany the side to side movement of that coupler on it right?. I also thought that they may have added that fixed coupler to a regular Thomas just so a child could not take it apart but this coupler has holes in it to go over a post which a normal Annie would not have. Also (see picture below) we can see that Annies axles looked to be fixed as you can see the metal whereas with Clarabel and original Annie you can not...right? To me, this would indicate that Annie has some mechanics inside her. Taking in all the testimony so far, I am in the arena of thinking that the reason the seller says it doesn't work is because the wire is missing and the original shell has been swapped, like Muddy says, with a looking down Thomas on a white plated Thomas chassis. Is this more food for thought?
Muddy, is this, looking down with a smile Thomas face rarer?
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