HIT Toy Company era!

Back to Hit, I love how you could easily swap parts like motors. You could swap flat drive motors from unit to unit.

The last batch of old type Fisher Price engines (2012-13) relied almost strictly on the flat drive units and didn't even have security screws for them, making them equally replaceable (except for half axles). Not to mention how the whole chassis is now identical for every single engine. I'd say a more notable aspect of the HiT era was it didn't abolish the road system and even made more vehicles for it than TOMY did. Now both companies haven't had them for years and Bertie is just another engine or rolling stock. HiT also had better props and accessories that looked more like what they tried to emulate. Only some destinations didn't look as good as their TOMY counterparts (like Knapford Station and Brendam Docks), but that was only a minor nitpick.