Yes, but I think Tomy did a great job with Emily's big wheel. The wheel looks realistic, it looks like it really moves the engine (although it does not), and the spokes are clearly visible (although they are not real spokes, of course):
Trackmaster's model lacks on all of that: the wheel is obviously fake, spokes are blurred, and side rod is attached to a wrong wheel! On top of that, the fake big wheel is slightly different colour then other wheels!
Tomy's Emily, although she's a tender driven engine, is running very well. Tomy Murdoch is a quite different story. He does look like the engine he's based on, the BR Standard Class 9F...
... but being such a long engine with those 10 rolling wheels - he has problems with the radius of the U-turn (he stops in the loop), and he can't climb the slopes... I don't know if that's just mine Murdoch (he's rather old), or the design is causing him that troubles. He should be the strongest engine on Sodor, and... he's not.
No such issues with Emily.
Trackmaster's model lacks on all of that: the wheel is obviously fake, spokes are blurred, and side rod is attached to a wrong wheel! On top of that, the fake big wheel is slightly different colour then other wheels!
Tomy's Emily, although she's a tender driven engine, is running very well. Tomy Murdoch is a quite different story. He does look like the engine he's based on, the BR Standard Class 9F...
... but being such a long engine with those 10 rolling wheels - he has problems with the radius of the U-turn (he stops in the loop), and he can't climb the slopes... I don't know if that's just mine Murdoch (he's rather old), or the design is causing him that troubles. He should be the strongest engine on Sodor, and... he's not.
No such issues with Emily.
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