Hero of the rails model series logo

Hero of the rails was originally going to be a model series special  (season 12 style). Sam Barlow even comfirmed it. But when the script was finished, they decided to switch to full cgi as they did not have the budget to make another model series special. Even so, on some early 2009 trackmaster packaging, you can see the original logo, which features a model thomas with a CGI face. As far as I'm aware, this logo has not been seen anywhere else

I was literally making a video about that lol! very interesting situation, how much of the movie was made with models? I guess we will never know