@Chrisjo, It was in Awdry's vision from the 1970s: He literally predicted this all along!
"Once the Americans get a hold of it, the whole series will be vulgarized and ruined" is what Awdry responded to Andrew Lloyd Webber after he failed to get American interest in his 1976 tv adaptation of thomas.
That's one of my main problems with thomas: everyone is constantly trying to americanize it instead of keeping the british culture that was so prominent in the RWS and Classic era.
"Once the Americans get a hold of it, the whole series will be vulgarized and ruined" is what Awdry responded to Andrew Lloyd Webber after he failed to get American interest in his 1976 tv adaptation of thomas.
That's one of my main problems with thomas: everyone is constantly trying to americanize it instead of keeping the british culture that was so prominent in the RWS and Classic era.
Train it, plane it, you name it!
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