So far, these are the facts we have heard word-of-mouth from Fisher-Price.
From Behind the Rails (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjOBBx4HWcU)
Design Director Matt Lauderbach
Senior Designer Kyle Hussa-Lietz
From official Facebook posts:
There is still some questions of "why" for a few things but it is surprising how we're actually learning more than we used to from Fisher-Price.
(This post was last modified: 01-11-2015, 02:09 AM by jdogman.)
From Behind the Rails (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjOBBx4HWcU)
Design Director Matt Lauderbach
Quote:So when thinking back to when I was a kid and playing with different train sets... I was thinking "What would I want in that next TrackMaster engine?"
The story that's in the show actually we tried to make in our trains and our playsets and it just is this really fun set and that so, we're watching the cartoon and the child at home can actually buy the toy and play along with it and have that whole Thomas experience.
Senior Designer Kyle Hussa-Lietz
Quote:We were challenged as a team to make Thomas more exciting than ever.
It took a large team from around the world to create Thomas TrackMaster.
From official Facebook posts:
Quote:We have made design enhancements to the TrackMaster line to improve the overall play experience and the excitement little Engineers have come to love and expect of Thomas & Friends products.
We worked hard to maintain compatibility with our old track systems because we know how important this is to you, but our focus on optimizing the product performance required a few design tweaks.
Quote:We made the changes because people were often telling us that children had difficulty keeping the track level on uneven surfaces like carpet, resulting in the track pieces separating. We enhanced the track connectors by making them stronger and more realistic with spacings between the railroad ties.
There is still some questions of "why" for a few things but it is surprising how we're actually learning more than we used to from Fisher-Price.