Boredom: TM/Plarail returnees plz?

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I'm very bored, and I don't think it's too spammy to make this thread, so I'm doing it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who believes TOMY and Mattel are a tad late with regards to rereleasing or redesigning old models that had been discontinued before the TS-era and Revolution era, respectively. The latter of which, however, can be called extremely late rather than "a tad" late.

Feel free to give other suggestions and ideas, and to discuss about everything here.

Plarail:
Duck (cuzidontevenneedtoexplainthatone)
Oliver (cuzidontevenneedtoexplainthatone)
Diesel (cuziREALLYdontevenneedtoexplainthatone)
Salty (cuzidontevenneedtoexplainthatone)
Bill and Ben (cuziREALLYdontevenneedtoexplainthatone)
Donald and Douglas -- will be appearing in season 20 and have already appeared in SLOTL and TGR. I don't expect them to come back for a long time, especially not before Bill and Ben, or Diesel, who has been a fairly relevant character for almost the entire CGi series, yet the only diesel Plarail has available from the T&F universe is Diesel 10.
Skarloey and the other narrow gauge engines -- Considering they bothered to make Victor, and then Luke, the latter of which actually is never seen without the Skarloey Railway engines, it only makes sense to bring back the main characters of the narrow gauge lines. It doesn't make sense for Victor and Luke to be the only two small engines, or for them to be standard gauge and be working alongside engines like Thomas and Gordon.

TrackMaster Revolution:
Duck (cuzidontevenneedtoexplainthatone)
Oliver (cuzidontevenneedtoexplainthatone)
Skarloey (cuzidontevenneedtoexplainthatone) and of course the rest of the narrow gauge engines
Whiff -- I really don't have good reasoning for this other than Scruff being released a while back.
Henrietta -- You have Toby, Annie, Clarabel, and even Spencer's special coach, yet they don't have Henrietta. I was a little upset to see Henrietta replaced by a van in Toby's TMR single release, but I really hope she'll at least return in a set or pack of sorts.
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I worry that if Henrietta is released(for TM Revolution), she'll just be done in the way the aforementioned coaches were done, as I'm sure the Express Coaches probably would be done too, just as one of those small vans with the smooth sides, and stickers applied all over. And that would be it.
If it were orange to match her sticker colors, I guess that'd be okay, but it would still bother me enormously.

I think if they don't do Duck for Revolution, they will have missed out. Duck's popular among the old and the new fans, and odds are if he's released, old fans and nostalgic parents will swoop in and pick him up, making Mattel the cash money and the fans happy for a few minutes.
I hope they bring along characters like Rosie, Whiff, or Stanley, all three of which are still sort of seen in the show and still would make the moneys... and I really just want to see a CG-Faced TM Rosie.. or Plarail for that matter.

Speaking of, I hope they bring out Diesel soon. If the range is to continue. Body stays the same I'd think, just a different face, and probably packaged with different trucks? Who knows.
Would be neat though.
Same for Duck and Ollie. Especially Ollie. I wish there was a version of him available in either range. He's one I'm after, but the extreme Ebay prices have kept me away from for so long...

Hopefully Mattel will make some of our dreams come true. Heck, I wouldn't mind if they just reintroduced Troublesome Trucks back to the range. I've seen a reintroduced truck with the place for the face but no face, and a weird tipping action feature... but that's it. Bummer.
Express coaches wouldn't be a bad idea. I almost forgot that. Gordon would probably be able to pull quite a number of them on a flat track as well, due to the general lightweight-ness and smallness of the TMR rolling stock.
For Henrietta, I know they definitely would just take a van and put stickers on it, but it'd be something. One problem I can think of is the fact that Henrietta has those platforms and handrails on either end, so they may need to make a new mold with chunks taken out, similar to Wooden Railway. They could probably make cabooses that way too.
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(This post was last modified: 06-22-2016, 03:55 PM by Super.)
You know, ever since the death of the Reverend, they've added characters, and most don't stay for too long. Why should they not make older characters? Oliver actally played a confusing yet somewhat major roll in SLOTLT. Toad was lucky to get shown. A breakdown crane would be nice. Same with a black James. My mental list of suggestions could go on and on. lol

(06-22-2016, 01:04 AM)Miksolo Wrote: Skarloey (cuzidontevenneedtoexplainthatone) and of course the rest of the narrow gauge engines

The do have Fearless Freddie for TM2, but Freddie barely appeared in the post-Revered/pre-CGI era.
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(This post was last modified: 06-23-2016, 02:42 PM by ROKMAN1445.)
(06-23-2016, 02:34 PM)ROKMAN1445 Wrote: You know, ever since the death of the Reverend, they've added characters, and most don't stay for too long. Why should they not make older characters? Oliver actally played a confusing yet somewhat major roll in SLOTLT. Toad was lucky to get shown. A breakdown crane would be nice. Same with a black James. My mental list of suggestions could go on and on. lol


The do have Fearless Freddie for TM2, but Freddie barely appeared in the post-Revered/pre-CGI era.

Well, chances are no new breakdown cranes will be introduced or reintroduced. Mavis with the breakdown train is still available on Amazon, and you have the Percy & Rocky set which is still available and the same price as any other 3-car set.
Freddie, maybe not, but definitely Skarloey, Duncan, Sir Handel and Rusty. And Oliver's been around since Tale of the Brave now.
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