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@Chrisjo, IDK either, it just looks like he's pumping his tires

Oh this is pretty stupid. Thomas isn't supposed to have tires, he's supposed to have train wheels made out of pure iron and those can't flatten.

In my opinion, Mattel should leave the Plarail Thomas range alone and only do rereleases and old characters like Duck and Oliver again.

he's supposed to have train wheels made out of pure iron and those can't flatten.

Not by deflation of course, but wheel flats caused by slippage during braking are a long-standing and recurring problem in the rail industry, they can cause extensive damage to wheel bearings, axles and additional infrastructure such as rails and sleepers, and in extreme cases can trigger derailment.

Modern trains have vibration detectors mounted on their bogies. As well as allowing early detection of wheel-flats, continuous analysis of the signals from these sensors can tell rail operators which track sections and operating conditions may be causing them, so that procedures can be modified to reduce their occurrence.

Just putting this out now:

The whole "Let's watch the episode thomas punctured his tires" originally came from my dad as a joke a couple of weeks ago. And coincidentally recently that image leaked, so I decided to implement the joke in as it reminded me of it.

so I decided to implement the joke in as it reminded me of it.

Ha Ha.

I might also just add the observation that if regular BPT engines / trains are stored on their wheels for a long time on a hard shelf, the rubber traction tires will develop flat spots and affect their running.

2 episodes just dropped in Spanish! I watched them, with no clue about what was being said. I feel like throwing up seeing them!

Jeremy Clarkson shall say the score of these episodes (out of 10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_aOsAUxywc&t=802s.


Thomas' Promise:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI5Gsvml0tE
Thomas takes off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vARGcI9Z6VI

I watched both episodes, and what did I see? Actually, a very good show... if only it's not "Thomas & Friends". I mean, they should make this as another locomotives TV show, but not branded as "Thomas & Friends". Now almost all Thomas & Friends fans are furious, and an essentially good cartoon is wrecked.

And the truth is it has nice characters, animation is good, and the story is not bad at all. It preaches simple lessons. One episode promotes friendship, and another teaches how everything is important, even if it doesn't seem so from the start (the battery issue). So as a show, it can't be graded as bad in any sense... with the crucial remark: if only this isn't a "Thomas & Friends" show. If I (somehow) could forget its Thomas, I think I could really enjoy it.

Pretty much the same goes for the rebooted toys. If they are "Thomas & Friends", and they sadly really are, then they are a big mistake. Of course. If they were not Thomas, they could be actually seen as cute toys for little children.

But, as I said many times before, this new Revolution toys (you know, the engines that cannot run on Plarail tracks and have really ugly spiked wheels)  they have been selling for quite some time now are bad from the start. I wonder how so few people complained about their looks. They look somehow distorted, flattened, weird, the wagons and carriages (with rare exceptions, like swinging trucks) look like caricatures of some kind, and their totally weird sets with walking bridges and jumping engines (as seen in many unboxing-and-first-run videos) very rarely work properly; the bigger sets almost never work as they are intended to work! What I wanted to say? Mattel's line of toys is mostly crap already. Even Chinese TrackMaster knockoffs look, as a whole, way better than these new Revolution engines. In looks & quality, they are not even close to Plarail models.

Honestly, is this cheaply made flattened looking distorted toy with non-centered front wheels and almost nonexistent middle wheels...

...so much better than this?


And again, if we forget the fact that this new & rebooted toys are branded "Thomas & Friends", and just look at them as toys in general, then these new toys are looking pretty good, they are cute, not cheap-looking as Revolution toys, have nice bright colours, no stickers, and little kids might like them! And the TV show too.

English version: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m2j1UjWK_wc

Of the entire AEG series, I’d say this is the single worst frame

It's so weird how they use wheels as hands.

It's so weird how they use wheels as hands.

It's disgusting, it's scary, it's unrealistic, it's stupid and traumatizing.