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Accurate lol

Only true because that one company ruined t&f

He saws this coming

Rev. Awdry was definitely someone who understood his creation

Rev. Awdry predicted the future

It was ruined long before Mattel, I wonder how the Rev. felt when he learned George Carlin, who was primarily known for doing vulgar stand-up routines at the time was going to narrate.

He’s right after all

True all engines go sucks

I'm gonna adopt this nickname in the fandom now, I liked it lmaooo

I think it will fit war tanks fans a little more...

The name just doesn’t work

lol ain't tankies the nickname ppl give to soviet flavor communists

Your name has Tanky in it..

Pretty much anything Communist+Socialist is referred to me and my Twitter Followers as "Tankies" or "Commies", Stalin is Stalinist. Although it has been questioned on where it started, such as Tiananmen Square with the tanks to make them look bad, although in America there's been loads of footage of Police cars running Protesters over. (Although China is Capitalist after President Mao Zedong). Wiki's idea seems reasonable.

@@enthusiastisch1922 are you implying that nothing happend on the tianmen square and nothing ever happend to those students?

@@enthusiastisch1922 shut up tankie

The phrase tankie was coined by stalinists who used it to critique khruschev during the crack down on hungarian protests in 1956 The internet turned it around on marxist leninists and marxist leninist maoists

@@wommyu tiananmen square happened under the revisionist clique of Deng xiaoping amd Jiang zemin. Both are capitalists (jiang zemin not even denying it) Many of the protesters in tiananmen square had slogans praising Mao zedongs cultural revolution and asking for [centralised] democracy ( the type of democracy that mao's china had. Modern china doesnt)

It absolutely disgusts me when Americans just think Thomas is American. 'Well he calls them freight cars!'

@@wardproductions2792 As an American I've always called them freight cars, it's just what I grew up with.

@@wardproductions2792 well I’m American and I know Thomas is a British steam locomotive

@@wardproductions2792 Well not all Americans. I mean I pefer the realistic stuff over cartoonish stuff

Not all Americans are like this…..

yes mattel was not good

I agree with you

@@jamesthevain ok

Yep as thexway i see it from season one. Mattel themselves ar3 juet a big com0any who just wqnt to aim at younger kids just so they can get thier parents monry outbof thier damn bqnk accpunt so they can ruin tge franchise for seasons to come if they evrt decide to extend the series

So this might be a hot take, and I’m certainly going to get hate for this. But I actually really like All Engines Go.

EXACTLY

Fair enough, the vid was really good and there were hardly any mistakes, so honestly who cares?

FACTS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I know what you mean. M A T T E L

Six letters, say it with me folks: M

2020 all engine go

It would also form The Really Useful Group.

I prefer to be called “a boy who likes trains” or just simply “a Thomas fan”

@@Haha-Jim no

Tankie, brony, furry, they all end with the Eeee sound so it seems fitting

@@whackyzachy1482 Thomas fans should not be in the same category as Bronies or Furies

Hey Tankies

@Tank Slushy The HiT era had potential and I wanted to see it succeed. Mighty Mac the Fairlie engine, Hector, Madge, they were all great ideas, however in execution the HiT era as a whole falls flat on its ass. 3 strike you're out formula, characters out of character, baby-fied writing, that's why the HiT era has the reputation that it does. HiT wanted to transform Thomas into a brand for small children, like another Barney the Dinosaur. I don't know of any Thomas fan who rushes to watch HiT era episodes like the one about Billy, or Thomas pulling a single flatbed with a big balloon tired down to it for a clown show. I'd rather watch an episode like Brake Van where the spiteful breakvan who's the villain, dies and the part with his face gets lifted by the breakdown train. Another personal favorite of mine is Down the Mine, it wasn't spectacular but it had a bit of everything and it doesn't talk down to the audience. The most moral you ever got out of most classic episodes (if there happened to be one) was- "Don't be an ass". What was the moral of Rusty and the Boulder? The classics still got some things wrong, for instance Edward was out of character when Harvey arrived which as a season 6 episode. James was depicted as red and not black upon his introduction. Thomas an the Tragic Failroad was stupid with it's whole magic theme and whack plot about human characters nobody came for, it hardly had anything to do with the series. Aside from a few exceptions, I think the classics nailed Thomas overall. They followed the RWS rather closely in spirit which set the standard of what Thomas is at heart. Speaking of established standards, I love the Brennaissance that lasted from seasons 17 to either season 20 or 21. We got to see characters return to form, get some well written stories and new characters, and we got to see old characters return after years. In my opinion, I think Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure is the best Thomas movie because everyone is so much in character and how mature it is. I don't mind of something is new, it just has to do a good job. If it can do that then I gladly welcome it.

@Tank Slushy In the HiT era Edward is depicted as a weak pathetic loser, not an old engine who was still capable and wise. Same goes for Toby who is also reduced to a worry wort. Henry is a wimp and not his cynical self. Thomas is too nice and stupid, not a cheeky ass. Diesel is reduced to a very blunt bully, not the sly devious type who prowls around. The HiT era was about shoving a moral down the audience's throats. Most people just want to enjoy Thomas. Also Michael Brandon I think is the worst narrator. As a fan in the U.S. I was stuck having to listen to his God awful narration until season 17 unless I found a Michael Angelis dub. I brought up Magic Railroad because that's an example of a major flop the classic era had. Perhaps it could have worked had it been thought out better but it wasn't executed well. I was born after Shining Time Station was a thing in the U.S. and everyone else around the world never heard of it, so my generation and everyone else was like- "What the hell is this?"

But then again, even the HIT era had a few gems, and in my opinion, Season 8 is the best of that lot.

I ain’t reading allat 😐

Ukr

Sheesh, I'm beginning to wonder if the term _"Brony"_ is demeaning to the My Little Pony fans as well.

@@NerdyChocolateLabradoodle the word brony isn’t demeaning to us, but the reason why the thomas fandom is upset by the nickname tankies is because it’s actually a communist thing i think

lmao

hello

Everyone calls them tankies

It wasn’t bad at first

@@maddalonefarms it's mainly because Britain was still in charge of the show while Mattel over in America was just the owners of the show however Mattel started butting in to the show then once they started budding in it got so bad that no one like the show all because Mattel didn't get that the reason no one was buying their toys was because the toys were terrible not the show

Not Season 25

@@funnyclown2514 well all engine go or whatever I really don't care about the official name of that rubbish

@@LMS5935 Not that you're overreacting to a simple TV show or anything...

i actually wanna see rev w awdry narrating it instead of ringo maybe someone can make an ai cover of an episode ringo narrated it and change it into rev w awdry

@@SuperGibaLogan yeah probably. Still though that would've been great to see.

Do you have any beef with the cheeky E2 tank?

+Travis McDowell George Carlin. Shining Time Station was a framing device designed to introduce Thomas to American audiences, as PBS wouldn't accept the show unless its runtime was extended to 30 minutes. It's sad that Shining Time Station will probably never get a DVD release, but every episode of the show can be found on RU-vid.

What does gen z have to do with anything?

Me too

I wouldn’t say flash animation is the problem, rather they’re choosing to make the engines more fluid than solid. Trainsformers has a flash esq esthetic(although I’m not too sure if it is flash) yet doesn’t look half bad as a parody because it understands that they’re giant solid pieces of metal and not whimsical baby machines.

@@ImUltimatee I don't hate Adobe Flash animation, I like Flash animation. But I wish Canada sometimes start going back to hand-drawn animation... Edit: ...and paper cutout animation.

True fans can like or dislike fandom nicknames

Tankies just sounds wrong. I would rather be called a Thomas Fan

No, grow up

But then it all falls apart

But the use of that cover of the roll call in the intro is beyond respectable.

@@JintyGreen yeah

huh??? ive been in the fandom for 3 years and nobody has told me this, could you explain why?

@@penguinlambz I ment tankies and I’m not sure what I don’t like it I just don’t

The Pilot Thomas and Gordon were backups to the OG plastic body cast versions in the really early days. That was until the crew found no use for them and cut them up into background scrap dressings. People do argue when that was however (like how we don’t have a concrete date for when the pilot was produced - just sometime between 1980 and 1983), but if you look around you might find an interview or two about the whole thing.

You'll be up there soon enough keep it up

Link?

Really?

Wait, *what?????* Do you have any solid proof or a link? Cause if so I hate to break it to you, I’m not believing it

1 year later: I now can not remember

Seeing as you seem to like lost media, would you like to be called a "lostie"? I highly doubt that

@@zahktheshunter5869 Sure, why not. It doesn't affect me in my everyday life.

@@erikm7224 it's true that "tankies" isn't as bad as a slur. but, it is still impolite. It would be as if I called anyone who liked something a mouth breathing moron. Whether you intend to say it or not.

@@zahktheshunter5869 That's such a tankie thing to say 🤣

Wrong, "Warsies" is a nickname for Star Wars.

@@enthusiastisch1922 That’s the worst name I’ve heard in my life