What was 'Too Much Thomas?' - From Playtime To World Record Holders! 

Thanks for the making the documentary. I love it. You and @mrslowly2238 have shaken Too Much Thomas from his hibernation. More to come.

Every railfan ever: “You are my inspiration.” “I love you.”

I can remember seeing these guys back in the day and being completely obsessed with them, but I was very young and didn’t know they were in Australia so I’d BEG my family to go and see them. God knows how many of my Tomy layouts were inspired by them.

If you guys would like a part two be sure to let me know! I’d love to dive more into not only ‘Too Much Thomas’ but early Thomas media as a whole. Recommendations welcome!! :)

I didn’t know a Tomy/Trackmaster layout could be this scale! Thank you for letting me know about my favorite range of Thomas toys.

These videos were a big part of my childhood. I wonder how this family is doing right now.

If it wasn’t for this channel, I would have never heard such bangers as “this heart attack” & “let’s dance to joy division”. I will forever associate them with this channel in the best way possible

This is like peak nostalgia for me. Thanks for reminding me of it, as you said early thomas media (especially youtube stuff) is extremely nostalgic, for whatever reason. EDIT: I didn't know that the world record trackmaster set was made by these guys, but in retrospect it makes so - so much sense. Damn. Their website is still available on the internet archive, if anyone wants to do any digging into the show's history. Can't remember the link, but I got it from an email or something on their channel.

you can't have too much thomas, there is no point to where there's too much. but this is epic

I’m glad the dad kept a quarter of the original layout in his shed!

This bring back memories, use to chat to them a little bit when I would attend the train show. I remember explaining to one of the young boys at the time, about the Mountain engines. They had a Culdee and wanted to know more about him, and his 2 faces.

Good lord, this takes me back to my days of playing with my Trackmaster trains and sets. It also really brings back memories of a simpler time in Thomas fan history when content wasn't as big and cinematic as it is today. I'm not saying that it's bad for Thomas to be that way, but there is an innocence and simplicity lost with going so big. I really cherish these memories.

Record players are also called turntables, so the railway turntable really was made from a turntable!

The videos may have stopped but surely someone would know how the story truly ends. People who saw Too Much Thomas live might have a better idea on when the actual end date was.

When he was talking about how important and big they were and then he says "they stopped" and goes on to explain the lack of updates, it pulled at my heart strings, I have felt bad for something that I didn't know 11 minutes ago (I knew about the world record but not about the exhibitions)

These guys were prue nostalgia to me. As someone who grew up with the old Tomy Thomas products it was mind blowing just see how big you could make a tomy trackmaster layout. Another video of theirs that stood out was their tutorial on how to give your tomy engines front couplings.

I could hear so vividly the sounds tomy trains made when they got stuck when i saw that clip. Nostalgia!

I seem to show up right when story’s like this end, however seeing something like this go on for so long and get to such a scale is magnificent and always warms my heart.

My parents sold Thomas Wood for a home business (before stores had it mainstream) and I attempted to build some of the brochure layouts. Buying it at wholesale prices had its perks.

Great Video. I saw this display twice. Once in 2007 and another in 2010. I gotta say, in person it was definitely a sight to behold!

I remember the world record being set, as a kid into Thomas and anything trains I was ecstatic. I also remember the early Thomas media like the mad bomber and Thomas blows his stack so a video about early Thomas media on RU-vid would be awesome.

The spinning James is just hilarious, even funnier when you see he's going breakneck speed on a record player. Also, the retooled Gordon is just pure genius, not even i could have thought of using him as a crane/lift

I'm pretty sure I saw a version of this of some kind at my local Day Out With Thomas; we couldn't touch it, but it was cool watching the trains go! This was the blue track era, too

I legitimately tried to find the original video a few times over this past year… Thank you so much for helping me find them again!

Is it weird that I remember these videos so clearly? No? Great.

Ok, that was very great and nostalgic, I still remember the Thomas Land event too. I'm glad they managed to make a world record out of these toys. I feel sorry for these things are gone, due to the worst development of the Trackmaster toys, and btw, someone knows what happened to Ray Murphy's sons nowadays?

2000s Thomas toys and media on RU-vid was a certified hood classic

Hmm… As an Australian myself, I do actually faintly remember watching these videos as a kid… Perhaps, it’s a possibility that the layout they built is still out there, but perhaps not by the Murphy’s instead in a railway museum’s model room somewhere. Judging by the location of the world record - Ipswich in Queensland, that’s probably where the layout is. Maybe not me, but perhaps someone could take the time to go up there and do some investigation behind it all…

I REALLY hope that the family is happy now and still having good times!

Never heard of this family, but this video was a great introduction. Thanks for this piece of unique history on the greatest toy line ever. Imo, anyway.

I have a vague memory of Too Much Thomas. Thank you for bringing this video to life! I know a family who participate in train shows now and then and the father and his two sons have a large Bachmann Thomas collection that they always bring with them. Furthermore, I have a friend who wants to try a Too Much Thomas style take here in America. He's been loading up on Tomy and Trackmaster from sellers off of FaceBook. He told me it was largely because of the Trackmaster videos you uploaded over last last summer that inspired him to dig up his old Tomy and Trackmaster toys and buy more.

I'm honestly glad that there are plenty of other people who remember these videos. This was one of the first videos I ever watched on YT, but I was never able to find it. Last summer, I recently went through an old family computer and a lot of old RU-vid links were left in a backup, including this video in particular. As a kid, I remember thinking the viaduct was a real set and not understanding why I couldn't buy it lol.

As so as I was done watching this I scrambled to find my old trackmaster/tomy trains

God this tweaks somthing in my brain. I might be going nuts but i swear I saw the layout once years ago at Sandown Racecourse. Man i never realised how huge of a phenomenon it was

We all know this is is great thank you train king :) your videos are too much trainboy but we always need that.

I had never heard of this layout, thanks for another interesting Thomas fact. It kinda reminds me of a trackmaster layout I saw at a DOWT event.

One of my favorite Thomas related RU-vid videos from that time was one titled “Huge Thomas Wooden Train Set” by AllAboardToys. Released in the fall of 2007, it showcases an enormous wooden railway set. First being built by four employees (2 men and 2 women) through sped up footage and then seeing a battery operated Thomas riding through the layout.

U can NEVER have to much Thomas, I hope to be like them one day. That’s my life goal

This really screams nostalgia.thanks train boy for reminding me of this channel.

I started watching RU-vid in 2009 and as Thomas the tank engine was the second thing I ever searched for, these guys were a part of my childhood

To quote Over the Hedge, "Enough is never enough."

This is by far one of the biggest layouts that I have seen in my life. It's like my dream when I was younger.

4:19 Gordon has been given a new purpose in life.

I never heard about TooMuchThomas until today and I’m really shocked how much they did. This really makes me want to do some model trains and relive my old childhood

Imagine trying to make a trackmaster layout that big with those old sets, as of now it would be a nightmare to get sets that old because of how expensive they are

I had SO much Tomy stuff. It was legit all I asked for for anyone for like 5-6 years when I was a kid. My whole basement was covered with it and I legit had a true Sodor layout.

Trainboy those final words were very touchy loved the video bro have a good day

Fun fact I live right next to the workshops railway museum in Australia I went there for my birthday and saw the world record!

I remember those videos well. It's hard to believe that they've been doing this for a decade and a half. I got their inspiration of how to add front couplings on the engines.

Aaaaaahhhh yessssss this brings back some great memories!!! Thanks man!!!

Wonderful video man. Looking back on these layouts is always a treat. What I would do to make that spinning turntable…

Thomas be runnin a marathon 7:20

This looks like a video that should have been filmed like in late 2007

I love the way you added james spinning on the turntable

I had the pleasure of seeing the show layout in person many years ago at the Brisbane Model Train Show, and was also present for the world record at the Ipswich Workshops Rail Museum!

I wasn’t really into Thomas by the time I got onto RU-vid, but I was roughly around these kids’ age back in the early-mid 2000’s and was also *obsessed* with Thomas around that time! I mostly just wanted those big wooden Thomas tables they had in pediatrician offices tho, lol. Never would’ve thought about this! So nostalgic!

I don’t know how, but trainboy managed to make me cry.

Looks like Duncan got caught on the Incline, again. "Bouncing Buffers! It's got me!"

Omg, shit I used to watch these videos religiously as a kid! Cheers for reminding me about them

Awesome video mate, best wishes from the UK as always. Hope all is good with you.

This definably brings back to my childhood when I first got into railways.

Funny Story: I used to collect all of the Takara Thomas & Friends (The Classic Takara not the disgrace version of it) I used to collect up to Emily I think that is the last character I’ve ever bought. But that’s not all. I used to own a lot of Takara’s Rails too. To the point that I can make entire sodor railway networks. But this become problematic because my parents gets mad at me if I tried to attempted to do that because it will pretty much takes over entire house. So I decided to make small railway for it and I have to disassembled it because my parents will get mad if I don’t pack up the toys after playing with it. Sadly I am no longer own them now because I donate to my neighbors who is pretty much a harder Thomas Fan than I do plus he have a child. Also, I don’t have space to kept them unless I want to make them rot away in my storage which is not a great idea. I don’t regret though. Because atleast my toys are keep getting played by someone and not just being sad at the shelf or storage somewhere.

The James on the turntable being made out of a record player is the smartest thing ever

I didn't know anything about this I really like this thanks for another good history vid on all things toy trains or real steaming!

I remember watching this guy a lot, and he’s the reason why I got the Trackmaster Thomas toys.

I Loce how James was in the background of the layout just spinning around and around on the turn table

I remembered that Oliver was cost $7.00 at Toys R Us in 2002.

OMG THIS VID IS RECENT but i did watch the playmobile thomas custom 17 minutes after it came out ur vids inspire me to make customs thx for being the funniest, nostalgic, and intelligent thomas fan that is in no way "Not Entertaining" you could provide entertainment in the next generation! your videos will never become unfunny to me, and your videos make monday mornings a blast to be awake, and these videos keep me going even when i am down. you are seriously so funny and thats what makes the videos worth the wait. this comment may be long, but my amount of love for this channel and its contents is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay longer. please, never stop making videos, and remember; "ethi-ethi-ethi subscribe, donate, or get the f**k out!!!" thanks for the years of fun, entertainment, and nostalgia, i hope you maybe shout me out but if you dont want to, thats fine. have a great life, train boy. p.s the end made me almost cry

Thanks for rhe awesome info!

Don't forget the music they used in their vids too! "Gotta get away, not coming back"

4:25 - I still to this day wanna know how they pulled this off. Always my dream as a kid to build something of this size, still is honestly. legit the biggest inspiration for me to keep collecting tomy.

i think saw one of those kids once at a school swimming carnival in like 2018 lmao

I remember going to see this in 2008, it was an amazing experience

"The Sun never sets on the Northwestern Railway" -these mad lads

Awesome video trainboy

5:55 - 6:08 can we just acknowledge the greatest joke ever told here

Now I wanna go back to getting Thomas toys for Christmas and my birthday’s.

i remember waiting for a new video in 2015 lol

when i think of too much tomy is when dieseld199 early episodes if you think of every scene is in a much larger layout

Bro I remember seeing this on RU-vid and I was amazed by this

Pure dedication

This brings back memories, thanks man 👍

1:07 hehe James go *”WHOAOAOAOAOAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-“*

I actually don't ever remember seeing the track master layout. I only ever remember seeing it in Brisbane with the blue track. I do remember staying there for ages just watching it. It and the Lego train group were a lot of fun to see. The last time I was at the Brisbane Model Train Show pre pandemic It wasn't there. The Lego train group was although it is now a generic Lego club not just a train one.

I think a part two would be nice

This kinda made me cry alittle bit...

* I was having a really nice time watching this and reliving 4-5 year-old me nostalgia. . . * . . .and then GHOST FIGHT STARTED PLAYING IN THE WORLD RECORD BIT!? * It genuinely made me jump, I was so unprepared

Dude thomas was like a friend as a little boy

I remember these! Introduced me to Illy the rapper

i remember the world record layout from when i was a kid i wanted a trackmaster thomas ever since then

I hope they didn’t sell they’re the merchandise cause they should keep them as they’re treasures for tomy and trackmaster

I miss that user! 😭

Wow this is amazing and legendary with Tomy and Trackmaster

That is just wow but I still want that spining james

2:31 - Hello, Duracell Bunny.

me reading the title: NOTHING IS TO MUCH THOMAS!!!!

finally those kids get the recognition that they deserve

Omg I remember this!

I have a giant wooden railway track in my downstairs and it takes up an entire room I still have it up!

Dude I'm from Australia and the museum the record was made at is like my favourite place ever