Thomas the Tank Engine

[Humph Warden Bennett]

From the Express

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1011800/thomas-the-tank-engine-new-characters-diversity-channel-5

TBH this strikes me as being more of a marketing strategy than being anything else. In my experience Thomas & Friends are pre school favourites, neither of my kids wanted to be associated with Thomas once they had started school.

[ProfessorDavey]

From the Express

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1011800/thomas-the-tank-engine-new-characters-diversity-channel-5

TBH this strikes me as being more of a marketing strategy than being anything else. In my experience Thomas & Friends are pre school favourites, neither of my kids wanted to be associated with Thomas once they had started school.

Yes - I think this is about global branding. I suspect Thomas has up to know been largely a UK thing, albeit with the ill-advised Americanisation of the truly horrendous 2000 Thomas movie - Thomas and the Magic Railroad, starring Peter Fonda and Alec Baldwin no less!

[Rhiannon]

Yes - I think this is about global branding. I suspect Thomas has up to know been largely a UK thing, albeit with the ill-advised Americanisation of the truly horrendous 2000 Thomas movie - Thomas and the Magic Railroad, starring Peter Fonda and Alec Baldwin no less!

Ah, yes, Peter fondling his engine and looking sad...

[ProfessorDavey]

Ah, yes, Peter fondling his engine and looking sad...

Once seen can never be unseen