Thomas the Tank Engine Iceberg Explained

the iceberg with common knowledge at the top we will delve into obscure and mysterious information as we descend deeper down the ice with Roy Wilson a trustworthy man and did his fans create a hierarchical status structure in the world of Thomas let us explore the most elusive stories behind Thomas Wooden Railway ranked by their intensity start in 1992 a wooden train with a face has come to life Thomas Wooden Railway made from hardwood with rotating wheels and interconnecting Madness with a plastic face the magical world of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends started to capture the hearts of young and old the success happened by combining the style of Brio with the Beloved character Thomas the Tank Engine Thomas wouldn't really start his manufacturing Journey with hummingbird however hummingbird was a small Manufacturing Company thus they weren't really ready for the popularity of Thomas the Tank Engine hummingbird simply didn't have the speed to produce Thomas fast enough to keep up with the demands from his customers an early indicator of how great the toy line will become therefore in 1994 Thomas wouldn't know is the best in transition to Canada prototypes the dawn of Thomas Wooden Railway but what was the thought process behind them and how are we even finding them when they weren't even released we get a slight hint of the process and inspiration when we look at couple of their designs the very first Thomas it's obscure because more we look it's a hybrid of all the competitors components hero Wheels this time we see a face and this is a 1990s Ertl face mode where Ertl was known for producing metal diecast Thomas this is an arch stone bridge that was released and this is the prototype for it this also had the same structure as the Brio Bridge observing the pattern there seems to be three types of prototypes the constant model where the designers were conceptualizing the designs and using whatever components were available The Unfinished model where they probably thought it would be faster starting again from scratch and abandoning them in the process and the pamphlet prototypes where some have Clay faces while some use other characters faces a lot of them are actually found on eBay the trustworthiness of Roy Wilson the trustworthiness of Roy Wilson is a topic that has been discussed through the titanese of people who had to deal with him on eBay Roy Wilson was the first product engineer for Thomas Wooden Railway in the 1990s it's easier to explain if I tell you my personal experience it was around May of 2021 as just starting to get into collecting Thomas when I find this eye catching title that reads prototype Toms for sale on eBay curious if this was true or not I sent the seller a message that stated I'm interested I also left my number and it didn't take too long for the seller to respond the following message read sure I can explain couple minutes later developed my phone rang from an unknown number and a voice said hello there was the man himself Roy Wilson at the end of the call Roy said that he didn't want to sell on eBay because of the extra fees they take and we made a full-fledged deal that I'll be buying a lot of his trains and with that Roy signed off for the night the next morning Roy sends me pictures of trains that I've never seen before in my whole entire life intrigued and fascinated on what they were we went on another call and negotiated prices in the list of trains that I was going to buy have increased we decided it would be nice to meet in person we came to the formal agreement I'll pay him half the amount now and rest when we meet however one month after this deal things started getting weird or send me another email curious about other cool items he had I opened it up I examined the truck closer and I saw a familiar dent and scratch on the side shocked at what I saw I went back to the initial photo of what I already paid half of my heart started to sink some trains were not actual prototypes but just regular trains that Roy probably bought off eBay and repainted but the worst was about to come that evening my phone bell rang and sure enough it was Roy hello for some reason instead of confronting the situation I decided to listen to what Roy had to say and to seeing that he said kind of blew my mind after long consideration he told me that the price was unfair for him and he wanted to up the price by two times of what we agreed upon taking in a deep breath after the call I send Roy a long message I didn't know what to feel the fact that Roy repainted his train and claimed their prototypes or the fact that he just decided to change his words or the fact that I don't even have the trains in my possession when I paid him half the money the next morning I had no choice but to restrategize this deal Roy wanted money I wanted real prototypes I clicked I called Roy again told him the truth that the following trains looked painted of course I had to leave out the detail that he had painted them instead I said it looked like some other person might have tampered with it therefore we eliminated the trains that were painted and I only bought the trains that actually looked like prototypes but in order for Roy to agree I also promised Roy that I will be buying more trains in the future and we can extend this friendship longer if this deals goes as planned I did visit Roy a couple other times afterwards the trustworthiness of Roy Wilson is a subject often discussed for many reasons late shipments but also shipments of trains that is not identical as the photo the first time I had to go through shipping I got a call from Roy that he hit a deer and got into a car accident thus he wasn't able to send it the week afterwards I get another call and miraculously recovering from the accident he tells me his wife and him are staying in the Bermuda Triangle for the night he would have to send the package the week after the week after is where it gets a little more crazier not only he gets into another car accident this time hitting an actual car printer exploded and Roy claims he got ink poisoned the probability of all four events happening in a month's period I mean it's possible I guess but no amount of fame or money was able to buy Roy his reputation back Factory errors Factory errors are mistakes made during manufacturing process the trains are obscure one of a kind okay I think we're getting a little too serious but batteries are fun they come with these goofy random mistakes of having wrong things but together they're one of a kind like look at this drain light is he a Thomas renaeus this irony but random's the wrong word we can actually categorize them into seven the face that is a James Henry should look like this reverse train I initially had a problem storing cool and valuable trains like this reverse Boko or does reverse Soder type mode because it will pile of dust and sometimes I would drop them missing Graphics yes the graphics should have these lines I'm temporarily going to cut the price for these plastic cases and on top of that you can buy in bundles which will save you a lot of money wrong paint yep Stephanie should have a wide roof and I actually included gifts for every single person that bought prior to this video that can be you wrong Wheels yep these are fuel tankers but go check out thomascollectibles.com thank you everyone this means a lot for me Miss location uh Magnus should only be on the back chassis errors there were too many the most common mistakes were paired trains like Donald and Douglas or iron Aryan Bert light roof Rusty white roof Rusty is the aired I learning to have obliviously made for half a decade Rusty makes his first appearance in the year 1994. thus learning curve decides to make a toy product for the character Rusty in the TV show Rusty has a black roof however learning curve starts designing Rusty with an orange and white Brute Force prototype and later releases Rusty having a white roof this got people wondering are they aware of their mistakes but with each year passing by and other characters getting updates the roof of Rusty still remained White now what's this intentional finally in the year 2001 Rusty got an update on his roof taking seven whole years for it to change four-wheel Mavis and six wheel Toby four-wheel Mavis and six wheel Toby might be a story you already know if you are a Thomas Wooden Railway fan Toby and Mavis first appears on the screen in the year 1984 and 1991. learning curve decides to use the TV show model to design both Toby and Mavis does on the 13th of January 1993 Mavis and Toby were designed with their first prototypes the prototypes had meticulous details with paper decals for the graphics and both of them had 6 bills just how the TV show presented however later that year when tobian Mavis were first released to the public they had four wheels leading super fans disappointed Roy Wilson the chief designer at that time said this was due to saving resources as hummingbird was not able to keep up with the supplies compared to the demands they were getting ultimately in 1994 learning curve changes their manufacturing facility to China where they keep up with the demands now this is where the new mystery arises where nobody knows the reason for in 1994 Mavis got a redesign of having six wheels just like the original TV show however Toby ends up with four wheels this is a prototype made for 1994 Toby that had six wheels it's a taller version of the 1994 model that has slightly different graphics this alludes to the fact that the designer were considering making Toby six wheels some community members say this was to reduce the price of manufacturing but then one can say why did they change Mavis we will never know white face Troublesome Truck the white face Troublesome Truck is the most well-known sought after train in Thomas Wooden Railway train consists of a truck with a factory interface story about this drug was first uploaded in 2015 from a YouTuber that goes by Wooden Railway reviews Wooden Railway reviews at that time was able to secure an interview with a guy named Roy Wilson Roy Wilson was the first product engineer for Thomas Wooden Railway and he designed the first few years of characters and sets now what happened during that interview well nobody knows now because as of 2021 this interview was deleted or privated by the owner however it's been said that during this interview Roy stated there were only about 200 trucks ever made this piece of information broke the internet causing the white face Troublesome Truck to be the most desired train in the community prior to this interview it was speculated that the white face Troublesome drug was a prototype now this is where it gets weird new white phase Troublesome Trucks were getting discovered almost every single month and there was even a forum documenting who owns them considering a lot of toys can get lost or thrown away it seems like our community owned more than half of the supply and continuously discovering more till this day were there only 200 made the white face Troublesome Truck has three Shades of Gray this alludes to the fact that it wasn't a one-time production how many trucks were actually made we will never know but it sure seems like it wasn't 200. they are with Thomas the Elwood Thomas are official events that occur once a year from many different States since the Year 2006 there were exclusive wooden Vehicles where you were only able to get by attending the event additionally in the year 2006 to 2008 dayawa Thomas had exclusive track pieces although they are exclusive these products were developed from an existing product with different graphics great cranky and Tank Engine Bertram great Frankie and Tank Engine Bertram are Infamous mistakes that learning curve made in its early years making his first appearance in 1998 from the episode cranky bugs cranky was an olive green tower crane that worked at Brendan docks this was one of lerniker's early mistakes of making cranky gray instead of olive green subsequently Bertram first appears in Toby's Discovery the designers at learning curve mistakenly depicts him as a tank engine despite Bertram being an old Narrow Gauge tank tender engine this incident is more known to be the flaw behind the logistics as the reference for the season 5 characters were not sent out to most places until the year 2001. personalized track in 2022 a user named tangentially Thomas post a thread on Twitter learning curves toy store located at 17w 504 22nd Street Oakbrook Terrace Illinois would I poppy interior learning curve had a party room for events personalized pieces of trash and rail could be ordered in box as party favors however this item is so rare we only have two photos available at its current time stories of Soder said stories of Soder said was available in 2004. the Canada release had an exclusive train the Indigo boss car Indigo still accompany an operation and yes this is me in Canada to prove it yep that is a Canadian pigeon this is a Canadian tram and that's a Canadian Indigo boss car I mean building 1992 or 1993. the debate whether Thomas Wooden Railway was released in 1992 or 1993 is a topic often discussed among the community although it isn't sure when it was released the packaging box suggests that the boxes were made in the year 19 92 one that we do know to be true is the approval date of the design in Thomas to Percy any to Troublesome Truck was all approved late August or early September the packaging label had this open red label fonts while the characters approved in 1993 received the 1992 boss with different styles of label early navford express coach the early nappered express coach is coach made in 1993 often talked about once it comes to first edition it's a classical piece that went through four different variation changes in the year 1993. thus each train having a short manufacturing run the earlier the variant the rarer and more expensive it gets The Story begins with the model sharing the same body as Boko both trains were slabs of block Wood in 1993 and in 1994 Bose got an update with an accent on the top there were four variants made with hummingbird and the first design resembles the protozo and average express coach without the letters making easily the rarest one out of all the following are the other three variants the last variant is unique because there were three color variants to it the next year the design on average express coach change and this is a factory air where they forgot to print the graphics on the top and this is a UK exclusive nappered express coach 2007 recalls Thomas Wooden Railway hits the mainstream for importing and selling children's toys that contained too much lead more than a decade into Works Thomas Wooden Railway gets into a scandal rc2 will pay 1.25 million while being able to deny that it knowingly violated federal law the government maintains the company knew they were reporting and selling Thomas and Friends Wooden round with Railway toys blood levels above the legal limit the company had to recall almost 2 million toys after the high lead levels were discovered a lot of Thomas doors closed down one big store near rc2's headquarter at Yorktown mall was surrendered soon after 2007. it has become an ATT store ever since and also Tommy's headquarters only nine minutes away Thomas wood Thomas wood is a story about the afterlife of Thomas Wooden Railway and has been a merchandise line that's been critiqued a lot due to its design however the worst part of wood was never the engine detailing or the style in fact it's not bad as what I'm about to tell you where the no I'm not gonna curse but where are the Serena after tracks without the three and a half car tracks you don't really get the freedom the three and a half her try is the foundation to get the trains to flow this is The Roundhouse set oh wait no that was Wooden Railway no kids are definitely not fascinated by the massive expensive set so we're not gonna make ones at Thomas wood I want another Circle set and figure eight sets at the kids and unfortunately that was the majority of their sales giving limited creative freedoms for the kids this is the sad story about a beautiful layout made in 1998 evolving into this j50 Thomas j50 Thomas is to quote to quote the very first Wooden Railway ever made this is a wholesome story where rev Aubry built this train out of a broom handle for his son Christopher in 2015 Mattel released his version of the train for the 70th anniversary of Thomas and Friends four Axel salty for Axel salty is a story about the prototypes shown in the 2002 yearbook this salty is incorrectly designed with four on a bogey based system this likely happened because the only reference for salty and Harvey at this time were Bob gold gallier's concept art where Salty's perspective was distorted making him look too long this was changed before the final release but the long feature is also shown in the second prototype of salty where the head protrudes further out than the buffer beam Tomi Tomi bought rc2 out in the year 2011 and held ownership of Thomas Wooden Railway license until Mattel bought the brand in 2013. contrary to popular beliefs Tomi never really accomplished anything the packaging was the same as learning curve besides from the fact that Tomi decided to stamp their logos new characters and new CGI face were created during the Tomi era however this was also learning to his previous work where Tomi releases them into the market rickety rickety is a character that has been available in Thomas Wooden Railway for 17 years in many different forms however rickety was never shown in the TV show and briefly makes his appearance as a cameo in The Railway Series for a character that doesn't have a proper basis that's quite a bit of merchandise strange character inclusion strange character inclusion is a story that questions the decision-making process for some of the sets in Thomas Wooden Railway The Roundhouse said is where the obscurity begins due to the whistle to track The Roundhouse is a home for standard gate changes while Narrow Gauge Engines have their unique areas in the Year 1997 a sediment for standard cage engine debuts with a lot of Narrow Gauge Engines five years later another version of The Roundhouse set gets released this time Duke scarlowie and Rusty all being in the set another incident that is questionable is the Napper station set wait where's the Napper station site there is no napro station the concept cars the concept cars are these five best gear narrow vehicles that were made for Thomas Wooden Railway but never released the only attribute that really screams out is the Wooden Railway item are the learning curve Wheels later these vehicles receive Graphics some having the word Force fill on them Forestville is a small town in Upstate New York leaving hints that they were manufactured there later learning curve used these models as inspiration and produced them into Sir Topham has car Crosby cargo truck and Birdie the steam engine Still Remains a big mystery but possibly it was just the inspired mode for the rest of the engines my custom engine and possibly Norman my custom engine is a story about these customizable trains with multiple colors and different scenes you are able to customize and name your custom trains and even choose your singing book you could have another cool part was the add-on pack that had a stand to keep the book open so your trains could travel through the page of the story MCD also known as my custom diesel was another plan item however it got canceled this train uses the body of Norman talking about Norman there was a canceled variant called Mattel Norman these Normans were never released but you do see them time to time on UK eBay which makes you wonder was this released in the UK something in the air something in the air is the speculative name for a canceled item in the limited edition series based on the episodes something in the air it never Advanced Beyond concept artwork had it been produced it would have been a fish covered Henry with an ill facial expression and numbered scenery track piece of tennis Beach birdies passengers the passenger of Birdie is a story where the passengers get snapped out of existence in the year 2002. in 2013 even the bus driver D spots leaving birdie to be an independent autonomous bus the passenger situation was because one of the passengers was smoking a cigar which was a bad message for children thus they got rid of them unreleased 60th anniversary the unreleased 60th anniversary is a story about the handful of metallic trains that only had samples made before they were pushed aside in favor of other options gold Edward silver Thomas bronze Toby bronze Diesel 10 were some of them on top metallic Thomas and Percy had two types of unreleased metallic variants and Percy even had a factory error 60th anniversary James is something in the air Henry was part of the unreleased 60th anniversary as well box differences with different ears there were always updates and packaging boxes for Thomas Wooden Railway even in 2022 to 2023 there were three variant changes however Benjamin's German Bandai 2000s Meyer bonus pack and the gold outline vehicle bosses are items you don't quite see too often 2010 Dodge and splatter 2010 Dodge and splatter is a very weird phenomenon a username Kublai 1969 one day discovers that there were more splatters made for this release however in the public market it is known that splatter is more expensive despite him being more common retail display items retail display items are rare and cool because it was only intended for use by retailers and stores Thomas shelves and display logos are iconic however they also produce train tables and trains the chassis reads display only and it came in these absorbent boxes among the trains there were also Factory errors that read this layout only these are some cool display signs that I don't see a lot of fans know about lemays Le maze is a baby toy brand of learning curve which has very little relevancy to Thomas Wooden Railway the part that uneases me with this brand is that their main focus was towards making invent toys and they were using lead paint zany brainy zany brainy was an american-based retail store chain owned by FAO Schwartz zany braini sold educational toys and multiple media products aimed at children's ages 4 to 13. the collaboration between zany braini and Thomas Wooden Railway was a success the collaboration lasted until 2001 which is the same year the company filed for bankruptcy all zany Brandy stores closed in the year 2003 unpainted domes and door outlines the story about the unpainted domes and Dora outline starts with the argument between brittlecroft and Roy Wilson Roy Wilson believes the unpainted Dome looks like gold and emphasized the wood part while Brit allcraft disagrees and sings it looks unfinished additionally Roy starts playing around with the design and firstly Percy and Thomas that were produced had Adora outlines righteously Brit alcrov disagrees as the door looks sloppy does Thomas and Percy's door gets eliminated however under next version Roy figures out a way to give Thomas a clean looking door while Percy never gets his door back Soder signal station 9. solar signal Station number nine is a building that was used to hide the battery compartment in the store demonstration version of the sidon sound set James's name the spelling of James is yet to be figured out in the world of Thomas Wooden Railway the spelling we're referring to is James's tender different factories created different spelling and we still don't know what the right way to spell is TW Factory wrote it has James's tender and later tle Factory rewrote it as James tender and that spelling maintained until the first year of Thomas wood however as they painted the Thomas wood model they renamed it back to James's tender the line was a failure and it kinda died so Thomas Wooden Railway was born once again and with our new 2022 model were back to square one James tender the red Thomas era the background story behind the red Thomas chassisless Bill and red Davis is story not many know about in the year 2017 a eBay user named a new creation 517 was browsing the internet to see what trains were available all of a sudden he finds his mundane listing but for some reason he still clicks with 20 years of collecting he finds out something wasn't right zooming in it turns out Oliver had a Thomas face Peter Sam had a Percy face which meant that it was potentially the pamphlet version of the Prototype and he was right the listing additionally had multiple Chancellor bills and this orange Troublesome looking truck wanting to make sure the listing was real New Creation 517 dries up to Upstate New York and meets the guy it turns out he used to work in a factory and for some reason he had a bunch of 1992 trains along with even more chassisless bills in 2022 red Mavis was purchased from a user named Patty although I have my suspicion that the red Thomas is a speckled coal red Thomas Still Remains a mystery milch wagon mil dragon is a German Mill tanker made from Bandai Bandai is a Japanese toy company which distributed Thomas Wooden Railway products to Germany they were distinctive in that they used their own unique boxes rather than the standard boss's learning curve we're using at the time these bosses had descriptions for all the items written in German on the back as well as an exclusive pamphlet some items like the milchtanker set of five signs and Soda Bay cargo ship had their unique twist to it speckle coal speckle coils are normally referred to Thomas and Percy and they were the last run that was made from the US although Edward Henry Gordon were already speckled from their tenders there was a speckled coal variant for these trains as well Thomas and Percy not only had the speckle coal feature but they had an outline Tudor roof that was unique to the run there are variants where Edward Henry Gordon all have partial roof thus instead of speckle coal I personally referred him as the roof outline variant sticker Bill and Ben Bill and Ben was one of the first mistakes learning curve made during his early years of making Thomas Bell and Ben were supposedly the first trainees that were receiving graphics on a curved area therefore learning curve had to buy a different pad printer however the shipment not being there on time and the release date coming soon learning curve had no choice but to print out sticker decals for the bill and then the production was short lasted because a week later the printers arrived sticker Bill and Ben is known to be one of the rarer trains and the ones that exist are in bad condition where the stickers are all ripped off breakfast Thomas disappearing The Disappearance of breakfast Thomas is a story that occurred in the year 2013 rewinding back Avengers of Thomas always included the three items Winter Wonderland Thomas paint splatter Thomas and Thomas comes to breakfast with the extra covers on the side it was easily the most well-crafted train among the three however in 2013 Mattel replaced the breakfast Thomas with the stinky fish Thomas painted eyes painted eyes is an iceberg on the production of the very first Thomas trains ever made some trains made in 1992 had white paint layered on the eyes before the pain of the pupil these trains were mainly skinny stack trains also known as version 1 trains however it is known that Gordon never had a painted eye variant while Percy had painted eyes up till version 3. in 2021 a user known as Bassman said that during the production the contractors were getting paid hourly does not having anything good to do workers started hitting the ice possibly more percies and no Gordons Hospital anomalies the hospital anomaly is a story behind why they had to get rid of the Red Cross from the ambulance in 2021 a user named generic tweeted out that the ambulance had to read redesign due to the violation of the Geneva Convention the Geneva Convention states that the Red Cross symbol is only to be used for real medical facilities does usage for toys was technically a violation this quite obscure how they didn't use the cross on the Prototype but only when they released it row of's rebuilding Main Street scenery is a canceled product seen on the backs of original boxes for the circus train Henry's tunnel pedestrian bridge Soder lock loader and the double crossover track they appear to be entirely wooden with sticker decals like other destinations and there are two variants to it Dan Schrock Dan Schrock is a story about a photographer that lost a lawsuit against learning curve the year was 1999 when shrop began his Direct business with learning curve Schrock would create product photographs of his toy for marketing purposes this is where the story diverges into two shrock claims that the picture is taken could only be used for a period of two years for product packaging and for specific product annual catalogs and any use beyond the term authorized by the license would trigger additional fee payments on the other side learning curve recalls a different sequence of events learning group stated that the content of license was that Schrock Legrand learning curve an unlimited license for use with the exception of national advertising the lawsuit continued on till the year 2004 where Dan Schrock reveals information he shouldn't have released and loses the lawsuit Road switch the road switch is a rare trapeze that was on display table and pretty rare kabaya kabaya is a tokyo-based confessionary company founded in 1946. it is known for making Thomas and Friends seem sweet such as chocolate sticks and Candy but kabaya alongside made Thomas trains which were sold along with the Suites rotary snowplow Gordon's snow machine is a canceled truck based on the episode snow the item never Advanced beyond the Prototype stage the Prototype uses a modified version of Duck's chassis and the blower fan rotates similar to Dustin talking Railway Series commonly referred to their defining gold magnets these rfid-based trains would be recognized by name at certain destinations these would not last long as new characters could not be added into existing destinations leaving a hero's farewell set without a hero yep that is a Spencer there were some characters that went unmade but were programmed into destinations such as Gordon duck and Mighty Mac this late mine the Slate mind is a canceled destination that never made it to the market it would load slates into a truck and push them down a hill it came with a slate cargo and looked like a mining elevator Holiday Station the holiday train station is a canceled destination in the holiday collection it features a small two-dimensional station with a working in lights and a Christmas tree which would have played a festive tune with the Christmas Thomas instead it was replaced by the holiday tunnel Thomas the very first Edward the very first Edward is a story about this Edward in 2022 a user named dawnless engine buys a lot and discovers this Edward the pattern of the red stripes did not match the usual Edward and the body was not circular but had a lump at the Top This is a constant model for Edward and it also has the same feature thus I'm at the belief that this ever could be one of the very first Everest made in Thomas Wooden Railway gold battery Thomas a golden battery Thomas first appears online in 2022 it first appears on Yahoo Japan and got sold for 75 dollars it brought up the question is this a factory sample and curious if this was true or not I bought the hype functionality wise this Thomas was twice as fast and the other battery operated Thomas's and lasted five to ten times longer than the other trains however a few minutes later a username kublai1969 shared this poster debunking that the item is fake although it had the codes imprinted the flatter magnets and the toolings for the ulterior was a dead giveaway that it wasn't an official item Hero's Hideout pack cancel track pack from hero to rails nearly nothing is known about this pack except for the name yes there are no pictures in 2021 wow much think commented wait what proof is there of this item canceled existence and Thomas Wooden Railway which he responded the pyramid the answer to this question is not who's included but who's excluded it's not clear who started this philosophy or if it was a conscious decision or not but it all starts with erdel dumping less popular characters in multipass and learning curve including new characters with sets as exclusives to three packs three consumer wants a-listers and roundhouse said is a good example for it Thomas B a tier Henry and Birdie being beat here and Scarlet Rusty Duke foreseethier the rank is built like a pyramid while us fans value all of these trains consumers value Thomas Percy and James Moore character distribution was a way to create value in playsets and multi-pass while still being able to sell the lower tier trains however nowadays in multi-packs we see a lot more sets that includes only 8 tiers or couple B tiers along with the a-listers Troublesome Lockhart Troublesome Lockhart is a Lockhart links Troublesome Truck with obscure looking chassis probably a leftover part of the Troublesome Truck that was never used Cal on the line derived from the TV show the Prototype cow on the line was made on May 14 1993. buy a packaging company called clearfold learning curve used PVC wood to make these cows after careful examination the cows have more meticulous details George first appearing on the episode of Steamroller George was released six years later in Thomas Wooden Railway but it was actually in the making since the beginning this is the prototype for George holes on the bottom 1992 signs trees and water tankers have holes on the bottom this was because they used a rotating stencil to evenly distribute the paint single Stone tunnel the single Stone tunnel had a hand-drawn 2D artwork for its prototype the production model has one less tree than the Prototype and the bush that was initially green is red I believe there were at least two to three more different artworks before the actual production sir tottenham's car the sir Topamax car is known to be a blue car but for whatever reason the learning curve makes it yellow at first glance the following models look the same but that's not the case this is a 1993 production while this is in 1994. 1993 models have black license plates learning curve train wheels on Sharp edges while 1994 had unique Wheels white license plate and beveled edges this train in the middle have a beveled edge and a white license plate but uses learning curves train Wheels which could mean it's a hybrid but then the sir Topamax car was also shaped differently than the other vehicles after the year 1994 sir Topman car was never seen again at least till 2008 when they actually came up with a redesign the 2008 prototyper top NASCAR uses Caroline's chassis and features a more rounded full wooden body the windmill the very first windmill was made on January 11th 19 1993 the blade was made out of wood and had white graphic decals while the production model have boss cap covering the nails the Protime model uses a screw Imaginarium if the 2000s had Toys R Us the 90s had Imaginarium the spanner was once used in imaginarian toy store to promote Thomas Wooden Railway some of the 1992 to 1997 packaged Wooden Railway merchandise had Imaginarium barcodes on the Wooden Railway Packaging Neiman Marcus Neiman Marcus is a high-end retail mall that sells high-end Brands how did Thomas Wooden Railway get involved in 2015 they were planning to release a 1500 playset that plan never came to 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Published: Sun Aug 27 2023