Thomas Merch you've (probably) never heard of.

i remember my grandpa buying me a Märklin Thomas to use on his layout. it was a fairly small german branchline like layout but somehow thomas fitted in pretty well on a layout designed for small german/swiss tank engines and railbusses. i remember the he later got 2 generic green marklin coaches which i used as annie and clarabell. to this day that Thomas is the only Märklin Thomas product ive ever seen.

I can’t believe the Woody Capsule toys haven’t made it into a cursed merch vid there’s something so off about them

I remember last year at a train show I stumbled upon a Shining Time RC set that included a figure 8 track with a tunnel, Toby, Henrietta, and a troublesome truck, never knew that existed!

2:45 seeing Spencer with a 4-4-2 wheel arrangement is just a cursed thing! I mean, he’s a bloody PACIFIC! not an Atlantic!

There's one japanese brand that made T&F merch that was really accurate to the TVS. They looked so cool, worked kinda like a scale model, but they functioned with a magic wand. I hope you search for them!

It's surprising how realistic the faces on the IR Thomas and Percy are. Not even Hornby could get faces that accurate to the model series.

Someone needs to get one of those padlocks for The Lock Picking Lawyer. They're probably more secure than a Masterlock 😂

I remember having this brand of Thomas characters that were sold in the checkouts back in the day. They were small cheap plastic toys with hidden wheels inside them, and they had the same moulds as their Take-Along models.

Tomy, Capsule, early trackmaster, and Plarail are the best hands downs. I remember coming home from school and making a different track running down my hallway everyday. Good times 😢

I love small scale figurines, so I absolutely loved the My Busy Books toys. They were so satisfying to hold, especially James and Thomas, and the hard rubbery texture was so satisfying to feel. I remember playing with them outside in the dry dirt or in small gravel that looked like coal, I rarely ever used the playmat they came with. The originals were so soft, you could cut them with a razor blade and make your own engines, or just separate the tenders like I did. Sadly, the second book changed the material to a hallow hard plastic mold, which was less appealing to play with, and was prone to warping.

Micro rubber engines is one of my rememberable childhood stuff in the 2010’s. Sadly, I’ve somehow or elsewhere loss them. I’ll not forget.

0:24 That's how I got into TTTE. I had collectable railway Charlie, Thomas and James. (and mega blocks Peter Sam and Rusty lol)

5:08 “there were also road vehicles” proceeds to list helicopter and boat

You just unlocked a core memory I had lost so long ago. Pulling out that plastic mat and the little rubber engines was so fun to me, but i could never fold the mat back right and the book would never close fully 😅. Thank you so much for digging that back up

I remember when I was 4 years old, there was a big book fair. With only 10 dollars in my pocket I got Thomas and friends book with the Mirco rubber engines in the book. Unfortunately I do not have the book but I still have the engines , including Annie and Clarabel.

I've seen a couple of these before. That iR Thomas set looks pretty cool.

I have the old busy book set, so much nostalgia

Fun fact: I own the first two iterations of the micro rubber engines and I can say with confidence that they look a bit different between releases, with the second iteration generally having less detail. So here's a list of (off the top of my head) stuff they changed (Also I'll just be calling them series 1 and 2 for simplicity): Series 2's returning engines don't have cab windows for the engines that had them, painted eyes, painted buffers, the paint on their faces looks a bit worse, and their colours are brighter. Series 1's James had bronze side rods. Yeah I can't be bothered to go get them and actually have a look at them to see if anything else is different.

4:53 We need to get the Lock Picking Lawyer to pick one of these.

Can't lie, I wish I still had all my ERTL stuff... I had loads, but my mum gave them all away, including some limited edition ones and the big Thomas carry case. 😭😭😭 Back in the days when toys were indestructible and hurt (if thrown at you by a sibling).