Have you noticed...

Narrowgauge111 · February 08, 2012, 04:47:02 PM

.. how we have been introduced to engines that only show up once or twice, and then we never see them again?I haven't seen the show in a while, but i don't think certain characters have reappeared, but for instance.... Dennis? Neville?Hector?

speculate amongst yourselves...

ShadowMonk · February 08, 2012, 05:57:43 PM

Isn't Molly another one? I maybe wrong, but I have barely seen any HiT episodes to know if it is true or not.

Thumper was another character back when Britt was the owner.

Calebtrain · February 08, 2012, 06:24:58 PM

Many characters are just one-off. For example. (Some will be previously mentioned)
Billy
Hank
Flora
Dennis
Molly
Neville
Sidney
Scruff
and many more were introduced purely for merchandise and money.

therailwayinspector · February 08, 2012, 06:52:13 PM

As will many more I'm sure...
*Shiny Shiny!*

Cheeky_ULP · February 08, 2012, 09:16:30 PM

Bulgy, Sir Handel for several seasons, Duke, Smudger, Derek, Thumper, Boulder, Horrid Lorries, Tiger Moth, Old Slow Coach, D261, Bulstrode, Caroline and Bertram. Heck some HiT era characters have had more appearances than some of the engines listed above. Even Butch just sat around on the sets doing nothing except being there. Hey, go buy Butch! He's the.. random car with a face, but buy anyway!

Cupix the Azelf · February 09, 2012, 12:19:46 AM

Quote from: Calebtrain on February 08, 2012, 06:24:58 PM
Many characters are just one-off. For example. (Some will be previously mentioned)
Billy
Hank
Flora
Dennis
Molly
Neville
Sidney
Scruff
and many more were introduced purely for merchandise and money.

Scruff ain't one-off. He appeared in a few episodes and might have a chance in appearing in more.

Narrowgauge111 · February 09, 2012, 10:49:01 AM

Ohhh, I forgot about molly,I liked her, and Bulgy was an absolute favorite of mine. come to think of it, has anybody seen George
? And add Caroline to the list

jettrainfan · February 09, 2012, 11:40:27 AM

I'd say dennis is easily a character for merchandise, along with molley, but she has made a good amount of cameos through the series. Bulgy made a come back, in a very clever way. I never thought they would've brought him back, and they gave him a happy ending with a lesson to learn.

D261... if you don't remeber, he insulted the engines quite a bit and almost made a passenger train late. The problem with him was his injector sucked up the inspector's hat, while this would be embarrassing on its own, the fact that he couldn't prove himself useful just made him look like a waste of time, explaining why he ran off at the end.

Derek had a similar problem. He had teething problems (THE DIESEL HAS A TOOTH ACHE?!). He could barely make it up Gorden's hill, running light! He did a good job with his train... till the hill and he probably blew something like the turbo, so he was sent home.

Bestrode really doesn't have a purpose anymore, he could possibly have a "second chance at life" like Bulgy had... but I don't think it'll happen. He had sunk, and heavy wagons dropping that far from the ground is going to do some serious damage. If you really wanted to have a "he's done for" scene, sir top hat can sink him for a marine reef project. (This is actually a common thing in NY & NJ)

Now an example of how NOT to end a character on the T&F series. Let's use Hank. He was sent to the island as a strong K4 american 4-6-2... good storyline for him. He likes to help... check. He helps Thomas in the end, all is happy and he never shows his face again! (As far as I know, I stopped at CGI) he litterly vanished, no cameos... no nothing. For all we know, he either went home, going through a major over haul, stuck in a shed.... or the great hand of modeling took him away to some place.

Now this last one is a good debate!

I never suspected much from hector, he wasn't like toad, where he was almost always assigned to one engine. He made his debut in hector the horrid and as far as I know, returned in the episode where james is taking coal. The story actually says they needed a lot of coal so they brought in hector. Think about it... brought in as an emergency extra because a town didn't have coal in the winter. I surely don't want to be using a huge hopper then need it for such a crisis. So he's probably in storage.

My point is, some characters have a reason they never showed up again, while others just vanished into thin air, never to be seen again in some cases! Let me know if there is another character that you'd like the ack story of and I'll gladly help explain.

RW James · February 09, 2012, 12:38:11 PM

[quote author=jettrainfan link=topic=19696.msg156840#msg156840 date=1328805627
Bulstrode really doesn't have a purpose anymore, he could possibly have a "second chance at life" like Bulgy had... but I don't think it'll happen. He had sunk, and heavy wagons dropping that far from the ground is going to do some serious damage. If you really wanted to have a "he's done for" scene, sir top hat can sink him for a marine reef project. (This is actually a common thing in NY & NJ)
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I thought he was left on the beach for the kids to play on...

ShadowMonk · February 09, 2012, 01:02:30 PM

Yes this is true. Although I think there isn't a good enough reason for him to come back

Shame though, he was a decent one off character I thought

Narrowgauge111 · February 09, 2012, 03:35:25 PM

has anybody seen Murdoch lately? I haven't seen any of those awful animated episodes.

ShadowMonk · February 09, 2012, 03:44:02 PM

Murdoch was in 2 Season 12 episodes (Just CGI face, model body), only 1 of the two episodes he has a speaking roll.

They were the last episodes he appeared in, I think it's a good thing he's not been in full CGI (yet...)

jettrainfan · February 09, 2012, 03:54:40 PM

Quote from: RW James on February 09, 2012, 12:38:11 PM
[quote author=jettrainfan link=topic=19696.msg156840#msg156840 date=1328805627
Bulstrode really doesn't have a purpose anymore, he could possibly have a "second chance at life" like Bulgy had... but I don't think it'll happen. He had sunk, and heavy wagons dropping that far from the ground is going to do some serious damage. If you really wanted to have a "he's done for" scene, sir top hat can sink him for a marine reef project. (This is actually a common thing in NY & NJ)

I thought he was left on the beach for the kids to play on...
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Yea, i was typing on my phone, forgot to mention that...whoops!

What i meant by second life was, Bulgy was used as a hen house and later became a vegetable bus. As for Bustorde, he was left on the beach for kids to play on, as you mentioned.

Cupix the Azelf · February 09, 2012, 07:59:57 PM

Quote from: Narrowgauge111 on February 09, 2012, 03:35:25 PM
has anybody seen Murdoch lately? I haven't seen any of those awful animated episodes.

It's not awfully aimated, it's quite well done. But it's the writing that needs to improves which will hopefully happen in the second half of Season 16 and for the rest ofthe Seasons to come.

Calebtrain · February 09, 2012, 08:10:45 PM

Quote from: Sparks on February 08, 2012, 09:16:30 PM
Bulgy, Sir Handel for several seasons, Duke, Smudger, Derek, Thumper, Boulder, Horrid Lorries, Tiger Moth, Old Slow Coach, D261, Bulstrode, Caroline and Bertram. Heck some HiT era characters have had more appearances than some of the engines listed above. Even Butch just sat around on the sets doing nothing except being there. Hey, go buy Butch! He's the.. random car with a face, but buy anyway!

Sir Handel wasn't one-off. He appeared in several seasons, including season 12. Not trying to be rude, I may have misunderstood, so correct me if I'm wrong.

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