The Everything Thomas Topic

[TrainFan97]

So the reason this month's stream was such a big deal was not so much the upcoming product reveals, which were just the unpainted sample of Sir Haydn and the Narrow Gauge High-Side Wagons packaged, but the big deal of this stream was that Doug Blaine is retiring. He will be missed. It was great having him do the reveals. Now, he's officially passing the torch to Matt Stern, who will be doing upcoming product reveals from now on.

The HO Scale figures are also not far off. Apparently, one of the Railway Personnel figures was modeled after Doug Blaine.

[Coaltronn]

it will be interesting to see if matt has the same sort of authority answers as Doug did.

[DustyMarie53!]

In the newest catalog stream from Trainworld Matt Stern gave some updates.

He said the RWS Thomas will NOT receive a new face because it isn't cost effective, but he will receive cosmetic updates to compensate, such as the eyebrows and pupils.

Sidney and Mainland Diesel are paired because Sidney takes cars to the mainland and the MD picks them up.

The new Milk Tank and Tar Tanker with have new bracings and chassis to better match the color from the CGI series rather than the existing black which is interesting.

They also said that N scale is more focused on the Thomas fans while HO is more for parents and kids. Also interesting.

They also talked a little bit about the China Clay wagon development and Henry being an all new tooling but not much new updates on that front.

Stanley update was also confirmed for the next stream. There were a few other brief product mentions going over everything from 2024 NMRA and 2025 catalog but those were the main highlights from a pretty lengthy stream.

[TRAINSROCK!]

I'm excited to see the new products released soon.

I'm heavily leaning on buying sidney and the mainland diesel. (though I hope they improve the face on both of them unlike how the ho paxton looked like. I am mixed on buying paxton I like the character but the face just is a issue with the model where the g guage and the soon n scale models got the face right).

and the tar wagon is a nice return (do want to buy 4 of them as they're always was four in a consist).

the new milk tanker I'll wait to see. (i already got the tidmoth milk tanker I bought one to go with daisy when she was finally released three years ago.  and I bought 3 more of them last month.  so I own four of them (maybe that's a little too much i just was hoping they'll keep the original milk tanker when the new one is released.  but maybe I'll see how the new one turns out and see weather to add four more for daisy).


I'm kind of hoping to see if they might re-release stuff that's been discontinued down the road. some of the items I thought of were arry and bert. (I actually bought them during lockdown five years ago and I got rid of them latter in favor for other products). but If they brought them back I'd say give them a different face so everyone can tell who's who. and no scratches as they both came with a scratch as I've seen reviews everyone seem to have the same issue as me. so maybe improvements over the original ones.

the other I thought of was the ice cream van. (I missed out with this one as I didn't start collecting the bachmann products 8 years ago). so I think this was a nice piece of rolling stock they should think of returning in the future. plus I thought of adding it to my consist for salty.

but I guess we'll see bachmann always amazes everyone with what they do.