The Everything Thomas Topic

[TrainFan97]

I guess the October Trainworld stream won't be until next week, since it's not happening tonight.

It could be painted samples of Stanley, Narrow Gauge High-Side Wagons, or the first unpainted sample of the Narrow Gauge Gondola. One of the latter two is most likely. Still hoping we'll see N Scale Gordon in the package, or even N Scale Emily in the package as well. Don't know if we'll see HO Scale Rebecca in the package just yet. Still hoping it's possible we'll see an unpainted sample of N Scale Diesel/Paxton by the end of the year. We know progress has been made on the N Scale Express Coaches.

Sometimes, the stream is on a different day of the week.

[harrison05]

When will N Scale Gordon and Emily begin shipping btw, is there a date yet or not???

[Awesometrain77]

I wanna say the DCC Thomas large scale and the Emily set will be out before Christmas as that's the time sets like those will make a ton of money.
I want to also predict that rebeccca Gordon and the 12 ton vans will be out before Christmas.

Oct Thomas Tuesday is hopefully when we can see high side wagons and N scale express coaches . Hopefully we will see some item in package such as Rebecca or the 12 ton vans . They could also do a run down of all the products that have yet to be released.

[Mulfred100]

In February I did a list of what was in the pipeline and where things currently.
painted sample/awaiting shipping
Rebecca (HO)
Figures (HO) however they were getting some imperfections fixed
12 Ton Vans (HO)
Sir Topham's car (HO)
Slate wagons (009)
Gordon (N)
Emily (N)
Emily's coaches (N)
Henrietta (N)
Hannah (N)
Unpainted samples
Stanley (HO)
Sir Handel (009)
High sided wagons (009)
Not yet shown/in early production
Sidney (HO)
Mainland Diesel (HO)
Open coach (HO)
Flatbed with oil drums (HO) (mock up shown)
Tar tanker (HO) (mock up shown)
China clay wagon (HO) (mock up shown)
Bulgy (HO)
Duncan (009)
Narrow gauge Gondolas (009)
D-fusit/gunpowder wagons (009)
Diesel (N)
Paxton (N)
Henry (N)
Express Coaches (N)
20ton Brake van (N)
I think that's everything besides Salty and the DCC stuff

[RailsByRick]

A painted sample of STH's car was shown on last month's stream.

I believe Beau was the only new TTTE release from Bachmann so far this year, and there's just a few months left. It's been pretty dry, and I hope some of these new products make their way to the market before too long.

[Mulfred100]

A painted sample of STH's car was shown on last month's stream.

I believe Beau was the only new TTTE release from Bachmann so far this year, and there's just a few months left. It's been pretty dry, and I hope some of these new products make their way to the market before too long.

Oh yeah, listed adjusted for my error.
Well there's 22 items at the painted sample stage so I think it's safe to assume some of that will be released in the run up to Xmas. 18 individual items (some obviously contain the same tooling) yet to be unveiled and 5 at the sample stage.

[harrison05]

Oh yeah, listed adjusted for my error.
Well there's 22 items at the painted sample stage so I think it's safe to assume some of that will be released in the run up to Xmas. 17 individual items (some obviously contain the same tooling) yet to be unveiled and 5 at the sample stage.

you forgot Duncan too.

[DustyMarie53!]

Trainworld just sent an email saying Duncan is cancelled. Internal error of some sort or the real deal? Unsure. But asking here is an option


https://twitter.com/Sidekickjason/status/1843732331846349264

[TrainFan97]

The Trainworld Stream is tonight and new pre-production samples will be shown.

But there's some worrying news. There's rumors that Duncan is cancelled. That can't be true. Narrow Gauge can't be complete without him. That has to be an error. He is also no longer listed on Trainworld.

I guess we won't know for sure until either an admin steps in, or it gets mentioned on tonight's stream.

[Chaz]

Well, the stream definitely left more of a good impression on me than not despite the unfortunate news about Duncan, which I will talk about in a minute.

It's really nice seeing the revisions made on the Talyllyn locomotives And I am really surprised by how the High side wagons turned out fully painting! Hopefully we will see a painted sample of Sir Handel before too long as well as the gunpowder vans and the gondolas from a few summers ago.

As for Duncan, this might be an unpopular opinion, but I think Bachmann made a good call with this one. I am a little bit surprised that pricing was going to be an issue for Duncan since he has a lot more of a plain design compared to the rest of the engines, including Rusty.  The lack of appeal with Duncan's CGI design though, is a more than understandable call to cancelling the project, so I think that was a bullet dodged for Bachmann.

That being said, I still believe that despite Duncan being canceled that Bachmann still needs to hold off on adding more narrow gauge announcements until they make more progress on Sir Handel and the rest of the OO9 rolling stock first.  If they do end up announcing a new locomotive anytime soon I would rather see them do Luke before reconsidering Duncan for the reasons Doug explained earlier but that might just be me.


Either way, lots of exciting products are finally getting released this year and I'm excited for the HO vans, Sir Topham Hatt's car, the Talyllyn models and all of the upcoming N scale products!  As always excited for more updates in the future.  Hopefully a painted sample of Stanley or Sir Handel isn't that far off from the future.

[Awesometrain77]

Tbh I can't belive Duncan was cancelled I am in shock but I guess it's a good excuse. Granted we are getting a $200 dollar model of one of the most hated characters in the whole franchise but what ever .
Now this means Victor can't happen as his basis is standard gauge .
Millie also can't as she has a added coal bunker .
As a result Luke is the only engine left for them to do .
They also can do 4 plank wagons , many types of flatbeds , art transporters , and tipper wagons

This is sad but I get these things need to be sold and if they don't they can't make them .

[TrainFan97]

Unfortunately, it is true that Duncan was cancelled. The reason for this is that the cost was too high, and that he doesn't resemble his real-life counterpart enough to really make it worth the investment. They even had him up for pre-order with a price! I had a bad feeling this was the case. That begs the question: Is Sir Handel really going to be the last Narrow Gauge engine? Duncan was cancelled because his CGI render really strayed too much away from his real life counterpart. So, they were going to base him off his infamous CGI render. We can only hope he's not totally dead, and that it doesn't mean he will NEVER be made. With enough demand, maybe he will be reconsidered one day, but they will have to base him off of Douglas if he gets reconsidered. They eventually did make Large Scale Diesel, who was also cancelled, but eventually saw light of day, so there's a chance. Narrow Gauge can't be complete without Duncan, and he has to be reconsidered, but on one condition: that he's actually made with the proportions of Douglas.

On a more positive note, this month's reveal was the Narrow Gauge High-Side Wagons fully painted. Still no N Scale Gordon shown in the package, but Talyllyn was, and the Talyllyn variants should arrive in stock soon.

[JLK2707]

Happy 40th anniversary Thomas and Gordon!

[Coaltronn]

did they say when they were releasing the talylln engines?

[DustyMarie53!]

did they say when they were releasing the talylln engines?

They did not, however they should be soon since they are in boxes. Assume they will be in the early 2025 Bachmann shipment with the rest of the November release first batch and the Emily set since they said that was too big for the partial shipments they are doing with everything else.