The Everything Thomas Topic

[JacobSK]

Happy to see Duck make it to the range. One of my favorite Bachmann models. He's a popular character with a simple, yet charming design. The crucial question: will they fix his buffer housings and paint them in their proper red?

Daisy is awesome, too. Didn't see her coming and it's a bit left field, but glad all the same. Since the UK range is DCC Ready, I'm willing to bet they chose Daisy because her model is easy to take apart and put a decoder into.

SCRuffey is not surprising, but it makes you wonder if they're going to do like they did with Annie and Clarabel. Update his livery to look more like the large scale and N scale counterparts or leave him as is. If Bachmann UK do to SCRuffey what they did to Annie and Clarabel, I'll gladly import one over here to the States, like I did with Thomas' coaches.

Terence is welcome. Fruit & Veg van...okay. I personally would've chosen the Blue Vent Van, but that's just me.

It seems that Bachmann UK does Thomas stuff every two years. 2020, the range was introduced, 2022 we got Edward and Henry (and Bertie and Harold) and this year, Duck and Daisy (with everything else).

Either way, glad to see the Thomas range acknowledged with a solid lineup!

[Mulfred100]

Happy to see Duck make it to the range. One of my favorite Bachmann models. He's a popular character with a simple, yet charming design. The crucial question: will they fix his buffer housings and paint them in their proper red?

Daisy is awesome, too. Didn't see her coming and it's a bit left field, but glad all the same. Since the UK range is DCC Ready, I'm willing to bet they chose Daisy because her model is easy to take apart and put a decoder into.

SCRuffey is not surprising, but it makes you wonder if they're going to do like they did with Annie and Clarabel. Update his livery to look more like the large scale and N scale counterparts or leave him as is. If Bachmann UK do to SCRuffey what they did to Annie and Clarabel, I'll gladly import one over here to the States, like I did with Thomas' coaches.

Terence is welcome. Fruit & Veg van...okay. I personally would've chosen the Blue Vent Van, but that's just me.

It seems that Bachmann UK does Thomas stuff every two years. 2020, the range was introduced, 2022 we got Edward and Henry (and Bertie and Harold) and this year, Duck and Daisy (with everything else).

Either way, glad to see the Thomas range acknowledged with a solid lineup!

That's a good point I forgot about Duck's buffer housing. I've got the lot pre ordered so I'll post photos and try to point out any differences they have.

I think I'm the only one happy with the Fruit and veg van. Been wanting to grab once since they were announced but always seem to fall at the bottom of the list when I'm placing an order. Being more readily available I kinda now don't have an excuse

[Chaz]

Daisy is awesome, too. Didn't see her coming and it's a bit left field, but glad all the same. Since the UK range is DCC Ready, I'm willing to bet they chose Daisy because her model is easy to take apart and put a decoder into.

Now THAT would make perfect sense. I could see that being the case for why Daisy was picked over Emily and Diesel.  I also agree on the potential updates on Duck and S.C. Ruffey too.  That would be a really nice bonus!

[DustyMarie53!]

I think I'm the only one happy with the Fruit and veg van. Been wanting to grab once since they were announced but always seem to fall at the bottom of the list when I'm placing an order. Being more readily available I kinda now don't have an excuse

Apparently, people don't really like this van and I don't particularly get why? It's easily my favorite of the preexisting ones that aren't recent additions. Love seeing it thrown some love.

[DustyMarie53!]

Bachmann Tallylyn has now been released. Not directly Thomas related but still nice to see, wonder when the coaches will hit

[RailsByRick]

Bachmann Tallylyn has now been released. Not directly Thomas related but still nice to see, wonder when the coaches will hit

Nice to see Talyllyn has arrived. I would've thought they'd be in the same shipment as the Thomas stuff supposedly releasing this month, but there's no indication of that at the moment. On the New Model Monday stream, Matt said Rebecca is "on the water" at the moment, even though I thought these were being shipped air freight to ensure delivery for the holidays. Might've just misspoke or used a general term. Regardless, I'm dying to get ahold of the new N scale items.

[harrison05]

Matt said Rebecca is "on the water" at the moment, even though I thought these were being shipped air freight to ensure delivery for the holidays. Might've just misspoke or used a general term.

So is Rebecca in trouble again?

[DustyMarie53!]

Nice to see Talyllyn has arrived. I would've thought they'd be in the same shipment as the Thomas stuff supposedly releasing this month, but there's no indication of that at the moment. On the New Model Monday stream, Matt said Rebecca is "on the water" at the moment, even though I thought these were being shipped air freight to ensure delivery for the holidays. Might've just misspoke or used a general term. Regardless, I'm dying to get ahold of the new N scale items.

They said they were doing two separate shipments, the air drop one to ensure delivery by the holidays but also a later shipment of the rest of the batch. It's possible they sent the second batch out already, but I do think it's more likely he simply mispoke because this simply isn't how Bachmann typically ships things out, so he'd be used to saying things like on the water. I will say Trainworld has all 11 products that are supposed to be in the air shipment set to release on the 16th and these also aren't the normal guys who talk about the Thomas line. Unless something substantial changes I'd go off of that. They haven't updated their Tallylyn pages yet so it's possible said 11 items drop a day or 2 early as well.

[Awesometrain77]

Daisy was a shock ngl .
I do really think we need to see work on salty improvements happen soon it's been a long time .
Anyway I am shocked we have not seen the N scale express coaches it's been a while since we have known they were in the design phase .

[DustyMarie53!]

With the express coaches I imagine part of it is still they haven't quite figured out how they're going to tackle them. They said they started the design phase but also in the same streams will say they haven't. Also, as of last update they still haven't figured out how they want to handle the body. I think that update was a bit ago so perhaps things have changed but have a feeling they might have prioritized the November batch + Hannah and the train set for the time being. I'd suspect an update to be given soonish but I'm not particularly shocked we have yet to see them yet with the design decisions they have to make.

[JLK2707]

I may get more than one Bachmann N Scale Gordon, since I might just wish to modify one into Flying Scotsman.

[Awesometrain77]

I do believe Scottsman actually could happen because Mattel has paid rights to make merchandise of him and third-party companies, such as Takara Tomy have made him so he could definitely happen him appearing in the railway series also makes him a good bet .

[JLK2707]

So is this just some exception to the stupid CGI only mandate?

[DustyMarie53!]

With the express coaches I imagine part of it is still they haven't quite figured out how they're going to tackle them. They said they started the design phase but also in the same streams will say they haven't. Also, as of last update they still haven't figured out how they want to handle the body. I think that update was a bit ago so perhaps things have changed but have a feeling they might have prioritized the November batch + Hannah and the train set for the time being. I'd suspect an update to be given soonish but I'm not particularly shocked we have yet to see them yet with the design decisions they have to make.

Logging back in quickly to say the N express coaches only went up for preorder at the end of August (on the 31st exactly), which is when they get the estimates back from the factory and start actual production after that, so I'd expect to see an unpainted sample around the winter time probably. Personally really excited to see them. I don't personally collect N but I have friends that do so I'm always really happy for them when products get shown off. I will be buying Henrietta though. I have her other CGI toys, a shame there were only three before this but look forward to adding a fourth to my collection.

On their facebook Bachmann has also confirmed the TR coaches are shipping early next year for anyone here who is interested in those. Trainworld has also confirmed there will be a Thomas Tuesday this week so look forward to seeing some product updates

[Awesometrain77]

Okay glad to see that Thomas Tuesday is not skipping November . I do think we will see Stanley and the finalized figures in packaging .