Vanguard 5374 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Quote Thomas the Tank Engine™ is on the move! Model railroad manufacturers Bachmann Trains USA and Bachmann Europe are pleased to announce an expanded licensing agreement with Mattel through which Bachmann has been granted rights to distribute HO scale Thomas & Friends™ products in the United Kingdom and Ireland. As worldwide distributors of Thomas products, Bachmann’s global network encompasses Canada, Mexico, and the United States in North American; Argentina, Brazil, and Chile in South America; most countries in Europe; several countries in the Middle East; and Australia, New Zealand, China, and Hong Kong. In addition to HO scale, Bachmann’s Thomas & Friends™ products are offered in HO Narrow Gauge and Large Scale, with a new N scale line to be offered in early 2020. For retail purchases in the UK and Ireland, a full selection of Thomas & Friends™ electrically operated ready-to-run train sets and locomotives plus rolling stock, buildings, figures, and other accessories can be ordered now through the Bachmann USA web store, shop.bachmantrains.com. Additional retail availability in the UK and Ireland will be ready for rollout in 2020. This means that if you live in the UK or Ireland, you can order NOW from our web store. The products will be available from retailers located in the UK and Ireland in 2020. https://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php/topic,35787.0.html As a narrow gauge modeller, the fact that we will have models of Talyllyn and Dolgoch available to buy in model shops here is amazing. I'm hoping the upcoming N gauge Percy is a completely new chassis design too. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 HO Gauge!! Who'd have thought the first British HO Gauge range since the heady days of Lima would be Thomas the Tank Engine. If they are doing N Gauge as well does that mean Tomix has exited the range too? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 I can finally get some Stroudley coaches a bit cheaper!!! (Hopefully...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZjr Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 The thread title suggests an OO release but the text suggests an HO release. Do you have any more information on this? Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapford34102 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Have a look here https://shop.bachmanntrains.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=756 Stu Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 I can't see Bachmann Europe being capable of tooling up a complete range of Thomas in OO just for the UK when the rest of the world will be perfectly ok with HO? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 (edited) If one actually looks, the Bachmann Thomas range includes many ex-Mainline 00 scale items and the locos have been tooled to match. Therefore they're already mostly 00, in some cases larger than 00, slightly. Edited April 17, 2019 by sem34090 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZjr Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Not yet on the Bachmann Europe website, there is however a link to the Thomas and friends website. Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denbridge Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 6 minutes ago, woodenhead said: I can't see Bachmann Europe being capable of tooling up a complete range of Thomas in OO just for the UK when the rest of the world will be perfectly ok with HO? If you look at the "HO" range, the wagons clearly originate from the Bachmann Branchlines "OO" range. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 1 hour ago, woodenhead said: I can't see Bachmann Europe being capable of tooling up a complete range of Thomas in OO just for the UK when the rest of the world will be perfectly ok with HO? The rest of the world is perfectly happy living in ignorance (or really doesn't care) that the 'H0' Thomas models they're being sold by Bachmann are actually '00'. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YesTor Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 1 minute ago, BernardTPM said: The rest of the world is perfectly happy living in ignorance (or really doesn't care) that the 'H0' Thomas models they're being sold by Bachmann are actually '00'. Interesting... so how long before the Europeans realize that they are playing with 'overscale' trains on 'scale' track... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Well, they won't notice much size difference if they've already got Hornby Thomas stock... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingTrainLover Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Just to clarify, the Bachmann TTTE “HO” range is actually scaled OO, this can be seen by measuring the buffer width, and the fact that they use ex-mainline tooling for many of the range’s rolling stock. It’s sold HO cause the vast majority of people don’t know what OO is, but they still including a little bit of info on the packaging that says “HO/OO gauge”. Same goes for the TTTE NG stock, as many of you already are aware, which is sold as HOn30 but actually scaled 009. That said, Large scale range is a bit of a disappointment, well, for Gauge 1 modelers though they probably already know this. The LS range is scaled G3, an odd decision, as I still think G1 would’ve been perfectly fine for children, and given them a bit of an extra market in G1 conversions etc. The new N scale range scaling isn’t known yet, whether it’ll be scaled to a larger scale like the Tomix TTTE N scale range or scaled to British N remains to be seen. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted April 18, 2019 Moderators Share Posted April 18, 2019 Confirmation from Bachmann Europe - Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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