F-UnitMad Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 4 hours ago, Sir TophamHatt said: Every night we read at least 4 books together where now he's starting to point out certain things and say what they are, and even makes efforts to count them. Sounds like a great opportunity to introduce him to the "real" Thomas books. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted November 8, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 8, 2021 (edited) Reading this thread is down right depressing. It's very very sad what has happened to Thomas, it was the horrible American accents they have given to the engines that finally inspired me to type something up. I'm just at that age to be lucky enough to have read Thomas the Tank Engine books as a kid. My favorite two stories have always been the very first one where Thomas forgets to couple up to the train and the race with Bertie The Bus. (I still love the idea of having a banking engine on the layout and of course buses will never win). Having said that I'd like to raise a point. Stories! Kids learn from bed time stories. I read them to my boy and hopefully he'll have a kid of his own one day and will follow suit. It seems to me that something more valuable has been lost here despite all the lets cash in mentality. How did it come to it that these fantastic stories handed down through the pages of the late Rev. W. Awdry have found their way onto the big screen in such a pathetic manner which I truly hope doesn't kill the legacy by having made things down right babyish. One thing we must not forget is that the stories still exist. They can still be read to kids at bed time for generations to come and some of those kids will hopefully get inspired by them, I know my kid did as did my nephew over here. He received the books as a Christmas gift from his uncle after I hunted them down on eBay for a sensible price. What's more is that at the local train show in Medford it's amazing how many youngsters recognize a lot of my trains from the Thomas series. Perhaps the new owners of the franchise might have been better off investing in a reprint of the stories or even paying Christopher Awdry to write some new ones; or both! Just to restore some faith then, here's my nephew Zane at the services on Interstate 5 in Sothern Oregon a few years back; after his mom pulled in for a pee. I doubt as a 5 year old he would grasp the sheer volume of luck he had that day. Regards to all Shaun. Edited November 8, 2021 by Sasquatch After all these years I have noticed that's a plywood mock up! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted November 8, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 8, 2021 Remember the days when you could actually read the titles at the end? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium OnTheBranchline Posted January 14, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2022 For me, Thomas & Friends died after Series 4 when they stopped using Awdry's stories. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheatley Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 On 12/09/2021 at 20:57, RJS1977 said: Instead we wound up in the ludicrous situation where the rights holders for the TV series were able to compel Christopher to stop writing, and to prevent the re-publication of the books in their original format! No-one made him sell the rights. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 35 minutes ago, Wheatley said: No-one made him sell the rights. True, but I can't think of any other case of film/TV rights to literary works being sold that have wound up with the author/their estate being prevented from writing further works - e.g. the Agatha Christie estate commissioned a new Poirot story a while back, the Fleming estate have commissioned various continuation novels. As I said, all I can think was Wilbert either didn't get sufficient legal advice, or was badly advised. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 15, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15, 2022 1 hour ago, RJS1977 said: True, but I can't think of any other case of film/TV rights to literary works being sold that have wound up with the author/their estate being prevented from writing further works - e.g. the Agatha Christie estate commissioned a new Poirot story a while back, the Fleming estate have commissioned various continuation novels. As I said, all I can think was Wilbert either didn't get sufficient legal advice, or was badly advised. Or maybe just never conceived of such an outcome? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium OnTheBranchline Posted February 4, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2022 On 08/11/2021 at 16:28, F-UnitMad said: Sounds like a great opportunity to introduce him to the "real" Thomas books. With the wildly inaccurate paintings of Reg Dalby??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 14 minutes ago, OnTheBranchline said: With the wildly inaccurate paintings of Reg Dalby??? At least the stories were realistic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium OnTheBranchline Posted May 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2022 The art by Peter and Gunvor Edwards in the later books is the best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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