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Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo
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Fri, 13 May 2005 08:38:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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A huge caveat is whether one
is a parent of young children or not. Having kids has a way of drawing
one into worlds in which one wouldn’t normally dwell or even be aware:-)
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No, I don’t have any myself, but believe it or not, I was one once. I also
had younger brothers, so received extended exposure.
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Yes, well, I was once young as well, but never even heard a, well, peep
about Thomas the Tank Engine until the PBS series “Shining Times Station”
which began airing in the US in 1989. It is that series which propelled
Thomas onto the world stage.
I never had much time for the show itself-- we purchased the VHS videos of
the Thomas stories sans the bromidic, “real people” parts.
JOHN
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I’m curious as to what this show consisted off. We had a TV series called
‘Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends’. It started with a theme tune featuring
shots including a side view of Thomas+Annie+Clarabel passing a windmill at the
moment the titles come up.
The engines were all large-scale moving models with wisps of steam, swappable
facial expressions and remote-controlled moving eyes. The people were wooden
posable painted toy figures.
You only ever saw the points, signals and vehicles move. Trains would move,
blow steam or roll their eyes, but the faces and human figures only ever changed
between cuts - they were never animated.
Is this what the ‘Shining Times’ series was?
Jason Railton
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| (...) Sort of. It was set in a train station, with human characters. One character (Ringo, initially), would tell a story (about Thomas et al) every now and then to some kids, and the show would cut to the large scale Thomas characters with the (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| (...) Yes, well, I was once young as well, but never even heard a, well, peep about Thomas the Tank Engine until the PBS series "Shining Times Station" which began airing in the US in 1989. It is that series which propelled Thomas onto the world (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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