i remember my grandpa buying me a Märklin Thomas to use on his layout. it was a fairly small german branchline like layout but somehow thomas fitted in pretty well on a layout designed for small german/swiss tank engines and railbusses. i remember the he later got 2 generic green marklin coaches which i used as annie and clarabell. to this day that Thomas is the only Märklin Thomas product ive ever seen.
I remember last year at a train show I stumbled upon a Shining Time RC set that included a figure 8 track with a tunnel, Toby, Henrietta, and a troublesome truck, never knew that existed!
There's one japanese brand that made T&F merch that was really accurate to the TVS. They looked so cool, worked kinda like a scale model, but they functioned with a magic wand. I hope you search for them!
I remember having this brand of Thomas characters that were sold in the checkouts back in the day. They were small cheap plastic toys with hidden wheels inside them, and they had the same moulds as their Take-Along models.
I remember I had loads trackmaster sets, My best memory is a GIANT track I made: There was one loop on the floor and a large loop that had varying levels, it was on the floor next to it and went up really high above the other loop and it went around it. I also remember putting all my trains of it and my mum recorded a timelapse of the layout so I could see the trains go around the loop really fast :)
Tomy, Capsule, early trackmaster, and Plarail are the best hands downs. I remember coming home from school and making a different track running down my hallway everyday. Good times 😢
SAME I made the best train sets and the characters looked so good and had so much fun playing with them all, now most of them are broken and the new trackmaster trains that all use the same body and run on the dumb grey track are just a joke.🙄 don't even get me started on "all engines go" I WILL NEVER buy or even LOOK at those toys. that is not Thomas and Friends! I WANT MATTLE TO GIVE THE THOMAS AND FRIENDS FRANCHISE TO SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT IT!!!
I remember when I was 4 years old, there was a big book fair. With only 10 dollars in my pocket I got Thomas and friends book with the Mirco rubber engines in the book. Unfortunately I do not have the book but I still have the engines , including Annie and Clarabel.
I love small scale figurines, so I absolutely loved the My Busy Books toys. They were so satisfying to hold, especially James and Thomas, and the hard rubbery texture was so satisfying to feel. I remember playing with them outside in the dry dirt or in small gravel that looked like coal, I rarely ever used the playmat they came with. The originals were so soft, you could cut them with a razor blade and make your own engines, or just separate the tenders like I did. Sadly, the second book changed the material to a hallow hard plastic mold, which was less appealing to play with, and was prone to warping.
Fun fact: I own the first two iterations of the micro rubber engines and I can say with confidence that they look a bit different between releases, with the second iteration generally having less detail. So here's a list of (off the top of my head) stuff they changed (Also I'll just be calling them series 1 and 2 for simplicity): Series 2's returning engines don't have cab windows for the engines that had them, painted eyes, painted buffers, the paint on their faces looks a bit worse, and their colours are brighter. Series 1's James had bronze side rods. Yeah I can't be bothered to go get them and actually have a look at them to see if anything else is different.
Imagine a parent going to work on day buying a bottle of Boss coffee and then going home to his kid toy like “ I got for you from my coffee this morning “
nostalgia hit me like a brick wall right around 8:16 like what happened to all the good toys 😔not at all referencing M * * * * * :) love the videos trainboy!
You just unlocked a core memory I had lost so long ago. Pulling out that plastic mat and the little rubber engines was so fun to me, but i could never fold the mat back right and the book would never close fully 😅. Thank you so much for digging that back up
For the coffee merch i have both the pull bacm ones ( Bell, Diesel, Diesel10, Hiro and James.) and the push along ones ( Percy with a banner, Charlie, Scruffy and 6 coaches with banners).
Can't lie, I wish I still had all my ERTL stuff... I had loads, but my mum gave them all away, including some limited edition ones and the big Thomas carry case. 😭😭😭 Back in the days when toys were indestructible and hurt (if thrown at you by a sibling).
I find it interesting. Also those rubber thomas bits? Ever heard of Ducking a jeep? See a parked jeep leave a rubber duck on the driver door handle. I would so do it with thomas.
When I was little, I had the boss Oliver, Jeremy, and, I believe, Gordon. I have no idea where I got them, nor where they are now, but it’s nice to finally see somebody shine some light on the little toys I’ve been so perplexed by for years.
7:26 looking at the remotes now they look like wii remotes Edit: I looked it up and these remotes came first before the wii remote that’s a bit………..odd to say the least……….
I know that finding every single obscure Thomas merch range but I was hoping that you'd mention one that I've been trying to find out if anyone knows about this particular range that came out in the UK around 2011. Found at my local Tesco, Hit also had other of their properties packaged this way but there were these navy blind boxes that had a superb quality, in both plastic and detail, Thomas character and some jelly beans. They had rollers on the bottom and had black couplings (L on front, loop on back). I've lost them all at this point including Rosie which I slipped under the gap of a broom closet door at a leisure centre. Hope this comment shines some light on this range and lets me know that I can't be the only one
Idk if you've covered them in other videos but there was a rare line of these like, wooden railway/take-n-play hybrid toys called Interactive Learning Railway. I had a couple of the sets growing up but I've barely seen anybody ever talk about them
I own 3 engines from a brand called "De Agostini". They looked similar to Ertl engines, except they were more detailed and were made of plastic unlike Ertl. The three engines I own from this brand are Edward, Henry and Percy. There's also another brand called "Limited Edition Collectables", they looked similar to Take'n'Play engines except they were made of plastics, their wheels were static and they had no magnets. I only ever owned Thomas.
this reminds me of two things 1-When I was little I was once given a culdee ertl but since I didn't know the brand I kept it but I never saw it again 2-I have an express car that I don't know what brand it is, and the bad thing is that nothing appears at the bottom
the konami IR train set looks to have continued past that into DigiQ trains so im wondering if anyone can check those out and see if the controls are also like that
Ngl I would love to have the R/C thomas and Percy range if they made more. It looks across between Trackmaster and 1/87 scale. It definitely looks interesting and it looks like something I would love to get as a kid.
I would of loved to buy the ir Thomas stuff if they made more of them, really sad the great looking merch isn't still around anymore besides Bachmann and I guess capsual thing but like the main 4 Thomas merch has all been discontinued which sucks
I seriously had a full collection of the rubber toys, but I was young and stupid and used to flush all of them down the toilet just for sick laughs. I still don’t know why I decided to.
5:14 I bought the Spencer and hiro pullback toys at a flea market close to where I live aka in the United States so knowing they were Japanese toys it makes me wonder how they ended up here🤷♂️
Bro the micro rubber engines take me back. I was so young and I think I had the first one and then years later my baby brother got the newest one. It came full circle basically
I saw some of the woody capsules in a lot with some capsules plarails and a few other things on eBay a few weeks ago, I believe there was a Thomas, lady, 3 Gordons and 2 James.
I love the miro rubber trains and I also have a micro rubber Santa fe super chief. I lost some of the rubber trains but the ones I still have are Emily, Bertie, thomas, edward, Spencer, Rosie, whiff, James, Mavis, and a Santa fe super chief. I also made custom paper coaches for the rubber trains
The micro engines are used to have back in my old school I think I was in Second grade They would let us have playtime so that was an option and these engines used to be one of the things you could play with
I grew up with early trackmaster. The Tomy steam along Thomas. And the early cgi talking trains. Best childhood ever. The rubber toys are a great. I used to recreate the scenes. But the current trackmaster toys lack detail.
I remember another certain branch of plastic Thomas merch where their wheels were molded on and they would have two rollers under their chassis tender engines would have the tenders connected at the back like a coal bunker. If anyone knows what these toys would be called, let me know
@@percyjamesthomasdog i wonder how much value mine would go for? They certainly aren’t collector quality, but now knowing their rarity is intriguing. Also, is our shipping prices that bad? Or is it the fact it’s international? Also shipping is just another way to increase the price to lure people in
@@LFPman their rarity is mostly uncommon to once a year finds and the shipping is the prices they are very high. The value is mostly in USD is $1 to $10 depending on the engine.
I still have a lot of wooden railway and take a long from my childhood- plus some ertl. Part of me wants to see them get a new home, though, and not sit in the closet lmao
I still have the second my busy book and I do enjoy playing with them as well as reading the book maybe someday I would like to get the rest of the my busy books.
Barns and noble. That is where I got my weird rubber trains. Try searching there if you are on the hunt for rubber small trains aka the weaker version of the ertl minis
I actually still have my DigiQTrain Series 500 Shinkansen from when I was a kid. Never got it to work tho. Want to grab it out of my closet when I have the chance.
@@ItsTrainBoy I think there well know in Japan but the line itself is pretty hard to find because from what i know they sell out quick and sometimes you can find bootleg ones
On Ebay I got 2 of the crazy Thomas robot sets that went together like Voltron. Crazy Asian knockoff. They have completely different packaging and slightly different details. Look it up, Thomas Voltron is real
i remember my grandpa buying me a Märklin Thomas to use on his layout. it was a fairly small german branchline like layout but somehow thomas fitted in pretty well on a layout designed for small german/swiss tank engines and railbusses. i remember the he later got 2 generic green marklin coaches which i used as annie and clarabell. to this day that Thomas is the only Märklin Thomas product ive ever seen.
This is such a cute story man, grandpas are the best. I still miss mine with all my heart
2:24 The Spencer Big Wheels are 4!
I remember last year at a train show I stumbled upon a Shining Time RC set that included a figure 8 track with a tunnel, Toby, Henrietta, and a troublesome truck, never knew that existed!
Woah, pretty cool! Do you have any pictures of it?
I can’t believe the Woody Capsule toys haven’t made it into a cursed merch vid there’s something so off about them
the kinder surprise egg ones too
I think it’s the unpainted chassis’s
@@cadenthecadburyengine8198 I own those
Emily looks cursed, lady looks cursed, Thomas, James, and Gordon look ok, and Percy looks fantastic.
Big chassy
There's one japanese brand that made T&F merch that was really accurate to the TVS. They looked so cool, worked kinda like a scale model, but they functioned with a magic wand. I hope you search for them!
@TheLBSC's70 hes!
I think that's called departing now. I've never heard of it until I watched train tsar fun's videos on it. It is actually very interesting
It’s departing now but there’s some push along versions of the trains, which weren’t motorized and were sold because the others were to expensive
Was it “Departing now” by any chance?
2:45 seeing Spencer with a 4-4-2 wheel arrangement is just a cursed thing! I mean, he’s a bloody *PACIFIC!* not an Atlantic!
Toppham finally got the atlantic he wanted.
I remember having this brand of Thomas characters that were sold in the checkouts back in the day. They were small cheap plastic toys with hidden wheels inside them, and they had the same moulds as their Take-Along models.
I remember those too, thier called "Checkout Thomas'"
5:08 “there were also road vehicles”
*proceeds to list helicopter and boat*
Yep
It's surprising how realistic the faces on the IR Thomas and Percy are. Not even Hornby could get faces that accurate to the model series.
I remember I had loads trackmaster sets, My best memory is a GIANT track I made: There was one loop on the floor and a large loop that had varying levels, it was on the floor next to it and went up really high above the other loop and it went around it. I also remember putting all my trains of it and my mum recorded a timelapse of the layout so I could see the trains go around the loop really fast :)
Tomy, Capsule, early trackmaster, and Plarail are the best hands downs. I remember coming home from school and making a different track running down my hallway everyday. Good times 😢
I grew up with the Tomy and Trackmaster line. What I would give to go back in time and attempt to get all the sets😭😭😭😭
@@bryceknowles1380 same as a kid I did not have that much but what I had was glorious. I would give a kidney to go back 🙏🏼
SAME I made the best train sets and the characters looked so good and had so much fun playing with them all, now most of them are broken and the new trackmaster trains that all use the same body and run on the dumb grey track are just a joke.🙄 don't even get me started on "all engines go" I WILL NEVER buy or even LOOK at those toys. that is not Thomas and Friends! I WANT MATTLE TO GIVE THE THOMAS AND FRIENDS FRANCHISE TO SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT IT!!!
@@TheAristocrat. ya bro 😕
I remember when I was 4 years old, there was a big book fair. With only 10 dollars in my pocket I got Thomas and friends book with the Mirco rubber engines in the book. Unfortunately I do not have the book but I still have the engines , including Annie and Clarabel.
2:11 I actually had one of these the first book specifically and I ended up eating Gordon and losing the others
Funny candy
Someone needs to get one of those padlocks for The Lock Picking Lawyer. They're probably more secure than a Masterlock 😂
I love small scale figurines, so I absolutely loved the My Busy Books toys. They were so satisfying to hold, especially James and Thomas, and the hard rubbery texture was so satisfying to feel. I remember playing with them outside in the dry dirt or in small gravel that looked like coal, I rarely ever used the playmat they came with.
The originals were so soft, you could cut them with a razor blade and make your own engines, or just separate the tenders like I did. Sadly, the second book changed the material to a hallow hard plastic mold, which was less appealing to play with, and was prone to warping.
Micro rubber engines is one of my rememberable childhood stuff in the 2010’s. Sadly, I’ve somehow or elsewhere loss them. I’ll not forget.
i have them to these day
@@Deantheleek006 well, I’m glad you enjoy your nostalgic.
@@yomikaianimator4689 ok
0:44 yoshi music
I've seen a couple of these before. That iR Thomas set looks pretty cool.
Fun fact: I own the first two iterations of the micro rubber engines and I can say with confidence that they look a bit different between releases, with the second iteration generally having less detail. So here's a list of (off the top of my head) stuff they changed (Also I'll just be calling them series 1 and 2 for simplicity):
Series 2's returning engines don't have cab windows for the engines that had them, painted eyes, painted buffers, the paint on their faces looks a bit worse, and their colours are brighter.
Series 1's James had bronze side rods.
Yeah I can't be bothered to go get them and actually have a look at them to see if anything else is different.
Imagine a parent going to work on day buying a bottle of Boss coffee and then going home to his kid toy like “ I got for you from my coffee this morning “
nostalgia hit me like a brick wall right around 8:16 like what happened to all the good toys 😔not at all referencing M * * * * * :) love the videos trainboy!
The RWS book i got and funny enough 1:43 i have the Micro Rubber Engines and it was book one
Same bro
Those locks are cool!!
I have the old busy book set, so much nostalgia
You just unlocked a core memory I had lost so long ago. Pulling out that plastic mat and the little rubber engines was so fun to me, but i could never fold the mat back right and the book would never close fully 😅. Thank you so much for digging that back up
4:53 We need to get the Lock Picking Lawyer to pick one of these.
For the coffee merch i have both the pull bacm ones ( Bell, Diesel, Diesel10, Hiro and James.) and the push along ones ( Percy with a banner, Charlie, Scruffy and 6 coaches with banners).
I’ve definitely heard of the micro Rubber Engines. Loved those toys when I was a kid.
Can't lie, I wish I still had all my ERTL stuff... I had loads, but my mum gave them all away, including some limited edition ones and the big Thomas carry case. 😭😭😭
Back in the days when toys were indestructible and hurt (if thrown at you by a sibling).
If I had a nickel every time a company made an E2 in SECR livery, I’d have 2 nickels, which isn’t much but it’s strange it happened twice
I had one of those books, loved playing with the map it came with and dragging them along
I find it interesting.
Also those rubber thomas bits? Ever heard of Ducking a jeep? See a parked jeep leave a rubber duck on the driver door handle.
I would so do it with thomas.
When I was little, I had the boss Oliver, Jeremy, and, I believe, Gordon. I have no idea where I got them, nor where they are now, but it’s nice to finally see somebody shine some light on the little toys I’ve been so perplexed by for years.
I never knew that model series Mega Bloks existed til a month or two ago
and i also didn’t know that mega bloks in general was still going
7:26 looking at the remotes now they look like wii remotes
Edit: I looked it up and these remotes came first before the wii remote that’s a bit………..odd to say the least……….
I used to love take along and taken play I had so many characters and thinking about them makes me want to pull them from storage for some nostalgia
I know that finding every single obscure Thomas merch range but I was hoping that you'd mention one that I've been trying to find out if anyone knows about this particular range that came out in the UK around 2011. Found at my local Tesco, Hit also had other of their properties packaged this way but there were these navy blind boxes that had a superb quality, in both plastic and detail, Thomas character and some jelly beans. They had rollers on the bottom and had black couplings (L on front, loop on back). I've lost them all at this point including Rosie which I slipped under the gap of a broom closet door at a leisure centre. Hope this comment shines some light on this range and lets me know that I can't be the only one
I got serious flashbacks when you mentioned the Micro Rubber Engines, I remember eating Toby
The padlock and key ones are so cute!
When I was a kid it was ERTL or nothing. If they still made those awesome diecast I'd buy them alllll!
Idk if you've covered them in other videos but there was a rare line of these like, wooden railway/take-n-play hybrid toys called Interactive Learning Railway. I had a couple of the sets growing up but I've barely seen anybody ever talk about them
Babe wake up new trainboy video
1:52 finally I find out that lines name I thought it was a weird fever dream
I have the micro rubber toys and My Busy book (first edition) since I was younger!
Anybody else remember there first thomas item mine was the track master sir handle and the bolder set
Mine was the Wooden Railway great discovery set
4:45 I have Old slow coach and The Union Jack Coach .Also Thomas ,whiff,Percy .And all the pull back modals .I always wanted to know what these are .
I own 3 engines from a brand called "De Agostini". They looked similar to Ertl engines, except they were more detailed and were made of plastic unlike Ertl. The three engines I own from this brand are Edward, Henry and Percy.
There's also another brand called "Limited Edition Collectables", they looked similar to Take'n'Play engines except they were made of plastics, their wheels were static and they had no magnets. I only ever owned Thomas.
this reminds me of two things
1-When I was little I was once given a culdee ertl but since I didn't know the brand I kept it but I never saw it again
2-I have an express car that I don't know what brand it is, and the bad thing is that nothing appears at the bottom
I had a take and play culdee once
@@purpleish.v and what happend?
I own both a take-along and wooden railway culdee
I have a micro rubber thomas!!! 😊 Yippee!! Thanks to My mom to give me that book as a gift!
Why does James look bussin' with red wheels tho
good video man ur the best ever keep the work up
:)
I always thought the rubber engines were just called “the busy book engines”.
Same
same
the konami IR train set looks to have continued past that into DigiQ trains so im wondering if anyone can check those out and see if the controls are also like that
Ngl I would love to have the R/C thomas and Percy range if they made more. It looks across between Trackmaster and 1/87 scale. It definitely looks interesting and it looks like something I would love to get as a kid.
1:56 i had these, WhY CANT THE FUNNELS STAY ONE FOR ONE DAY
Awesome video trainboy
1:56 I have them. They came in the my busy book Thomas set
I would of loved to buy the ir Thomas stuff if they made more of them, really sad the great looking merch isn't still around anymore besides Bachmann and I guess capsual thing but like the main 4 Thomas merch has all been discontinued which sucks
And theres a 4th book, featuring Thomas, Percy, James, Nia, Kana, Diesel, Sandy, Carly, Bruno and Harold!
Thank you for telling me where some of my Thomas’s come from
3:49 and Denmark
And
4:21 actually this was a deal made between hornby and marklin
I remember having the rubber ones. But they did Spencer dirty making him a 4-4-2
I probably have the most nostalgia for my take and play Duck with black wheels, I’m so happy I still have it,
Very strange stuff indeed, the marklin thomas stuff kinda goes hard idk why tho, would love to see more installments
Nostalgia: *goes through my veins*
Me: HOLY SH*T I REMEMBER ALL OF THESE
I seriously had a full collection of the rubber toys, but I was young and stupid and used to flush all of them down the toilet just for sick laughs. I still don’t know why I decided to.
4:25. I thought this was a sponsorship at first lmao
If they send me the toys it could be forget the coffee 💀
@@ItsTrainBoy get this man a sponsorship with these people!
Same bro
Trainboy: there are so many things that come to mind.
Me: that is an understatement.
also, I have the rubber Toby.
0:33 I had a tomy thomas that I would play with for hours but I lost it in my old house and I never got it back
BRO IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THOSE RUBBER ENGINES FOR YEARS I USED TO HAVE THEM THEY WERE ELITE
FINALLY we got mention for the busy book lads,Bro those were my childhood
I had the micro engines ever since I was a wee boi. Fond memories playing with them
5:14 I bought the Spencer and hiro pullback toys at a flea market close to where I live aka in the United States so knowing they were Japanese toys it makes me wonder how they ended up here🤷♂️
Bro the micro rubber engines take me back. I was so young and I think I had the first one and then years later my baby brother got the newest one. It came full circle basically
I saw some of the woody capsules in a lot with some capsules plarails and a few other things on eBay a few weeks ago, I believe there was a Thomas, lady, 3 Gordons and 2 James.
I love the miro rubber trains and I also have a micro rubber Santa fe super chief. I lost some of the rubber trains but the ones I still have are Emily, Bertie, thomas, edward, Spencer, Rosie, whiff, James, Mavis, and a Santa fe super chief. I also made custom paper coaches for the rubber trains
That one Thomas toy I played with as a kid was a cardboard dominoes set with the engines on them.
The micro engines are used to have back in my old school I think I was in Second grade They would let us have playtime so that was an option and these engines used to be one of the things you could play with
I grew up with early trackmaster. The Tomy steam along Thomas. And the early cgi talking trains. Best childhood ever.
The rubber toys are a great. I used to recreate the scenes. But the current trackmaster toys lack detail.
I remember another certain branch of plastic Thomas merch where their wheels were molded on and they would have two rollers under their chassis tender engines would have the tenders connected at the back like a coal bunker. If anyone knows what these toys would be called, let me know
They are called the limited collection Thomas, they are only known to be sold in Australia
@@percyjamesthomasdog and that explains why i’ve never heard anyone talk about them (as in not many images on the internet). Thanks
@@LFPman some Aussie man is selling some on ebay for fair prices, but the shipping is a whole other story
@@percyjamesthomasdog i wonder how much value mine would go for? They certainly aren’t collector quality, but now knowing their rarity is intriguing. Also, is our shipping prices that bad? Or is it the fact it’s international?
Also shipping is just another way to increase the price to lure people in
@@LFPman their rarity is mostly uncommon to once a year finds and the shipping is the prices they are very high. The value is mostly in USD is $1 to $10 depending on the engine.
I still have a lot of wooden railway and take a long from my childhood- plus some ertl. Part of me wants to see them get a new home, though, and not sit in the closet lmao
I Love Thomas & Friends!
I still have the second my busy book and I do enjoy playing with them as well as reading the book maybe someday I would like to get the rest of the my busy books.
1:43 i know This thomas toy Before is from a thomas book called my busy book right
1:52 literally had these when I was 2
OMG! I completely forgot I had a few of the toys from BOSS.
The micro engines book 1 was my childhood.
6:35 i think i had know that in the thomas the tank engine fandom
The micro rubber engines came with a fold-up mat you could use them on.
Barns and noble. That is where I got my weird rubber trains. Try searching there if you are on the hunt for rubber small trains aka the weaker version of the ertl minis
I actually still have my DigiQTrain Series 500 Shinkansen from when I was a kid. Never got it to work tho. Want to grab it out of my closet when I have the chance.
I had the rubber thomas, James and percy and they came with bars of soap. They were a decoration on top.
We need justice for the checkout thomas collection
I’m surprised you didn’t cover the tomica diecast Thomas line
That’s pretty well known though isn’t it? I own a couple myself and see them on eBay pretty commonly 🧐
@@ItsTrainBoy I think there well know in Japan but the line itself is pretty hard to find because from what i know they sell out quick and sometimes you can find bootleg ones
Thomas is cursed
Huh
I remember getting a Micro Rubber engine of Thomas or Henry for Easter like 8 or 9 years ago and I don't really remember anything after that :/
Anyone else notice how closely Woody Capsule Series is kind of like the Thomas Minis Series
On Ebay I got 2 of the crazy Thomas robot sets that went together like Voltron. Crazy Asian knockoff. They have completely different packaging and slightly different details. Look it up, Thomas Voltron is real
Very nice!
1:44 I have one of those books