Speaking of Thomas lost media, on my old channel back in 2009 I actually did a gameplay video of the Sega Genesis Thomas game but I never backed it up! Also, there's one other Thomas lost media that I never heard people talk about is the Thomas flash games that was available on Planet Gullane before the website shut down
I was very intrigued by this video; it was certainly entertaining! The main part that caught my eye, though, was the 'Sodor: Reading Between the Lines' book you showed a screenshot of on Internet Archive. I actually uploaded it, but I never scanned it; I only noticed it wasn't on there already. Another key detail was how you mentioned that you are now able to read it because of this, though I have some very good news for you on the other hand!: On the 79th anniversary of 'The Railway Series', I publicly shared a Google Drive containing a treasure-trove of RWS media! I don't mean to advertise it, but seeing as you have to borrow several books on the Archive to read them, I felt like it could benefit fellow Awdry fans; I could send it to you if you like, as it has several amounts of RWS media. An unrelated thing I noticed, but wanted to clarify is that you said in the video was how you think the RWS started selling in the States in 1953, but this isn't true; they never sold in the US, it seems like the books were only sold in the UK and later started selling in other commonwealth territories starting from the early 90s to the end of Christopher's original run in 1996. While they didn't sell in the US, they were sold in Canada.
Well done video! However A lost media I remember were the many Turtles and Thomas Review videos as well as a Thomas AMV useing a 21 pilots song. It was made by turtles and Thomas too, if you are Wondering.
Huh, didn't expect one of my old videos to make a clip in this. But major credit does go toward ToadsterP for making that funny audio. And it's great to see hear about some very old stuff from back in the day, some of which I do remember watching too, nicely done.
Hey mate, well done on the video I remember watching the Roy Wilson interview back in 2016. From what I remember, Roy Wilson revealed a lot of easter eggs and information on wooden railway products such as the Sodor China Clay Cars having his and his eldest sons birthday's on them and the story behind the white face troublesome truck. There was talk of the 6 wheeled Toby prototype and Roy Wilson thought it was released to the public. Roy talked about his dislike of plastic being used in the wooden railway products, which is why he left Learning Curve from what I remember. Following up from this he was asked which products he disliked; the one I remember was Trevor the Traction Engine. He was also appalled by the 2007 lead paint crisis. Again it has been awhile since I saw the video, but this is what I do remember, so I hope this helps.
I did recently remember Roy's comments on the lead paint crisis. I remember him saying the factories always tested paint samples before production, and after he left Learning Curve, they stopped doing paint sample tests, which is pretty much what led to the 2007 lead paint crisis.
@PlumCasualties Yeah, that does ring a bell. BTW I do remember some stuff from TomTomica as well. From my faint memory he had a video showcasing majority of his engine's and he would let them off in a parade in single file. The video was done in sections, one part showed off the Steam team + Duck, Donald, Douglas and Oliver, another would show off other characters and the last part showed off his custom models like Flying Scostman, Wilbert and Sir Nigel (thought it was Mallard at the time). Don't remember the route that well, but I remember they went through the Gaint Thomas from the Thomas Gaint set. This is what I remember, but the memory is faint. Just checking if anyone else remembers this?
@PlumCasualties A pleasant surprise. I appreciate that this video exists as alot of Thomas wooden railway mystery's were solved because of this video thanks to Rob and getting to know Roy Wilson for the first time was cool. Hopefully we can find the lost Tomtomica vids next.
I remember a few other TomTomica videos, perhaps the one I watched the most was called something like "Wind-up Fat Controller meets Percy", a short video involving an ERTL wind-up Fat Controller walking for a while, and promptly falls over after an ERTL pullback Percy rushes past. It was the funniest thing ever when I was 12, probably. He also did a video on his collection of James toys, including ones that were rarely seen at the time such as as the Lionel G scale model and an early edition of the Capsule Plarail toy (with grey wheels and no side rods). The talking Golden Bear James was also present, which the video's captions referred to as "a mother's worst nightmare". He also did a video on his collection of ERTL Thomases, which was one of the few videos where we hear his voice. As well as his Tomy Wilbert custom (which you can get a glimpse of in the reupload of Thomas and 20 Friends), I remember he made a custom G scale Duncan using an LGB Orenstein & Koppel locomotive.
I vaguely remember a video of a fat controller figure falling over and fart sounds being heard. It also was the funniest thing I saw at the time. I wonder if that's the video you're talking about. I do believe the video was Japanese in origin.
Believe me, I looked everywhere for Percy and the Ghost Diesel. I tried finding it on the Internet Archive, a small TH-cam channel, Dailymotion, and even Japanese sites videos.
Funny you bring up TomTomica after the Sixteen’s Disaster vid since I think the custom Wilbert the kid who made that video was based on a video TomTomica did showing how he made a custom Tommy Wilbert, and used Percy and Ben as a basis for the custom. Another video by user Dcolemanh mentions the TomTomica Wilbert video since they based their own custom Wilber off of his. Also, I remember that the creator of the Sixteen’s Disaster video had many more like it, I remember that Thomas & The Bionicle and The Unknown Station were the titles of two others. I also distinctly remember watching the Cab Over Wheels remake back in the day, it wasn’t the same as Arse Over Cab, particularly the part where Sixteen rolls over as the title suggests since I recall the track being on a raised blanket to simulate the hill. Speaking of TomTomica, I also remember he had videos on Ertl engines, and some more customs like a really impressive Tomy Flying Scotsman and Big City Engine. There’s also some remakes people have made of Arse Over Cab that I’ve had trouble finding.
Glad i could be of service providing 'Arse Over Cab' being one of the best nostalgic Thomas video's, i will be honest my upload was a copy from someone else just in case they took down their own upload or channel
Some pieces of lost thomas media that I can think of are the 3 missing entries to Calebtrain's craziest crash contest. I remember one of them vividly using take n play models, in the video thomas runs past sidney while saying "hey who's that guy" and he also passes by Stafford while he was saying "puff puff puff puff chuff chuff chuff chuff wheesh woohoo" from that one miller era episode. And at the end of the video thomas crashes at the twist and tumble cargo drop set, and then a jigsaw puzzle gets poured on him before the video ends. I honestly don't remember much of the other 2 lost videos, but I do remember one of them being made with a 3d software, and the thumbnail had thomas and his train in a a green void esentially. There used to be fourth video made by terrierstepney that was lost for a while, but I managed to convince him to make it unlisted thankfully. And another unrelated lost video that I can think of is this one trainz music video which used the song called Radio by System of a down, and it featured many thomas characters crashing, aswell as thomas being chased by diesel 10. The only other detail that I can remember is that most of the models used were the early SI3d models with 2d faces
I remember watching Percy and the Ghost Diesel, and maybe even shortly before aftmast’s old videos went down. Something I don’t understand is how a video’s webpage archived in the Wayback Machine is sometimes unable to archive the video itself. If it was able to every single time, many videos would’ve been found ages ago. I also love searching for lost Thomas videos, mostly ones from ramahfool. Some other lost videos I remember are: A Trainz remake of the Polar Express ice scene but with James A jeremycrispovideo/Jeremy Crispo music video with the song Radio/Video by System of a Down An MS Paint animated parody of Rusty and the Boulder called “Thomas and the Boulder” Ramahfool’s deleted videos (a lot of the links can be found by entering his channel into Filmot. About half of them work in the Wayback Machine, and half of them don’t) Not Thomas related, but there was a cool 3D animated video called “Tchoo Tchoo Train”, which was basically a wooden railway track set up like a fast roller coaster in a bedroom, with the song “Don’t Stop Me Now” playing. I would REALLY love to find this video!
Don't quote me on this, but I think the Wayback Machine only archives the raw HTML/CSS content itself; it doesn't tap into TH-cam's API or anything externally hosted. Also, I do remember a video from jeremycrispovideo that had Gordon swearing at Barney the Dinosaur or something that I found really funny. I can't seem to find that video anymore.
Correction: 6:02 - The Railway Series wasn't published in the US in 1953. I could not find an exact date when the books were first published here, but these days you can easily pick up the original 26 books brand new in either the complete collection compilation or the individual books in a box set.
I remember a video called fire at the docks which was a trainz remake of the tugs episode munitions but it has been either removed or privatized. I still remember this video and the Thomas characters representing tugs characters Thomas-Ten Cents Edward-Fire Tug Henry-Warrior Percy-Sunshine Toby-O.J Diesel-Zorran Zebedee and Zak-Splatter and Dodge Diesel 10-Bluenose Does anyone else remember that video?
Sixteen's Disaster was made by user SpareEngine, who used a Tomy Ben on Percy Chassis for his Wilbert Custom, and believe it or not, the Custom Wilbert was made through a lost tutorial which was done by TomTomica I also remember some other TomTomica videos where he showcased his Big City Engine and Flying Scotsman Customs, as well as a race between Thomas and Spencer, Thomas and his custom Jet Thomas, & Jet Thomas and Flying Scotsman where it was revealed that his Flying Scotsman custom has a dual mechanism that could draw power from either a 9-Volt Battery or a C-Volt Battery, depending on what he was doing with the custom There was also a video that I remember where his Flying Scotsman custom tried beating a bog standard Tomy Thomas at hauling 25 trucks He also had videos of his James and Percy collections where he showcased the many different merchandise of James and Percy, though I can't remember all the merch featured in those videos as it's been almost 20 years since I last saw them; there might have been a Gordon Collection, but I can't remember He also wasn't Japanese, he was either British or Australian (most likely Australian because if I recall correctly, importing from Japan to England was very pricey at the time), I actually can't remember since it's been so long And if you look up his name on Google Images, you'll get glimpses of his Customs and what they looked like If you couldn't tell, I watched TomTomica's videos a LOT and really wish that I could watch them again just for the sake of nostalgia
Actually got a first edition of Henry the green engine but uh, theres one lost piece of lost YT TTTE content, i remember a Tomy wind up series someone made which this one US old west type engine that apparently could teleport. and everytime it did, it would make a tardis sound
I do remember watching Jamesis5's videos with his Thomas Wooden Railway trains when I was a child altho his content is also lost media as well. Plus I did also watch HenryBlue's Cab Over Wheels as a kid too.
One more recent Thomas Fan lost media that I remember is the First of Victor Tanzig's "Sodor Snippet" videos, titeld "Found". It was taken down a day after its realse, because people compalined that he used the word "retard". There is a transcript of it on his Fan wiki. I did take a screenshot of the video, but it is on my old Phone, and I dont know if that still works.
If i remember,there was another Trainz film like 'Percy and the ghost diesel',i dont really remember it good but here goes: Its a trailer,using trainz 2006 In the video i recall no speaking,just show, percy and toby racing down a line, toby being shoved into the sea,a... diesel 10 with no claw using one of the diesels already in trainz just colored with a face,splatter and dodge along side him in a shed when Thomas comes to him, presumably talks (since,again,theres only a song in the background) to him,he and diesel 10 go into each other until it cuts right before, and if i remember,the video either ends or shows the movie's name. Now, apparently,its a cancelled Trainz TTTE film,but,i do remember a leak showing 5 minutes of the film. Edit: there were also two more trailers,but I remember seeing this one in 2020 still uploaded,the other were presumably deleted or privated. Edit 2: now,there was another video,where Thomas was being taken into a workshop by a blue diesel named Bruno (chuggington I think),out came Diesel 10 and like,he had to make a choice because they turned steam engines into diesels??? It was either,Mavis his girlfriend or Percy,he said something like 'yknow what?You want engine?Take me!' or sum like that,Spencer got turned into a diesel before this (this is all scrambled I know),so,Thomas puffed backwards instead of forwards,making him and Bruno fuse into one,a blue diesel ten with a blue-ish claw and Thomas's face or something,and yeah,that's it,I can't find it!
I do remember a vid that's probably lost now. I think it was one of the entries of the thomasfan8 collapsing bridge in the video there was a tomy thomas, tomy henry and a bear plush with a blue jacket, i think the story was that herny got saved by thomas from the bear. a friend also remembers the video
I'm going to make my comment relating to the Percy and the Ghost Diesel, I remember watching that video when I was a young back somewhere in the early 2010s, it's been ages since I saw that video, and I'm sure there's a reupload of that video somewhere on TH-cam as far as I know, so it's not completely lost tho (someone prove me wrong on that).
I'll give some of my own Thomas lost media. Back when i actually made Thomas videos, i did some from 2012 to 2013 that involved copyrighted music. Obviously when TH-cam became stricter, i decided to remove them, but i didn't save them, i just deleted them, so i'm sure they're gone for good. Off the top of my head i can still remember were: A Thomas MV to the song I'm Blue by Eiffel 65. which was just clips of my Thomas Take Along toys, mostly my Thomas one A MV deticated to the day after December 21, 2012 (You know that whole end of the world thing) & it was just a bunch clips of my Take Along toys, like it was mostly just B-Roll type of footage, while the song is the same one used for one of the trailers for the 2008 Speed Racer movie. I can't remember the name of it. And the last two were my most viewed on my channel, which were my two parter of my 2013 Take Along/Take-n-Play collection. It was just a slide show of my collection on my very cheaply displayed background of a model train grass mat & a poorly painted blue sky backdrop with custom nameboards for every toy i had. They were taken down because of obviously copyright music. I can't remember what the first part had, but i know the second part had The Final Countdown playing. Those are the more memorable videos i made that are now taken down. Doubt they'll ever come back. I don't have them on any computer of phone i had anymore.
5:19 A surprisingly interesting thing I've never heard of nor seen other's discuss before, I actually must thank you for being brave enough to mention it since I haven't seen this mentioned in _any_ lost media/RWS history adjacent videos despite being something relatively important. I will say though, while it doesn't excuse it, I think context is important here. This kind of thing was very much a "product of it's time" and N-word was being used as more a describing word than an intended racial slur, in fact many languages still use the word to this day to describe the colour black. With that said props to Awdry for being respecful and apologizing instead of doubling down on it, while it may not have been seen as an issue when the book was first published he was clearly willing to accept that times were changing, and so with it what was or wasn't acceptable.
In an early draft of the script, I actually was going to go into more detail on what Awdry meant by using the word. I was going to talk about MUCH worse authors around his time, like H. P. Lovecraft, who was an open racist; Roald Dahl, an anti-Semite; and William Luther Pierce, the author of The Turner Diaries. Pretty much, I was going to say Awdry wasn't anywhere near as bad as those other writers and likely did not mean any serious harm in the use of the N-word. I decided to keep this section short in the end due to the heavy themes.
I found the Roy Wilson interview! Before the video was deleted, it was saved on internet archive! All you need to do is go on there and paste the link.
@@PlumCasualties I can't provide the link unfortunately, as TH-cam automatically deletes comments with links. But if you paste the original link to the video into the Wayback Machine and you can find it.
I remember watching an ertl remake of the RWS story Bad Look Out when I was 5 or so, it was called something along the lines of Thomas Take Along/Ertl Adventures, with a Tomy Donald used with the narrow gauge engines. i have not found a shred of existence of the video, but only time will tell
I remember some other lost tomy thomas videos... The videos where from a channel that made remakes of dirty work close shave and gordon goes foreign. The remakes (or maybe just dirty work) have edited faces and gordon goes foreign vid has the wooden railway big city engine for the big city engine. all of the remake set I believe is just a big oval with a curve and maybe a 3 way sidings. and I believe it was made during late 2000s or before 2012 if anyone knows please comment
Some lost medias I can remember is a trackmaster showcase video made by SkarloeyRheneas with custom models made by GBHTrains . One of the songs was Wild For The a night by A$AP but I can’t remember the second one . Another one is another showcase though this time with nakayoshi and had Japanese music with lots of custom built models . The video was 59:00 minutes long . And finally an old Jeremy Crispó video of Duck backing into the sheds being chased by something and smashing Percy threw the shed walls causing him to warp . Henry and Edward where clipping threw the shed doors .
I actually remember a video from the jeremycrispovideo channel that involved Gorden swearing at Barney the Dinosaur or something like that lmfao. I've not been able to find it in recent years.
Does anyone remember the TH-camr who would remake episodes with wooden railway toys that used stock music instead of any audio from the episodes? I believe they were stop motion and still images mainly. I remember specifically a Don’t Be Silly Remake which was done on a wooden floor, I also remember a peace and quiet remake that was filmed in the dark and there was a bright light that would come from the camera’s flash on any close up shot. If I were to give a rough estimate of when I last saw these videos, I’d say maybe between 2010 and 2012.
One lost media I remember watching was Toby070’s series, most of his videos aren’t on TH-cam anymore and from what I could remember was episode involving with drugs and missing engines as well Lady being antagonist of it. I also still remember certain soundtrack he made and I know what exactly what it sounds like if only I was musician so I could recreate this music score from my memory.
The Percy and the Ghost Diesel Video I watched over and over again when I was in Kindergarten Age. My Plan to is to Buy another Tomy Diesel 10 for a Ghost Diesel Custom by Cutting of the Faceless Part of the Cab to another Diesel 10
unrelated, but I SWEAR I was watching this video while doing some history class homework, 3 months ago. I am doing it now In fact, I did the exact same thing I remember doing, stop writing, look at screen, see the low quality sixteen's disaster clip Anyways, good video man, i too have lost media of my own, a whole entire channel in fact
Having a little look at the stuff you mentioned there is something you forgot to mentioned, the Mark Maraghan Redub of some of the nitrogen era episodes, they were available on the PBS Kids website but only a handful were archived because a few were on some dvds
ok so I have dun some diging around and its kinda odd causeI remeber seeing them on pbs to at least I think however All I found was this th-cam.com/video/Q1Dth3Tht-8/w-d-xo.html also what dvds were they on?
@@andyalex115 Ok so I after a bit I think this is it Snow tracks it may be lost to you but thankfully its up th-cam.com/video/vTZsmYz7FB4/w-d-xo.html Do note that the other nitrogen era MM dubs are on some some uk Dvds.
10:32 I don't remember if it was a joke or not but there is another down the mind pilot image one of Thomas Annie clarabell outside of Knapford in the yard I think it was some time in between the pilot Thomas model being converted into the one used in the show because It has the final faces but it's got the pilot design and then 1 of the many closed vans behind Thomas is a prop that fell apart during filming a season 1
So there's two thomas fan videos that I can't find and I hope someone can help, one is about thomas and coal trucks and another is Salty shunting in the yard in Oliver's place. They were filmed with both Hornby and Bachman, this Channel only made these two fan stories and I was wondering if anyone either has them or a link to them, I'd love to see them after all these years, because they are old
I'm very fascinated with old youtube thomas videos. Or just old youtube videos of Trains in general, But if you want to experience a full on memory lane for TH-cam's 20th Anniversary. I have a video coming up in April of 2025
Speaking of Percy and the ghost diesel a user called “freight hauler” reuploaded it around 2016 it didn’t get many views but then he took his channel down. I hope this video is a “bro craft” live situation. (Aka the first “sighting” of the Minecraft myth herobrine) the stream was taken down but was found this year. It’s the internet and if Percy and the ghost diesel had so many views it’s likely a few people downloaded it Only time will tell😊
Lmao i remember the percy and the ghost diesel and other that was various trains running over an half completed bridge and percy was also on that vídeo
The scrapped model of Thomas you mentioned wasn't the 1983 model. It was the O Gauge model. The 1983 Models for Thomas and Gordon were refurbished into their current/OG ones
Case 1 and 2:didnt knew those books were discontinued XD (kinda of a stup1d thought,also the rebbot isnt bad) Case 3:WHAT THE-the n word isnt good Case 4:didnt knew about the japanese exclusive nameboard secuenses (PLS COUNT ALL ENGINES GO >:[) Case 5:O gauge pilot?huh Case 6:those 3.5 models look kinda creepy....... Case 7:i heard about take along hiro before i know some people have it and also a lot of the 2008-2009 take along models like hector (witch i own) daisy,madge,billy and other models are pretty rare Case 8:why did he privated his wooden videos?also that bl4ck face joke aint funny (r.i.p roy wilson ;-;) Case 9:that video quallity is giving me nostalgia vibes Case 10:that tomy/trackmaster willbert custom looks pretty good for 2008 Case 11:i watched that my little thomas world video lol Case 13 (cuzz i skiped case 12 lol):why did he removed his videos?
off topic but gotta ask does the game you play have a mod scene going on or at least is possible to mod even if no one is doing it? would be cool seeing thomas engines in that game
Nope, not that I'm aware of. I'm hoping Steam Workshop support is added at some point. Thomas Wooden Railway mods are the first thing that came to my mind when I discovered this game.
I remember watching a video at least 9 years ago of some kid crashing a bunch of Tomy Plarail Thomas toys with the Japanese version of accidents happen put over it, been desperately looking for it but since the title was Japanese it’s not easy. If anyone knows what I’m talking about or has a link/reupload please let me know
The Roy Wilson interview has been found! th-cam.com/video/ETdqdyeRoXY/w-d-xo.html
Speaking of Thomas lost media, on my old channel back in 2009 I actually did a gameplay video of the Sega Genesis Thomas game but I never backed it up! Also, there's one other Thomas lost media that I never heard people talk about is the Thomas flash games that was available on Planet Gullane before the website shut down
I was very intrigued by this video; it was certainly entertaining! The main part that caught my eye, though, was the 'Sodor: Reading Between the Lines' book you showed a screenshot of on Internet Archive. I actually uploaded it, but I never scanned it; I only noticed it wasn't on there already. Another key detail was how you mentioned that you are now able to read it because of this, though I have some very good news for you on the other hand!:
On the 79th anniversary of 'The Railway Series', I publicly shared a Google Drive containing a treasure-trove of RWS media! I don't mean to advertise it, but seeing as you have to borrow several books on the Archive to read them, I felt like it could benefit fellow Awdry fans; I could send it to you if you like, as it has several amounts of RWS media.
An unrelated thing I noticed, but wanted to clarify is that you said in the video was how you think the RWS started selling in the States in 1953, but this isn't true; they never sold in the US, it seems like the books were only sold in the UK and later started selling in other commonwealth territories starting from the early 90s to the end of Christopher's original run in 1996. While they didn't sell in the US, they were sold in Canada.
I already found the Google Drive link. Good work on it! Another thing, I don't even remember the source I got 1953 as the US publishing date from. lol
Well done video! However A lost media I remember were the many Turtles and Thomas Review videos as well as a Thomas AMV useing a 21 pilots song. It was made by turtles and Thomas too, if you are Wondering.
Huh, didn't expect one of my old videos to make a clip in this.
But major credit does go toward ToadsterP for making that funny audio.
And it's great to see hear about some very old stuff from back in the day, some of which I do remember watching too, nicely done.
Hey mate, well done on the video
I remember watching the Roy Wilson interview back in 2016. From what I remember, Roy Wilson revealed a lot of easter eggs and information on wooden railway products such as the Sodor China Clay Cars having his and his eldest sons birthday's on them and the story behind the white face troublesome truck.
There was talk of the 6 wheeled Toby prototype and Roy Wilson thought it was released to the public.
Roy talked about his dislike of plastic being used in the wooden railway products, which is why he left Learning Curve from what I remember. Following up from this he was asked which products he disliked; the one I remember was Trevor the Traction Engine. He was also appalled by the 2007 lead paint crisis.
Again it has been awhile since I saw the video, but this is what I do remember, so I hope this helps.
I did recently remember Roy's comments on the lead paint crisis. I remember him saying the factories always tested paint samples before production, and after he left Learning Curve, they stopped doing paint sample tests, which is pretty much what led to the 2007 lead paint crisis.
@PlumCasualties Yeah, that does ring a bell. BTW I do remember some stuff from TomTomica as well.
From my faint memory he had a video showcasing majority of his engine's and he would let them off in a parade in single file.
The video was done in sections, one part showed off the Steam team + Duck, Donald, Douglas and Oliver, another would show off other characters and the last part showed off his custom models like Flying Scostman, Wilbert and Sir Nigel (thought it was Mallard at the time). Don't remember the route that well, but I remember they went through the Gaint Thomas from the Thomas Gaint set.
This is what I remember, but the memory is faint. Just checking if anyone else remembers this?
@@nococoforboco5538 I got an update; the Roy Wilson interview has been found: th-cam.com/video/ETdqdyeRoXY/w-d-xo.html
@PlumCasualties A pleasant surprise. I appreciate that this video exists as alot of Thomas wooden railway mystery's were solved because of this video thanks to Rob and getting to know Roy Wilson for the first time was cool. Hopefully we can find the lost Tomtomica vids next.
I remember a few other TomTomica videos, perhaps the one I watched the most was called something like "Wind-up Fat Controller meets Percy", a short video involving an ERTL wind-up Fat Controller walking for a while, and promptly falls over after an ERTL pullback Percy rushes past. It was the funniest thing ever when I was 12, probably.
He also did a video on his collection of James toys, including ones that were rarely seen at the time such as as the Lionel G scale model and an early edition of the Capsule Plarail toy (with grey wheels and no side rods). The talking Golden Bear James was also present, which the video's captions referred to as "a mother's worst nightmare". He also did a video on his collection of ERTL Thomases, which was one of the few videos where we hear his voice.
As well as his Tomy Wilbert custom (which you can get a glimpse of in the reupload of Thomas and 20 Friends), I remember he made a custom G scale Duncan using an LGB Orenstein & Koppel locomotive.
I vaguely remember a video of a fat controller figure falling over and fart sounds being heard. It also was the funniest thing I saw at the time. I wonder if that's the video you're talking about. I do believe the video was Japanese in origin.
@@PlumCasualtieshey dude I have a copy of Thomas the tank engine the new collection ,would you be interested in it ?
I remember watching Percy and the ghost diesel when I was younger! Brings me back.
Believe me, I looked everywhere for Percy and the Ghost Diesel. I tried finding it on the Internet Archive, a small TH-cam channel, Dailymotion, and even Japanese sites videos.
Like I said, it completely disappeared from the internet without a trace. I bet someone out there has a copy of the video, but who knows?
@@PlumCasualtiesI really do miss seeing TomTomica's videos these days on TH-cam as they are enjoyable. 😭
@@ryanlister1244 I want to know, do you remember anymore videos from TomTomica? I only remember the 4 I listed in the video.
@@PlumCasualties I don't have them, I wasn't on TH-cam back in those days, but I remember some videos if interested to hear.
@@ryanlister1244 Yes, I'd like to hear about the other videos.
Funny you bring up TomTomica after the Sixteen’s Disaster vid since I think the custom Wilbert the kid who made that video was based on a video TomTomica did showing how he made a custom Tommy Wilbert, and used Percy and Ben as a basis for the custom. Another video by user Dcolemanh mentions the TomTomica Wilbert video since they based their own custom Wilber off of his. Also, I remember that the creator of the Sixteen’s Disaster video had many more like it, I remember that Thomas & The Bionicle and The Unknown Station were the titles of two others. I also distinctly remember watching the Cab Over Wheels remake back in the day, it wasn’t the same as Arse Over Cab, particularly the part where Sixteen rolls over as the title suggests since I recall the track being on a raised blanket to simulate the hill. Speaking of TomTomica, I also remember he had videos on Ertl engines, and some more customs like a really impressive Tomy Flying Scotsman and Big City Engine. There’s also some remakes people have made of Arse Over Cab that I’ve had trouble finding.
Glad i could be of service providing 'Arse Over Cab' being one of the best nostalgic Thomas video's, i will be honest my upload was a copy from someone else just in case they took down their own upload or channel
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2:26 Yeah, my thoughts on the flashy overly bright 2D animation exactly!
Some pieces of lost thomas media that I can think of are the 3 missing entries to Calebtrain's craziest crash contest. I remember one of them vividly using take n play models, in the video thomas runs past sidney while saying "hey who's that guy" and he also passes by Stafford while he was saying "puff puff puff puff chuff chuff chuff chuff wheesh woohoo" from that one miller era episode. And at the end of the video thomas crashes at the twist and tumble cargo drop set, and then a jigsaw puzzle gets poured on him before the video ends. I honestly don't remember much of the other 2 lost videos, but I do remember one of them being made with a 3d software, and the thumbnail had thomas and his train in a a green void esentially. There used to be fourth video made by terrierstepney that was lost for a while, but I managed to convince him to make it unlisted thankfully.
And another unrelated lost video that I can think of is this one trainz music video which used the song called Radio by System of a down, and it featured many thomas characters crashing, aswell as thomas being chased by diesel 10. The only other detail that I can remember is that most of the models used were the early SI3d models with 2d faces
19:28 ME. I'm sorry I never see my comments seen in a video so this just so surprising to see.
Kudos for the more obscure Thomas lost media here
I remember watching Percy and the Ghost Diesel when I was little before it got deleted, I also request my brother to draw it two times
I remember watching Percy and the Ghost Diesel, and maybe even shortly before aftmast’s old videos went down. Something I don’t understand is how a video’s webpage archived in the Wayback Machine is sometimes unable to archive the video itself. If it was able to every single time, many videos would’ve been found ages ago. I also love searching for lost Thomas videos, mostly ones from ramahfool. Some other lost videos I remember are:
A Trainz remake of the Polar Express ice scene but with James
A jeremycrispovideo/Jeremy Crispo music video with the song Radio/Video by System of a Down
An MS Paint animated parody of Rusty and the Boulder called “Thomas and the Boulder”
Ramahfool’s deleted videos (a lot of the links can be found by entering his channel into Filmot. About half of them work in the Wayback Machine, and half of them don’t)
Not Thomas related, but there was a cool 3D animated video called “Tchoo Tchoo Train”, which was basically a wooden railway track set up like a fast roller coaster in a bedroom, with the song “Don’t Stop Me Now” playing. I would REALLY love to find this video!
Don't quote me on this, but I think the Wayback Machine only archives the raw HTML/CSS content itself; it doesn't tap into TH-cam's API or anything externally hosted.
Also, I do remember a video from jeremycrispovideo that had Gordon swearing at Barney the Dinosaur or something that I found really funny. I can't seem to find that video anymore.
Correction: 6:02 - The Railway Series wasn't published in the US in 1953. I could not find an exact date when the books were first published here, but these days you can easily pick up the original 26 books brand new in either the complete collection compilation or the individual books in a box set.
5:16
are American versions of the book edited to say Freight Cars instead of Trucks? I'm curious as i own the 26 book single book collection from 1997
@@toastrave7820 I don't think so. It seems the newer prints keep the original text, as the 75th anniversary collection is all original.
I remember a video called fire at the docks which was a trainz remake of the tugs episode munitions but it has been either removed or privatized. I still remember this video and the Thomas characters representing tugs characters
Thomas-Ten Cents
Edward-Fire Tug
Henry-Warrior
Percy-Sunshine
Toby-O.J
Diesel-Zorran
Zebedee and Zak-Splatter and Dodge
Diesel 10-Bluenose
Does anyone else remember that video?
Sixteen's Disaster was made by user SpareEngine, who used a Tomy Ben on Percy Chassis for his Wilbert Custom, and believe it or not, the Custom Wilbert was made through a lost tutorial which was done by TomTomica
I also remember some other TomTomica videos where he showcased his Big City Engine and Flying Scotsman Customs, as well as a race between Thomas and Spencer, Thomas and his custom Jet Thomas, & Jet Thomas and Flying Scotsman where it was revealed that his Flying Scotsman custom has a dual mechanism that could draw power from either a 9-Volt Battery or a C-Volt Battery, depending on what he was doing with the custom
There was also a video that I remember where his Flying Scotsman custom tried beating a bog standard Tomy Thomas at hauling 25 trucks
He also had videos of his James and Percy collections where he showcased the many different merchandise of James and Percy, though I can't remember all the merch featured in those videos as it's been almost 20 years since I last saw them; there might have been a Gordon Collection, but I can't remember
He also wasn't Japanese, he was either British or Australian (most likely Australian because if I recall correctly, importing from Japan to England was very pricey at the time), I actually can't remember since it's been so long
And if you look up his name on Google Images, you'll get glimpses of his Customs and what they looked like
If you couldn't tell, I watched TomTomica's videos a LOT and really wish that I could watch them again just for the sake of nostalgia
14:21 never knew my take along Hiro was rare, i still have it in my home nice to own a rare Thomas item
9:50 it's confirmend that this shot Is from the episode It self since it's been stated that the pilot doesnt have an intro
Good to know. Thanks!
Actually got a first edition of Henry the green engine
but uh, theres one lost piece of lost YT TTTE content, i remember a Tomy wind up series someone made which this one US old west type engine that apparently could teleport. and everytime it did, it would make a tardis sound
i love thomas! thank you for the wonderful video :)
I do remember watching Jamesis5's videos with his Thomas Wooden Railway trains when I was a child altho his content is also lost media as well. Plus I did also watch HenryBlue's Cab Over Wheels as a kid too.
Henry’s tender exploding is hilarious
One more recent Thomas Fan lost media that I remember is the First of Victor Tanzig's "Sodor Snippet" videos, titeld "Found". It was taken down a day after its realse, because people compalined that he used the word "retard". There is a transcript of it on his Fan wiki. I did take a screenshot of the video, but it is on my old Phone, and I dont know if that still works.
If i remember,there was another Trainz film like 'Percy and the ghost diesel',i dont really remember it good but here goes:
Its a trailer,using trainz 2006
In the video i recall no speaking,just show, percy and toby racing down a line, toby being shoved into the sea,a... diesel 10 with no claw using one of the diesels already in trainz just colored with a face,splatter and dodge along side him in a shed when Thomas comes to him, presumably talks (since,again,theres only a song in the background) to him,he and diesel 10 go into each other until it cuts right before, and if i remember,the video either ends or shows the movie's name.
Now, apparently,its a cancelled Trainz TTTE film,but,i do remember a leak showing 5 minutes of the film.
Edit: there were also two more trailers,but I remember seeing this one in 2020 still uploaded,the other were presumably deleted or privated.
Edit 2: now,there was another video,where Thomas was being taken into a workshop by a blue diesel named Bruno (chuggington I think),out came Diesel 10 and like,he had to make a choice because they turned steam engines into diesels??? It was either,Mavis his girlfriend or Percy,he said something like 'yknow what?You want engine?Take me!' or sum like that,Spencer got turned into a diesel before this (this is all scrambled I know),so,Thomas puffed backwards instead of forwards,making him and Bruno fuse into one,a blue diesel ten with a blue-ish claw and Thomas's face or something,and yeah,that's it,I can't find it!
I do actually own take along Hiro. I’ll have to look for it in storage but I remember it being the last take along model I ever got
That's epic!
I do remember a vid that's probably lost now. I think it was one of the entries of the thomasfan8 collapsing bridge in the video there was a tomy thomas, tomy henry and a bear plush with a blue jacket, i think the story was that herny got saved by thomas from the bear. a friend also remembers the video
I think I remember it being a fox plush of some sort named Basil
It’s cool learning about lost Thomas fan content! I hope those videos get reuploaded someday!
I'm going to make my comment relating to the Percy and the Ghost Diesel, I remember watching that video when I was a young back somewhere in the early 2010s, it's been ages since I saw that video, and I'm sure there's a reupload of that video somewhere on TH-cam as far as I know, so it's not completely lost tho (someone prove me wrong on that).
I'll give some of my own Thomas lost media. Back when i actually made Thomas videos, i did some from 2012 to 2013 that involved copyrighted music. Obviously when TH-cam became stricter, i decided to remove them, but i didn't save them, i just deleted them, so i'm sure they're gone for good. Off the top of my head i can still remember were:
A Thomas MV to the song I'm Blue by Eiffel 65. which was just clips of my Thomas Take Along toys, mostly my Thomas one
A MV deticated to the day after December 21, 2012 (You know that whole end of the world thing) & it was just a bunch clips of my Take Along toys, like it was mostly just B-Roll type of footage, while the song is the same one used for one of the trailers for the 2008 Speed Racer movie. I can't remember the name of it.
And the last two were my most viewed on my channel, which were my two parter of my 2013 Take Along/Take-n-Play collection. It was just a slide show of my collection on my very cheaply displayed background of a model train grass mat & a poorly painted blue sky backdrop with custom nameboards for every toy i had. They were taken down because of obviously copyright music. I can't remember what the first part had, but i know the second part had The Final Countdown playing.
Those are the more memorable videos i made that are now taken down. Doubt they'll ever come back. I don't have them on any computer of phone i had anymore.
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A surprisingly interesting thing I've never heard of nor seen other's discuss before, I actually must thank you for being brave enough to mention it since I haven't seen this mentioned in _any_ lost media/RWS history adjacent videos despite being something relatively important.
I will say though, while it doesn't excuse it, I think context is important here.
This kind of thing was very much a "product of it's time" and N-word was being used as more a describing word than an intended racial slur, in fact many languages still use the word to this day to describe the colour black.
With that said props to Awdry for being respecful and apologizing instead of doubling down on it, while it may not have been seen as an issue when the book was first published he was clearly willing to accept that times were changing, and so with it what was or wasn't acceptable.
In an early draft of the script, I actually was going to go into more detail on what Awdry meant by using the word. I was going to talk about MUCH worse authors around his time, like H. P. Lovecraft, who was an open racist; Roald Dahl, an anti-Semite; and William Luther Pierce, the author of The Turner Diaries. Pretty much, I was going to say Awdry wasn't anywhere near as bad as those other writers and likely did not mean any serious harm in the use of the N-word.
I decided to keep this section short in the end due to the heavy themes.
I found the Roy Wilson interview! Before the video was deleted, it was saved on internet archive! All you need to do is go on there and paste the link.
What's the link?
@@PlumCasualties I can't provide the link unfortunately, as TH-cam automatically deletes comments with links. But if you paste the original link to the video into the Wayback Machine and you can find it.
@@wishbonefan Wait, Wayback Machine can actually play this video?!? That's amazing.
@@PlumCasualties Yep, I was able to watch it on there. And your memory that Flying Scotsman was Roy Wilson's favorite model was correct.
@@wishbonefan I'll be re-uploading it on TH-cam very soon. Thanks for the find!
I remember Percy and the ghost diesel it was the first spooky thomas and friends fan story/video I ever watched so sad the origenal is gone.
Omg, so much details.. Incredible and very interesting 👍✨💜
I remember watching an ertl remake of the RWS story Bad Look Out when I was 5 or so, it was called something along the lines of Thomas Take Along/Ertl Adventures, with a Tomy Donald used with the narrow gauge engines.
i have not found a shred of existence of the video, but only time will tell
I remember some other lost tomy thomas videos...
The videos where from a channel that made remakes of dirty work close shave and gordon goes foreign. The remakes (or maybe just dirty work) have edited faces and gordon goes foreign vid has the wooden railway big city engine for the big city engine.
all of the remake set I believe is just a big oval with a curve and maybe a 3 way sidings.
and I believe it was made during late 2000s or before 2012
if anyone knows please comment
Some lost medias I can remember is a trackmaster showcase video made by SkarloeyRheneas with custom models made by GBHTrains . One of the songs was Wild For The a night by A$AP but I can’t remember the second one . Another one is another showcase though this time with nakayoshi and had Japanese music with lots of custom built models . The video was 59:00 minutes long . And finally an old Jeremy Crispó video of Duck backing into the sheds being chased by something and smashing Percy threw the shed walls causing him to warp . Henry and Edward where clipping threw the shed doors .
I actually remember a video from the jeremycrispovideo channel that involved Gorden swearing at Barney the Dinosaur or something like that lmfao. I've not been able to find it in recent years.
Does anyone remember the TH-camr who would remake episodes with wooden railway toys that used stock music instead of any audio from the episodes? I believe they were stop motion and still images mainly. I remember specifically a Don’t Be Silly Remake which was done on a wooden floor, I also remember a peace and quiet remake that was filmed in the dark and there was a bright light that would come from the camera’s flash on any close up shot. If I were to give a rough estimate of when I last saw these videos, I’d say maybe between 2010 and 2012.
I found it! It’s peace and quiet by John martino
One lost media I remember watching was Toby070’s series, most of his videos aren’t on TH-cam anymore and from what I could remember was episode involving with drugs and missing engines as well Lady being antagonist of it. I also still remember certain soundtrack he made and I know what exactly what it sounds like if only I was musician so I could recreate this music score from my memory.
I actually have the Chris Awdry lore book autographed
It’s expected that Mattel will release the Down The Mine test pilot publicly on a special 80th anniversary dvd in 2025
I have heard of that, but I'm not sure if it's 100% confirmed.
That would be great, but I still have vague doubts that Mattel won’t deliver for our expectations. I really hope we do see the pilot released though.
The Percy and the Ghost Diesel Video I watched over and over again when I was in Kindergarten Age. My Plan to is to Buy another Tomy Diesel 10 for a Ghost Diesel Custom by Cutting of the Faceless Part of the Cab to another Diesel 10
unrelated, but I SWEAR I was watching this video while doing some history class homework, 3 months ago. I am doing it now
In fact, I did the exact same thing I remember doing, stop writing, look at screen, see the low quality sixteen's disaster clip
Anyways, good video man, i too have lost media of my own, a whole entire channel in fact
I actually remember percy and the ghost diesel very well
Having a little look at the stuff you mentioned there is something you forgot to mentioned, the Mark Maraghan Redub of some of the nitrogen era episodes, they were available on the PBS Kids website but only a handful were archived because a few were on some dvds
I'm not very familiar with the CGI era, so that explains the lack of anything CGI related.
ok so I have dun some diging around and its kinda odd causeI remeber seeing them on pbs to at least I think however All I found was this th-cam.com/video/Q1Dth3Tht-8/w-d-xo.html also what dvds were they on?
@@Rabbit6. i don’t remember but I remember“Snow Track” was on it
@@andyalex115 hmm I will see what I can find
@@andyalex115 Ok so I after a bit I think this is it Snow tracks it may be lost to you but thankfully its up th-cam.com/video/vTZsmYz7FB4/w-d-xo.html Do note that the other nitrogen era MM dubs are on some some uk Dvds.
17:17 this actually kinda made it in to production but it was designed with LEGO Duplo bricks, not sure who made them
I actually found those after finishing this video. I've found two companies that make them. One is called Toy2, and the other is SpeedFreakCNC.
11:23 if I remember correctly, that was instead concept for the opening of Thomas and the magic railroad.
10:32 I don't remember if it was a joke or not but there is another down the mind pilot image one of Thomas Annie clarabell outside of Knapford in the yard I think it was some time in between the pilot Thomas model being converted into the one used in the show because It has the final faces but it's got the pilot design and then 1 of the many closed vans behind Thomas is a prop that fell apart during filming a season 1
25:12 masterpiece
So there's two thomas fan videos that I can't find and I hope someone can help, one is about thomas and coal trucks and another is Salty shunting in the yard in Oliver's place. They were filmed with both Hornby and Bachman, this Channel only made these two fan stories and I was wondering if anyone either has them or a link to them, I'd love to see them after all these years, because they are old
I'm very fascinated with old youtube thomas videos. Or just old youtube videos of Trains in general, But if you want to experience a full on memory lane for TH-cam's 20th Anniversary. I have a video coming up in April of 2025
31:59 PLEASE PLEASE do that but with model trains PLEASE even if it takes years if it comes out I will be SO happy and will like it
Speaking of Percy and the ghost diesel a user called “freight hauler” reuploaded it around 2016 it didn’t get many views but then he took his channel down.
I hope this video is a “bro craft” live situation. (Aka the first “sighting” of the Minecraft myth herobrine) the stream was taken down but was found this year. It’s the internet and if Percy and the ghost diesel had so many views it’s likely a few people downloaded it
Only time will tell😊
I am aware of the lost Freight Hauler reupload. Let's hope this video gets found.
@@PlumCasualties I hope this thing gets found because it’s so nostalgic. I remember watching it when I was like 4 years old
@@PlumCasualtiesI’m gonna look at playlists of old trainz videos. Maybe someone unlisted it
5:19 words cannot describe how flabbergasted i am
Lmao i remember the percy and the ghost diesel and other that was various trains running over an half completed bridge and percy was also on that vídeo
Jebus, I never knew the book ACTUALLY used... 'the word'. Anyway, great video, I like these videos that cover less known media in the TTTE franchise.
The scrapped model of Thomas you mentioned wasn't the 1983 model. It was the O Gauge model. The 1983 Models for Thomas and Gordon were refurbished into their current/OG ones
Yep, that's what I said.
Case 1 and 2:didnt knew those books were discontinued XD (kinda of a stup1d thought,also the rebbot isnt bad)
Case 3:WHAT THE-the n word isnt good
Case 4:didnt knew about the japanese exclusive nameboard secuenses (PLS COUNT ALL ENGINES GO >:[)
Case 5:O gauge pilot?huh
Case 6:those 3.5 models look kinda creepy.......
Case 7:i heard about take along hiro before i know some people have it and also a lot of the 2008-2009 take along models like hector (witch i own) daisy,madge,billy and other models are pretty rare
Case 8:why did he privated his wooden videos?also that bl4ck face joke aint funny (r.i.p roy wilson ;-;)
Case 9:that video quallity is giving me nostalgia vibes
Case 10:that tomy/trackmaster willbert custom looks pretty good for 2008
Case 11:i watched that my little thomas world video lol
Case 13 (cuzz i skiped case 12 lol):why did he removed his videos?
7:25 HEROBRINE!!!!!!
off topic but gotta ask does the game you play have a mod scene going on or at least is possible to mod even if no one is doing it? would be cool seeing thomas engines in that game
Nope, not that I'm aware of. I'm hoping Steam Workshop support is added at some point. Thomas Wooden Railway mods are the first thing that came to my mind when I discovered this game.
I remember watching a video at least 9 years ago of some kid crashing a bunch of Tomy Plarail Thomas toys with the Japanese version of accidents happen put over it, been desperately looking for it but since the title was Japanese it’s not easy. If anyone knows what I’m talking about or has a link/reupload please let me know
I think I have seen a few videos using the Japanese version of the song, but I'm not sure if I've seen that exact video with Plarail items.
You forgot The Sad Story of Henry 1953 Pilot
I did mention it at the start of the video.
nice, i appeared in Rob's comments yee
This video is cool but i wanna know the name of that wooden train game thats playing it looks cool!
Tracks - The Train Set Game
Ngl you kinda sound like ThomasFan31