Getting an Ertl Thomas after wanting it for 20 years (because I can't let childhood wants die...)

[@Jcc2224]

Sorry this one is late guys! Came back from a weekend away from home and forgot to get a video ready!! Next upload will still be the 10th!

[@kboy1158]

Jcc2224 no the cgi stuff isn't trash, have you seen all engines go the reboot of thomas. that reboot is trash!

[@magicbookofhorror3564]

Are you planning on getting Luke Skywalker from the Mandalorian season two in the vintage collection?

[@Jcc2224]

@@kboy1158 Any Thomas that isn't the live-action models to me is absolute trash. The magic of the show was the models, replacing it with lifeless CGI destroys what made the show great.

[@Jcc2224]

@@magicbookofhorror3564 I get any and all Vintage Collection pretty much, save for a few re-releases of older figures! lol

[@magicbookofhorror3564]

@@Jcc2224 you are one of my favorite action figure review KZbinrs here on KZbin I collect the black series and the vintage collection as well I have thought about having my own third channel with action figure review as well

[@RustbeltCollector]

Ertl is an underrated brand! I may have never been into Thomas, but I had a great set of Ertl farm stuff. Barns, die cast vehicles, animals and so much more!

[@DDPlay_TABMovie]

Underrated? This brand is exaggeratedly overrated, and that has many errors and ugly models like Thomas, in addition to horrible details such as the tenders being glued to the trains and models like Emily that do not move the wheels

[@RustbeltCollector]

@@DDPlay_TABMovie I have no point of reference for Thomas, I only recall the farm toys I grew up with and the good quality they had

[@DDPlay_TABMovie]

Esto es lo que pasa cuando le das internet a pueblos indigenas

[@chazzywaz]

@@DDPlay_TABMoviewhat????

[@joshmontemayor1212]

Thomas was a HUGE & CRITICAL part of my childhood. I had a TON of Thomas VHS tapes & DVDs when I was a kid, including the 2000 Magic Railroad movie. My family & I even rode Thomas at Tweetsie Railroad in 2002. Not to mention that he's responsible for getting me into trains.

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

Hot take: The best Thomas merch was from the Take Along and Take-N-Play (well, before 2014) lines. Accurate, portable, affordable, and cute.

[@RileyZilla1001]

They killed ertl though. Lol

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

@@RileyZilla1001 Good. Ertl was trash compared to TA/pre-2014 TNP

[@joshmontemayor1212]

Don't forget Tomy & Bachmann.

[@TheYardLimit]

shut up zoomers! hahah jkjk. im too old for take along, I was probably 10 yrs old when they came out

[@tobeyshitposts10]

I remember i used to love thomas the tank engine ever since i was 8,i colected the more modern toys of the characters but i always wanted the ertl ones,i resently stoped because i no longer had hope on the franchise after it's reboot,and i got into Marvel and started colecting Marvel legends,but i still apreciate ttte,congrats on getting the figure,hope it brings memories back :)

[@derekbeechler8885]

This is something I never thought would happen on your channel and I freaking love it thomas is a big part of my childhood also and I bought some ertl recently also so it is awesome seeing this in a place I never thought I would

[@legoman2313]

This is what they are!!! I had the Percy with the couplers all chewed up and I had no idea it was a ertl branded toy. So awesome and such a blast from the past

[@TheYardLimit]

OMG you are opening it!? So I came across my little carrying case with my well used ERTL models. I started browsing Ebay and bought a model of Stepney new in the box. I have no intention of opening it, but I love Stepney and never had an ERTL model of him(I did have a wooden one and a faceless OO Scale model of the real one. But at any rate, then I just started finding all the models I never had and bought gently used sets to fill out the open collection. I just got an open Gordon, James, and a Stepney that I can actually touch lol for like $12. Now I want to pick up NOS sealed ones to display or whatever. The VHS bug bit me too, I spent $100 on two sealed VHS tapes, one of which was an old Strand VCI tape that is atleast 30 years old. I am addicted, I must be stopped

[@jayscruffilostudios]

Ertl to me was the cool merchandise, I never really had many of those ones, well because by the time I got into Thomas (2004?) they were replaced by Take along(while not as cool but they still were great, the tender engines had molded in fireboxes for crying out loud), but man Thomas the tank engine is great, I can still go back and enjoy everything about at least the first 7 seasons. Now where was I going aside from letting the train nerd in me outside, oh yeah Thomas is cool.

[@TFfangeek]

Congrats on getting this Jcc2224!! I still have my collection of ERTL Thomas the Tank Engine trains. :D Shining Time Station was the live action TV show that featured the Thomas shorts. :D ERTL has always been my favorite line of Thomas the Tank Engine. :D Keep on being amazing.

[@josephnavarro914]

This brings back so many memories Thomas was definitely a made childhood in the 90s. I had a really decent collection myself ❤😢 I wish I still had them today 😭

[@ncopictures7182]

Shining Time Station was a live action variety show that was used to bring Thomas to the US. Thomas started off as a book series called The Railway Series before it became a TV show in the UK.

[@thomasthetrain2]

I own a thomas the tank engine 70th anniversary special model as a Christmas present and kept it as a little display of my childhood have a nice ertl henry

[@MOOSEPRIME98]

Wow this really really took me back. Especially that ghost train bridge episode and especially the wooden toys

[@joshmontemayor1212]

Thomas was a CRITICAL part of my childhood. He's responsible for getting me into trains.

[@slickmanfonzthatanti-troll]

I love your channel even more now. You showed us your Thomas love side :D

[@williamdunbar2802]

I still have a bunch of my old wooden Thomas and Friends train toys

[@mr.slowking_64]

Lol, I have almost all of the Ertl Thomas toys, i too have been fulfilling my childhood.

[@bdavis24fan]

Actually the Thomas series started in Britain in 1984 so it's almost 40 years old. The books the show is based on is almost 80 years old.

[@joshmontemayor1212]

5 years later, in 1989, Thomas made his US debut.

[@kachowskien]

ertl is a good choice, shining time station was a pbs show that Thomas first air during in the US

[@bethanythemulti-fandommodd1218]

Do you know that Thomas and Friends was actually based off the books known as The Railway Series, which most of the stories were based off real life events?

[@Jcc2224]

I knew they were based off books, but no idea the books were based in reality, that's awesome!

[@TheSonOfRyan]

@@Jcc2224 they were stories a dad told thier kid, and he wrote them all down later, I think?

[@Stepney_Studios]

@@Jcc2224 so there’s a 26 book set for the 70th anniversary of the railway series for like 70-80? Dollars. I bought it and the stories are very real like. I love meh trains

[@Amazingfantasy478]

Personally I was a take n play fan those things were so cool

[@Brandan_Boi]

Reminds me of my childhood

[@Stratman20928]

My favorite show to watch when I was a toddler wasn’t the cgi one either but rather the model ones

[@cuttino3911]

Bro I used fucking love Thomas as a kid

[@joshmontemayor1212]

Same. Thomas was a HUGE & CRITICAL part of my childhood.

[@omegamaximus1727]

Thomas the Tank Engine was also my favorite childhood favorites.

[@lsbc9666]

The ertl stuff is pretty great tbh.

[@cyberverseprime7393]

Man Thomas and Friends back then was so much better I actually have a lot of the Bachmann Thomas models and those are electric trains.

[@the_collector_of_different_toy]

Ertl is probably the best Thomas range to collect because they made basically every named character from season one to seven the show and a couple book only characters one thing is I would say just pick a couple key characters if you want maybe like main 7 engines with a some important secondary road vehicles and rolling stock characters along with the fat controller himself

[@brandt714]

Gotta love the og model train Thomas show

[@joshmontemayor1212]

What are your thoughts on Thomas & the Magic Railroad (2000)?

[@opthomasprime5085]

Same as you as I like Thomas most of my childhood but I got made fun of in school but in 2019 I got into transformers

[@melatoninmilk1943]

I used to collect ERTL! I had two, although I wanted more. I had Sixteen (the character not the number). And another one. I don’t remember because it was 5 years ago.

[@ThatGooberSpartan_1776]

I don't wanna let go of my childhood I will never stop playing with toys 😭😭😭

[@Holyknigt32]

I still have a bunch of these old die cast ones

[@that_blue_idiot2004]

Still love Thomas the tank engine to this day so happy to see this in my feed 👍

[@KickapooNinja]

I don't think I've ever really watched Thomas the Train but I watched this Jay Jay the Jet Plane show lol it was pretty weird, planes with faces 😰

[@jacido4285]

Why do you have one I got one you have to be very careful cause it’s kind of fragile

[@ARCTrooperStudios8108]

I have some ertl too! You plan on getting more?

[@Amazingfantasy478]

I was obsessed with Thomas lol

[@joshmontemayor1212]

When I was a kid, Thomas & Bob the Builder (early US seasons) were the 2 shows that I had a TON of VHS tapes & DVDs of. Not to mention that both shows were HUGE parts of my childhood.

[@blankusername1753]

old vs new thomas video coming soon?

[@Jcc2224]

Oooh no. Only Thomas I every would/will buy is Ertl. lol

[@brogandraws6058]

Ringo Star was the OG narrator then George Carlin was the first US narrator for the show.

[@joshmontemayor1212]

What are your thoughts on the Alec Baldwin seasons?

[@ryandyer3466]

Actually Ringo did narrations before Carlin for season 1 and 2 for the US then they got George Carlin to re do seasons 1 and 2.

[@rudyproductions4557]

So is every TF fan secretly a former Thomas fan? lol!

[@Jcc2224]

IT'S A CONSPIRACY I still wanna get that weird knock off Thomas Combiner. lol

[@afallingmouse4343]

How did you get one in brand new condition?

[@Jcc2224]

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[@theterribleclaw4285]

Well this one was kind of random.

[@highbrow2373]

As a guy who loves final destination, persona 3, the moody blues, among many others, the ip that dominates my room, Is Thomas the tank engine, (the railway series) and transformers. I cant say both are valid, but the cgi stuff is super Wholesome. Thomas as a franchise is just as abused as transformers. Well.. worse. Tf makes money and has alot for diff people. Thomas is now dangerous because its brainless, and transformers can be wholesome and gritty, and progressive and spiritual, and a successfully evasive series in terms of interpretation, but also consistantly able to be strong enough to trhive on its own merit without comparison to other series before. Maybe a little too reliant on self referential motifs, but Transformers i take to be a metaphor for extremism and humanism, and the dichotomy of the two party system. So why do I love Thomas the tank engine too? Because most who do see this hopefully will be Transformers fans, So the author wrote a story for his son, and hand carved a wooden train, which became Thomas. The books werent published for year because of a paper shortage because of a little thing called, World War 2. Thomas has nearly reached 80 year anniversary. Around the time The Reverend Wilbert Awdry finally took his wifes advice and had them published, the british railways were replacing heritage steam engines, even those preserved in the iconography of british culture, with diesels and diesle electric engines. The books began to reflect this in the steam engines dealing with their own prejudices in their eternally immature way. The trains don't age really. Some just do the same job everyday, which can be horrifically stale to imagine beibg in those engines shoes, but i take it as a duty to the people who rely on public transportation. Anyway, some characters are eternally petulant and some are inherently egalitarian and embrace the new driving types to the island. The story takes place on an island inbetweeen england and the isle on man. The author and his brother actually assimilated both languages to make a new one, to give real names ro real places, some he didnt even feature in books. Anyway this man, really cared. One of my formative events i believe, was hearing one such anecdote. The Reverends son said the Toby was his favorite, because that origin story was based on a real life vacation the family had. But the Reverend refused to issue any such clarity. He said, "my engines are a family. And in a famuly you don't play favorites." That was one of those moments that made me think "this man. This man...." an undefined idolatry. This unrecognised genius! Im one of those punters who thinks they are an author. One day i could be. But one reasin is because the Reverend, while never cynical, saw them as bedtime stories. Initially. Until he got into a row with the illustrator over painting Henry inconsistently. In one of the early books, Henry is mentioned as being sick. We know now that this was the reverend planting the seed to remove the character, who became a headache to him. But he had a change of heart. He instead gave henry his own book in which he is redeemed and allowed a refit. A second chance. To Thomas fans, this is the moment. That he started to care, really. Reflecting reality, and creatung maps, and real trains schedules, corrseponding with children that asked questions in letters, because he didnt erase the issue. He wrote in a way to amke it work for him, for the characters, for the story, and for the kids. This means nothing to most people. But its a lesson i take to heart. A heart shaped by the strangely rude trains on this strange little island. But aside from that, this island is sanctuary, it encourages real life preservation efforts, the show inspired filmmakers my age, and affected even musicians and painters and people who want to manage ip and protect stories from what happened to Thomas. And the the Reverend. See, ignoring the movies, there are 24 seasons of thomas. Only ten are good. The first 5, with the most exquisite modelmaking and production philo ive seen, directed by Thunderbirds veteran, david mitton. And sime of the cgi series written in a new spin by Andrew brenner. And ive leraned just as much from the baby show seasons, the cynical seasons, the formulaic, anodyne, tripe, that made alot of money, that which is antithetical to the Reverends legacy. That forced progress is not progress. Just because yoy can update a story, doesnt mean you should. I think transformers did that well. But when art is driven by money, its not art. This is, an obvious rhing that we all know. But i learned it early, from thomas. The cautious, but driven, idealistic, and hopefully, skeptical in the healthy Way, ME, lives on cybertron. In the endless war between exploration and conquest. Deception and valor. But my heart, my unconscious progenitor of self, is on that island. I love thomas the tank engine because it is the greatest work place drama ever written. Because those engines dont always get along. But if not for that sanctuary and the people who maintain their rails, if they were on the mainland, they would be taken to pieces and recycled, unremebered . So i remeber them, Sodor is a haven for them, a heaven almost. The original books dont hide this. Its not subtextual. There are some mentionsand outright illustrations of engines being taken to bits. Pulling pubches a bit but not becacuse his audience was kids, but because as a hobbyist, it pained him to think of one of his characters being undone. I think, thats the purest art. And that tv show for all i inherited from it, ruined the mans legacy. But he never blamed the kids. He predicted it would happen. But he wanted to make kids happy. I love that man. And i love those funny little trains. Yes, As mush as i love Optimus Prime. They are a reminder to me of who the war of art is for, the innocent, the child in allof us, and the way to invigorate that spirit in all of us to fight the cynical decepticons of the world. We seek higher things because of wonder, and duty. Not for recognition or supremacy. I love those trains, and those robots, as human and real to me as my own mother. Because they both inspired my philospohy and creativity. I made them real. I am not reateded for liking toy tobots that turn into cars, or slice of life snippets of talking trains that argue over pointless things. Im retarded because i post essays in youtube comments sections. But I got something from it. Im as selfish as that cheeky little tank engine twat. But art, pushes us to be better. Even if we forget how it formed us as children, it still did.. And to transform is to go back and understand why. I went full circle! I did it! I made it make sense!

[@klipsfilmsmelbourne]

Well this is something you don’t see on the channel You seen mad bomber video by leokimvideo

[@PyroFusionBlox]

Jcc its not an issue if you like thomas and you aren’t a kid

[@christopherbellamy639]

I still have my ertl Thomas collection

[@chrisdavies3913]

Name an ertl Thomas character and I've likely got it!

[@reeganvargas7822]

Thomas Pulling Annie And Clarabel

[@Kennys_Chocolate_Milk]

cool vid 😎 👌

[@Jayhsia1215]

New subscriber

[@MaxwellTheTrainFan]

Can you get more

[@MaxwellTheTrainFan]

Like say percy and sc ruffy and James , and many toby

[@Jcc2224]

Percy, James, Toby, and Gordon would be some of the others I'd get if I decide to! I have Edward and Henry already!

[@MaxwellTheTrainFan]

@@Jcc2224 can you get the 8 famous engines in ertl . I almost have them all’s I’m missing right now is gordon

[@Nerguy]

@@Jcc2224 hi

[@combaticon55reviews65]

Don’t look up project g1.

[@Jcc2224]

Horrifying! I love it.

[@Virtus1863]

I have a fuck ton of those