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That isn't absolutely true. Christopher Awdry still owns the Thomas books. What Allcroft > Gullane > HiT > Mattel own are the media adaptation rights.

I don’t think the analogy is quite on. Say rather that that last chocolste is a really big one, but it’s coconut- and you hate coconut

Yeah, but we’ll forgive you for that

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Completely new topic: Since this DLC will be "story driven", could that mean we get voiced dialogue for the first time, rather than just reading...

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Are there any other reqirements, such as putting the reverser in Neutral or the controller handle in Full Service or Emergency? Or do you just hit...

Gordon is a Gresley A1 rebuilt to an A3. Pecy is an Avonside 0-4-0ST, so much smaller, about half the weight, than Thomas (an LB&SCR E2)

I have deleted the post and I apologize. I got a burr under my saddle and let off a snorter without thinking, which is most unlike me. I do get...

This is a case where an Antipodean third party partner would be crucial, because sending research teams to the other side of the world would be...

Matt, of course

It gets kind of convoluted, in large part because the era when the show began, the early-mid 80s, was just when cable TV was starting to take off...

You do realize that lack of a license for, say, LNWR or Abellio is not a function of DTG not trying, but of the TOC saying "sod off"? As for...

This would be the game that includes a sci-fi spaceship?

Moreover, the original British series with Ringo was widely sold on videotape- my son had all of them (as well as the wooden trains and tracks,...

To make things clearer, DTG should withdraw the old LIRR from sale, or at least withdraw the TSW5 version of it. This is not a case like Isle of...

Freight trains almost never run at either line speed or the PZB max, very often they don't run at wagon Vmax (usually 100) either aside from...

I would suspect it's that way because it was all 1930s technology could handle. They could program the system using pre-computer analog methods to...

erm, the Holiday Express carries over the F7 physics unchanged

Mittenwald, definitely. I will say this about the Big Reveal controversy- everything else this month has just been a little more detail or some...

Lots of shunting, if that's your thing. And can look really dramatic in snow.

Yes, that's right. Later rebuilt as an A3.

Well, apparently it stemmed from Awdry handing his illustrator a photo to work from. What mattered was that it was an 0-6-0T, not that it was a...

A Topham Hatt modeled on Matt P would be epic

Using cobbled-up "Thomases" based on something else, since there are no surviving E2s. So what's "fictional"?

[IMG] E2 [IMG] Jinty Similar, but Thomas is an E2

Nobody knows why Sam chose to leave; neither he nor DTG have ever said, nor do I expect them to. There is no evidence that he "tried to challenge...

After all, for Gordon they would just have to repaint the Scotsman blue (acc to the lore, Gordon was an experimental A1 later rebuilt to A3...

That's true. The old stop-motion models were vastly better than the cheesy CGI.

+1. IF a revamped steam system is part of this, then it's a huge win wrapped in candy-coloured paper.

Man, what a bunch of Debbie Downers! I think it's a clever move- and for those who think trains are Deadly Serious Business... well there's still...

A problem inherent to the introduction of any new country is that there isn't an installed base of rolling stock built up

So, DTG JD, do I get a DLC?

I don't know about the Vectron, but the lone ICE 3M in 2012 was towed there - it wasn't allowed through the Tunnel under its own power.

It does appear underwhelming. At least Maintalbahn gave us a new DMU.

I'm still looking forward to Combat Mode.

That isn't altogether true wrt Germany, where Bremen and LFR are set in the past, and the 111 and 218, while still used today, certainly don't...

Ah. Shame, that.

Length = time. "2 miles a week" is what one dev says was the target for moderately developed rural lines- that goes exponential in an urban...

Really disappointing, that. Especially since the opportunity was forgone to use the wonderful white/black/yellow Baden-Wurttemburg livery

Hmmmm- How many millennials and Gen-Zers grew up with Thomas the Tank Engine?

Exactly. I don't understand the assumption that people will only buy what they're familiar with; what I would love to see is old pre-Amtrak US...

While that's a nice wishlist, this is just a gameplay pack- in other words, DTG are not going to develop new locos at this price point. We get new...

1970s design sense was.... interesting

It also inadvertently killed the BR 103s; they weren't designed to pull such heavy trains so often and they wore out prematurely.

Thank you mkraehe#6051 and Lamplight and AmityBlight for correcting my misapprehension. I had thought mistakenly that all IC coaches were...

All right, I stand corrected. But were they ever painted Ozeanblau? I thought they were all exclusively for IC/TEE trains

There are no roof ridges, characteristic of the UIC Z type. And at least to my eye the windows are spaced too closely together.

I don't believe the ones in the photo are Z-Wagen; the windows and roof are wrong. Also, if I'm not mistaken, all of the Bpmz were purchased for...

Although after his hair went silver he did look a little like von Karajan!