I like how he makes it that the “narrator” isn’t actually a disembodied, omniscient person and is just Thomas talking in third person like a narcissist 😂
This is honestly one of my favourite bootleg videos of all time. Additionally, shame on the people who made this "Train Transformable" for not naming it OpThomas Prime. A missed opportunity indeed...
5:00 "Thomas always hated James but it was at this moment that Thomas finally realized that James had to die." "Special delivery, buddy!" "THOMAS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" I could not. stop. laughing
The Fat Controller called Thomas, Percy and James for a private meeting. "The Island of Sodor is under attack from the Delaydicons. You three have been selected for a special upgrade." "Dibbs on being the head and body," said James. "But James, I'm the main character!" said Thomas. "Stop arguing, or I'll have you both replaced with Donald and Douglas!" said the Fat Controller, "Besides, James gets to be in the middle because he's the longest." "That's what Annie and Clarabel said," giggled Percy.
@Caleb Mayfield No it's not. The original was simply named as Topham Hatt, who was known by the nickname of "The Fat Director". Upon receiving the title of "Sir", he became the controller of the Sodor railway, thereby becoming Sir Topham Hatt, or "The Fat Controller". There were two other individuals who went by the moniker of "The Fat Controller"; Sir Charles Topham Hatt and Sir Stephen Topham Hatt, who were the son and grandson of the original respectively. - but his son was called Charles and his grandson Stephen who both inherited his title as they became controller of the Sodor railway in succession. But for wider recognition I just call him "The Fat Controller".
Watching a grown ass man go on an insanity trip while playing with trains is SO MUCH better when he knows Thomas’ proper name (plus the other engines) and does it in a British accent.🤣😄
@@gracekim1998Yeah. It was actually just called “The Railway Series.” The first one (“The Three Railway Engines”) came out in 1945 (39 years before the show started in 1984), and didn’t even have Thomas in it, just Edward, Gordon, Henry, and The Fat Controller (referred to as “The Fat Director” in the first 2 books). Thomas was introduced in the second book (“Thomas the Tank Engine”) the following year.
I'm watching a grown man play with Thomas the 'Train' bootlegs and having an insanity trip, while thinking how much this could become an actual series. And it's nearly midnight. Who cares? I'm having fun.
4 years later...having the EXACT same experience here...just turned a couple min past twelve...at night...watching a grown man play with these toys, but im feeling oddly happy just before goin to bed.
This will always be my favorite Bootleg Zones episode. I have a few others that come close, but this one is just genius. The call back to the Jekyll and Hyde cartoon, the brilliant jokes, the rewatchability, the wonderful silliness of a Thomas the Train Transfomer...it's perfect. I've watched this episode like ten times and it ALWAYS makes me laugh. You do such great work, Phelous!
I like when the bootleg toys are actually *good* like this. Fun as it is to see shitty zero-effort bootlegs and knockoffs getting based, there's only so many times I can see the same kind of bland "it's an action figure of poor quality" before they all start to blur together. So the ones like this are really refreshing and fun to watch.
Somebody gon' get thei' ass kicked! HENREH! Somebody gon' get thei' wig split! OH MY GAUGHD! Somebody gon' get thei' ass kicked! HENREH! Somebody gon' get thei' wig split! OH MY GAUGHD!
Just to set the record straight, this figure is a KO and retool of the STD version of Liner Dagwon. You can tell it is a KO of the STD version by the lack of any individual transformations for the trains.
I've watched this video probably ten times since it came out and only just now did I realize the "Henry! Oh my god!" thing is a callback to the Jekyll and Hyde review. Boy do I feel dumb.
i never watched thomas the train as a kid, it scared me to death. that creepy happy face on the front. so many willies. especially since it was like "real", like not a cartoon, looked like it was really there moving around, scared the crap out of me. was terrified of sesami street for all the same reasons lol
There’s a 3rd party masterpiece Astrotrain that is also called Thomas! I love that’s a recurring motif for Transformers Bootlegs, But at least this has Thomas’ face so it makes more sense.
That little intro song always gets me amped up. I start imagining kittens jumping around in a huge feild of flowers getting into mild shenanigans lmfao
So THIS is where the Internet series "Trainsformers" comes from. This is better than Bat Bot Changer in every way. Based on their length, I would say they could be Edward and Henry, but that would mean caring more than whoever made this. And, as always, hilarious transformers skit
My Transformable Tomas came for me today. That's right, they've spelled Thomas wrong on the card he came on and came out Tomas. Also his legs are tight as hell and it's almost difficult to move them. And also his claw arm will not fit into the hole socket because the peg is too big. Plus he comes with a VCD which features Chinese children songs.
12:40 That's... clearly not Astrotrain. Astrotrain's forms are a stream engine and a shuttle (Hense ASTROtrain) whereas this thing goes from a prop-plane to a fire engine, at least based on the photo. I don't know which triple-changer that's meant to be, but it's not Astrotrain.
TheBowserPrime Yeah looking at it now I don't know why I said Astrotrain. I think I thought the wings were just an add on and then I saw "Octane" and thought of the wrong triple changer.
The figures shown - that i recognize - are bootlegs of, in no particular order. -TF G1's Hot Spot and Onslaught (the 3 truck-looking vehicles - 2 of the former, one of the latter) -TF Universe's Tankor (Octane, the triple-changer) -Magiranger's/Mystic Force' sTravelion/Solar Streak Megazord (the non-Loco Squad trio of steam-trains) -Webdiver's Gradion (the single, large, futuristic-looking steam locomotive robot) -Brave Exkaiser's Ultra Raker (the combining pair of similar-looking bullet-train robots) -Brave Command Dagwon's Liner Dagwon (the set of 3 that Phelous calls "shuttles")
I love your channel so much! This is without a doubt one of your best toy reviews! I love Super Thomas and his Mighty claw arm! What an amazing delight! Truly spectacular!!!
The Constructicon Scrapper is the leader of his team, and even that, Hook forms the head of Devastator, so we could consider Thomas to be the leader of the Super Thomas team, even if James forms the torso and head.
This must be the funniest video Phelous has never made. This entire video is 100% hilarious. Heck, when I was watching this video first time, I was eating cookies and when I noticed one of the Super Thomas variants is named Tuomas and the way how Phelous said "Tuomas", I laughed so hard the cookie bits bursted out my mouth. Forget Pickle Rick! This is the true funniest shit ever!
I actually had the Non-Thomas The Tank Engine themed version of this toy called Loco Squad 3 in 1, its literally almost identicle but the red train is black and gold, and the there is no Thomas faces.
Not sure if this has been mentioned before, and I know I'm 7 years late to the party, but the version at 14:05 seems to be a knock-off of Travelion from Mahou Sentai Magiranger, or the Solar Streak Megazord from Power Rangers Mystic Force. Even has Magiking's as well as Wolzard's swords from the same season. It's definitely been modified, but the arms are immediately recognizable. I also love that the image on the package is inverted from the actual toy. lol
There actually used to be this fan made series of Thomas as a transformer called "trainformers" the series ended with Thomas dying which is sad but yeah I think this might be based off that
Oh man. The first time I saw this thing, it was in an SMG4 video. I thought it was just one of the many crazy funny things he made up for his videos! I didn't think this Thomasformer actually existed!
This episode made me go buy one. I was not disappointed , it’s great and has a fair number of differences from Pheloses mainly in the texture and stickers and a few small things .
A little bit of history and such, but I'm pretty much sure that this is just a knock of Liner Dagwon...but with (sometimes) old train types, the lack of their own robot modes or a Super Liner Dagwon like thing, and (again, sometimes) Thomas faces.
Give it up Megatrain, or I’ll bust your buffers. You’ve caused quite enough confusion, not to mention the delay. That was from a fan web series called Trains-Formers. And when Thomas, Henry, Gordon, James and Percy were combined, James was the body.
This toy is still far superior to the other one that's lower quality. Yes, there's a smaller version of this and it's lower quality. I actually have the Revenge Of The Fallen DVD, so I will have to watch it and see if Thomas is actually in that one scene like I read in the comments. That scene where Sam drops that Allspark fragment and everything in his house becomes a Decepticon. I still can't believe they made an actual Scout-class figure of the toaster. At least, I think they did the last time I checked.
I was laughing throughout the entire video with the engine voices.
'HENRY! HO MAH GWARD!'
Henry needed special coal, which contained diamonds.
Your hrenry oh mah god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the best episode of Thomas the Tank Engine I've ever seen
I Certainly agree
And the funniest of course.
Of course 😂
Man, my childhood would have been very different if Phelous narrated Thomas.
That would have been amazing
Yeah
Oh yeah
I like how he makes it that the “narrator” isn’t actually a disembodied, omniscient person and is just Thomas talking in third person like a narcissist 😂
This is honestly one of my favourite bootleg videos of all time. Additionally, shame on the people who made this "Train Transformable" for not naming it OpThomas Prime. A missed opportunity indeed...
Look for an animation called Trainsformers. Your prayers will be answered
DalekTheSupreme too bad it was C&D’d😢
Wow.....bravo good sir........bravo 👏
5:00 "Thomas always hated James but it was at this moment that Thomas finally realized that James had to die." "Special delivery, buddy!" "THOMAS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" I could not. stop. laughing
Thomas the tank engine reboot line revealed!?
Also trains can stab trains
The Fat Controller called Thomas, Percy and James for a private meeting.
"The Island of Sodor is under attack from the Delaydicons. You three have been selected for a special upgrade."
"Dibbs on being the head and body," said James.
"But James, I'm the main character!" said Thomas.
"Stop arguing, or I'll have you both replaced with Donald and Douglas!" said the Fat Controller, "Besides, James gets to be in the middle because he's the longest."
"That's what Annie and Clarabel said," giggled Percy.
@Caleb Mayfield No it's not.
The original was simply named as Topham Hatt, who was known by the nickname of "The Fat Director".
Upon receiving the title of "Sir", he became the controller of the Sodor railway, thereby becoming Sir Topham Hatt, or "The Fat Controller".
There were two other individuals who went by the moniker of "The Fat Controller"; Sir Charles Topham Hatt and Sir Stephen Topham Hatt, who were the son and grandson of the original respectively.
- but his son was called Charles and his grandson Stephen who both inherited his title as they became controller of the Sodor railway in succession.
But for wider recognition I just call him "The Fat Controller".
@@combatking0 cool
@Caleb Mayfield no need to be rude
No wonder James is so vain, he was secretly part jet this whole time.
And this is why I love James. XD
Veronica Hill if this is a pokemon joke,screw you.
TheFlyingTankEngine 64 No.
James is vain but lots of fun
James is Starscream, we all know it.
Watching a grown ass man go on an insanity trip while playing with trains is SO MUCH better when he knows Thomas’ proper name (plus the other engines) and does it in a British accent.🤣😄
Lmao
I like the fact that Phelous mentioned the books, as it shows he's done some research.
Unlike Nostalgia Critic. lol.
Indeed
I didn’t realise there were books
@@gracekim1998Yeah. It was actually just called “The Railway Series.” The first one (“The Three Railway Engines”) came out in 1945 (39 years before the show started in 1984), and didn’t even have Thomas in it, just Edward, Gordon, Henry, and The Fat Controller (referred to as “The Fat Director” in the first 2 books). Thomas was introduced in the second book (“Thomas the Tank Engine”) the following year.
I'm watching a grown man play with Thomas the 'Train' bootlegs and having an insanity trip, while thinking how much this could become an actual series. And it's nearly midnight. Who cares? I'm having fun.
SuperFloxes *Thomas the tank engine
Trainsformers?
4 years later...having the EXACT same experience here...just turned a couple min past twelve...at night...watching a grown man play with these toys, but im feeling oddly happy just before goin to bed.
“Shockwave is at RadioShack.” Brilliant!! 😂
This will always be my favorite Bootleg Zones episode. I have a few others that come close, but this one is just genius. The call back to the Jekyll and Hyde cartoon, the brilliant jokes, the rewatchability, the wonderful silliness of a Thomas the Train Transfomer...it's perfect. I've watched this episode like ten times and it ALWAYS makes me laugh. You do such great work, Phelous!
James the flying Tank Engine is my favorite giant robot anime!
Denku He's the missing character from Gundam.
He’s not a tank engine, he’s a tender engine.
I like when the bootleg toys are actually *good* like this. Fun as it is to see shitty zero-effort bootlegs and knockoffs getting based, there's only so many times I can see the same kind of bland "it's an action figure of poor quality" before they all start to blur together. So the ones like this are really refreshing and fun to watch.
HENRY!!! OH MY GOD!!!
Why am I entertained by a grown man playing with toy trains
Already this is the best Thomas OR Transformers movie
I couldn't stop laughing when you made those skits and Thomas complaining about not being the leader, your tone makes this video hilarious.
I can't stop laughing at the way you said "HENRY! OHMYGOBSHSJ"
HENRIEH! HO MAH GAWD!
I like the fox creature you use for your account icon, where is it from though?
A Cahoon that's a dog dude
I hope you're happy! Now I can never watch Mark Henry ever again without thinking... "HENRY!!"
+TheParappa HENRY..OH MY GOD
+CWDTrixie I thought it was more like "HENRAH! UH MAH GAHD!"
Somebody gon' get thei' ass kicked! HENREH!
Somebody gon' get thei' wig split! OH MY GAUGHD!
Somebody gon' get thei' ass kicked! HENREH!
Somebody gon' get thei' wig split! OH MY GAUGHD!
OH MAH GAUD
THAT’S WHAT I DO!
Thomas has never seen such masterpiece before
It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life
Quick, give me the bomb
Just discovered this and this has got to be one of the funniest bootleg toy videos ever🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💯
Thank you!
@@phelous your welcome 👍 your videos are awesome and hilarious 🤣👍💯
And people say the Trainbots from Headmasters and Astrotrain's army from Triple Takeover was silly.
With the claw attachment on the back Super Thomas makes me think of some kinda Train Voltron
This will forever be one of my favorite Bootleg Zones, alongside the Pooh knock off episodes. It never ceases to make me bust out laughing.
this comment was brought to you by HENRY OH MY GOD!!!
I love that line
I have to admit, I was always a bigger fan of James growing up...so this figure is perfect in my eyes! ;-)
Just to set the record straight, this figure is a KO and retool of the STD version of Liner Dagwon. You can tell it is a KO of the STD version by the lack of any individual transformations for the trains.
I love the little movies at the end. Man, Thomas was my favorite show when I was little.
Mine, too.
Me, three
From the title card alone this looks awesome. I grew up on Thomas the Tank Engine and now it in turn has grown up with me.
I've watched this video probably ten times since it came out and only just now did I realize the "Henry! Oh my god!" thing is a callback to the Jekyll and Hyde review. Boy do I feel dumb.
You make a terrific Thomas narrator. XD
i never watched thomas the train as a kid, it scared me to death. that creepy happy face on the front. so many willies. especially since it was like "real", like not a cartoon, looked like it was really there moving around, scared the crap out of me. was terrified of sesami street for all the same reasons lol
That’s because it used live action models.
Also, a little fun fact, on the packaging show at 14:02, Murdoch is in his early concept art color scheme for some strange reason.
There’s a 3rd party masterpiece Astrotrain that is also called Thomas!
I love that’s a recurring motif for Transformers Bootlegs,
But at least this has Thomas’ face so it makes more sense.
That little intro song always gets me amped up. I start imagining kittens jumping around in a huge feild of flowers getting into mild shenanigans lmfao
HENRY OH MY GOD
-Phelous 2014
*OH MY COD
@@phelous *O MAH COHD
@@The-kr9rb well, this isn't fishy at all!
Nobody:
Phelan Porteous: *H E N R Y O H M Y C O D*
And also, Sir Topham Hatt must be on some kind of ecstasy.
So THIS is where the Internet series "Trainsformers" comes from. This is better than Bat Bot Changer in every way.
Based on their length, I would say they could be Edward and Henry, but that would mean caring more than whoever made this.
And, as always, hilarious transformers skit
Link to this "Triansformers" plz?
Brother Malachai The videos mostly got taken down by copyright strikes, sadly.
+Magitek1112 luckily
James Farr made the parody.
My Transformable Tomas came for me today. That's right, they've spelled Thomas wrong on the card he came on and came out Tomas. Also his legs are tight as hell and it's almost difficult to move them. And also his claw arm will not fit into the hole socket because the peg is too big. Plus he comes with a VCD which features Chinese children songs.
12:40 That's... clearly not Astrotrain. Astrotrain's forms are a stream engine and a shuttle (Hense ASTROtrain) whereas this thing goes from a prop-plane to a fire engine, at least based on the photo. I don't know which triple-changer that's meant to be, but it's not Astrotrain.
Octane. Or in that mold's case, Tankor
TheBowserPrime
Yeah looking at it now I don't know why I said Astrotrain. I think I thought the wings were just an add on and then I saw "Octane" and thought of the wrong triple changer.
+Phelan “Phelous” Porteous the one you showed before Octane looks like Webdiver Gradion
+Kevyn The DevylMan
Thank you fedora man, it was bothering the shit out of me.
The figures shown - that i recognize - are bootlegs of, in no particular order.
-TF G1's Hot Spot and Onslaught (the 3 truck-looking vehicles - 2 of the former, one of the latter)
-TF Universe's Tankor (Octane, the triple-changer)
-Magiranger's/Mystic Force' sTravelion/Solar Streak Megazord (the non-Loco Squad trio of steam-trains)
-Webdiver's Gradion (the single, large, futuristic-looking steam locomotive robot)
-Brave Exkaiser's Ultra Raker (the combining pair of similar-looking bullet-train robots)
-Brave Command Dagwon's Liner Dagwon (the set of 3 that Phelous calls "shuttles")
This is the most glorious thing I have laid my eyes on in quite some time
Tuomas is finnish for Thomas. Can't even imagine why the bootleggers would decide to use it.
Probably something they got from somewhere online or where ever they usually get their infallible info from.
Suomi mainittu.
Poor Chinese translation of Thomas (托马斯， Tuo Ma Si)
Source: currently taking Mandarin classes
The fact that there isn't a Robot Chicken sketch about this amazes me..
The sound from the arm is the sound of the poor people who had to make this at gunpoint in a sweatshop
Honestly, I think the green train looks more like Oliver, but that could just be me
"Henry! Oh My God!" LOL
i just realized that the packaging for the scary shuttle thomas has a picture of travelion from magiranger with thomas' face pasted onto it
I'M THE LEAAAAADER DAMMIT!!!!
I would love to see oldman cameo in a bootleg zone episode
I love your channel so much! This is without a doubt one of your best toy reviews! I love Super Thomas and his Mighty claw arm! What an amazing delight! Truly spectacular!!!
With ToQger being a thing... WE NEED MORE TRAIN ROBOTS!!!!!!
HENRY OH MAH GAWD!!!!!!!!!!!
Phelous does some of the best research I've ever seen in a RUclips video.
I love your narration for Thomas and the gang, it's brilliant! XD Gave me a good laugh!
Wait... James gets to be in the middle?
“Thomas had never see such bullshit before”
This thing is freaking awsome. Never has Thomas the tank engine looked so bad ass...unless you count the Skyrim mods.
I like the use of the Hornby Thomas trains in this video.
Thomas was everywhere.
The Constructicon Scrapper is the leader of his team, and even that, Hook forms the head of Devastator, so we could consider Thomas to be the leader of the Super Thomas team, even if James forms the torso and head.
that's bad ass! love it, the face is the chest is especially intimidating....
I'm still waiting for when Thomas the Transformer fight his greatest foe: UniDiesel
12:39 that's the blue raker/green raker mold! If they didn't modify them too much these two should combine too
The kibble appears to be missing.
How could this happen to me?
I made my mistakes
Got nowhere to run 🎵🎵🎵
Because you're part of a Combiner and stuck to him.
There needs to be a Robot Chicken episode or skit featuring this.
This must be the funniest video Phelous has never made.
This entire video is 100% hilarious.
Heck, when I was watching this video first time, I was eating cookies and when I noticed one of the Super Thomas variants is named Tuomas and the way how Phelous said "Tuomas", I laughed so hard the cookie bits bursted out my mouth.
Forget Pickle Rick! This is the true funniest shit ever!
Thomas the Dank Engine.
Henry! Oh my god!
I actually had the Non-Thomas The Tank Engine themed version of this toy called Loco Squad 3 in 1, its literally almost identicle but the red train is black and gold, and the there is no Thomas faces.
HENREH!!! OH MA GOH!!!
This is the most beautiful thing to ever infringe on copyright!
and it was that this very moment Gordon knew he should have been kinder to thomas
I'm a big fan of thomas
Not sure if this has been mentioned before, and I know I'm 7 years late to the party, but the version at 14:05 seems to be a knock-off of Travelion from Mahou Sentai Magiranger, or the Solar Streak Megazord from Power Rangers Mystic Force. Even has Magiking's as well as Wolzard's swords from the same season. It's definitely been modified, but the arms are immediately recognizable. I also love that the image on the package is inverted from the actual toy. lol
There actually used to be this fan made series of Thomas as a transformer called "trainformers" the series ended with Thomas dying which is sad but yeah I think this might be based off that
So it means Transformers Thomas is a real thing.
I remember this and this is a masterpiece
For the reason why some of them say "Tuomas" on the package, it's because it's a poor translation of Thomas's Chinese name (托马斯, Tuo Ma Si)
It's especially funny since that is the actual Finnish name of the character!
James Farr's Trainsformers comes to mind.
Enters the clock room of peach's castle getting scared of this trying to get grand dad.
Good lord. It's like the earliest concept design for ToQ-Oh
How did I miss this one?
I love your profile pic :D
You need to make a bootleg of Robot Chicken using these toys (all the bootleg toys)!
You'd make an amazing show!!
Love watchin Phelous playing with these things, Go rapid fast to infinite pleasure with Phelous and lovely shaped legboots!
When you put all the subtitles during the songIt says tangia so niki code 10 changes we’re attending a mystery
Oh man. The first time I saw this thing, it was in an SMG4 video. I thought it was just one of the many crazy funny things he made up for his videos! I didn't think this Thomasformer actually existed!
Or should I say James former?
Hit random on the playlist, landed here. I do this so often I'm just gonna start keeping track of how many times I hit each video first lmao
Trainsformers...
*upon seeing telephone box* is that the tardis?!🤣
I love the fact that you made the trains say ‘bloody’🤣 holy shit
HENREH~!!
EHMERGED~!!
HENRY! HO MAH GAW!
I need Thomas the Transformer in my life. I need over 9000 of these to share with those unfortunate enough to know me. This is amazing.
toQger just even fucking better
It does look better than their megazord
This episode made me go buy one. I was not disappointed , it’s great and has a fair number of differences from Pheloses mainly in the texture and stickers and a few small things .
Oh and no electronics or buttons
He can’t do the claw arm either and the wings are black
HENREH! OH MAH GOD!
A little bit of history and such, but I'm pretty much sure that this is just a knock of Liner Dagwon...but with (sometimes) old train types, the lack of their own robot modes or a Super Liner Dagwon like thing, and (again, sometimes) Thomas faces.
YAY! another person that knows a bit about the books and show!
14:15 lol.lol I can't stop laughing
Give it up Megatrain, or I’ll bust your buffers. You’ve caused quite enough confusion, not to mention the delay.
That was from a fan web series called Trains-Formers. And when Thomas, Henry, Gordon, James and Percy were combined, James was the body.
HENRAAY OH MY GAWD!
This toy is still far superior to the other one that's lower quality.
Yes, there's a smaller version of this and it's lower quality.
I actually have the Revenge Of The Fallen DVD, so I will have to watch it and see if Thomas is actually in that one scene like I read in the comments.
That scene where Sam drops that Allspark fragment and everything in his house becomes a Decepticon.
I still can't believe they made an actual Scout-class figure of the toaster.
At least, I think they did the last time I checked.
Sora Song Hey, Ejector is awesome. You leave him alone!
boxorak Making assumptions again, are we?
Love your Thomas narration XD highlight of my day.