I just made a RUclips channel as I thought I'd clear up a little bit of misinformation; TomTomica and I used to be in regular contact back when he was active on RUclips, so I thought I'd just share a few things. TomTomica was German, not Australian, and in the handful of videos where he spoke (including the Wilbert tutorial), he spoke with quite a pronounced German accent. His Wilbert model was created using Percy's cab and running board, along with Bill's boiler and tanks. Quite a bit of cutting and glueing was involved, along with extra careful cutting and glueing required to get the correct spacing under the saddle tanks; it certainly wasn't an easy custom. Regarding his array of red running board engines and painted running board engines (I saw this mentioned before), I might be able to speak to this as an ex-employee of a certain brand's global marketing team. The painted running boards weren't a global update to the line, nor did they replace the unpainted running board engines. Japan introduced painted running boards in the early 2000s, while the rest of the Western world had unpainted running boards. I assume the red running board engines would have been purchased locally, while the painted running board engines would have been imported. As TomTomica was an adult collector (from memory in his 40s!?), money would not have necessarily been an issue when importing trains from overseas. At that time, importing anything from overseas into your country was an expensive endeavour, regardless of if you lived in Germany, Australia, or the UK. In his collection, he had a huge variety of engines, and he was a pioneering person who demonstrated the variation in the engines found in Japan; up until this time, the majority of the Western market didn't know Japan and other Asian countries had engines with much better detail. Motor Road and Rail were how Plarail was sold to the Western markets, and TomTomica's channel was one of the earliest places online to demonstrate the variation between the MRR engines as sold in the Western market and Plarail as sold in the Asian market. Hope this helps! :)
I want to know, why was the painted running board a Japanese exclusive feature? Was it a cost cutting measure? Also, thanks for all this juicy information!
Wooden Railway Reviews is a great friend of mine! It was a huge surprise when he got that interview with Roy Wilson! There were a lot of things that came to be known that were unanswered up until then! He then went on to meet Roy in person with a bunch of friends from the Thomas wooden railway community! Good memories! Great channel!
I remember the custom Derek video from Tom. It was the very first instance of a totally custom body shell for a trackmaster custom. All his customs were groundbreaking for its day and they started the whole custom trend in the first place.
About that All Engines Go "pilot", that was actually a test animation that was never meant to be seen public. The reason for its existence, as well as the explanation for Thomas and Gordon's simpler geometric designs, was because it was made to see how Thomas would look in 2D. Those designs were never going to be final.
Ah, yes, I remember Tomtomica's videos from the old days of RUclips. I believe there were two videos of the flying Scotsman - one was a regular showcase of the model, the other a short of the model zooming around a Tomy Rail loop with the 9V battery. I remember it derailing at the end of that video.
There is actually some old TomTomica thumbnails out there online, you can even see his custom Derek in some of them. Thank you for the shoutout my guy and well done on the video and research. Lost media is always very interesting to discuss.
Holy shit I remember the title card for Thomas blows his Stack! Man, whenever I've revisited it I never noticed it wasn't there and I remember as a kid, some parts being hard to hear and that might have been some of the additional music cues you mentioned.
I remember 2 videos from my childhood. The first one is a low quality video of the motorised capsule plarail circus van, it went around a small circle on a green table, it had other rolling stock behind it, and it went underneath a signal gantry or something along those lines. The second one I believe was a review of the tender driven Trackmaster engines or a review of recently released Trackmaster items, I don't remember much besides the first clip, which from memory was a shot that zoomed into a building, looked kinda like the wooden railway wash down, the other shot was angled, and of Trackmaster Hank with a train on an incline, I remember the narration said something about how disappointing it was that the engine couldn't make it up the incline, the whole thing was film on a big wooden table, built up like a model railway. I'd love for you to try and get this out here, I seriously have vivid memories of these videos, I definitely watched them multiple times as a small boy, probably around 4-7 years old, both around 2010.
There used to be a channel called skarloeyfan that used to make lots of HO/009 videos and would do videos about him taking the layout to exhibitions and stuff but one day he disappeared and then a couple years later the whole channel disappeared
I remember the Derek video. It was a slideshow of it being put together as well as having orchestral/cinematic esque music playing while. I also remember the scotsman video starting with the guy saying something along the lines of “this is my custom tomy, flying scotsman..” due to the low quality it sounded like he was muttering it haha. If only grade school aged me knew about archiving! 😅 I wanna say the 57 engine was a Tomy counterpart of himself but I could be wrong, it’s been nearly 20 years since I saw his vids. Bonus: I also remember seeing the original cut of Mad Bomber before the insert of the Mute Scene around that time as well
I remember the Creater of Sixteen's disaster made toher videos, I vaugely remember one where Duncan was in a dispute of some slate trucks with on OC, in some reimainging of Emily's new Coaches, I can also recall Metalic Varients of Thomas, Percy and Toby being used as Characters, in conjunction with Tomy versions of Thomas, Percy and Toby.
I’m inclined to believe that new footage was shot for the 2011 DC version of Thomas Blows His Stack, as Bulgy13 showed the props on Twitter for the videos 15th anniversary of the video. In said post, a different Terminator Thomas is used, and Bulgy mentioned in the post that this one was used for the cut. I’ll link the post if necessary.
I remember this user called Thompsononline who used to have a Thomas series. One particular episode is called So Long Toby where Toby actually left Sodor and it’s interesting because the set where Toby’s away from Sodor looks identical to MissOliver&Blossom’s iconic set used in his videos. The one and only episode of his channel that sort of still exists is the episode called Percy’s new job where TheBlueE2 actually made a remake on it using the audio from the original video.
Another piece of lost media is two Halloween videos. One called "Haunting Of The Evil Green", where Thomas has an encounter with Alfred, and another by the same user simply titled "Happy Halloween" where he has an encounter with another ghost engine. It might be the case that fan videos make for more interesting lost "Thomas And Friends" media than the show itself. The only other thing I remember is that apparently both videos used ominous music from the "Pirates Of The Caribbean" films.
i have a lost media case! around 2019 or so there was a youtube channel called either ttatsu, or tatsu. they uploaded videos where they made custom plarail engines, eg. the culdee fell engines or the international engines from the great race, they recorded on a desk with a plarail bus with some thomas promos on it. i cant find the channel anymore, the pfp of the channel was just the regular youtube pfp for names that begin with T, it was in a kinda sand blue colour. tysm for reading, id love a video on this
On the note of the "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" game... I wonder if any of the ones that were actually made have been archived somewhere for download. I remember as a kid playing a Thomas game on the Amstrad CPC 464, and another on an actual arcade machine that was in a pub down in Cornwall.
I was too young to get his name, but there was another user who made Tomy "Thomas And Friends" videos and I specifically remember a story he did called "Percy, Molly, And The Mine".
So I some recent information came out somewhere on why Pierce Brosnan left the show. It was an executive decision by Simon Spencer who was the producer and showrunner. He felt that Brosnan was not appropriate for a production on a smaller scale rather than a feature length special.
Oh wow, thanks for the information! That's also a shame. This season and the whole early CGI era going forward would have been 100% more watchable if Brosnan stayed on. He makes a great narrator.
I remember watching some Thomas vids that were named shed x-2 and it’s basically a shed 17 knockoff. I tried to find the videos but it seems like they are all deleted. I remember that there were 3 videos were 2 of them were slideshows of pics from footage of Thomas and the other video is Murdoch dying and the video seems to be the mad bomber 2 teaser but the clone of Andy that exploded was blocked by a image of Murdoch and I remember a image of Murdoch with blood coming out off his eyes. I think the video is named Shed X-2 Murdochs death
I remember that there was this thomas youtuber that used bandi and nakayosi. The videos have been re-uploaded and gone. Can't find it anywhere. On episode was henry in love with a tree.
Honestly, I think Webber's pitch for an animated Thomas musical series would've worked better. AEG sorta attempted doing that format, but most of the songs didn't sound the best, besides Warning: Biggest Adventure Ahead, that's just my opinion.
There was a video back in the day narrated by what sounded to be a 6 year old. It was a wooden railway story named something along the lines of "Toby, Percy, and the Bridge" and the only thing I can remember of it was Toby and Percy talking to each other (narrated by the kid of course) and the kid goes "and the bridge DID break" and right after, the bridge falls apart violently. I thought it was hilarious. I haven't been able to find this video since, but if anyone knows what I'm talking about, please let me know :)
(I said this 2 times now cause youtube somehow deleted it..) I think i have a lost media it features around like thomas and timothy. From what i remember is that thomas was about to crash into timothy but he stopped. There was also a scene at the tidmouth sheds with percy and james. Thomas and timothy took both of them of somewhat place.
Lost Thomas Media nobody talks about is 'Gary the Steam Engine' This was a show done by a user called rhysicus, who now goes by Angry Welshman Productions. It was done HO models, starring a 9F named Gary and his friends. The mains joke was that while the characters spoke, they didn't have faces. They made seven episodes (I think), and the last episode involved Gary facing off Thomas, who was portrayed as an evil force. I couldn't find much info about this series. What I could gather is that it was removed for personal reasons many years ago, and that's why there isn't any archive of it. A Trainz version of Gary was made by a channel called Dark DJ Productions. But apart from that, there's nothing left of Gary the Steam Engine.
theres another funny silly lost thomas video. sadly removed or taken down or private i think it was from Carson's Channel that one Trainz thomas youtuber. it was that Rework of ''Thomas and the wonky whistles'' i hope someone has that archived. it's now lost media aswel
I don't know if it's lost media, but I can't find this one Thomas Trainz episode where James gets drunk from some water tower at Tidmouth Sheds, I believe it was. It had more modern Trainz models in it. I just can't find it anywhere. The worse part is that I forgot it's name and who made it. I just know it might still exist somewhere on RUclips.
Mister Moose's Fun Time is technically a Thomas Lost Media show i should know i've uploaded three of the supposedly known 60 episodes though two of them are blocked because of Mattel but one still survives and i still have the original raw files maybe for a future video you can talk about this show? i can help you out with my files
I forgot to mention that the Thomas and Spencer Race were in the exact same video as the modded Jet Engine Thomas and Scotsman. It started out with a Vanilla Thomas and Spencer transitioning into the race between the Vanilla Thomas and the Modded Jet Engine Thomas, and then ended off with the race between Jet Thomas and Scotsman. My bad for leaving out some details. 😅
I vividly remember one or two videos from this thomas series made with hornby and ertl models. One of them was a music video for I think the troublesome trucks song or accidents happen. Two clips I remember from the video were Jock running off the rails with some trucks, and another of either Gorden or Scotsman running onto a broken bridge with their front bogie being left dangling (the lighting of this clip was kind of poor). The second video was a more proper episode where the clip of Jock came from. I barely remember what the story was about but it had Jock take some trucks leading to a runaway then the clip I talked about earlier. I also recall the narrator voicing him with a gruff voice. If any of this rings bells for anyone then more info would be rly appreciated ^^
You should look into the lost Tobias and the Half Pariah parody video. Title was "Tobias and the Scottish Baked Parody" or something like that. One of the skits was the Sonic X theme song over footage from the video. Been trying to find it for ages but I haven't had much luck.
If We're Talking About Lost Media RUclipsrs, I Have A Video Id Like To Talk About. I Was Trying To Find This Video A Week Or Two Ago But To No Avail. This Was A Video By Jfunk Or ItsJfunk, In The Video Jfunk Holds A Thomas Phone To His Ear, I Remember A Bit Of The Dialogue, Specifically "I'm Gonna Fix The Trains!" Something Above The Lines. And Then It Plays Their Remix Of Engine Roll Call, Which Was A Main Reason I Was Searching For The Video. One Of The Things I Remember In The Montage Was Jfunk On One Of Those Mall Trains, And The Video Ends With Him and The Dad Playing With Trackmaster Sets In A Dark Ish Room. I'll Try To Go Back To Finding This Video But If Anyone Remembers Anything Else Let Me Know Please!
According to several sources, a CGI version of Don't Be Silly Billy was also made alongside Thomas and the Stinky Cheese. The storyboards are even available to be seen. Also this isn't fact but I suspect the CGI model of Billy that was used in it could've been remade into Charlie. Billy was intended to be in the season 13 episode Splish Splash Splosh before they replaced him with Charlie to sell more toys and we know they must've had access to assets from these animation tests as the face for Diesel used for Thomas and the Stinky Cheese can be seen on one of the mainland diesels in The Great Race. To further back this up, they had a CGI model of Dennis for Day of the Diesels before turning him into Norman, also to sell more toys. Also if any of this was covered, sorry. Not watched all of the video at the time of typing, hopefully haven't just wasted my time.
Huh, used to be a big Thomas fan as a wee lad, I remember Thomas blows his stack appearing quite often in the recommended videos for whenever my dad gave me his phone to watch RUclips, always spooked me back then because of his face on the thumbnail. Oddly enough I remember clicking on it once but it was entirely different to the real one. I remembered it being in widescreen, better video quality too, it was Thomas getting tricked by Diesel or something along those lines, and then Thomas gets whacked by this giant mallet contraption, and that face was him beaten up from the whole shabang. Wonder if it was just a dream or something else, if any Thomas fans know what I was talking about then please let me know.
There is sadly alot of thomas youtube lost media...I remember a wooden railway video that was straight up comedy parody, and had Toad the break van break away and say goodbye cruel world after I think Oliver died....also the h0/00 thomas family guy videos
22:10 in my honest opinion. This looks MILES better then ther final version. Cuz. It not only looks cute. But the style and desings i really like it. Cuz i feel like a combination of Disney's Character Casey JR with the 1997 or 1999 Little People. It's just my opinion
I’m not sure if anyone else commented this but has anyone heard of etenks1? He was an Australian RUclipsr who had rare or custom tomy and trackmasters run on his porch ledge and his vids were mostly a minute long. I remember watching them in the early 2010’s. He was one of my favorite tomy RUclipsrs along with ucwepn but I can’t find any trace of etenks old vids unfortunately
Here’s another fun fact about Thomas Blows his Stack: According to the 2023 Unlikely Fandom screening that Britt Allcroft attended she said that she has seen Thomas blows his stack
I remember i once saw a weird japanese video that used those small diecast tomica thomas toys that was about thomas and emily going on an adventure and the part i remember the most is thomas swinging in a circus or something like that, i dont know if the video is still up out there or if its been deleted/unlisted/privatized
I don't know if it'll ever be found and I'm not even sure if it's lost media but there's a track master Thomas custom video where someone painted up an annoyed Thomas model in silver with red flames across it and it was a 4 wheel drive super-powered engine and they put it up against some modified bullet trains
After watching the video I wanted to bring up something that I think might be lost media back in I think 2020 or 2021 I remember it was when mid sodor mystery’s came out there where these scary mid sodor themed videos I can’t remember the channel name or the name of most of the videos except one I believe it was called psycho or psychopath that episode was about Stanley on the mid sodor killing one of the engine and then being left to die I don’t recall which one I also rember one where I believe it was Tim dead brother came to haunt the railway I remembered there’s a few days ago and have looked everywhere for them but can’t find them what makes them interesting is they are all made with mostly custom models on a custom set the model of Stanley specifically I think was made from scratch and they where cheaply made because I believe it was a kid making the videos has anyone else see them or am I going insane
Also one more thing I want to mention I don’t think this is lost but I also remember I believe around 2014 or 15 and Thomas wooden ralilway I think it was made with the brio ones where Wilbert is missing and some spy put something in the coal that is all I remember of the video
Omg I just keep thinks of old lost media Ik this one is lost it was aHalloween video uploaded by the return of the Scotsman it was called Percy dose the thing Halloween thing and was my favorite yt video when I was younger idk why it got taken down
I think you should also include tatsu, he was a wse youtuber that ended his account because of coppa in 2019, me, Bill and Ben productions and renheas productions try to find his lost media, bill and Ben productions found one of his videos and i added music to it
I have my own lost media Thomas case I guess its a fan video I don't remember the name of it but it had Bachmann Thomas trains all I remember there was a ghost train and spencer didn't believe it until he saw it (also sometimes some sense had mspiant drawn on the engines for different faces) the last I remember is the ghost engines going to the camera (it looked a city of truro model) with the narrator say " Arthur's ghost" I'm sure I'll remember more videos so I might update this comment
Ok I’m making a separate comment for this because I NEED this found so idk what year it was uploaded but a Chanel called thescotsmanreturns uploaded the greatest RUclips video of all times call Percy dose a thing a Halloween thing this was my favorite video growing up and now I can only wach the part two because it was taken down for some reason
2:32 you can tell they're not Japanese because the engines are the western tomy versions with the unpainted running board rather than the plarail engines with the white running board
One of the pilots programmed for Thomas the tank engine It would have been filmed with O scale models. Because in the season 1 episode "Gordon takes a dip" in the pond you can see a scrapped "Thomas", that model Is not gauge 1 but O scale another proof Is the lower knapford Building wich was oringinally built in O scale and was modifiend tò be gauge 1.
I found something in ebay that were cancel toys theres 2 of em one that is a cancelled hollyday destination and the other one was sold to someone but its an hollyday king of the railway couch
I live in the us and I have the railway series complete collection book, and it says stuff like “trucks” and “the fat controller” so either I have the UK one or ur wrong.
I can't prove this claim right now due to issues with the Internet Archive, but I swear I've seen certain prints with changed terminology. I'm still not 100% sure which prints, but I might make a post or video on it once I find out for sure. All the newer releases do have the original text, though, as far as I know.
@@Lasha865-rb1kk I found out what book it was. It was "Thomas the Tank Engine Story Collection" published by Random House in the US. I just made a community post about it.
15:39 Fun Fact. The Episodes Of Storytime With Thomas (Along With Mr. Moose's Fun Time) We Actually Once Uploaded To RUclips Back In 2021 By The Thomas TV Patrol And One From Video Capsule. Unfortunately Since The Thomas & Friends Series is Preserved By Mattel All The Video Of Story Time With Thomas ( And Mr. Moose's Fun Time) Where Taken Down Entirely. i Believe it Was Taken Down Somewhere in 2022 Or 2023. So it's Very Likely That it's Now Lost Media, Again.
Well, that sucks, but is to be suspected on RUclips. I did find an episode on the Internet Archive, but with the issues they've been having lately, the video player isn't working on the site currently.
@@PlumCasualties yes. parts wher used when little giant was turnd into a statinary boiler. and it was NEARLY scraped. but somone sved it and it was on a sidding for years rusting away untill one day they thought they whould have a go at restoring it. and they did. i think only 1 of the class was actualy scraped. but little giant was NOT that engine. i think polbvason was the one that was scraped. sorry for any bad spelings. i have dislexear
I just made a RUclips channel as I thought I'd clear up a little bit of misinformation; TomTomica and I used to be in regular contact back when he was active on RUclips, so I thought I'd just share a few things. TomTomica was German, not Australian, and in the handful of videos where he spoke (including the Wilbert tutorial), he spoke with quite a pronounced German accent. His Wilbert model was created using Percy's cab and running board, along with Bill's boiler and tanks. Quite a bit of cutting and glueing was involved, along with extra careful cutting and glueing required to get the correct spacing under the saddle tanks; it certainly wasn't an easy custom.
Regarding his array of red running board engines and painted running board engines (I saw this mentioned before), I might be able to speak to this as an ex-employee of a certain brand's global marketing team. The painted running boards weren't a global update to the line, nor did they replace the unpainted running board engines. Japan introduced painted running boards in the early 2000s, while the rest of the Western world had unpainted running boards. I assume the red running board engines would have been purchased locally, while the painted running board engines would have been imported. As TomTomica was an adult collector (from memory in his 40s!?), money would not have necessarily been an issue when importing trains from overseas. At that time, importing anything from overseas into your country was an expensive endeavour, regardless of if you lived in Germany, Australia, or the UK. In his collection, he had a huge variety of engines, and he was a pioneering person who demonstrated the variation in the engines found in Japan; up until this time, the majority of the Western market didn't know Japan and other Asian countries had engines with much better detail. Motor Road and Rail were how Plarail was sold to the Western markets, and TomTomica's channel was one of the earliest places online to demonstrate the variation between the MRR engines as sold in the Western market and Plarail as sold in the Asian market.
Hope this helps! :)
I want to know, why was the painted running board a Japanese exclusive feature? Was it a cost cutting measure? Also, thanks for all this juicy information!
Wooden Railway Reviews is a great friend of mine! It was a huge surprise when he got that interview with Roy Wilson! There were a lot of things that came to be known that were unanswered up until then! He then went on to meet Roy in person with a bunch of friends from the Thomas wooden railway community! Good memories! Great channel!
I know you! I want to ask, do you know why Rob set a lot of his videos to private?
@@PlumCasualties Hey there, what did you think of seeing TomTomica's former customs of Sir Nigel, Flying Scotsman and Big City Engine again.
@@ryanlister1244 I don't think I've ever seen the videos of TomTomica's customs.
@@PlumCasualties Well I do, dude, what did you think of seeing their pictures.
@@ryanlister1244 They are really well made, and I do wonder where TomTomica and the customs are now.
I remember the custom Derek video from Tom. It was the very first instance of a totally custom body shell for a trackmaster custom.
All his customs were groundbreaking for its day and they started the whole custom trend in the first place.
About that All Engines Go "pilot", that was actually a test animation that was never meant to be seen public. The reason for its existence, as well as the explanation for Thomas and Gordon's simpler geometric designs, was because it was made to see how Thomas would look in 2D. Those designs were never going to be final.
Yeah, that's what I kind of thought. There was no way those were going to be the final designs.
Those designs were so terrible I think I need eye bleach (JOKE)
@@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94 Pass me some.
Ah, yes, I remember Tomtomica's videos from the old days of RUclips. I believe there were two videos of the flying Scotsman - one was a regular showcase of the model, the other a short of the model zooming around a Tomy Rail loop with the 9V battery. I remember it derailing at the end of that video.
There is actually some old TomTomica thumbnails out there online, you can even see his custom Derek in some of them.
Thank you for the shoutout my guy and well done on the video and research. Lost media is always very interesting to discuss.
Holy shit I remember the title card for Thomas blows his Stack! Man, whenever I've revisited it I never noticed it wasn't there and I remember as a kid, some parts being hard to hear and that might have been some of the additional music cues you mentioned.
Same!
I remember watching Thomas Blows his Stack and other old Thomas contents back when I was a little, I still enjoy them even to this day
Technically the first cgi Thomas was technically that one scene from magic railroad,
Oh yeah, through the magic buffers. I totally forgot about that!
you said technically twice
I remember 2 videos from my childhood.
The first one is a low quality video of the motorised capsule plarail circus van, it went around a small circle on a green table, it had other rolling stock behind it, and it went underneath a signal gantry or something along those lines.
The second one I believe was a review of the tender driven Trackmaster engines or a review of recently released Trackmaster items, I don't remember much besides the first clip, which from memory was a shot that zoomed into a building, looked kinda like the wooden railway wash down, the other shot was angled, and of Trackmaster Hank with a train on an incline, I remember the narration said something about how disappointing it was that the engine couldn't make it up the incline, the whole thing was film on a big wooden table, built up like a model railway.
I'd love for you to try and get this out here, I seriously have vivid memories of these videos, I definitely watched them multiple times as a small boy, probably around 4-7 years old, both around 2010.
There used to be a channel called skarloeyfan that used to make lots of HO/009 videos and would do videos about him taking the layout to exhibitions and stuff but one day he disappeared and then a couple years later the whole channel disappeared
Bro the similar captain plums outro surprised me I was literally going to rewatch him after 2-3 years lol
I nicknamed the outro "Not CaptainPlums". It's also my channel trailer.
@@PlumCasualties awesome lol, Captain Plums was the goat
I remember the Derek video. It was a slideshow of it being put together as well as having orchestral/cinematic esque music playing while.
I also remember the scotsman video starting with the guy saying something along the lines of “this is my custom tomy, flying scotsman..” due to the low quality it sounded like he was muttering it haha.
If only grade school aged me knew about archiving! 😅
I wanna say the 57 engine was a Tomy counterpart of himself but I could be wrong, it’s been nearly 20 years since I saw his vids.
Bonus: I also remember seeing the original cut of Mad Bomber before the insert of the Mute Scene around that time as well
I remember the Creater of Sixteen's disaster made toher videos, I vaugely remember one where Duncan was in a dispute of some slate trucks with on OC, in some reimainging of Emily's new Coaches, I can also recall Metalic Varients of Thomas, Percy and Toby being used as Characters, in conjunction with Tomy versions of Thomas, Percy and Toby.
I’m inclined to believe that new footage was shot for the 2011 DC version of Thomas Blows His Stack, as Bulgy13 showed the props on Twitter for the videos 15th anniversary of the video. In said post, a different Terminator Thomas is used, and Bulgy mentioned in the post that this one was used for the cut. I’ll link the post if necessary.
I remember this user called Thompsononline who used to have a Thomas series. One particular episode is called So Long Toby where Toby actually left Sodor and it’s interesting because the set where Toby’s away from Sodor looks identical to MissOliver&Blossom’s iconic set used in his videos. The one and only episode of his channel that sort of still exists is the episode called Percy’s new job where TheBlueE2 actually made a remake on it using the audio from the original video.
Ah, I remember the guy too! He also used American Engines like Diesel 11, John and Sunshine.
I swear at some point in my life I heard a full recording of pierce brosmans dub of gordon takes a shortcut.
Another piece of lost media is two Halloween videos. One called "Haunting Of The Evil Green", where Thomas has an encounter with Alfred, and another by the same user simply titled "Happy Halloween" where he has an encounter with another ghost engine. It might be the case that fan videos make for more interesting lost "Thomas And Friends" media than the show itself. The only other thing I remember is that apparently both videos used ominous music from the "Pirates Of The Caribbean" films.
Woah TomTomica wow what a throwback, damn that sucks all his videos are gone
i have a lost media case! around 2019 or so there was a youtube channel called either ttatsu, or tatsu. they uploaded videos where they made custom plarail engines, eg. the culdee fell engines or the international engines from the great race, they recorded on a desk with a plarail bus with some thomas promos on it. i cant find the channel anymore, the pfp of the channel was just the regular youtube pfp for names that begin with T, it was in a kinda sand blue colour. tysm for reading, id love a video on this
i remember archiving the entirety of donut and dougy through wayback... good times...
Ahh man this sure beats being loat media rrrrhhh
On the note of the "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" game... I wonder if any of the ones that were actually made have been archived somewhere for download.
I remember as a kid playing a Thomas game on the Amstrad CPC 464, and another on an actual arcade machine that was in a pub down in Cornwall.
I was too young to get his name, but there was another user who made Tomy "Thomas And Friends" videos and I specifically remember a story he did called "Percy, Molly, And The Mine".
So I some recent information came out somewhere on why Pierce Brosnan left the show. It was an executive decision by Simon Spencer who was the producer and showrunner. He felt that Brosnan was not appropriate for a production on a smaller scale rather than a feature length special.
Oh wow, thanks for the information!
That's also a shame. This season and the whole early CGI era going forward would have been 100% more watchable if Brosnan stayed on. He makes a great narrator.
Thomas Blows His Stack is my favorite fanmade Thomas & Friends parody video next to Mad Bomber
I remember watching some Thomas vids that were named shed x-2 and it’s basically a shed 17 knockoff. I tried to find the videos but it seems like they are all deleted. I remember that there were 3 videos were 2 of them were slideshows of pics from footage of Thomas and the other video is Murdoch dying and the video seems to be the mad bomber 2 teaser but the clone of Andy that exploded was blocked by a image of Murdoch and I remember a image of Murdoch with blood coming out off his eyes. I think the video is named Shed X-2 Murdochs death
I remember that there was this thomas youtuber that used bandi and nakayosi. The videos have been re-uploaded and gone. Can't find it anywhere. On episode was henry in love with a tree.
Criminally underrated videos
i love thomas lost media! great video! :)
Honestly, I think Webber's pitch for an animated Thomas musical series would've worked better. AEG sorta attempted doing that format, but most of the songs didn't sound the best, besides Warning: Biggest Adventure Ahead, that's just my opinion.
There was a video back in the day narrated by what sounded to be a 6 year old. It was a wooden railway story named something along the lines of "Toby, Percy, and the Bridge" and the only thing I can remember of it was Toby and Percy talking to each other (narrated by the kid of course) and the kid goes "and the bridge DID break" and right after, the bridge falls apart violently. I thought it was hilarious. I haven't been able to find this video since, but if anyone knows what I'm talking about, please let me know :)
(I said this 2 times now cause youtube somehow deleted it..)
I think i have a lost media it features around like thomas and timothy.
From what i remember is that thomas was about to crash into timothy but he stopped.
There was also a scene at the tidmouth sheds with percy and james.
Thomas and timothy took both of them of somewhat place.
Lost Thomas Media nobody talks about is 'Gary the Steam Engine'
This was a show done by a user called rhysicus, who now goes by Angry Welshman Productions. It was done HO models, starring a 9F named Gary and his friends. The mains joke was that while the characters spoke, they didn't have faces. They made seven episodes (I think), and the last episode involved Gary facing off Thomas, who was portrayed as an evil force.
I couldn't find much info about this series. What I could gather is that it was removed for personal reasons many years ago, and that's why there isn't any archive of it. A Trainz version of Gary was made by a channel called Dark DJ Productions. But apart from that, there's nothing left of Gary the Steam Engine.
Wishbone the Dog? That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.
Nice! I liked Part 1!
theres another funny silly lost thomas video. sadly removed or taken down or private
i think it was from Carson's Channel
that one Trainz thomas youtuber.
it was that Rework of ''Thomas and the wonky whistles''
i hope someone has that archived. it's now lost media aswel
I don't know if it's lost media, but I can't find this one Thomas Trainz episode where James gets drunk from some water tower at Tidmouth Sheds, I believe it was.
It had more modern Trainz models in it. I just can't find it anywhere. The worse part is that I forgot it's name and who made it. I just know it might still exist somewhere on RUclips.
Mister Moose's Fun Time is technically a Thomas Lost Media show i should know i've uploaded three of the supposedly known 60 episodes though two of them are blocked because of Mattel but one still survives and i still have the original raw files maybe for a future video you can talk about this show? i can help you out with my files
I forgot to mention that the Thomas and Spencer Race were in the exact same video as the modded Jet Engine Thomas and Scotsman.
It started out with a Vanilla Thomas and Spencer transitioning into the race between the Vanilla Thomas and the Modded Jet Engine Thomas, and then ended off with the race between Jet Thomas and Scotsman.
My bad for leaving out some details. 😅
Slight correction, before The Mountain Engine, BoCo and Daisy could be seen with faces at both ends
I vividly remember one or two videos from this thomas series made with hornby and ertl models. One of them was a music video for I think the troublesome trucks song or accidents happen. Two clips I remember from the video were Jock running off the rails with some trucks, and another of either Gorden or Scotsman running onto a broken bridge with their front bogie being left dangling (the lighting of this clip was kind of poor). The second video was a more proper episode where the clip of Jock came from. I barely remember what the story was about but it had Jock take some trucks leading to a runaway then the clip I talked about earlier. I also recall the narrator voicing him with a gruff voice. If any of this rings bells for anyone then more info would be rly appreciated ^^
You should look into the lost Tobias and the Half Pariah parody video. Title was "Tobias and the Scottish Baked Parody" or something like that. One of the skits was the Sonic X theme song over footage from the video. Been trying to find it for ages but I haven't had much luck.
If We're Talking About Lost Media RUclipsrs, I Have A Video Id Like To Talk About.
I Was Trying To Find This Video A Week Or Two Ago But To No Avail.
This Was A Video By Jfunk Or ItsJfunk,
In The Video Jfunk Holds A Thomas Phone To His Ear, I Remember A Bit Of The Dialogue, Specifically "I'm Gonna Fix The Trains!" Something Above The Lines. And Then It Plays Their Remix Of Engine Roll Call, Which Was A Main Reason I Was Searching For The Video.
One Of The Things I Remember In The Montage Was Jfunk On One Of Those Mall Trains, And The Video Ends With Him and The Dad Playing With Trackmaster Sets In A Dark Ish Room.
I'll Try To Go Back To Finding This Video But If Anyone Remembers Anything Else Let Me Know Please!
Side note: evidence exists a don’t be silly Billy test animation also exists
According to several sources, a CGI version of Don't Be Silly Billy was also made alongside Thomas and the Stinky Cheese. The storyboards are even available to be seen. Also this isn't fact but I suspect the CGI model of Billy that was used in it could've been remade into Charlie. Billy was intended to be in the season 13 episode Splish Splash Splosh before they replaced him with Charlie to sell more toys and we know they must've had access to assets from these animation tests as the face for Diesel used for Thomas and the Stinky Cheese can be seen on one of the mainland diesels in The Great Race. To further back this up, they had a CGI model of Dennis for Day of the Diesels before turning him into Norman, also to sell more toys. Also if any of this was covered, sorry. Not watched all of the video at the time of typing, hopefully haven't just wasted my time.
Huh, used to be a big Thomas fan as a wee lad, I remember Thomas blows his stack appearing quite often in the recommended videos for whenever my dad gave me his phone to watch RUclips, always spooked me back then because of his face on the thumbnail. Oddly enough I remember clicking on it once but it was entirely different to the real one. I remembered it being in widescreen, better video quality too, it was Thomas getting tricked by Diesel or something along those lines, and then Thomas gets whacked by this giant mallet contraption, and that face was him beaten up from the whole shabang. Wonder if it was just a dream or something else, if any Thomas fans know what I was talking about then please let me know.
There is sadly alot of thomas youtube lost media...I remember a wooden railway video that was straight up comedy parody, and had Toad the break van break away and say goodbye cruel world after I think Oliver died....also the h0/00 thomas family guy videos
The video of Toad breaking away and saying "Goodbye cruel world" is from Thomas the Idiot Tank Engine & Friends episode 8 by Pageboy72.
Let‘s hope someone will get The Full Footage of The Sad Story Of Henry Pilot and uploaded on RUclips.
It's definitely lost to time
22:10 in my honest opinion. This looks MILES better then ther final version. Cuz. It not only looks cute. But the style and desings i really like it. Cuz i feel like a combination of Disney's Character Casey JR with the 1997 or 1999 Little People. It's just my opinion
The art style in the storyboards are my favorite. It's got a nice charm to it.
18:53 yesss sir!
9:32 actually was hit that drop him off cuz the test audiences didnt like it
I’m not sure if anyone else commented this but has anyone heard of etenks1? He was an Australian RUclipsr who had rare or custom tomy and trackmasters run on his porch ledge and his vids were mostly a minute long. I remember watching them in the early 2010’s. He was one of my favorite tomy RUclipsrs along with ucwepn but I can’t find any trace of etenks old vids unfortunately
Here’s another fun fact about Thomas Blows his Stack: According to the 2023 Unlikely Fandom screening that Britt Allcroft attended she said that she has seen Thomas blows his stack
I remember i once saw a weird japanese video that used those small diecast tomica thomas toys that was about thomas and emily going on an adventure and the part i remember the most is thomas swinging in a circus or something like that, i dont know if the video is still up out there or if its been deleted/unlisted/privatized
I don't know if it'll ever be found and I'm not even sure if it's lost media but there's a track master Thomas custom video where someone painted up an annoyed Thomas model in silver with red flames across it and it was a 4 wheel drive super-powered engine and they put it up against some modified bullet trains
There was a video on RUclips with Oliver Trying to find Toad and travling through dimensions please someone tell me they have it
After watching the video I wanted to bring up something that I think might be lost media back in I think 2020 or 2021 I remember it was when mid sodor mystery’s came out there where these scary mid sodor themed videos I can’t remember the channel name or the name of most of the videos except one I believe it was called psycho or psychopath that episode was about Stanley on the mid sodor killing one of the engine and then being left to die I don’t recall which one I also rember one where I believe it was Tim dead brother came to haunt the railway I remembered there’s a few days ago and have looked everywhere for them but can’t find them what makes them interesting is they are all made with mostly custom models on a custom set the model of Stanley specifically I think was made from scratch and they where cheaply made because I believe it was a kid making the videos has anyone else see them or am I going insane
Also one more thing I want to mention I don’t think this is lost but I also remember I believe around 2014 or 15 and Thomas wooden ralilway I think it was made with the brio ones where Wilbert is missing and some spy put something in the coal that is all I remember of the video
Omg I just keep thinks of old lost media Ik this one is lost it was aHalloween video uploaded by the return of the Scotsman it was called Percy dose the thing Halloween thing and was my favorite yt video when I was younger idk why it got taken down
I think you should also include tatsu, he was a wse youtuber that ended his account because of coppa in 2019, me, Bill and Ben productions and renheas productions try to find his lost media, bill and Ben productions found one of his videos and i added music to it
I have my own lost media Thomas case I guess its a fan video
I don't remember the name of it but it had Bachmann Thomas trains all I remember there was a ghost train and spencer didn't believe it until he saw it (also sometimes some sense had mspiant drawn on the engines for different faces) the last I remember is the ghost engines going to the camera (it looked a city of truro model) with the narrator say " Arthur's ghost"
I'm sure I'll remember more videos so I might update this comment
Ok I’m making a separate comment for this because I NEED this found so idk what year it was uploaded but a Chanel called thescotsmanreturns uploaded the greatest RUclips video of all times call Percy dose a thing a Halloween thing this was my favorite video growing up and now I can only wach the part two because it was taken down for some reason
22:11 GOOD GRIEF WHAT WERE THEY THINKING
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT 22:36
2:32 you can tell they're not Japanese because the engines are the western tomy versions with the unpainted running board rather than the plarail engines with the white running board
Oh, so was the painted running board a Japanese exclusive thing? I thought that was a newer addition on the later models.
One of the pilots programmed for Thomas the tank engine It would have been filmed with O scale models.
Because in the season 1 episode "Gordon takes a dip" in the pond you can see a scrapped "Thomas", that model Is not gauge 1 but O scale another proof Is the lower knapford Building wich was oringinally built in O scale and was modifiend tò be gauge 1.
I covered that in my first Thomas lost media video.
I found something in ebay that were cancel toys theres 2 of em one that is a cancelled hollyday destination and the other one was sold to someone but its an hollyday king of the railway couch
what is the game you have in the backgound
Tracks - The Train Set Game
Ngl those tomtomica customs look pretty good even for today's standards
(Sorry for that rude comment i made :
23:40 Ware I can find a video like that?
ruclips.net/video/Mn8TlUvq7S0/видео.html
What game are you playing in the background of your video?
Tracks - The Train Set Game
I want to work for the bbc if I get the job do I ask about the sad story of henry
I live in the us and I have the railway series complete collection book, and it says stuff like “trucks” and “the fat controller” so either I have the UK one or ur wrong.
I can't prove this claim right now due to issues with the Internet Archive, but I swear I've seen certain prints with changed terminology. I'm still not 100% sure which prints, but I might make a post or video on it once I find out for sure.
All the newer releases do have the original text, though, as far as I know.
@@PlumCasualties ok
@@Lasha865-rb1kk I found out what book it was. It was "Thomas the Tank Engine Story Collection" published by Random House in the US. I just made a community post about it.
15:39 Fun Fact. The Episodes Of Storytime With Thomas (Along With Mr. Moose's Fun Time) We Actually Once Uploaded To RUclips Back In 2021 By The Thomas TV Patrol And One From Video Capsule. Unfortunately Since The Thomas & Friends Series is Preserved By Mattel All The Video Of Story Time With Thomas ( And Mr. Moose's Fun Time) Where Taken Down Entirely. i Believe it Was Taken Down Somewhere in 2022 Or 2023. So it's Very Likely That it's Now Lost Media, Again.
Well, that sucks, but is to be suspected on RUclips.
I did find an episode on the Internet Archive, but with the issues they've been having lately, the video player isn't working on the site currently.
Ok, who here *doesn’t* know who Terminator Thomas was?
I mean, we all knew him, if you never saw it then how did you not?
Wouldn’t surprise me if TomTomica is Australian
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little giand wasent scraped. just turned into a statanary boiler.
but now works again. i know as ive been on a train puled by little giant
Really? I did read that parts of Little Giant were used to rebuild other Large Englands.
@@PlumCasualties yes. parts wher used when little giant was turnd into a statinary boiler. and it was NEARLY scraped. but somone sved it and it was on a sidding for years rusting away untill one day they thought they whould have a go at restoring it. and they did.
i think only 1 of the class was actualy scraped. but little giant was NOT that engine.
i think polbvason was the one that was scraped.
sorry for any bad spelings. i have dislexear
Never, ever MENTION. AEG again! That show is horribly bad.
Hopefully I won't!
Its not bad
@@W4lmartbagIt's dogwater compared to the classic's -3-
@@W4lmartbag I do got another positive thing to say about All Engines Go:
The toys (mainly the push alongs) look pretty accurate.
@@BubbleyGorl its better than the miller era of thomas