Thomas And Friends Trainz 12
Laurice Whack
So I've been watching various videos of youtuber's using the Trainz simulation to make their own Thomas content. I really wanna mess around with a Thomas simulation too but the problem is I don't know anything about Trainz or how to use Thomas and his friends in it. Could someone give me some guidance? or at least point me in the right direction to a tutorial?
He became firm friends with the President of the United States, Tom Hanks, and provided troops and support for Hanks' efforts to invade the United Kingdom following the devastating attack on Kirk Ronan station, which left one engine, Gordon, badly injured.
Thomas is a rather cheeky, but good hearted engine and generally behaves well, except when he is getting into mishap. He loves teasing the others and, on occasion, brags about his superiority, but is always brought down to earth in due course. If Thomas has one major character flaw, it is that he is forgetful, and slightly impatient. However, he is also optimistic and idealistic. Although their friendship has been turbulent at times, Percy is Thomas' best friend.
Since then it's been a parade of books, shows, movies, and toys bringing Thomas, his coaches Annie and Clarabel, Gordon, Edward, James, Percy, Diesel, Henry, Duck, Toby, and all of his other friends to the world. We carry Thomas toys in wooden sets and scale model trains.
You can get loads of "knock off" brio (big jigs, ikea, tesco - all fit together with genuine brio track). Invest in a load of bridges so you get the sections which enable you to change levels, then (pro tip!) 3 blocks of brio is roughly the height of a bridge... so you can build as many levels as you want, and put curves on bridges, and points, and...
We have Thomas and Percy (and I think you can get James the red engine etc.) Also Bigjigs do replica real engines - we have the Mallard, and a Japanese bullet train, and the Duchess of Hamilton. (Sorry, I'll get me anorak...)
I think it was my favourite toy when DS was younger, hours of fun (we once reconstructed the roller coaster at our local theme park out of brio and duplo).
Brio-type track is much better value for money than the plastic kits which will only go into one configuration. And you can keep adding to it (we now have a crate which contains enough brio to carpet the entire ground floor of the house). Sadly DS is past playing with it mostly, unless we get it out for his friends' younger siblings (at which point he suddenly remembers how much fun it is and will happily spend an afternoon with it).
I found this article which is useful but has annoyed me at how they keep changing things (and no doubt have changed again since that article)!. craftulate.com/which-thomas-and-friends-train-set/
Our wooden set is a real mix. Im happy to get the odd trackmaster set but don't want them to be completely incompatible!
changing the name to 'thomas adventures' just seems designed to deliberately confuse people even more. Do they hope grannies will buy the wrong thing so mums/dads then need to invest in more of the same 'new' track etc?
and what on earth are THESE:!?
www.fisher-price.com/en_GB/brands/thomas/products/My-First-Thomas-and-Friends-Railway-Pals-Thomas-FFY26
(thanks Hope! I was wondering about battery use... and tantrums about him not quite being able to fit track together properly).
I blame Izzy's toy time for all of this.
Perhaps it's my fault for letting him watch videos of other kids playing instead of actually playing himself!
ThomasTF6+GOETF3-4TF2TF1Series InformationFirst appearanceTRAINS-FORMERSCreator(s)Rev. W. Awdry
Christopher AwdryVoice actor(s)James FarrCharacter OverviewNameThomasGenderMaleCountryIsland of SodorFriends
- Vector
- Trouble Tron
- Percy
- Edward
- Toby
- James
- Gordon
- Henry
- Emily
- Hiro
- Harold
- Rosie
- Molly
- Mavis
- Belle
- Annie
- Clarabel
- Megatrain
- Decastator
- Diesel 10
- Lady
- Scrapwave
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Vector
- Steam Team
- Percy
- Edward
- Toby
- James
- Gordon
- Henry
- Emily
- Opthomas Supreme
- Samurai Supreme
- Hiro