#ttte merch

[theredengineapologist]

I HAVE ACQUIRED A NEW JAMES

This is the new AEG Motorized Graffiti James! I love him very much!

Here's my thing:

Do I think James would ever be into hip hop? No.

But do I think the design on his paintwork looks REALLY FLIPPING COOL???

HELL YEAH!!!!!

So of course the moment I saw him at the store I couldn't let him go. I love the gold lettering and the star on the A. I really wanna give my humanized James an outfit inspired by this because it looks so so cool.

Also his little truck says Sodor!

I just have 2 gripes with him:

The graffiti paintwork is only on one side. Which in my opinion is really lazy.

Could just be a defect on mine, but the hook on the truck is not put on the side that would actually allow James to carry the truck with the graffiti side facing out. The other side of the truck has a picture of a cow on it. And I know that my James would not want to be caught dead carrying farm animals ("Not splendid at all!" I think he would say)

But otherwise, he's a very fine engine! He looks cool, he goes fast, and he doesn't get stuck on the tracks (unlike some of my other motorized AEG engines)

So with that in mind I give the AEG Motorized Graffiti James a solid 8/10!

If you wanna see the other Jameses in my collection, click here!

[transsexualunderground]

horrible news, everyone. thomas the tank engine toilet paper exists

and for the holidays...

i think i am going to snap

[damnea]

Some small eggs in this house.

I wonder how it was decided who would be on what pieces in this collection.

Everyone was probably really proud of getting their likenesses smacked onto plates, saucers and cups.

The company managed to capture some of the railway's best engines in fine detail.

Henry was rarely ever impressed with the whole Thomas merch craze.

"Bloody capitalism, that's what it is."

But upon seeing how we he'd turned out on his little dinner plate, even he was won over.

"Well, it doesn't look THAT bad I suppose, they'd better not put food over me."

James was put on a bowl.

"Centerpiece naturally!" He beamed.

Toby was put on a cup.

"Ought to be a mug I reckon, get it guys? TOBY mug?" He said, looking around at the deadened faces.

At least Thomas laughed.

Unfortunately Edward was a little late during the whole decision process, but the Fat Controller knew there would be one piece left that nobody would ever pick.

"It's not the biggest piece in the set by any means, but it's still part of a balanced breakfast." He chuckled.

"You always were a good egg!"

[stanfordpinesenbyhusband]

I got a Thomas and Friends bedset

That's it that's the whole post Just showing that I got a ttte bedset

[friendly-emerald-emily]

i don't think any of you understand how many more bwba seasons i would have suffered through just to get more sonny content. dead serious, he's my favorite all cgi character. up there with victor and hiro imo. idc if thomas has to dick around in india or china or australia for 86 more seasons if only to get 1 Sonny Episode per season. he is worth it!!!!!!

[dailyttteedward]

Happy New Year, folks!🎇🎆

[wysteriaisapenguin]

Some vacation doodles~

Featuring a pink puffball and a blue puffball with their friends!

[mrsmaudieholmesteapot]

He raised his eyebrow. "Fascinating"

The captain couldn't take his eyes off this singular tank engine either. How could he with this giant face printed on the smoke box door. Surely, that must be a practical joke of the driver man! Relatively calm but strangely fascinated, Jim got closer to his First officer.

Suddenly, the face began to move closing his eyes and putting his mouth into a straight line whistling cheerfully.

"Here comes James!" the red engine exclaimed.

Spock got in front of his dear captain.

"Mr Spock, where are we?"

"According to my calculations, we are at Sodor"

[juniaships]

I remember viewing toy aisles in the 2000s and they used to be filled to the brim with thomas merch. Now it feels like it doesn't even exist. Like stores begrudgingly carry these toys out of obligation.

[proteusofthehills]

my blorblos…

[panicky-pansexual]

I’m so normal about him I promise! (<- lying)

gordon

i lost the reference image whoops

[indo-ken]

welp, just recently go to a mall with my parents and well, i got this:

originally though i wanted to buy tracks but then were informed that they were out of stock so me and my parents ended buying this, a train and rolling stock, neat but also i noticed is that AEG merch were still completely full and it was jam packed with kids but none of them seem interested in the AEG section of the store:

i dont know its either because where the country i lived in (indonesia), were ttte was already not that popular or that its because of AEG.

[imitation-steamroller]

Would you believe me if I said this is currently my entire ttte merch collection?

[friendly-emerald-emily]

molly is such a fascinating character to me. and surprisingly, not because of her content in the show. but her lack of content. molly really felt like to me she was supposed to be the break-out star of the HiT era. let me explain why.

in short, it's all down to marketing and merchandise. i'm a massive HiT era apologist, mostly because it's the era of ttte i grew up with, but as i was looking through my catalogue of merch, i noticed something...molly was popping up. a lot. weirdly so.

i have a good amount of those briarpatch ttte board games, and typically they were for 4 players, and as such 4 engines were provided to play as: thomas, percy, james, and...molly? at first it seems weird, but when you think about it, it makes sense. molly rounds out a quartet themed around red, green, blue, and yellow, and also adds in a female character. i think that last bit is important, but i'll get to it later.

so i went digging, and the 4 player briarpatch games pre-molly usually had mavis in her place, likely also to add female representation, just swapping yellow for black. there are a few exceptions, i recall seeing toby and harvey instead, but again, it was mostly mavis.

looking at more merchandise outside of board games in this era, molly got quite a bit of focus. she was part of a set of 4 bath squirters along with thomas, percy, and james, and what i find most shocking, she was one of VERY few engines to receive a trackmaster remote control engine. molly also was featured on a 2008 great discovery trading card, even though she only had one line in the entire movie.

after this, i went digging deeper into the world of the thomas microsites and online games, where molly also had a strong presence. the quartet of thomas, percy, james, and molly continued in the simon-says type memory game (i think it's called 'peep peep!'?) and molly also appeared in the emotions game, but this game featured 5 engines, and the fifth...was emily. remember my point theorizing that molly was focused on because she was a girl? here's where it's important.

this five engine ensemble of thomas, percy, james, molly, and emily is repeated again in the plug n' play game 'right on time', a game that i own and remember fondly. emily was chosen again to fill the fifth slot, and i think it's because HiT wanted to have a gender-equal ensemble a la bwba. and i think molly was chosen specifically not only because her yellow paint is unique and for her gender, but because she is probably the girl character at the time that had the most opposing personality to emily. as we all know during this time, emily was interesting and had flaws unlike SOME OTHER ERAS- portrayed as having a very strong and opinionated personality, which would easily contrast towards molly's more shy and sensitive personality. both have also been described as having sisterly attitudes towards other engines. i think HiT wanted to prove in this 5 engine ensemble that they had varied writing for their female characters.

for all of this, i think that molly WAS supposed to be a much more important character than she turned out to be, mostly because she was marketed so heavily and disproportionately than her screen time would lead you to believe. molly also appeared more often than the other HiT newbies (bar rosie), but that isn't really saying much with how little other characters like neville or billy appeared. i don't know why molly was dropped so suddenly when the set up for her seemed to be there? only thing i can think of is that emily had just been moved to tidmouth sheds right before series 9, and that they didn't want to repeat that process?? idk i'm just spitballing because i've been thinking about molly a lot recently. on a small related note, her basis is also very specific and her design is SUCH a standout compared to other new characters at this time, so clearly effort was put into her. i wonder how different the series would have been if molly was elevated to prominent secondary character status like salty or mavis, or even main character status!

tl;dr i think molly was originally going to be important but then she wasn't :(

[mintchocochip0543]

Look who I found at a thrift store yesterday

This is the biggest piece of Ttte merch that I have 😦

[crinkly-spinkly]

I should also mention I do non-Thomas related stuff as well!

Outside of TTTE, silly character designs are some of my favorite things to make. I often get requests for a lot of DnD characters and creatures c:

I've published one children's book back in 2020 (Top two images) and worked on two animated children's shows in the past (not pictured here). But with the highly competitive field and my disabilities preventing me from working in a studio, I haven't been able to pick up another gig since *checks watch* January 2022 😐 👉👉

But Spinks is still truckin along!! 💪 I've got more physical TTTE merch on the way including pins, stickers, and more to sell in my Etsy shop! So stay tuned! 💙

Opening Commissions back up!

Currently have 5 slots up for grabs! ✌️

Y'all have been such a blessing and I appreciate you guys so much for bearin' with me 🙏 Hope y'all are doing well and letting yourselves have a break/treat 💙