#ttte season 1

[harmony2sstuff]

Subtle foreshadowing

[burgerking-offical]

so like just noticing this but the amazon prime version of ttte is fucking weird and inconsistent?? like the episode starts with george carlin but then it switches to ringo starr for like two lines before switching back to george carlin???

no clue if this is just an amazon prime thing or if it’s in the actual episode but still wtf

[lomotunes2008]

When you realise that the first TTTE episode released 40 years ago

Happy 40th birthday you little blue rascal

[dailyttteedward]

S1, Whistles and Sneezes

[unpopularvivian]

Incorrect Ttte Quotes 129:

*Henry is in hell looking like a fucked up 3D model of his engine form while having human limbs coming out of it*

Fucked Up 3D Henry: *In a text-to-speech voice* Where am I? What is this place? Hello?

*Suddenly, James appears in front of him*

Fucked Up 3D James: *In a text-to-speech voice* Dear Avonside 0-4-0ST, hooray. I must express my unbounded elation that you have returned. Where have you been all this time, Percy?

Fucked Up 3D Henry: I am not Percy.

Fucked Up 3D James: Eew. Henry, why do you look like that? You're even uglier than I remember you, which is saying something.

Fucked Up 3D Henry: I humbly request that you to stop acting so impolite, James. Furthermore, I will also request you look at yourself. *Hands James a mirror*

Fucked Up 3D James: *Looks in the mirror* dddddddaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA-

*Without any warning, Edward, Toby and Emily all arrive to meet with James and Henry*

Fucked Up 3D Emily, Toby and Edward: *In text-to-speech voices* Dear L&YR Class 28, have you any conception of what is happening right now?

Fucked Up 3D James: Warmest greetings, GNR 1003 Stirling Single, GER Class C53/LNER J70 and FR 21/K2 class. I, like you three, have no conception of what is happening right now.

Fucked Up 3D Toby: *In a text-to-speech voice* That is sorrowful news. I would like to alert you the combustion happening near me is at a temperature far above my comfort level.

Fucked Up 3D James: Combustion? Unfortunately, I am unfamiliar with the definition of that word.

*James then bursts into flames*

Fucked Up 3D James: Oh, you mean fire.

Fucked Up 3D Toby: You are correct in your assessment.

Fucked Up 3D James: Congratulations to us for our clear communication-

Fucked Up 3D Toby: Congratulation to us for our clear communication.

Fucked Up 3D Emily: *In a text-to-speech voice* I would like to join the conversation too.

*Later*

Fucked Up 3D Emily: Distinguished colleagues, I find it of utmost importance to deduce how we were transported to this alternate dimension.

Fucked Up 3D Toby: Dear GNR 1003 Stirling Single, it is my belief that we are here because we reached a state incompatible with life in the Overworld all in the same manner and by the same engulfing vacancy.

Fucked Up 3D Emily: Dearest GER Class C53/LNER J70, what is your implication?

Fucked Up 3D Edward: *In a normal voice* Toby's saying that we all got yeeted into a black hole after somebody blew up our spaceship up and that's how we got here. I don't know why you're all talking like that but I'm not going to do it.

*James then stretches his arm in a cartoonish manner and squishes Edward into a boxed state*

Fucked Up 3D James: Cherished compatriots, I must posit that the speech of this deluded fellow was of extreme difficulty to understand.

Fucked Up 3D Emily: I concur.

*One hour later, Thomas and Gordon are standing around James, Henry, Emily, Toby and Edward*

Fucked Up 3D James: *Still in flames* Admired acquaintances, I warmly appreciate your gracious company. However, I am still combusting and I am frankly disappointed none of you are taking initiative to assist me with this.

*Everybody just stares at James in silence*

Fucked Up 3D Henry: I ain't helping someone who called me ugly.

[dawn-sunlight]

So far, the finales of All Engines Go have been:

Season 1: The Sounds of Sodor

Season 2: The Sights of Sodor

Season 3: The Smells of Sodor

So my guess is that the season 4 finale will be The Sensations of Sodor.

[str33tydr1ft]

| Sodor's Dragons : Season 1 |

Fellas, I'm happy and hyped to announce that THE FIRST HALF OF SEASON 1 OF SODORS DRAGONS IN COMPLETE!!!!

6 out of 12 stories are completed and up and posted on Wattpad! I'll post the links to them right here!

The Narrow Gauge

Fight

Anna

The Little Western

Thomas and The Hunter

Rheneas and Toby

Enjoy them, I put a shit ton of effort into them. :D

[cerenemuxse]

ttte but its those fairy comments from 2020, which i don't recall seeing but i was invested in Hermitcraft so there's that

Screenshots come from (left to right, top to bottom):

Edward and Gordon (Season 1 Episode 2)

Journey Beyond Sodor (2017)

All in Vain (Season 20 Episode 16)

Thomas and the Spaceship (Season 11 Episode 7)

The Fastest Red Engine on Sodor (Season 21 Episode 12)

Coal (Season 1 Episode 18)

Trouble in the Sheds (Season 1 Episode 16)

Duck Takes Charge (Season 2 Episode 8)

Who's Geoffrey? (Season 19 Episode 1)

[bruhstation]

You seem like a Train Professional so where would one begin in order to get into the funny little talking train show?

these are all my own opinions so take it like a grain of salt -- the common go-to would be the thomas and friends tv show. start off from season 1 then work all your way up to the top (not actually really. you can skip some later seasons like s17 if you want to). the model seasons are considered to be some of the greatest because 1) they set the foundation of the cast (besides the railway series books) 2) they contain some of the most iconic scenes from the show like gordon's ronan kirk crash, the flying kipper accident, james and the shoelaces, etc and 3) they're the originals so you know what their personalities and relationships to their peers were like and how their characterization was supposed to be like before the cgi era flip flopped them up

also check out the railway series books in the meantime! the funny talking train show was based on the book series created by reverend awdry for his sick son! the first book feature edward, henry, and gordon. thomas appears in the second book. fast forward decades later and britt alcroft created a tv show called thomas the tank engine. there are many eras of the show, from models, to model/cgi hybrid, to computer animations where the show gets passed around like a volleyball from studio to studio

here's a google spreadsheet that contains all the thomas and friends episodes in various languages. feel free to watch the show for yourself and decide which seasons you like the most

some more of my thoughts under the cut

I recommend you steer clear of the big world big adventures seasons and specials because it's probably the most controversial seasons in the fandom. replacing two of the core cast members, "pandering" to certain audiences, putting in lackluster representation for the sake of selling toys, SAID representation turns out to be racist depictions, all of it reflected the current state of mattel when handling thomas and friends. they also didn't contribute anything to the overall show, like by the time the bwba seasons were out, people dgaf and just focused on the older seasons. you can ignore bwba and you won't miss anything important about ttte. not that I'm stopping you! you have your own free will.

the thing about ttte that made many adults get into it (if not for train autism) is how ttte was a show grounded in reality. idk if that makes sense but basically despite being a show about mean talking trains for little kids, reverend awdry and britt alcroft handled the characters with care. they gave the engines so much charm by making them bicker with each other like the cranky old engines they are BUT they're not reduced to singular personality traits too. thomas is cheeky and kind of a meanie but he wants to prove himself useful. edward is old and acts as a mentor to thomas but he also wants to show that he still got it despite his old age. gordon went from being a pompous grand young express engine to a humble old engine being a mentor to the newer ones and so on! they also put a lot of historical references related to the engines' basis too and tie their backstories in (henry's a stolen faulty design hence his cynical, miserable personality at the early seasons of the show). there's even irl engines mentioned in both the books and show (flying scotsman and city of truro) and it's just neat!!! because awdry cares about history so much!!!! that he even made an "encyclopedia" about sodor, its railways, and its history

the books and the earlier seasons of ttte didn't shy away from themes of death and usefulness and all that (the story of godred, henry being a faulty engine and getting cask of amontillado'd for being uncooperative, all of gordon's siblings scrapped sans flying scotsman) because the thing about them being engines are important to them. it's their reison d'etre. they get scrapped if they cannot be of use anymore, because that's how things have always been. they get into accidents often because their ego got to them. dieselization is starting on the island of sodor and the diesels are asserting their dominance over the oldschool steam engines. the engines just exist there. they just happen to have faces and talk. idk. I think it's interesting how they view life a bit differently than humans. thank you for listening to my ramble

[cinnabowlii]

Who are your favorite TTTE characters and why?

I do have quite a few, a lot of characters I like, but want to learn more about (by watching more episodes and seasons) but I’ll give you my top 2!

1. Gordon

hes a childhood favourite, i always liked his personality, sometimes it made him look like a dickhead in the later CGI seasons but little me thought it was funny. as of now, he’s still my top favourite! but for a lot more than that, in the railway books I really love his character development.

2. James

while little me held Gordon up in my heart, I also liked James too. simply thought he was funny! and now that I’ve grown up, I sorta admire James? how do I explain it? I dunno! but he’s a fabulous engine, he can be funny at times, funnier than Gordon and the situation he gets himself into are almost comical, little me couldn’t decide if I liked Thomas or James more, in the end I chose James

ah, and speaking of James, I’d like to share a small wip of his human design I’m cooking up, I got my iPad working again (though I lost around 4 years worth of artwork… over 1000+ illustration files, oh well..) so I just decided I would continue humanising the engines.

[steam-beasts]

"Down a mine, is he? Hahaha!!" laughed Gordon "What a joke!"

(quote from Ttte season 1, ep 25; Down the Mine)

Happy 4/4!

A bit late(ish), i know :P

[kenora-pizza]

Musical Musings - TTTE edition, Part 2

ALRIGHT!

My first musical analysis post has been getting a LOT of attention in the past few days or so. So first off, thank you for the love everyone, that was one of my favourite posts to make (besides the crackhead Gordon and Henry shitpost and my "Emily in the middle" rant). Second, since it appears that people like this sorta thing, I figured I'd share a couple more things that I've noticed, one of which I didn't put in the first post cause I figured people had already  noticed it so it didn't need to be said. But I think I'll put it in anyways, just because. So let's get into it!

In pt. 1, I talked about the fact that Henry's theme has an occurrence of "3," in that each of the 4 beats in a bar was a triplet, and how Henry is the number 3 engine. Well, I was listening to his theme again and found two more occurrences of "3" in the introductory bars of the theme. For reference, I am talking about this part:

 Each bar has the following rhythm:

Now, the first occurrence of 3 comes from the fact that the first 3 beats have the same rhythm, as shown in the above image. The second occurrence of 3 comes from the fact that the last beat of the bar is a triplet. 3 notes. Tack on the first occurrence of 3 from the first post, and you're 3 for 3 for NWR no. 3. HMMM........

2. Continuing with the subject of Henry's theme, this observation has probably already been made several times over, but I figured I'd put it in to continue the "Henry's theme" trend. If you take a listen to Henry's sad theme, you'll notice that its repeating motif is part of Henry's main theme in a different, minor, key with a different rhythm and at a slower tempo.

Take a listen.

The opening fragment of Henry's main theme:

The main motif of Henry's sad theme:

And in sheet music:

Henry's theme (Eb major):

Henry's sad theme (B minor):

The numbers indicate the note's position within its scale. As you can see, both themes share the same note pattern. To get Henry's sad theme, you'd transpose the theme down a diminished 4th (i.e, move the notes down by this interval) to B major, and then adjust the D# and G# in the resulting melody to D natural and G natural to fit within the B minor scale so that it sounds sad. Nice job, Mike & Junior, very clever.

Just in case anyone is confused, the notes for the B major & minor scales are shown below:

3. Donald and Douglas' CGI whistles are the notes of C and A respectively. These notes are related in a couple of ways. The first/lowest note on a standard 88-key piano is an A, and the last/highest note is a C. Given the twins' original BR numbers (57646 & 57647 respectively), it appears that Douglas is the younger of the two, so their whistle notes make sense in this context. Additionally, as mentioned in pt. 1, the keys of C major and A minor are related in that they share a key signature of no accidentals (ie, no sharps, flats, double sharps or double flats, yes those last two exist and they gave me hell as a kid). Thus, the whistle notes would make sense in this context.

You'll often see modulation from either C major to A minor or vice versa in classical music. Two contrasting, yet complimentary keys with their own characters and personalities which work well together. Just like Donald and Douglas.

4. I was rewatching some of the season 7 episodes which have Arthur in them. And I think I kinda forgot how fucking huge this guy is. I also noticed just how low his whistle is in comparison to the other tank engines, perhaps emphasizing his bigger size and his more serious attitude in comparison to them.

Whew, this was a long post. I hope you guys enjoy this post as much as you did the last one.

[theredengineapologist]

🚂😈"WELCOME FELLOW TRAIN ENJOYERS" 😈🚂

Finally found time to make myself a proper persona so it's time for a new intro!

Hello y'all! Call me Randy (or Jester)! And welcome to my dedicated TTTE blog! A place for me to shitpost, share my humanized TTTE fanart, and, of course, Trainrot(tm).

As shown here, I am an adult! Which means that some of my posts contain content unsuitable for children! This includes, but is not limited to:

Coarse Language

Horror (Tagged as #tw horror and other relevant tags)

Suggestive content (Nothing explicit (yet), tagged as #suggestive)

I politely ask that y'all use your own discretion before following me.

Also of course, my favorite is JAMES! The ✨SPLENDID✨💋RED💋🚂ENGINE🚂

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TTTE WATCH PROGRESS + TAG GUIDE UNDER THE CUT!

~ RANDY'S TTTE WATCH PROGRESS ~

Key: Blue = Complete, Green = In Progress, Orange = Not Seen

[CLASSIC ERA COMPLETE (SEASON 1-7)]

[HIT ERA (SEASON 8-11): INCOMPLETE (Seen "Henry and the Wishing Tree", "Spic and Span", "Edward the Great", "Saving Edward", "Keeping Up With James", "James the Second Best", "Dirty Work", "Thomas and the Big Bang", and "Edward and the Mail"]

[CGI MILLER ERA (SEASON 12-16): NOT SEEN]

[BRENNER ERA (SEASON 17-21): INCOMPLETE, Partially Seen S17 (Eps 1-4 plus "Henry's Hero", "The Thomas Way", "The Frozen Turntable", "Away from the Sea", "Gone Fishing", and "No More Mr. Nice Engine"), Finished S18 - S20, Seen S21 Eps 1-2]

[BWBA ERA (SEASON 22-24)]: INCOMPLETE (Seen "Hunt the Truck" and "School of Duck")]

[TTTE MOVIES: SEEN "The Adventure Begins", "The Great Race", "Journey Beyond Sodor", "Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure", and "Tale of the Brave"]

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GENERAL TAGS:

#redengineposts = All Posts made by Yours Truly 😈

#redengineart = ❤ My Art ❤

#redenginepolls = Silly Polls that I have Made 🥰

#poll results = The Results of Polls I made

#trains irl = Real life trains/engines/locomotives! In the real world!

#reblog = Things reblogged from other Tumblrs 🙃

#queue queue b*tches = Things from Le Queue

ART TAGS:

#redengineart = ❤ My Art ❤

#TTTE: Sudrian Boys = All things related to my own TTTE Humanized AU

#Into the Trainverse = Posts crossing over between my humanized TTTE and that of other creators

WRITING TAGS:

#TTTE: Sudrian Boys = All things related to my own TTTE Humanized AU

#randys headcanons = My headcanons relating to TTTE

#randys trainfics = Fanfics I have written for TTTE

#on today's episode of "thinking too hard about trains"... = General thoughts about the Thomas and Friends TV show 🚂

#ttte first impressions = My first impressions of TTTE episodes as I watch them

#ttte episode review = My reviews, discussions, and/or general thoughts about TTTE episodes

[lomotunes2008]

Good News: They found the original S1 Thomas prop!

Bad news:

I swear this had better be some kind of joke-

Source: https://propstoreauction.com/auctions/catalog/id/399?page=1&view=grid&cat=8845&catm=any&order=order_num&xclosed=no&featured=no

[traintrainingmontage]

Welcome to the Training Yard

Header (by @/shikariiin)

Profile Pic (by @/rouxipanda)

Pinned Post Art (by @/maxwellscorner)

"You continue to be the undefeated queen of old people romance 😭💖" - @/tam-o-shunter , 2024

Terrible puns aside, my name is Te, and this is my TTTE sideblog! I also go by TrainingMontage on Ao3!

I am 25+ years old, she/her, and proudly queer. This is an LGBTQ+ positive; inclusive; and safe blog, so no NSFW, but you may see some swearing and vaguely suggestive content.

My writing and analysis will primarily be based on the Railway Series and Model Series seasons 1-5, as that's what I'm most familiar with, but once in a while I'll reference other TTTE media.

The Skarloey Railway engines, and Skarloey himself in particular, are my favorites, but I also love Edward, James, Percy, Donald, and Douglas very much. Narrow gauge ship list here!

Please do not ask me to commission you.

I do not have a BlueSky account and do not plan to make one at this time! All of my work is ONLY available here on tumblr or on Ao3. DO NOT SHARE/REPOST MY WORK TO OTHER PLATFORMS.

My askbox is open; please feel free to ask me my opinions on any character or any episode/story. I'll do my best, but I tend to have more to say about RWS and Model Series characters than CGI era originals.

Tag list + featured posts under the cut!

Tag List:

#te writes trains: all of my original writing pieces, including both fanfics and essays

Featured Pieces:

So the Story Goes

Railroaded

Skarloey Appreciation Essay and Edward Appreciation Essay

Life's About the Journey

It's Love that Sits at the Heart of Violence

Hard Worker

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#te talks trains: all of my various thoughts about the characters in TTTE

Featured Pieces:

Skarloey Railway Headcanons and the Found Family Dynamic

Skarloey and the Stock Market (and its companion/prequel, While You're Here, You're Family)

Stanley, Duke, and Second Chances

Percy's "Obscure Antecedents"

TTTE Cafe/Bar AU

Sapient Vehicles and Engine Relationships

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#te answers questions: for any asks that I may receive

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#ttte analysis: where my and other people's wonderful analyses and essays about TTTE end up

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#ttte fanfic: the self-explanatory fanfic catch-all tag

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#ttte art: ...there's a lot of it

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#ttte irl: for posts related to real trains and places

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#ttte-adjacent: for posts that I personally think are relevant/related to TTTE but aren't directly tagged as or stated to be such

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#good ttte takes: this fandom has lots of opinions and these are my favorites. Other people's headcanons that I'm a fan of also go here

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#ttte textposts: just what it says on the tag

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#ttte shipping: for everyone who likes making the trains kiss

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Posts are also tagged by character/ship!

Please enjoy, and thanks for checking out the blog! 💖

[lei-bowgirl]

GUYS I WANNA INTRODUCE MY TTTE OC!

Savanna Alice Keys

This is her design from season 1 to the Adventure Begins! She is 195 years old and 5"5!

THIS HER DESIGN AFTER THE EVENTS OF THE ADVENTURE BEINGS AND TO THE PRESENT!

She is a cheerful and productive engine on the North Western Railway. Originally she was built on the mainland but wanted to work on the North Western Railway! At first, she was in a accident pulling trucks and has a bunch of scars on her body.

Her favorite color is lavender and loves the flower itself! She admires everyone on the railway and mainland.

Close Friends:

Thomas

Edward

Percy

Henry

Gordon

James

Duck

Rosie

Emily

Oliver

Donald

Douglas

Salty

Not really fond of:

Spencer

Diesel

Diesel 10

Cranky

Sir Topham Hatt

The Flying Scotsman

(Well she acts like it but actually had a crush on him)

She sleeps in a house near Knapford Station! Also is about the same height as Thomas, but treats him like a siblings! In her freetimes she loves to go pick flowers and sit by the seaside!

@b1anketplask I MAY HAVE GOTTEN A BIT INSPIRED BY ONE OF MY FAVORITE ARTISTS!