User:SamTheTrainFan

"Where are you from?" "Oh, Brighton, on the mainland, it's where all the best tank engines come from!" "Is it really?"

- James and Thomas, The Adventure Begins.

A little bit about Me
I have been in love with the Island of Sodor, and the little blue tank engine we all know and love, ever since I received my first Wooden Railway set. It was a figure 8 set, with Thomas, two trucks, a bridge, and a conductors box. I thought that it was the most magical thing the world had to offer. Unfortunately now, it's not in the very best condition, and the Thomas is so chipped it looks more like Toby. Around then, I thought that 'the wooden stuff' was the only variation which Thomas could be found in, well, imagine my suprise when I discovered Tomy and Take Along. Sadly (for me) I never received any Ertl trains, but I have plenty of Take n' Plays and Trackmasters, so I can't be one to gripe.

My thoughts on Thomas
I love the railway series books, one of my favorites is Mountain Engines. The stories in the books are better than those adapted from the books. In the TV series, things were altered, less detail went into the story, one example of this is Granpuff, oh yes it's a wonderful episode, but the whole thing with Thomas telling the other engines the story irks me. Another thing, it's not elaborated on where Stuart and Falcon end up, or why they are renamed, and there is nothing about the Duke being killed in the war, for understandable reasons I suppose. But I still adore the original model series, I just looked so real! The trees, the sky, the stations, the, errr, engines? Not really. I'm not referring to the fact that the engines are sentient, I think that they kind of looked like toys. Sure, pretty amazing toys, but they just all looked to bright and clean, and that is not the kind of thing you would see on a real railway. In some cases, it was the engines basis. I'm mainly thinking about Percy here, I never liked his basis, neither did the reverend, so along with his basis and annoying personality, that's why Percy is one of my least favorite characters, especially in the CGI series (Such an idiot!). Another thing, I wish that Thomas no longer had that horrible dip in his running board too. But anywho, I'm going to move on to a different topic now, The New Series, ugh, this was really where the show slipped. The models and sets had none of the charm the original series had. Nearly everyone acted out of character. And of course, ugh, the Steam Team. I absolutely loathe the concept of the Steam Team, and Andrew Brenner still using it make me hate it even more. What is the point of having eight core characters? It's just really bad. I don't think Emily really deserves a place there either.

Pages Created by Me

 * The Best Friends Express
 * Jerome and Judy

Quotes
"Samson here, at your service!"

- Samson's catchphrase

"But elephants don't wear shoes!"

- Percy, Not Now, Charlie, seventeenth season

"Oh yes!"

- Gordon, The Adventure Begins

"Consider my feelings. When we were both green, passengers kept calling me Mike!"

- Rex, Small Railway Engines

"Theres only two ways to do things, the great western way, and the wrong way."

- Duck, Pop goes the Diesel, second season

"Bah humbug!"

- Duncun, Duncan the Humbug, eighteenth season

"Edward's old, but he'll suprise us all"

- BoCo, Edward's Exploit, second season

"Crew up!"

- Jerome, The Adventure Begins

"You have caused confusion and delay!"

- The Fat Controller, So many times, it's not funny

"Once an engine attached to a train, was afraid of a few drops of rain."

- Ringo, The Sad Story of Henry, first season

"That last engine we got, with the wooden brake blocks was much too small to be really useful. But I'm not small!"

- Gordon and James, The Adventure Begins.

"James is off the line! The Breakdown Train, quickly!"

- Tidmouth Signalman, Thomas and the Breakdown Train, first season

"If engines can't whistle properly, they shouldn't try!"

- Mike, Mike's Whistle

"I like to dig up, I like to dig down, I like to dig up treasure that's never been found..."

- Marion singing, Tale of the Brave