Talk:Thomas/Merchandise

Giving up on this
I think the wiki should scrap this idea and keep merchandise only on merchandise pages.

The reason being, is that doing these lists would be an almost impossible task. If you're doing merchandise sections, you should be covering every single thing that's got each character's likeness from books, apparel, stickers, bags, and homewares. You can't just have every physical vehicle from the same few toy lines almost every fan is used to listed. Many pages in the past often listed My Thomas Story Library Books and trading cards, when there are more books that also spotlight characters like the Thomas Learning Series and Meet the Team. It's also not going to be possible to know the years that every item was around for either.

You might as well go on every episode page and include every item of the characters, people, and buildings that appear given that the movies list almost all versions of certain engines even years after they were made without much thought into it. I'm surprised track doesn't have its own section.

I don't understand this wiki's obsession with merchandise and why it must be on practically every page. Just because a toy company now owns Thomas doesn't mean we need to address toys everywhere. I have never seen other wikis think that this was a necessity. You don't go to Wookiepedia and find every single toy of Luke Skywalker listed on his page, the DC Wiki doesn't list all of Batman's merchandise, and the Star Trek wiki doesn't show all toys of the Enterprise on its page. Jdogman (talk) 00:38, April 4, 2018 (UTC)