(12-20-2021, 03:01 AM)Off The Rails Wrote: My son hates [AEG] with the burning heat of a thousand suns! I also think my daughter likes watching it to annoy her brother!
AEG seems more like Bubble Guppies or PAW Patrol (also Nelvana productions) with maybe an appeal to 3-6 year olds.
Having had the chance to check the AEG Thomas toys in person, I wasn’t impressed. They remind me of those preschool “My First Thomas” type toys from some years back. My son was, unsurprisingly, highly disappointed and even my wife (who normally doesn’t really care) thought they looked like baby toys.
LOL, "burning heat of a thousand suns". That's a whole new idiom for me (and one of the funniest I've heard).
Nelvana had no involvement with PAW Patrol (made by Spin Master), and BWBA would be the more apt comparison. I always thought AEG was trying to look like MLP:FiM, but the characters in Bubble Guppies really do have the same obnoxious "preschooler" faces. Nelvana made so many well known shows with much better styles, yet Mattel chose to go with this.
Even the My First Thomas designs (both Golden Bear and FP) still looked somewhat machine like and not like bizarre "creatures", despite FP's Railway Pals having weird arched running boards. They didn't have features like oversized boilers, angled funnels, tiny wheelbases and huge (or any) whistles too far from each other.