Mister No's Pics & Vids

Here we have Ryan, a purple tank engine who used to work on the Great Northern Railway. On Sir Topham Hatt's Railway Ryan takes goods on the Harwick Branch Line, while Daisy takes passengers. And here I got into trouble: As we know, neither Tomy nor TrackMaster didn't release Daisy, so I had to run the "next best" engine for the job, which is, naturally, BoCo. Since he is not a railcar like Daisy, he had to pull Gordon's express coaches to take the passengers to Harwick. 

It is still a mystery to me why there is no model of Daisy. I heard some rumours, heard about cancelling her release by Trackmaster... but I really think she should be released. Hey, Tomy, that would be a nice set: Daisy & Ryan. They work together on the same branch line - why not releasing them together? After all, she is an engine from the original stories of the Rev. W. Awdry: her first appearance is in the second story (titled: "Daisy") of the Book No. 16 of the Railway Series - "Branch Line Engines" (1961).


 

(Notice her face is a part of her body in the Railway Series; she has quite a different looking face in the TV series)

They made so many models based on later characters, Ryan being one of them (he was created by Andrew Brenner & Ian McCue, not by W. Awdry), and they forgot some characters of the original story, for no obvious reason.