All Engines Go NEWS

I watched both episodes, and what did I see? Actually, a very good show... if only it's not "Thomas & Friends". I mean, they should make this as another locomotives TV show, but not branded as "Thomas & Friends". Now almost all Thomas & Friends fans are furious, and an essentially good cartoon is wrecked.

And the truth is it has nice characters, animation is good, and the story is not bad at all. It preaches simple lessons. One episode promotes friendship, and another teaches how everything is important, even if it doesn't seem so from the start (the battery issue). So as a show, it can't be graded as bad in any sense... with the crucial remark: if only this isn't a "Thomas & Friends" show. If I (somehow) could forget its Thomas, I think I could really enjoy it.

Pretty much the same goes for the rebooted toys. If they are "Thomas & Friends", and they sadly really are, then they are a big mistake. Of course. If they were not Thomas, they could be actually seen as cute toys for little children.

But, as I said many times before, this new Revolution toys (you know, the engines that cannot run on Plarail tracks and have really ugly spiked wheels)  they have been selling for quite some time now are bad from the start. I wonder how so few people complained about their looks. They look somehow distorted, flattened, weird, the wagons and carriages (with rare exceptions, like swinging trucks) look like caricatures of some kind, and their totally weird sets with walking bridges and jumping engines (as seen in many unboxing-and-first-run videos) very rarely work properly; the bigger sets almost never work as they are intended to work! What I wanted to say? Mattel's line of toys is mostly crap already. Even Chinese TrackMaster knockoffs look, as a whole, way better than these new Revolution engines. In looks & quality, they are not even close to Plarail models.

Honestly, is this cheaply made flattened looking distorted toy with non-centered front wheels and almost nonexistent middle wheels...

...so much better than this?


And again, if we forget the fact that this new & rebooted toys are branded "Thomas & Friends", and just look at them as toys in general, then these new toys are looking pretty good, they are cute, not cheap-looking as Revolution toys, have nice bright colours, no stickers, and little kids might like them! And the TV show too.