Trackmaster non-rebooted Thomas toys are already dumbed down during last few years. To me they look ugly and non-recognizable. For example, this is supposedly Gordon, and he looks like a caricature:
![[Image: ugly-gordon.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/Prdxdn66/ugly-gordon.jpg)
This is the new rebooted Gordon. Doesn't look much worse. For all as I know, this could be even called an improvement:
![[Image: reboot-gordon.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/xj3fxF0L/reboot-gordon.jpg)
Trackmaster/Mattel/Fisher-Price lost me when they start disfiguring Thomas & Friends characters, putting horrible spiky wheels on them and making them incompatible with Plarail. All of their trains now look somehow flattened and caricatured. Compared with the Trackmaster trains 10+ years ago, most of them are ugly and cheep looking toys already. The reboot doesn't really make the situation much worse. The situation has been bad for some time.
Takara Tomy did make some errors (the newest Dokidoki Mountain which is not a mountain at all but a panel, for example) but their Thomas & Friends trains look (and are) good as always. Plarail forever!
This is Gordon:
![[Image: IMG-20210112-131429.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/XXSLqRRW/IMG-20210112-131429.jpg)
This is the new rebooted Gordon. Doesn't look much worse. For all as I know, this could be even called an improvement:
Trackmaster/Mattel/Fisher-Price lost me when they start disfiguring Thomas & Friends characters, putting horrible spiky wheels on them and making them incompatible with Plarail. All of their trains now look somehow flattened and caricatured. Compared with the Trackmaster trains 10+ years ago, most of them are ugly and cheep looking toys already. The reboot doesn't really make the situation much worse. The situation has been bad for some time.
Takara Tomy did make some errors (the newest Dokidoki Mountain which is not a mountain at all but a panel, for example) but their Thomas & Friends trains look (and are) good as always. Plarail forever!
This is Gordon:
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