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I wish everyone above all the best and thank you for your contribution to the world of Thomas the Tank Engine & his friends.

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So a part of the Thomas series for 36 years is still going, although for how long?

I know that the 'Storytime' Podcast is on its second series. I believe Ian McCue is still working for Mattel, since Fireman Sam is pretty much around still, although I don't know for how long since it isn't as successful in the scale of Thomas, heck the whole reason Mattel bought HIT was just because of Thomas, the other brands were just a freebie. Elliot Killick-Ward March 11, 2021Īlthough some of his ideas won't go down well with some older fans, he has respect for them and their creative output. One thing that got him surprised to start off with was the fact I tried to get Flora back into the series. Well, truth to be told, Ian loved the story idea and didn't really want it going to waste, so he believes it would make make a good fan-made story. While it got rejected, Ian encouraged me to make it into a fan-project.- Elliot Killick-Ward March 11, 2021

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Plus one fan had suggested and idea for a special in style of the ones from S23-24 and although he had denied the idea, he wanted the idea to be used as a fan made project:įunny you should mention this - in March 2019, I had a phone chat with Ian McCue discussing about an idea for special episodes (in the style of D&D, TRE etc) with Toby as the main character and a RETURNEE. Just like how Mark Hamill says about Luke Skywalker can be seen gay by the LGBTI community. If I'm straightsplaning here, I apologise and if you see Lexi as gender fluid, do it.

I don't know if any kids show had done this back in the 90's but it was a ballasy move to do that, given how many people act irrationally over gender when someone doesn't identify themselves as a male or female. By S9, HIT Entertainment changed his pronouns to him/he. and with the gender pronouns he was often reffered to as 'the diesel' or 'the little diesel', although as a kid I'd always assumed he was male. So Britt Allcroft's approach was to make Rusty gender fluid, given the name it can be either male or female like Red, Rain, River etc.

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In the books Rusty has always been a male character but when the TV series was made around its fourth season, Thomas had been getting criticism for its lack of female characters and at the time when Britt Allcroft was running the show, she was adapting the stories from the books from an era where women stay at home and men go to the office and of course by the 1990's the culture had changed since then. One example of gender fluidility in the show that I can bring is Rusty. THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINION AND NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM Or will this be another failed attempt for Mattel when it comes to Thomas? Could this be a new start? Could this lead to more toy sales for Mattel? Despite Thomas toy sales starting up again since December 2020. Now here we are months after the traliler had leaked by someone at Mattel, we are at the start of a new series, or in Mattel's case the '25th season'. Despite the amount of publicity and merchandising, the show failed to meet Mattel's expectations and sadly ended 36 years of continuity, however I believe gracefully with 'Thomas & The Royal Engine', despite that broadcasters had ended it with 'Thomas' Animal Friends', which wasn't a bad episode in my opinion. This was all done to make toy sales for Thomas to go up as it had gone on towards a downward slump, between 2017-2020, and this was done to make TV ratings go up too. An attempt at making Thomas interesting towards a 21st century audience, while still maintaining the same canon it had since 1984, by being more culturally and gender diverse by taking Thomas to other countries to meet with different engines and learning different cultures as well as adding in more female characters, considering that Thomas had been criticised by parents since the show's inception that their was a lack of female characters.

Prior to that, the newest change was 'Big World, Big Adventures' in 2018. In October 2020, Mattel had announced that Thomas will get a 'new look, new story structure' after 36 years.

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