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My family recently upgraded to Comcast Digital Service. Comcast offers a
service called. On Demand. It is a library of recent cable programming that
you can view at any time. You can also pause, rewind, fast forward, etc.
So we clicked into On Demand > Kids & Teens > PBS and they have two 1/2 hour
segments of Thomas the Train running.
This thrilled my 4 year old daughter and we watch together frequently. Funny
thing is I find myself wanting to view it again later to sketch out some of
the train yard structure designs in Lego. There are some neat building ideas
in that show.
Bryan
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In lugnet.trains, Bryan Kinkel wrote:
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My family recently upgraded to Comcast Digital Service. Comcast offers a
service called. On Demand. It is a library of recent cable programming that
you can view at any time. You can also pause, rewind, fast forward, etc.
So we clicked into On Demand > Kids & Teens > PBS and they have two 1/2 hour
segments of Thomas the Train running.
This thrilled my 4 year old daughter and we watch together frequently.
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My kids (especially my son, Ross) LOVED watching the Thomas videos growing up
(we bought them all, and have even repurchased some on DVD:-) Just for fun, I
still scream “Choo-choo!” when passing a train while driving with my (now
teen-age) kids as Ross used to do when he was about 3 years old:-)
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Funny
thing is I find myself wanting to view it again later to sketch out some of
the train yard structure designs in Lego. There are some neat building ideas
in that show.
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I was more than happy to sit and watch the videos with the kids, because they
are so cool, WRT to the set designs and all. I’d really love to see a video
come out that goes “behind the scenes” in filming those videos-- to see the sets
and all. You are right about being inspirations-- they inspired me to create
elaborate backdrops for our LEGO trains...
And I’ll tell you, a LEGO Thomas (& friends) are always the highlight for
young children at train shows. Really, no LTC should show without one...
peep peep!
JOHN
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I’d really love to see a
video come out that goes “behind the scenes” in filming those videos-- to see
the sets and all.
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I remeber reading an article in the British magazine Model Railway Constructor
about the production of the Thomas the Tank Engine series. My dad still has the
magazine so next time I visit I’ll see if I can scan you a copy. The model were
Gauge 1 and radio controlled, with the faces also radio controlled.
Tim
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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I’d really love to see a
video come out that goes “behind the scenes” in filming those videos-- to
see the sets and all.
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I remeber reading an article in the British magazine Model Railway
Constructor about the production of the Thomas the Tank Engine series. My dad
still has the magazine so next time I visit I’ll see if I can scan you a
copy. The model were Gauge 1 and radio controlled, with the faces also radio
controlled.
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Cool! That would be excellent, Tim! Funny, one can’t really even gauge scale
from having seen the videos (I personally thought that they were closer to LEGO
scale), but gauge 1 is larger.
I actually own a gauge 1 Thomas (and James), although they are really cheap. I
have always wanted to kitbash them and use the wheels and create LEGO versions
of them. I think some day I will....
JOHN
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