We were channel surfing this morning and Thomas the Tank Engine was on, he has acquired an American accent! What is the world coming too?
Yours Sincerely
Perturbed of Yaverland.
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Fat Controller is now Sir Topham Hatt!!
Bring back Ringo Starr!!
Bring back the Rev more like
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Quote from: Railwaygun on July 06, 2019, 12:55:55 PM
Fat Controller is now Sir Topham Hatt!!
His name was revealed as early as Book 6 "Henry The Green Engine"
I don't mind all the new characters or locations, I just think Thomas should be English, what next? Paddington Bear with an American accent! :(
Yes, it's all wrong and makes me cringe. I speak as an involuntary consumer of Thomas programmes, broadcast weekly on Sunday afternoons on NHK2 at 5:30pm, English soundtrack available on the audio subchannel. The worst bit is that at the end, American-Thomas does a little speech recapping the moral lesson to be learnt from the episode. :veryangry:
Quote from: silly moo on July 06, 2019, 02:07:26 PM
I don't mind all the new characters or locations, I just think Thomas should be English, what next? Paddington Bear with an American accent! :(
GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN >:D
all these are British, though I can't find Sodor on my atlas :-[
so, do not tangle with our heritage, you've got Trumpy, we've got too many to list :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: class37025 on July 06, 2019, 02:34:12 PM
Quote from: silly moo on July 06, 2019, 02:07:26 PM
I don't mind all the new characters or locations, I just think Thomas should be English, what next? Paddington Bear with an American accent! :(
all these are British, though I can't find Sodor on my atlas :-[
It's effectively an expanded Walney Island, stretching from just off Barrow-in Furness almost as far out as the Isle of Man.
The name comes from the Diocese of Sodor and Man.
Quote from: silly moo on July 06, 2019, 02:07:26 PMPaddington Bear with an American accent! :(
Well actually yes - South American anyway... He WAS from Peru... ;)
When my lad was very young we had to suffer the "Thomas and the Magic Railroad" movie, it was awful!
Quote from: chrism on July 06, 2019, 03:03:45 PM
It's effectively an expanded Walney Island, stretching from just off Barrow-in Furness almost as far out as the Isle of Man.
The name comes from the Diocese of Sodor and Man.
Well that would certainly explain why BoCo was there :)
Quote from: class37025 on July 06, 2019, 02:34:12 PM
all these are British, though I can't find Sodor on my atlas :-[
Look a bit closer. ;)
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/304/media/images/53844000/gif/_53844701_sodor_304.gif)
Vickerstown became Vicarstown.
All very clever.
John
Quote from: Train Waiting on July 09, 2019, 02:16:37 PM
Vickerstown became Vicarstown.
Indeedy - that's why I described Sodor as being effectively an extended Walney Island, rather than an island in between there and Man.
Vickerstown is, of course, named after Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, who owned Barrow Shipyard and needed somewhere for their workers to live.
Wait, what? I spent my childhood years literally just over the water from Sodor? Why didn't I know about this earlier?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodor_(fictional_island)