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Thomas & Friends™: Wonders of Sodor - Coming Soon!

A brand new game from Dovetail Games, the developers of Train Sim World, has just been announced - and we've helped out!

The Reverend Wilbert Awdry had a 3D Relief Map of the Island of Sodor made in 1950...

Thomas the Elephant with the face from the 2026 series version of Thomas

"I can make him better" yeah well I can make him worse

Here are the facts

The new box art does not match the photo bashing of the Pixar Cars line (which I believe is already outsourced to begin with)

There is a consistent filter applied to all the new Thomas product. But discrepancies seem to come from what base render is applied

* ( TTTE )
* go enjoy some yuri. this isn't a thomas post i just think thomas fans need to go enjoy some yuri instead of doing whatever the hell we seem to be doing on the other platform.

* no i don't mean "GO GET OTHER INTERESTS!!!" i just mean you need some enrichment and sweetness.

A recreation of the cover of "Thomas the Tank Engine" from the "Railway Series".

Small doodle for a young relative of mine

Jones reads Ivor a very familiar story

he's a bit of a machine with that thing....

two of them

As someone who had asthma as a kid this was actually how I saw it at a young age

i think what gets overlooked is that part of the humor and charm of edits like these is that you're perfectly aware that someone sat down and spent their own time making it. they chose to do something cool or silly or stupid or genius, regardless of the results

that human element elevates the work

Legit I think if you took a CGI series character model, retextured it to match the changes from the toys (new colours or livery changes, drop shadow on the numbers, etc.) and replaced the face with a new one, you could get a pretty good idea of what the designs will look like in practise

Metal Collection 2026 Gordon

Motorized 2026 Gordon

Based on the toys, I'm guessing the 2026 series will reuse the existing CGI series character models but with new faces and textures to give them a fresh look (and the sets likely rebuilt from the ground-up using the existing assets like Arc had to do after taking over from Nitrogen)

Edited image of Thomas and Toby at Tidmouth Sheds from the Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends episode "Thomas' Christmas Party" Thomas has his face from the 2026 Motorized toy; Toby has Tobias' face from "Tobias and the Arcane Merchant" and a badge proclaiming he is one year old today

Thomas' Christmas Party but it's 2025

Happy #TATAM Anniversery (again) - i make some wooden blorbos

Montague's my MK2 Duck w/ a new face

Rosalyn's made from a rosie, oliver, and lot of milliput. + capsule sir handel face

Clive's a james w/ rosie smokebox and custom tender. TA murdoch face from @/thesudriclegend.bsky.social!

I love the cold, frosty-feeling shade of green used on Tank Engine Montague - fits his personality really well I think

I’m not done yet, cause I couldn’t do an Arcane Merchant pack without doing a Half Pariah pack as well. No excuses.

Hope you enjoy this little return to concept drawing. Maybe someday I’ll actually post my Rerailed Minis line in full for y’all to see lol. No promises.

Let’s focus on the ‘good things’ for a bit, shall we?

Remember those old Minis movie packs I used to do? Well, here’s one for Tobias & the Arcane Merchant! To celebrate its one year anniversary!!

#TobiasAndTheArcaneMerchant #TATAM

#TATAM #TobiasAndTheArcaneMerchant pt.2 - Henrietta

bluesky is homophobic so split this in half

will say im quite glad of how this part came out - this part of the song always gave me chills.

happy tobia-holiday i will have something else to post later too

'Would you fall in love with me again - even if i'm not who you think I am?'

hi im so verrrryyy normal about these two and this song so mASHUP EDIT BABYYYYYY

happy 1 year anniversery #TobiasAndTheArcaneMerchant #TATAM (pt.1 - Toby)

Dramatic Crossroads meme template with the text "being known for losing races" at the fork in the path On the left-hand/"light" side is Haru Urara (Uma Musume) and on the right-hand/"dark" side is Chick Hicks (Cars)

This is the best meme I've made this year I think

So damn happy right now

The NWR Stories | 1983

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9gk...

Four-panel comic: 1. Sir Topham Hatt says "Hello Nijika Ijichi from Bocchi the Rock!" 2. Nijika Ijichi says "Hello Sir Topham Hatt from Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" 3. Sir Topham Hatt smiling with his fists against his hips 4. Nijika Ijichi smiling with her fists against her hips

YouTube video by Wallace & Gromit Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions 🛠️ | Autochef 🍳 #WallaceandGromit

If I may present a counterpoint to the 100% success rate:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2igR...

a sketch of thomas the tank engine

the 4 types of tidmouth grand tour player

A 5x5 bingo sheet of several Thomas & Friends characters, who are potential candidates for the as-of-yet untitled 2026 series. Row 1: Henrietta, Toby, Edward, Henry, Bertie Row 2: Hiro, Bruno, Diesel, Gordon, Emily Row 3: Ashima, Nia, Thomas, Percy, Harold Row 4: Duck, The Fat Controller, James, Annie & Clarabel, Cranky Row 5: Yong Bao, Rosie, Flying Scotsman, Terence, Salty

Since MIPJunior's coming up next weekend there's a good chance we'll get our first looks at the untitled 2026 series from there (we got early previews for BWBA and AEG from there before), so I made a bingo chart of potential returnees in anticipation of that

* ( TTTE )
* steamies and diesels need to work together!

yuri