[Bucksco]

The Thomas sets will arrive around the third quarter so I would say toward the end of the summer. I have some photos of the pre-production pieces and they look very nice indeed! I will post them as soon as I have clearance to do so.

Jack

 

[Bucksco]

Hi Garrett,
When producing items in the Thomas line you are at the mercy of the licensor. You can design it any way you want but then it has to be submitted for approval and it most likely would have to be redesigned to be more faithful to the licensed concept. In other words Thomas and Percy will be very faithfull to the TV versions

Hi Richard,
I will certainly monitor the forums and provide info when possible. The Narrow Gauge long caboose and the Thomas items are this years large scale releases. I'm sure there will be more to come in the future!

 

[Bucksco]

The Topham hat figure that Bachmann currently produces fits very nicely into the cab of both locos. I'm campaigning for more figures for the sets.
As far as scale is concerned these pieces are in line with the rest of Bachmann's large scale items.

Jack

 

[Bucksco]

Richard,

There is a lot going on at Bachmann. Everything for 2009 has been announced. We've just released the 2-6-6-2 and the long caboose is coming. We have not abandoned the 1:20.3 line. There are things in the pipeline but even large manufacturers need to exercise a bit of prudence in an economy such as we are experiencing at the moment. Remeber we do many scales -N, HO, On30, 1:20.3 . We need to spread things out so nobody feels "abandoned".
Bachmann has always been very consistent with all of our product lines and will continue to be so into the future.

Jack

 

[Bucksco]

Posted By cudak888 on 04/04/2009 7:35 AM
Then there's the fact that the original narrow gauge models on the series rode on either S or two-rail O-gauge rail (no, it isn't HO as everyone likes to call it - just look at the gauge difference with the 45mm Gauge 1 rails in any S4 episode), with exception to the larger models that debuted in S5 (knocking the Narrow Gauge up to Gauge 1, and I believe the standard gauge became Gauge 3 - or Gauge 5, don't quote me on it).

It begs the question as to whether Bachmann would allow the size difference between the standard gauge and narrow gauge characters if all were adapted to 45mm rail.

-Kurt


When it comes to items in the "Thomas" line it really comes down to what the Licensor (HIT Entertainment) allows not what Bachmann allows.
Bachmann is required to follow thier guidlines in order to produce these items.

Jack

 

[Bucksco]

Some very interesting pictures have been posted in the Bachmann forum's photo gallery!



http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/gallery.php?set_albumName=New-Thomas-Large-Scale-Samples&include=view_album.php