2004: HIT: let's ruin the show 2013: Andrew Brenner: I'm saving the show 2018: Mattel: Let's be blind to criticism!

What confuses me is how they add more detail to the characters on the show but continue to insist on regressing the toys

The part where you called Nia a tissue box KILLED ME lol

"They're so obsessed with the popularity of Thomas that they have what I can only call crane shunted Thomas to all sorts of unlikely places in order to get him into or force him into a particular story. Whether the story was written with Thomas in mind or not..." - The Rev W Awdry

I'll admit that scene of Rebecca derailing and falling on her side was satisfying to watch.

The Thomas Franchise is basically fan-created at this point. Which is a good thing. It's just sad when fans can make much better content with a couple people and time compared to a huge company with a budget if you catch my drift.

"That's just Hank Hill in 1080p" Thanks, I can't unsee it now.

Guys....why don’t we act like parents and then Mattel will listen to us?

3:07 "Hank Hill in 1080p"! That is the best joke in this video!

And now the 2D series is gonna have them jump the tracks.

Mattel: listens to parents who don’t give a s*** about the show Fans: bruh

Fun fact : the fact that they added rivets on Thomas's tanks actually make it less realistic as the real E2 tank engines had welded tanks NOT riveted tanks.

The CGI era was fine when Andrew Brenner was in charge, most of the seasons and specials he wrote were great! Shame Mattel had to ruin it.....

Rebecca, Brick of butter Im amazed the railroad still runs considering how many accidents happen in the CGI seasons. The engines took a visit to the Pimp my Engine studios to get hydraulics placed in This roast was amazing btw.

Ok fun fact, the Battle of Britain class locomotives (Rebecca) had an issue where oil would build up to the point where they could spontaneously combust. *So there could be an episode where Rebecca up and explodes for no reason*

Seasons 17 to 21 the Brenner era is the best era in the CGI series.

The only thing I like about Rebecca is that she’s a SR Merchant Navy. I had been wanting a new character that was one for the longest time and I had finally gotten it but the price paid to have it wasn’t really worth it frankly

Are you a grill? Cuz if Mattel was food, you just roasted them so hard they’re burnt to the core.

Old thomas still in our hearts

4:00 Sir Topham Hatt just got his smash invite lol

One thing I like about the CGI series, is any episode involving Victor. He's one of the best characters to be made by someone who isn't from the OG team.

“Why does sir topham hat look like a fat infant”.

Edward and Henry: * have been around for 72 years and are two of the original engines * Mattel in 2017: 🚮

Mattel after season 25 inevitably fails needs to just sell the franchise to a company that actually cares. After season 21, what was the point of holding on to the brand, they’ve been putting in more money than they have been making from this show for the past 5 years and I will never understand why they still hold on to it.

My God, Mattel is making things worse

When I'll have kids, I will let them watch the model series only.

Imagine if they were still using the models to this day

4:00 thomas invited to smash

Somebody send this to Mattel, and have them watch it

You should’ve toasted them on how they shrunk Oliver in the CGI series. He went from one of the tallest engines in the show to the size of a narrow gauge engine.

Look if I was gonna reboot it; I’d keep the Andrew Brennar Era level of CGI, remove the bouncing. And hire ACTUAL FANS to write for this show, such as Victor Tanzig, Kanefan701, T1E2H3, and just say; Keep it PG and lower, don’t go too dark(but keep it around that likeable level of dark), otherwise, have fun.

Track master ain’t got anything on the og blue tracks of Tomy

I read the title and thought this was a roast on the Benner-era and panicked as I love Season 17-21 (yes, even 21)!

"Who buys Thomas wood" Fanofthomas31: *Me*

I think the funniest part of this video is Thomas' whistle being used a bleep. It killed me everysingle time

i would watch an entire episode with just nia and rebecca melting whilst slowly screaming in pain for help that won't come, then thomas comes and is like "i'll save you" but then he falls into the melting pit, and then they just melt and are never seen again

Only a few other fans could say it as good as you just did. #ToHellWithMattel

2:06 Who tf is that? The chocolate factory never had coaches, let alone sentient ones.

I love how he bleeps himself with Thomas’s whistle from Thomas and the magic railroad👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼💙

MATTEL when making Tomas Wood: "Remember: if it ain't broke, then you need to fix it."

Ngl but Edward & James are my two favorite medium sized tender engines & Mattel just threw one of them away. Edward is the true definition of a mature engine

Fandom:Wants Duke, Lady, Molly, Arthur etc. Mattel: Gives us this 0:18

The Andrew Brenner era wasn't bad at all tbh. It had some great episodes and season 20 in particular was amazing

I grew up with CGI and the magic railroad, I never had a problem Mattel had with CGI, but the reboot, that's DIFFERENT...

2:20 It works with cars because of their suspensions, making the movements seem (somewhat) realistic. But as far as I know, trains don't have suspensions, making the movements weird as all hell.

To be fair man I watched both of the cgi and classic when I was young and I liked both of them

0:41 their are treating those historical models as little toy trains like they are the history of thomas and they just dont care

Watching this somehow made me forget that season 25 was going to exist and then you showed the image of the S25 Thomas Leak and I wanted to die instantly

I only use Thomas wood for customs

1:53 ill only buy those to modify it, pretending it was some sort of a kit the whole time.

You know very well why they replaced Henry and Edward. They looked at the cast and said “shit we need women in this cast or people are going to lose their shit”. I guarantee you we will see new skin tones on the faces at some point. The show is going down hill ever since it went CG... if its possible to do what fanfics have been doing in Trainz, I think Mattel needs to fire the entire team and get better writers and cgi teams. The Trainz 2019 version of these characters look almost identical to how the classic show looked. I am amazed at how far CG has come. But my God this show is garbage now. They have the worst quality of CG. Even the tracks are garbage. The voice acting is also something that needs improvement... Overall I would rather watch fanfics done in Trainz 2019. So so much better.

How. Just how. Just how can one train go forward into another train, the train infront bounces to the other track, hits the other train and they all crash. DOES MATTEL KNOW HOW PHYSICS WORKS???

I found this roast rather hilarious to watch, especially the part when you roasted Terrence. But I highly respect your opinion on the CGI series, as well as your opinion on Rebecca and Nia. I think the only things I didn’t really like about the CGI series were the engines bouncing every so often, and the fact that not only did they turn Thomas into a rubber band of all things, but also an elephant.

Don't forget that Toby was removed from the Steam Team too.

They wanted to be like “Cars.”

CGI Has so many open doors, yet the crash in the royal engine looks like an animation from the 90s

My man, quit spittin'! You flooding my floor with FACTS!

Thomas has reached Chuggington levels. Bouncing around and stuff

And that ladies and gentlemen, is why we have fan content.

1:26- TrainBoy: remember these guys? Me: No. I remember the real Duck, Donald and Douglas.

My favorite part is when he compared Nia to a tissue box which is shockingly accurate

2:54 i forgot about jay jay the jet plane........ . even back then.... it was a Tomas knock off (at least i felt, watching it as a kid.... because we had nothing else to watch)

4:30 yes, go on go on. (Background)

Over the years I feel like Thomas has become what it’s always been seen as by the general public. People have always seen it as a talking train cartoon for pre-schoolers. In the early years the show was an all-ages kind of thing, something even adults could sit down and genuinely enjoy. They were treated like actual engines on an actual working railroad. Now it really is just a silly pre-school cartoon about talking trains.

This was absolutely perfect and summed up so much of my thoughts on BWBA. I will now present some of my own thoughts: 1. The CGI era does have it's problems in places, but other times it can really shine. Just look at scenes in season 19 and 20. The freedom they have with where they can place the camera, as well as lighting in some shots is so beautiful. 2. ARC animation is better than Jam Filled. Now that may sound weird as the styles are the same, but look at something animated by ARC like "The Adventure Begins". ARC was able to create Thomas to look gritty and realistic, but not so much that anything like the faces would creep you out, but still being like "yeah I could approach these engines and and have a conversation with them", like you could with the classic series (at least in my opinion) 3. The animation in BWBA is terrible for these reasons: i: The engines have absolutely no weight to them. Take the crash with James, Percy, and Rebecca. I don't understand why people like this crash so much. The impact is completely lost because not only are the engines moving their damn bodies around while they're speeding along, but they go gliding along the tracks like they're on an ice rink. Even Rebecca tips over like she's made out of tin foil. On top of all that, there's nothing graphic to suggest a huge accident went down. Take TAB again, when James crashes, they don't hold back on the violence. James scrapes against the ballast, the trucks fly off, the rails are pulled up. Even James comes out looking worse for wear, so you feel the relief when he eventually gets fixed. - but no sod that. Let's now treat the engines like they're hockey pucks. ii: attention to detail is non existent. Sets are either lazily recoloured or moved around to look like you're somewhere different, and even faces on the engines look flat at times.. I could go further on about things like the writing. But that's an entirely different discussion

I grew up around the end of the model series and the beginning of the Sharon Miller series and Edward was my favorite character. When I found out that they replaced him with a loaf of bread and a stick of butter I got mad. Can Mattel stop breaking Thomas and friends? Whose idea was it to send the franchise ownership to them?

i loved henry and edvard , i literally started crying when they replaced original trains with a monkey and bread trains

CGI started off strong and gave me hope for the next generation of Thomas and Friends, but then after a while the producers took said hope and tossed it in to an incinerator, destroying what little faith I had in CGI Thomas and the future of my favorite childhood show as a whole.

the cgi era is decent but it still doesn't sit right with me. the people look like ass and the engines look too plastic-y despite being all high res and whatever. the eyes don't fit into the faces right... the only decent thing is that they have individual voices now which is actually pretty cool.

Omg I haven’t laughed so hard at a rant in such a long time. If you’ve heard of Potential History, your editing style is very similar to his and I love it. Keep doing what you’re doing man.

Yeah, I agree. There's NO need to replace Henry and Edward with Rebecca and Nia. If you REALLY wanna add them in, just add in extra sheds! The media would be happy that you're diversifying the show, and the fans would be happy that the rest of the characters are staying! Everybody wins! Except for Mattel, actually...

“You running this thing like drayton mannor” OOOOOoOoOOOoOOoO00OOoo0OOoOoOoOH!

Edward was the first character and they straight up replaced him with a character that is dumb and is a side character and barely speaks unlike Edward

His firebox was on FIRE

"It's kinda creepy when it moves."

The CGI animations are great, the characters and storylines not so.

No no, I think this sums up the entire fandoms feelings quite well. Don't you dare feel ashamed or think a serious Thomas fan thinks otherwise. I believe I can safely say that we all agree on this subject. ❤️

I wish Mattel just realizes that they're making a wrong decision. Thomas wasn't 100% a kids show. From the Railway Series showing bitter truths of diesel engines taking over, steam engine survival, and that most character's brothers and sisters are gone. Yes it is bedtime stories but there's a deep lore of Thomas that Mattel didn't know. You know that Mattel could've just made RWS characters into life and exploit them, and if done just right, kids will enjoy them too. For example, Bear/D7101. Mattel could've made him a multi-episode arc where he tries to get along with James at the start to show that he's a nice diesel. Or maybe even adapting stories of the Culdee Fell Engines. I'm sure it will be more interesting than an inaccurately painted Bulleid pacific and a tank engine who is smuggled to Sodor.

0:35 The definition of confusion and delay

2:57 he’s got some dehhmmunzz but he’s alright

Their target audience is children when its actually grown railway enthusiasts

If "the molded loaf of bread" and the "f**king tissue box" did not replace Edward and Henry, they would not get as much hate. change my mind.

You know it’s good when the video builds up with Mario music. I’m not even into Thomas but these videos are great.

3:08, Hey look peg, I'm on the KZfaqs. I believe it's a cameos.

Drayton manor had a fire, so... *THOMAS'S FIREBOX IS ON FIRE*

This is when I go back to the Rev Audry and christopher Audry books and remember when the show was good

0:58 Oh look, the Booster Course Pass of Thomas & Friends

My favorite part of the CGI is when the replaced two of the best and most loved characters with the Diversity hires so they could expand into markets that arent there to begin with

but id like to see them bring back goerge the steamroller

1:09 even I didn’t like the new designs

“Send Mattel packin’, send Mattel packin’!” Snorted TrainBoy

“That is just Hank Hill in 1080P” Never before have I laughed so hard!

I love how he says that people would only buy Thomas wood just for the face 🤣🤣🤣

They got rid of Edward, Herny, and Toby. Heck they got rid of all fan service characters and character development of all characters.

This entire video explains why I like the model series more than the cgi series

Nia and Rebecca shouldn’t have replaced Edward and Henry because that’s just fricking messed up dude

You know who we need the most there’s 2 Boco and Stepney!

Mattel is the Palpatine of Thomas & Friends. At first, they appeared to be compassionate, well-meaning. ( Series 20 and TAB was created ) However, this was nothing more than a facade. They are actually power-hungry psychopaths whose only true goal is to ruin this franchise.

I just wanna say that I got plarail gordon James and henry for Christmas

The most painful part of the CGI era was all the potential it squandered. Just look at the details in Rebecca's close-ups. She actually has BRAKES! I'm not sure why none of the the original characters were updated to look as detailed as the new CGI-only characters (e.g. Gordon's braking gear isn't ever actually shown in the close-ups of his wheels like it is with Rebecca). They could've animated so much more of the whole "railroading life" than they actually did, but even what they did do was beautifully done. Too bad most of the stories never lived up to the animation.