i remember my grandpa buying me a Märklin Thomas to use on his layout. it was a fairly small german branchline like layout but somehow thomas fitted in pretty well on a layout designed for small german/swiss tank engines and railbusses. i remember the he later got 2 generic green marklin coaches which i used as annie and clarabell. to this day that Thomas is the only Märklin Thomas product ive ever seen.

I can’t believe the Woody Capsule toys haven’t made it into a cursed merch vid there’s something so off about them

I remember last year at a train show I stumbled upon a Shining Time RC set that included a figure 8 track with a tunnel, Toby, Henrietta, and a troublesome truck, never knew that existed!

There's one japanese brand that made T&F merch that was really accurate to the TVS. They looked so cool, worked kinda like a scale model, but they functioned with a magic wand. I hope you search for them!

It's surprising how realistic the faces on the IR Thomas and Percy are. Not even Hornby could get faces that accurate to the model series.

Someone needs to get one of those padlocks for The Lock Picking Lawyer. They're probably more secure than a Masterlock 😂

I remember having this brand of Thomas characters that were sold in the checkouts back in the day. They were small cheap plastic toys with hidden wheels inside them, and they had the same moulds as their Take-Along models.

Tomy, Capsule, early trackmaster, and Plarail are the best hands downs. I remember coming home from school and making a different track running down my hallway everyday. Good times 😢

5:08 “there were also road vehicles” *proceeds to list helicopter and boat*

2:45 seeing Spencer with a 4-4-2 wheel arrangement is just a cursed thing! I mean, he’s a bloody *PACIFIC!* not an Atlantic!

I remember when I was 4 years old, there was a big book fair. With only 10 dollars in my pocket I got Thomas and friends book with the Mirco rubber engines in the book. Unfortunately I do not have the book but I still have the engines , including Annie and Clarabel.

I have the old busy book set, so much nostalgia

Micro rubber engines is one of my rememberable childhood stuff in the 2010’s. Sadly, I’ve somehow or elsewhere loss them. I’ll not forget.

0:24 That's how I got into TTTE. I had collectable railway Charlie, Thomas and James. (and mega blocks Peter Sam and Rusty lol)

I love small scale figurines, so I absolutely loved the My Busy Books toys. They were so satisfying to hold, especially James and Thomas, and the hard rubbery texture was so satisfying to feel. I remember playing with them outside in the dry dirt or in small gravel that looked like coal, I rarely ever used the playmat they came with. The originals were so soft, you could cut them with a razor blade and make your own engines, or just separate the tenders like I did. Sadly, the second book changed the material to a hallow hard plastic mold, which was less appealing to play with, and was prone to warping.

I've seen a couple of these before. That iR Thomas set looks pretty cool.

Fun fact: I own the first two iterations of the micro rubber engines and I can say with confidence that they look a bit different between releases, with the second iteration generally having less detail. So here's a list of (off the top of my head) stuff they changed (Also I'll just be calling them series 1 and 2 for simplicity): Series 2's returning engines don't have cab windows for the engines that had them, painted eyes, painted buffers, the paint on their faces looks a bit worse, and their colours are brighter. Series 1's James had bronze side rods. Yeah I can't be bothered to go get them and actually have a look at them to see if anything else is different.

4:53 We need to get the Lock Picking Lawyer to pick one of these.

2:24 The Spencer Big Wheels are 4!

Those locks are cool!!

Can't lie, I wish I still had all my ERTL stuff... I had loads, but my mum gave them all away, including some limited edition ones and the big Thomas carry case. 😭😭😭 Back in the days when toys were indestructible and hurt (if thrown at you by a sibling).

I’ve definitely heard of the micro Rubber Engines. Loved those toys when I was a kid.

If I had a nickel every time a company made an E2 in SECR livery, I’d have 2 nickels, which isn’t much but it’s strange it happened twice

I never knew that model series Mega Bloks existed til a month or two ago and i also didn’t know that mega bloks in general was still going

I got serious flashbacks when you mentioned the Micro Rubber Engines, I remember eating Toby

2:11 I actually had one of these the first book specifically and I ended up eating Gordon and losing the others

I have the micro rubber toys and My Busy book (first edition) since I was younger!

When I was little, I had the boss Oliver, Jeremy, and, I believe, Gordon. I have no idea where I got them, nor where they are now, but it’s nice to finally see somebody shine some light on the little toys I’ve been so perplexed by for years.

I know that finding every single obscure Thomas merch range but I was hoping that you'd mention one that I've been trying to find out if anyone knows about this particular range that came out in the UK around 2011. Found at my local Tesco, Hit also had other of their properties packaged this way but there were these navy blind boxes that had a superb quality, in both plastic and detail, Thomas character and some jelly beans. They had rollers on the bottom and had black couplings (L on front, loop on back). I've lost them all at this point including Rosie which I slipped under the gap of a broom closet door at a leisure centre. Hope this comment shines some light on this range and lets me know that I can't be the only one

I had one of those books, loved playing with the map it came with and dragging them along

Babe wake up new trainboy video

I used to love take along and taken play I had so many characters and thinking about them makes me want to pull them from storage for some nostalgia

I find it interesting. Also those rubber thomas bits? Ever heard of Ducking a jeep? See a parked jeep leave a rubber duck on the driver door handle. I would so do it with thomas.

I own 3 engines from a brand called "De Agostini". They looked similar to Ertl engines, except they were more detailed and were made of plastic unlike Ertl. The three engines I own from this brand are Edward, Henry and Percy. There's also another brand called "Limited Edition Collectables", they looked similar to Take'n'Play engines except they were made of plastics, their wheels were static and they had no magnets. I only ever owned Thomas.

For the coffee merch i have both the pull bacm ones ( Bell, Diesel, Diesel10, Hiro and James.) and the push along ones ( Percy with a banner, Charlie, Scruffy and 6 coaches with banners).

Idk if you've covered them in other videos but there was a rare line of these like, wooden railway/take-n-play hybrid toys called Interactive Learning Railway. I had a couple of the sets growing up but I've barely seen anybody ever talk about them

I always thought the rubber engines were just called “the busy book engines”.

nostalgia hit me like a brick wall right around 8:16 like what happened to all the good toys 😔not at all referencing M * * * * * :) love the videos trainboy!

I remember having the rubber ones. But they did Spencer dirty making him a 4-4-2

The padlock and key ones are so cute!

I probably have the most nostalgia for my take and play Duck with black wheels, I’m so happy I still have it,

And theres a 4th book, featuring Thomas, Percy, James, Nia, Kana, Diesel, Sandy, Carly, Bruno and Harold!

Awesome video trainboy

When I was a kid it was ERTL or nothing. If they still made those awesome diecast I'd buy them alllll!

this reminds me of two things 1-When I was little I was once given a culdee ertl but since I didn't know the brand I kept it but I never saw it again 2-I have an express car that I don't know what brand it is, and the bad thing is that nothing appears at the bottom

Why does James look bussin' with red wheels tho

I saw some of the woody capsules in a lot with some capsules plarails and a few other things on eBay a few weeks ago, I believe there was a Thomas, lady, 3 Gordons and 2 James.

good video man ur the best ever keep the work up :)

Very strange stuff indeed, the marklin thomas stuff kinda goes hard idk why tho, would love to see more installments

4:25. I thought this was a sponsorship at first lmao

I would of loved to buy the ir Thomas stuff if they made more of them, really sad the great looking merch isn't still around anymore besides Bachmann and I guess capsual thing but like the main 4 Thomas merch has all been discontinued which sucks

1:56 i had these, WhY CANT THE FUNNELS STAY ONE FOR ONE DAY

7:26 looking at the remotes now they look like wii remotes Edit: I looked it up and these remotes came first before the wii remote that’s a bit………..odd to say the least……….

1:52 literally had these when I was 2

That one Thomas toy I played with as a kid was a cardboard dominoes set with the engines on them.

2:24 I have that one!

I had the micro engines ever since I was a wee boi. Fond memories playing with them

Bro the micro rubber engines take me back. I was so young and I think I had the first one and then years later my baby brother got the newest one. It came full circle basically

BRO IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THOSE RUBBER ENGINES FOR YEARS I USED TO HAVE THEM THEY WERE ELITE

Thank you for telling me where some of my Thomas’s come from

I remember knock-off kinder surprice Thomas eggs.

The micro engines are used to have back in my old school I think I was in Second grade They would let us have playtime so that was an option and these engines used to be one of the things you could play with

I grew up with early trackmaster. The Tomy steam along Thomas. And the early cgi talking trains. Best childhood ever. The rubber toys are a great. I used to recreate the scenes. But the current trackmaster toys lack detail.

I actually own Märklin Thomas and Percy

Very nice!

1:56 I have them. They came in the my busy book Thomas set

I still have the second my busy book and I do enjoy playing with them as well as reading the book maybe someday I would like to get the rest of the my busy books.

0:33 I had a tomy thomas that I would play with for hours but I lost it in my old house and I never got it back

I love the miro rubber trains and I also have a micro rubber Santa fe super chief. I lost some of the rubber trains but the ones I still have are Emily, Bertie, thomas, edward, Spencer, Rosie, whiff, James, Mavis, and a Santa fe super chief. I also made custom paper coaches for the rubber trains

4:45 I have Old slow coach and The Union Jack Coach .Also Thomas ,whiff,Percy .And all the pull back modals .I always wanted to know what these are .

OMG! I completely forgot I had a few of the toys from BOSS.

Anybody else remember there first thomas item mine was the track master sir handle and the bolder set

The micro rubber engines came with a fold-up mat you could use them on.

I still have a lot of wooden railway and take a long from my childhood- plus some ertl. Part of me wants to see them get a new home, though, and not sit in the closet lmao

I remember getting a Micro Rubber engine of Thomas or Henry for Easter like 8 or 9 years ago and I don't really remember anything after that :/

Barns and noble. That is where I got my weird rubber trains. Try searching there if you are on the hunt for rubber small trains aka the weaker version of the ertl minis

the konami IR train set looks to have continued past that into DigiQ trains so im wondering if anyone can check those out and see if the controls are also like that

I personally had the Shake Shake Bridge from Misty Island Rescue

I remember the rubber Thomas train used to have them

I Actually used to have the little my busy book Thomas Engines.

I actually still have my DigiQTrain Series 500 Shinkansen from when I was a kid. Never got it to work tho. Want to grab it out of my closet when I have the chance.

I had the my busy book henry and still have it

the last one was cool

Trainboy: there are so many things that come to mind. Me: that is an understatement. also, I have the rubber Toby.

The micro engines book 1 was my childhood.

Also Marklin also only run on AC power.

My local model railway shop has just put an order in for 6 Bachmann N gauge Gordon, safe to say I’ve got my name on one of them. Don’t know when they are due in tho.

FINALLY we got mention for the busy book lads,Bro those were my childhood

1:44 I have one of those books

You should make a video on Magazine only and Merchandise only characters

On Ebay I got 2 of the crazy Thomas robot sets that went together like Voltron. Crazy Asian knockoff. They have completely different packaging and slightly different details. Look it up, Thomas Voltron is real

Anyone else notice how closely Woody Capsule Series is kind of like the Thomas Minis Series

I actually have the rubber hollow Percy,Edward,and Clarabel but in a thrift store

6:35 i think i had know that in the thomas the tank engine fandom

I remember another certain branch of plastic Thomas merch where their wheels were molded on and they would have two rollers under their chassis tender engines would have the tenders connected at the back like a coal bunker. If anyone knows what these toys would be called, let me know

We need justice for the checkout thomas collection

woah, never heard of these

0:44 yoshi music

I think I have the micro rubber whiff

another merch that could be added is the motorized railway line