@@BlakeHawkinsVA Lots of love was put into this performance, definetly one of my best performances. I understand now just how much people love my Captain Star voice it sounds so magical and fitting over the actual footage from Tugs. All this voice needed was some love pumped into it and care. Thank you for commenting!

@@LesStarport my pleasure 😊 and I can hear that dedication and love 😊

The voice is a great fit! Although I don’t know if people would want to sit through a 7 minute long Sizzler before their feature! Probably a cropped down version would be best I’d say.

Well, considering I only wrote it in literally an hour’s time I sure am pleased with how it turned out. Although, I wonder how it would have worked as a 20 Minute cut as I deliberately wrote and cut it to a short run time due to available time. Ha, thanks for your comment!

Yes! This was a teaser for what’s to come soon.

@@LesStarport oh cool will you make a zap episode out of all the zstacks he has the least personality

I meant zak

@@user-oc3qb5vo7g All I’ll say about my next project is Zak will be in it in a speaking role. But it’s not entirely a Z-Stack focused story

You know, I actually agree. but, it wasn’t me or my mates voicing the characters. I cleaned up the original dialogue audio using adobe podcast. Giving a like you said not bad not great result.

Oh I haven’t retired Chris, just been living my life, I recently got a Tugs VHS although the only problem I had with it was it got stuck in my VCR, but after changing the cassettes over, I fixed it and the player was fine (thank goodness) couldn’t afford to loose a $100 machine which can play and display in both NTSC and PAL

@@LesStarport I got one tape cassette from America NTSC it is but it works with the PAL VHS Player. It of Wile E Coyote & The Road Runner that I bought but cameras don't go well with Aussie Computers when they're NTSC. If anyone from America wants to see a program from the UK they had to pay a price to buy a VHS Player with an Aussie plug and an international plug set if it's likely to happen.

@@TheNewStoryteller lots can play NTSC but it’s usually only in PAL. What’s different about mine is it can output in genuine NTSC which works fine provided you have a Multisystem TV to go with it. I’ve played both NTSC and PAL tapes in mine and they both work fine. Well my sole NTSC tape flickers a lot (i think it’s just the output and TV struggling to keep the picture steady) but otherwise it works well. To play a PAL tape in the states though the only way to have a Multisystem VCR as most won’t play PAL.

@@LesStarport Never heard of one in existence but less of a pile up.

@@TheNewStoryteller They’re called worldwide vcrs the top range Multisystem VCRs one of my friends has one, those can play PAL on NTSC systems and vice versa. Mine though is a mid range through as it can only output PAL in PAL and NTSC in NTSC.

Only off camera

Yes, it’s now safe and sound in my collection! 📺✨🐉

Great

Yes, Did you get him in Russian?

@@LesStarport yes

@@Thomasbangbangstories2008Amazing! I only learnt about Tabaluga in recent times though. His series was made by the same company as Blinky Bill, such a beautiful cartoon. But to find a tape of him in English well, that’s harder than finding a Tugs VHS ha!

Well thank you for commenting. Starting a collection is great fun, I’d definetly advise you to go forward, make it your own. My Blinky bill collection is growing all the time. Whatever you decide to collect I wish you the best with the start of your exciting new collection.

It’s a very, very old model I made in sketchup a few years ago. Never made it publicly available due to the fact I mashed several models together to make it. So alas it’s not publicly avalible, truely sorry about that. Have a good day, Les

Quarantine and many other episodes (if not all) needed their 20 minute cuts. Haven’t been that active with the Tugs fandom in recent days so must have missed the time where towing the wreck away was a deleted scene. So fancy that.

The original for my Tugs: TTTIT Was crap. Had my old and bad models on it and was the voice over was terrible

Makes me so proud to keep the legacy of the founder of Australian animation alive. Along with some of the stuff that inspired his works, I’ve had lots of fun collecting this collection, sharing stories with some of the people I’ve bought them off. Blinky’s truely altered my way of life, much like what Tabaluga has with you. We must keep Yoram’s legacy alive otherwise his work and achievements might just fade away into the mists of time. 📽️🐇🐨🐉.

Surprise find!

That is and no it’s an old Lima, I’ve had it for over 10 years

Ten years? I never thought it long.@@LesStarport

@@TheNewStoryteller Well like you probably already know I used to be a so called ‘Gunzel’ (you’re probably not to familiar with that term seeing there’s only a small amount of mainline railways in Tasmania). I still am sorta to this day, but due to an extensive bullying issue I lost lots of my faith in the hobby. So I transferred over to the Tugs fandom, sorta low profile but definetly one of the more watched tugs channels on YT. Back to trains, the ho/oo scale stuff I’ve had for nearly 18 years at most. I still remember being given the Lima C38. Sorta a sad story about what happened to me with and trains but that’s the world we live in.

Well yes and no, he was actually created by the German musician and singer Peter Maffay. Yoram did the cartoon series in the late 90s and early 2000s, I will make a video with him in the spotlight. But that won’t be for awhile yet. I have a friend who loves him and we talk on a regular basis. I haven’t got anything of Tabaluga in my collection yet (besides a drawing)

Yes the cartoon was done by yoram gross much like Blinky Bill and Skippy. But the character himself was created by Peter maffay. The cartoons first season definitely has some inspiration from the albums as well as the novel from the early 90s.

​@@LesStarportI hope you can find the all Australian favorite pc releases of tabaluga for your collection my friend 💖🐉

@@dragonfan1286 I’m sure one day Tabaluga will fly into my collection and warm it up with his fire! 🐉🐉

I did send you a link for it, Alex. Thank you so much for this comment! I’m really delighted you liked it, I added lots of laughs and twists into it that tried to have it stay true to the original Tugs. This year, I’m probably going to make a sequel which I’m going to aim to be better than this. But it’s doing well, considering I only wrote it within a few hours

Well thank you for your kind words. I’d been wanting to do a Christmas themed Tugs episode for a very very long time now. All ideas I’d previously had didn’t really work well, but this… well this certainly captured a Tugs feel it had a fine plot, although I did take some inspiration from Thomas episodes. I still can’t get over why I’m the sole KZfaqr that makes full length Tugs fan episodes in trainz. Have a good day.

@@LesStarport You are good at it, that's for sure :)

Thrilled to hear you liked Bluenose. He was so much of a joy to voice (despite being a complete naval twit), best wishes Les & Bluenose

And to you too!

@@LesStarport did you like the scripts I sent you?

Much as it was having you being part of my audience and a subscriber throughout the year with your kind words, Chris! You too have a good Christmas Day!

I'm not needing you for a minute as I'm doing Brum hence there aren't any lines written for Top Hat Grampus and Zorran. Though I did improve on the TUGS Theme on the piano.@@LesStarport