Future Thomas & Friends product suggestions and predictions

[Coaltronn]

Paid way to much money on Ebay to pick this duo up

I concur with Chaz and Mulfred. I would gladly purchase the Yellow Diesels if they were reissued.

Here are the prototypes from around early 2014:


If Bachmann saw this through to the end, they'd be a day 1 purchase from me. It keeps the same face plate, but makes them distinguishable from each other to tell them apart.

[Chaz]

Thank you, everyone, for the strong feedback! I really appreciate all the insights and thoughts. Hopefully, Bachmann can address this by reintroducing 'Arry and Bert at a later date. I agree that it would be too soon to bring them back while Sidney and the Mainland Diesel aren't out yet, but once Bachmann announces one or two more new engine toolings after Flying Scotsman, that would be the perfect time to reconsider adding 'Arry and Bert back into the line.

[Armada Starscream]

With all of this talk of 'Arry and Bert being potentially being reintroduced, I wanted to make an argument to repaint 'Arry and Bert Models into Splatter and Dodge as well. Considering that Splatter and Dodge were themselves a repaint of 'Arry and Bert, it would be cool to also make Splatter and Dodge out of them. It would just require repainting the already existing 'Arry and Bert shells, the ones that do not have the ladders on front around the face. And since Splatter and Dodge have only appeared together on screen with the same faces, Bachmann would just have to design a single face that can be used by both characters. It would be a great way to get two new characters out quickly, especially considering that Bachmann is willing to make the Mainland Diesels.

Just wanted to put the idea out there.

[Coaltronn]

one area that I would like to see Bachmann move towards is Crowdfunding. If it is not financially feasible for them to carry a whole new line but they want to satisfy the fans with some repaints like a arry and Bert/splodge then why not a kick starter? if you don't get the funding and hit your target then don't run it but at least we know you tried?

I propose this because of Brandon Sanderson and how he crowd funds his books and his fans get the things they want. obviously a motorized model is different then a book.

One can dream of different pathways to obtain all the models. I created splatter and dodge from two diesel Bachmann Models. although its serviceable it would be nice to have official models.

[RailwayRoundhouse]

I have to agree, Splatter and Dodge would be both practical and very fun additions to the range. Not only would they only need the one face between them or be using an existing tooling, but I feel the liveries of both diesels will gel well with the other models in the range.

Please take notes Bachmann!🙏

[Mulfred]

With all of this talk of 'Arry and Bert being potentially being reintroduced, I wanted to make an argument to repaint 'Arry and Bert Models into Splatter and Dodge as well. Considering that Splatter and Dodge were themselves a repaint of 'Arry and Bert, it would be cool to also make Splatter and Dodge out of them. It would just require repainting the already existing 'Arry and Bert shells, the ones that do not have the ladders on front around the face. And since Splatter and Dodge have only appeared together on screen with the same faces, Bachmann would just have to design a single face that can be used by both characters. It would be a great way to get two new characters out quickly, especially considering that Bachmann is willing to make the Mainland Diesels.

Just wanted to put the idea out there.

Never gonna happen and never should happen tbh. The Class 08 is designed to Diesel's specifications. Its was a push to get Arry and Bert out of it with all the front details that the original models and CGI renders don't have. They'd require a new Eye mechanism and then theres the major part of this problem. Their faces. Splatter and Dodge don't have the same size faces as Diesel, Paxton, Arry and Bert. They aren't even the same shape. Its considerably smaller in height and width. If Bachmann do Splatter and Dodge and made their faces the same size as Diesel then it would be extremely inaccurate to the models in Magic Railroad which They'd have to do as thats the way the moulding is designed, to which modellers would no doubt say it's "cheaping out or being lazy." Just look how much criticism Bachmann get for their HO Paxton because his face is inaccurate