Future Thomas & Friends product suggestions and predictions

[really called Thomas]

My only wish at the moment is expansion of UK HO DCC-Ready Locos.

[TEHNewClearwaterFeatures]

Or maybe they will do Nia who I think a lot have forget was an option .

I want Nia in HO Scale as well...

[Chaz]

My only wish at the moment is expansion of UK HO DCC-Ready Locos.

That will likely come this November as Bachmann Europe makes announcements for their Thomas line bi-yearly, and their last announcement was in November 2024.

[Cheeky_ULP]

So there are going to be announcements and we are gonna see them coming

So likely not whiff Hiro or Arry and Bert .

Tbh I see it being something crazy like Philip or Stafford  .

Or maybe they will do Nia who I think a lot have forget was an option .

I'd love to see diesel 10 but I don't know . Maybe Havery . We are seeing them coming so who knows .

The wording is interesting because most Bachmann Thomas fans have probably made every reasonable deduction for a product Bachmann could make at least once or twice. I'm getting the impression that whatever they plan to announce might be something fairly outside the box.

[RailsByRick]

With Bachmann's recent trend of wanting to use as much existing tooling as possible, I'm personally placing my bet that the next announcement will be Shooting Star Gordon and/or Streamlined Thomas.

They'd certainly be less expensive to produce than a completely new-tooled model, and would definitely be unexpected by most. I'd be pretty stoked if they did go this route seeing as I'm a huge CGI fan. They'd go great with Flying Scotsman too!

[Kemptown Branch]

The wording is interesting because most Bachmann Thomas fans have probably made every reasonable deduction for a product Bachmann could make at least once or twice. I'm getting the impression that whatever they plan to announce might be something fairly outside the box.

It almost makes me wonder if it could be someone like Stepney. We wouldn't see him coming because it we pretty much wrote him off as a possibility due to what Bachmann said about him. I know it's extremely unlikely, though.