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Title: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Rollin Mayham on March 27, 2013, 01:30:31 AM
I think you guys should make Lady the Golden engine to add to your Thomas and Friends variety. As a someone who makes model railroads I am very fond of the Thomas and friends items and I think you should consider making the Thomas and Friends Items more exciting and I have a feeling that you may make more money off of this engine because they don't use her anymore in the Television shows and many people have tried to make their own versions of lady. I think you should consider this and make it easier on some of the people that make their own versions of the TV shows.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: mrrailroad on March 27, 2013, 05:03:52 PM
I hope this gets to Bach-mann I wanted to remake her but It would be really hard Also put Diesel 10 in there

QUESTION for Bach-Mann are you guy's ever going to make Lady or Diesel 10?

P.S. Rollin I like this thread but some people will come at you for not putting this in the wishlist thread but i think it will be fine


LADY! DIESEL 10!
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Rollin Mayham on March 28, 2013, 04:27:20 PM
I am kind of new to this whole thing I just like Bachmann and Thomas so I thought I would start going here
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: mrrailroad on March 28, 2013, 04:46:42 PM
Do you think they will ever put Lady in cgi?
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: metal4life on March 29, 2013, 12:33:28 AM
Realistically, Lady's chances of ever being produced in the HO scale range are almost zero. She's only ever had one appearance, although it was a major motion picture. She's never been referenced to in the canon series or RWS. Not rendered in CGI yet. It's hard for me to imagine a scenario in which she would return to the series, which makes her chances at production, or even consideration for production, pretty non-existent.

I assume when Bachmann are in the process of trial and error for the next locomotive production, they take many factors into consideration, such as:
Popularity/familiarity
Customer demand/profit margin
Character recurrence/importance (how integral a character's role is, or how often the character is used)
Cost
If the toolings are readily available from subsidiaries

When it comes to Lady, she scores fairly low on almost all of these factors. However, she is fairly well-known among modellers and older fans, but that is her only attribute. Sorry to disappoint well-intended wishes, but she will most likely never be made. But that's the fun about modelling, if the desire is strong enough, you can make her yourself! :)
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: mrrailroad on March 29, 2013, 07:24:54 PM
She also shortly appeared in Calling all engines
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Anthony P2 on March 29, 2013, 07:57:34 PM
......and that was the last time we ever saw her.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Rollin Mayham on March 29, 2013, 08:55:02 PM
However diesel 10 appeared in three if I remember correctly.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: TrainFan97 on March 29, 2013, 10:16:46 PM
And Bachmann is also very unlikely to make Diesel 10, mainly because of pinchy.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: mrrailroad on March 29, 2013, 10:20:58 PM
Man Lady has been my favorite engine and I just wish that even for a limited time they could make her
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Shawn on March 29, 2013, 10:36:36 PM
How many years ago was calling all engines..? 8?  and how long was the gap between that and Thomas And The Magic Railroad? 5?

just putting that out there.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: mrrailroad on April 01, 2013, 06:56:25 PM
I miss the old thomas not where diesels like to help not where someone gets a booboo but when the creators actually want their audiences to enjoy the show not for them to make money. I also think that there adding to many characters stick to the originals and make stories not every story another engine
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: metal4life on April 02, 2013, 12:20:43 AM
It's not about the money, it's about the contents of the show being "viewer friendly," people don't want their children to be influenced negatively.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: jettrainfan on April 02, 2013, 12:17:55 PM
The 1990s generation is different from the 2000 and soon to be 2010 generation. They get a different audience every 4 years probably (children age 2 to 6 average), so changes usually are nessicary. When a totally new generation is the audience, that's when the changes are likely to happen. If the series needs to be watered down to fit these needs for the new generation then they shall happen. Its hard to let go of the series and accept these changes, but there is hope that the series will possibly slowly return back to the way that we knew and loved Thomas The Tank Engine.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: mrrailroad on April 02, 2013, 08:20:25 PM
who thinks there the biggest fan of thomas and the magic railroad. I collect Lady's and diesel 10's and a lot of that movies merchandise
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Calebtrain on April 03, 2013, 06:04:00 PM
Check out ThomasFan8, he's a fanatic about it. :P
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: mrrailroad on April 04, 2013, 07:27:50 PM
Does anybody know were Diesel 10 and lady original models went? I know there not at Drayton manor
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: mrrailroad on April 12, 2013, 07:30:07 PM
Anybody?
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Fergusfan17 on April 16, 2013, 05:06:11 PM
I guess that they are somewhere where they are being preserved.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: mrrailroad on April 19, 2013, 07:29:06 PM
Hm
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Oliverfan656 on April 30, 2013, 07:54:51 PM
One of Lady's models is in Japan
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Chaz on May 02, 2013, 01:24:55 AM
Honestly, I don't see any chance of Bachmann making Lady at all.  She has only appeared twice (one of them being rather brief) and probably won't appear anytime soon after that.  Plus, she isn't really to popular nowadays.  Characters like Oliver, Rosie, Hiro, or even Paxton are far more likely to appear in next year's lineup as they have not only proven to be popular enough characters, but also very memorable. 

Plus Lady's overall design would be rather hard to put together in terms of new tooling, which certainly doesn't help her become a more likely canidate to be made in the near future.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Oliverfan656 on May 02, 2013, 05:09:21 PM
 i don't know about ladys other parts but they could probably use percys wheel arrangment but just repaint it
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Rollin Mayham on June 03, 2013, 09:11:46 PM
I have recently figured out how to make lady it is just going to be tight because of money problems I don't even have a basic 4x8 layout going yet but i figured it out and now that I know it is unclear on how they can't make her.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: thomasfreak5 on July 15, 2013, 01:45:53 AM
Quote from: mrrailroad on April 02, 2013, 08:20:25 PM
who thinks there the biggest fan of thomas and the magic railroad. I collect Lady's and diesel 10's and a lot of that movies merchandise

trust me, not to put you down, but im this biggest fan.
Theatrical poster type B
hollywood premiere poster
blockbuster backer card
toys
books
3 VHS (2 USA and 1 AUS.)
2 DVD
and the best one, Alec Baldwin and mara wilson's autographs on the UK VHS cover.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Cirkit:) on July 15, 2013, 01:01:33 PM
I think the chances for Lady to return to the show ever are minuscule at best, much less being made in HO.
She hasn't appeared in a special in years, she's barely 10 lines in all of her roles combined, and I don't think younger children- which the range is aimed at- would recognize her as easily as other characters like Emily, Spencer, Duck, or even the Iron Twins that will be released later this year.

If Bachmann did make their own Lady, I imagine they would do a superb job, but for now if you really want a Lady all your own, the best way would be to 'bash' one together. There are a few people out there who have made their own Ladys before, they've got posts instructing how to do the job and pictures to guide you along during the process. And if you don't want to make one completely on your own, you can always repaint some OO scale model train and add a face to it, simple as that, so at least you can have a representation of the character running around on your layout.

I know everyone has some characters, rolling stock, buildings, etc. they desire from the range, and everybody should get a word in as to what they want, but in my opinion, I don't think a Bachmann Lady will be coming round the bend any time soon.

-Cirkit
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Zorran202 on July 15, 2013, 06:13:54 PM
Thank YOU!!!! I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this. I want to add my thoughts on this as well: now I hate to bash on the movie, but it was terrible with how it was handled. I mean they could've been better if there hadn't been any major editing going on (like removing Boomer from the script completely). And Lady, someone based off of "magic" should exist on Sodor? No no no no no. Why? Because, Awdry himself based the series off on his experiences, as well as the events that occurred in real-life back in the day before any of us existed. But to have an engine that no one knows what she's based off of (or at least loosely based off of), also doesn't have any redeeming personalities from the mere couple of minutes she had in two movies/specials, people want her to be made in HO scale?????!!! Yeah, no sorry people, but she's not gonna be made at all. Be realistic people! Just like Cirkit said, you can make your own Lady if you wanted too...! -_-'

Plus to add to why characters introduced in the first movie are pathetic, Diesel 10's the only character to appear in the majority of  specials shown, showing no changes what-so-ever (CAE, everyone feared him, but became friendly with everyone; MIR, he appears near the completed bridge being "devious"; and DOTD, he basically plotted to take over the Steamworks, but acted like a kid at a playground/ball pen or something like that........).... Seriously? -_-'
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: mrrailroad on July 15, 2013, 06:25:05 PM
some of us dont have tools or money to kitbash and make it look nice
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: thomasj219 on July 16, 2013, 01:08:53 AM
If you have the 60-80 that a Lady model would cost you could probably throw something together that would look quite nice, it's all part of the hobby.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Rollin Mayham on July 16, 2013, 02:09:27 AM
Replying to Zoran202 the movie had some plot issues but had a pretty descent impact on the series bringing Diesel 10 into the actual series. Now that I think about it why didn't they keep Splatter and Dodge do you guys know?
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: mrrailroad on July 16, 2013, 11:43:25 AM
Quote from: thomasj219 on July 16, 2013, 01:08:53 AM
If you have the 60-80 that a Lady model would cost you could probably throw something together that would look quite nice, it's all part of the hobby.

true but i would rather not risk making a mistake
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: PaulGWR on July 28, 2013, 12:38:31 PM
I assume that you could make a decent model of lady by taking a Ertl or bandai tecs lady and putting it on a Percy chassis with Thomas' wheels and various Side rodes (FYI, I have never tried this so it may not work)
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Fergusfan17 on July 30, 2013, 08:59:34 PM
Don't think that's possible..
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Rollin Mayham on August 04, 2013, 01:05:01 AM
Okay, then watch this

http://sodororient.blog76.fc2.com/blog-entry-318.html


Then tell me it's no possible.
Title: Re: Lady the Golden Engine from Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Post by: Rollin Mayham on August 04, 2013, 01:06:19 AM
you may have to scroll down