Been offline here for a bit, crazy last few months graduating college, about to move in with my partner and having way too much Thomas and Bachmann models to pack.

In terms of NMRA I'm admittedly thrown for a bit of a loop engine wise for HO scale. I'm sure we'll get one but the hint given I think rules out the 3 I'm most expecting right now (Nia, Hiro, and Whiff). I have a weird gut feeling about Diesel 10 or Harvey, this might be there time. Likewise no real rolling stock predictions, but I'd like to see works unit coaches make there way to the line.

In terms of narrow gauge, I'm going with Luke. Matt said don't expect Duncan anytime soon only 2 or 3 streams ago and I doubt that has changed, and Luke has general basis appeal. No real rolling stock predictions, but I'd like to see van 5 and the open coaches that are only in one frame of BMM.

N scale is not my main scale but I'm in agreement on Edward being the most likely. Mail cars would be a nice rolling stock as they are the most iconic one still missing from the line.

G scale we'll probably get an image for that mysterious Christmas Thomas finally, but we have 3 pieces of rolling stock in the pipeline so I'm unsure if we'll see anything else until next year. A new engine would be nice though. I'd love a Rosie personally, my partner has really gotten into that scale recently so the more the merrier.

Overall, I really don't know what to expect this year, and that's really exciting. Looking forward to the weekend.

Noticing this is explicitly the product code after LBSC Thomas which is interesting. That seems to suggest this is at least something, Trainworld exclusive perhaps? Something change with the delayed train set?

Something I've suggested before that'd be a really good shout, either for resin or plastic would be making Toby's shed. It's a much smaller and iconic engine shed than the one offered in the previous attempt. Likewise, it was reused for a few other things throughout the series such as Elizabeth's shed and a farm building. this reuse may incentivize consumers to buy into it multiple times. Likewise agree with every item mentioned in the thread thus far, smaller but more versatile destinations would really help this line thrive.

Quote from: GordonPacific04 on January 25, 2026, 02:50:51 PM

Quote from: GordonPacific04 on August 12, 2025, 07:31:45 PMSo a couple things confirmed about Flying Scotsman in today's Thomas Tuesday stream.

- Will be Reusing Gordon's chassis
- Body and tenders will be new toolings
- Matt said he would ideally like to have the standard hook and loop couplers between the tenders, but will ultimately come down to what's most cost effective.
- Will look like how he did in CGI, so the tenders will have 6 wheels

In my opinion, don't care too much about having 6 wheels on the tenders, though I do hope we'll have the standard hook and loop couplers between the tenders. I'm a bit bummed that he'll be using Gordon's chassis, as the siderods are too thick and it's a bit underscale. I would have preferred he use Spencer's chassis because it counters all of those points, but maybe the giant eye mech had something to do with it. It is what it is though.

Seeing Scotsman in the 2026 catalog made me want to stir the pot with this thread again.

Pretty much agree with everything I said here back in August. Not sure how far along production is, but I do want to strongly advocate for Scotsman using Spencer's Chassis and not Gordon's, as proportionally it's better and the chunky side rods are a bit of an eyesore.

Per the last few thomas tuesday's apparently he's entering the first sample phase now and should be ready within the next few months. Probably too late to change anything with the chassis but maybe can swing some of the paint cosmetics

Just checked the catalog.

Discontinuations this round seem to be Raspberry syrup tanker, the sodor coal co. wagon, G scale tar tanker, slate truck #178, and the old peco open wagon (no real surprise.)

Interestingly, Knapford isn't in the catalog. I hope this is an oversight and it wasn't cancelled.

I'm in a weird spot with the announcements especially in HO.

The FQC trucks are cool to see, but knowing wagon yard has already made them and in two colors I feel less excited for it than I should probably be. If it was a more unique color like the goldish yellow from the books I might be more on board, although if this does well maybe that'll come later. (and who knows, if it gets into N it could boost Mavis's chances as well.)

The brakevan is neat, but a little weird it is just RWS spiteful, number and all. It's still neat but I almost would have rather a more generic one to army build better.

I don't really have any thoughts on CGI fuel wagon, it makes sense especially with the new chassis but I don't particularly love this design.

The diesel fuel wagon annoys me, as the stamps aren't made to fully wrap the text so there is some letter cutoff, and the barrels are inaccurate. Expected but not particularly thrilled with that unfortunately. Hope that can be tweaked between sample and final.

The painted express coaches look amazing, and the additional wagon recolors are nice to see. Although a tiny nitpick is the van being in the middle of the sequence of open wagons, not sure why these are segmented like that, maybe the van wasn't the original plan? The two engines look nice, hoping for updates on the new molds soon

G scale getting love is nice, 2 new wagons and a reintroduction is really appreciated. Although the tanker is labelled as Tidmouth, wonder what design we'll get in the final.

Blue Talyllyn very happy about, rode behind her and she's a beautiful loco, will be picking up for sure. Matt alluded to potentially doing Hayden's current livery on stream as well and that is something I'd love to see. The gunpowder wagons are really neat as well.


Overall, I'm not disappointed but some of these announcements aren't as cool as they probably are for other people. Although it makes sense to keep things light while they continue to catch up, look forward to the next announcements.

Hey everyone,

So far it's just been a few eBay shops but DCC Thomas, DCC Percy, the anniversary vans, and the narrow gauge gondolas have now all begun their release. Glad Bachmann were able to get another large project drop out before the end of the year.

Believe only things we have samples for fully painted not released yet are the cgi milk tanker, updated tar tanker (funnily finally got myself my hands on an original this week), the open carriage, and the G scale set, unless that's released and I've completely missed it.

Quote from: harrison05 on December 06, 2025, 06:42:35 PMDoes anyone know when she is due to return?

Current estimate is 2027/2028. So it's a while off yet

Quote from: Zorran202 on December 03, 2025, 01:41:50 PMANYWAYS before we end up derailing from the topic here: I could be living under a rock, but if Sir Handel is now released, where could I find him in person instead of online? Like is he distributed throughout the physical model hobby shops too?

I'm unsure about any shops directly but I know he was at the Greenberg train show, so any U.S. Local shop very well me be getting him in shortly. U.K should be getting him similarly within a week or two.

Hope this is helpful

It's nice to see Sir Handel out now, he looks stunning one of the all time greats.

Although given the 2026 initial release window he had I am a little surprised.

The only other products with a 2025 release window were the anniversary vans and they are currently nowhere to be seen, I wonder what's going on there.

Addendum: On this weeks new model Monday confirmed there was a delayed container shipment and they should be arriving within the next few weeks.

As of a few hours ago Mainland Diesel, Sidney, the anniversary vans, troublesome truck #7, and N scale Henry have gone up for preorder on Trainworld. I want to say they all already had pricing info on Bachmann's webstore so I imagine some of the other things that went up on here recently (mainly N scale stuff now) will go up for preorder shortly. My hope is that all this pricing already being finalized means we'll have a pretty quick turnaround for a lot of them to drop in Q2 and Q3 next year. Maybe that's a bit optimistic but that'd be nice.

Quote from: Awesometrain77 on August 19, 2025, 10:46:32 PMSo it seems like
Sir Handel could be fall 2025
DCC items , NG gondolas, and 80th vans winter 2025
And then like knapford , salty ,n scale express coaches , and the gunpowder vans in spring 2026

A few things here. Matt said the next items that would be on the horizon after Sir Handel are the gondolas and Knapford. With that in mind I don't think we can say with confidence anything else will be released in Winter if even those he says they're shooting for next may be pushed back to 2026.

I also wouldn't expect to see Salty that soon. Per pretty recent they're still hard at work on him and even once they get the issue fixed, they still have to wait on box samples. Fall 2026 for him is more realistic I'd think. The open carriage has also had an unpainted sample longer than the gunpowder wagons and soon to be the express coaches though, so I'd expect to see that in Spring. the aforementioned two I'd also admittedly expect to be a bit later than Spring but if they can get it sped along even faster that'd be good to see

Quote from: GordonPacific04 on July 24, 2025, 06:05:32 PMSo something I would really like to advocate for is having straight lining for the corridor tenders like in real life.

For some odd reason the lining on the CGI render of Scotsman has indented lining as if it were for a fowler tender (like Gordon's), which weirdly enough was a problem that started with the Ertl and Hornby Thomas models so I don't know why that was. Bottom line is I would vastly prefer straight lining on the corridor tenders.

This is something I probably wouldn't even be mentioning, however the newly released 2025 motorized Flying Scotsman actually corrected the lining to be straight, so if it's possible there, I'd like to see it on the Bachmann model.

Interestingly this toy originally had the old lining and then they changed it. There are a few other changes to be more accurate as well. The steam pipe and handrails are now colored instead of the dark green from the CGI model (albeit swapped colors the wrong way around, the pipe has the handrail colors). Will be curious if any of these updates carry over here or just were for this toy.

It should be noted that the promo used in the catalog actually likely predates TGR's release. A bunch of recent style guides leaked on twitter recently, included are a bunch of early promos for TGR. In a very similar style to the scotsman. Scotsman isn't included unfortunately but can be concluded he originally had a smaller face before it got sized up.

In terms of listings everything up to 2025 has a page now except N Scale Henry (probably earlier development than the other 4), Salty (development stalled, they are hoping to have him done by next year but might not be ready to recommit having a page on this website), Gunpowder wagons (development is far along apparently but might be waiting until the gondolas are out to drop the page), N scale Brakeven (nothing has been said on this front since announcement), and G scale LBSC Thomas. I think it's good sign everything else is account for, hoping this means they're confident in all these products dropping sometime next year

Going to make a post recapping last New Model Monday again cause there was a shocking amount of Thomas News within it.

N Scale: Henry, Diesel, Paxton, LBSC Thomas, and Origins James are all in the design phase. They are hoping to be done by 2026. They didn't want to announce anything new at NMRA to add to this backlog just yet, they have ideas they are hoping will be able to announce in 2026.

G Scale: They are waiting for the right time to expand this lineup, given the skipped product codes I wouldn't be shocked if they considered it for this year, but the state of the world gave them pause. I could be wrong on that, but it's further proof they do have plans and are just waiting out the ideal time to drop.

Stanley: Is on the water, should be shipped out and released in about a month give or take.

Salty: Hoping to be done by 2026, they are still working on him as hard as they can.

Bulgy and Gunpowder Wagons: Same case as the N scale guys, in the design phase, hoping to be release by 2026.

Sir Hayden: Not Thomas but felt wrong not to include. Waiting on painted samples, hoping to release early 2026.

Open Carriage: Same as above

Thomas Anniversary Set: Repeated some of the things they said last Thomas Tuesday. Said they weren't opposed to maybe going back and doing this set at a later date, but not right now. A similar set might be announced in 2026 to fill the spot, but it won't be this. (Nor do I think that'd be required given this was always meant to be a single run item.) They also said they want to look into doing more retro items like it, most likely more rolling stock like the China Clay Wagon as they have implied that before.

NMRA Announcement: Repeated the announcement is for HO Scale, and implied there is only one but there is in fact a weird use of plural world sometimes. Could just be talking in general of the catalog, could be including British narrow gauge stuff, I could be overanalyzing it (Most likely outcome). Either way, they said the announcement would be "Unexpected" and "excite fans of most eras of tv Thomas"

Which is telling, but also vague enough to encourage tons of speculation. Only thing I think for sure is it isn't Trevor, BoCo, Scotsman, or Stepney. Use of tv Thomas rather than Thomas as a whole feel like it'd exclude the RWS, it's not like they are unaware of it after all.

I believe that is everything, hopefully cataloging this info here is useful