Really interesting wording from this weeks new Model Monday, "Can't make any promises yet, but there are are couple other characters that are candidates for redesigns but it will take some time to have the capacity but we have had some disussions about that."

I assume James and Paxton are at least two of those, that could be it, but it seems they'll be a few years off yet before we see anything. Potential easier candidates as well are Spencer in his more modern color scheme or Emily with her number, which could either be running changes like James has had or outright separate sale products like red Rosie or Grumpy Diesel.

The wording specifically said characters and not engines, so i am hoping they may also be considering finally updating Annie, Clarabel, and Bertie at least to be more up to modern standards.

Henrietta with her face is also an obvious candidate now that she is in both other scales. Either way like they said it might be a while before we see anything else to this end, but I think this list is a pretty decent shout for the characters that could be at the top of their list and my personal most wanted redos. There's a few others that would be nice, like the Scottish Twins with proper smokeboxes, but I do think those are far far off and it's better to have a list like this.

I think James and Paxton are the only two who really need it, however I'd like to bring up Emily and Spencer as well. Their toolings don't need any work, but there are design changes they could make pretty easily cosmetically like Emily's number and Spencer's silver color which could be welcome additions.

The Iron Twins also come to mind if they ever plan to reintroduce them, they need some revisions bad.

I'm in agreement with Chaz. The coal car inclusions are bizarre especially since the sodor coal one was discontinued in HO this year, surely the generic green would be better?

Engines make sense, hope we see edward in winter.

Narrow gauge is the thing really throwing me for a loop. The lack of a new engine makes me wonder if they're waiting for the market to be better to drop right into Duncan. I wouldn't complain about this outcome but do want to see Luke

Splodge are an interesting case because they're actually some of the notoriously worst sellers in Thomas toys (only falling behind the likes of Whiff). But the good news is those statistics shouldn't effect Bachmann and I'd love to see models of them.

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.