Today's stream was great. lots of good things to come down the line. probably the highlight for me was the update for sidney and the mainland diesel. hearing the news that bachmann will change sidney to have the correct face and showing the sample of his face has me really more excited than ever. the fact bachmann heard the criticism of how paxton turned out and that they took the extra time to give sidney the proper face is really good. I think theybmay do the same with the mainland diesel. I never thought I'd be excited for repaints of the class 08 shunter tooling. but it's great they're doing the proper face this time. really can't wait to see how sidney and the mainland diesel turnout after more samples arrive.

Well today bachmann has released the catalog for 2026.

I checked it out and there's some products I'm hyped up for.

the first is the new Ffarquhar Quarry wagons. (I've been hoping they would do rolling stock for mavis since we're still waiting for the china clay wagons for bill and ben. so I'm definitely going to pick up a few of these upcoming wagons).

than there's also the 20 ton breakvan. (it's just so nice that a piece of the rolling stock from the 80th anniversary set is having a release and it's also refreshing they added another break van into the line since toad and the spiteful breakvan were the only ones available and not any other's so it's great to have a third breakvan). also with the 20 ton breakvan added to the line I got a feeling they might do bradford. (I'm really hoping for that and I'm still crossing the fingers that they'll do samson cause we need samson to go along with bradford).

than they announced the cgi fuel tanker. (probably was expected since they're doing the cgi milk tanker). I think i may pass on the cgi fuel tanker. (I got the classic sodor fuel tanker that one is just better looking to me i thought of buying three more of the classic sodor fuel tanker as a consist for diesel. but I'm going to think real hard about that).

than there's some disappointment I've seen they discontinued the sodor coal co. wagon with the coal load. (I was going to buy a bunch of these as a coal train consist maybe I may just buy one). I mean they might of been the same as the original wagon with the coal load. i thought the green on the sodor coal co. one had a nicer shade of green. (at least the sodor scrap co. wagon is still available i may buy a few of those. though I'm not going to get the mining wagon i thought I would maybe for mavis. but no since they're coming out with the Ffarquhar Quarry wagons I'll do those one's instead).

really disappointed there was no announcements for the narrow guage line. though they've discounted the slate wagon no. 178 leaving the 136 as the only one with the numbers still available. along with the three new ones in different colors. they've also discounted the open wagon that was one of the first pieces of rolling stock when bachmann started to do the narrow gauge engines. (I'm not disappointed with that one being discontinued as I feel the other rolling stock that would follow is a lot better. plus I felt like that wagon didn't fit for the narrow gauge engines anyway).

though they at least got images of the upcoming gunpowder wagons. the d. fusit one i think is the best one of the bunch. (the other ones are nice looking it's just the d. fusit one is going to be the big seller).

I was disappointed that I had hoped they would re-anounce duncan but no. I'm hoping he get re-anounced in the mid year announcements or latter on. we'll just see.

and seeing the n scale line I've seen they announced the mr. jollys chocolate factory van that's a nice pick. and the blue open wagon. (that one was in the ho line for a long while until they discontinued it).

so bachmann has announced some nice products. I'm looking forward to the Ffarquhar Quarry wagons the most along with the 20 ton breakvan. still waiting to see the other products they've announced for the last few years will be released down the road. (there's so many items to buy). hope to see what the nmra announcements are latter this year.

I meant to write about my thoughts on the stream video yesterday. I can say that out of the new product samples shown I'm the most excited for bulgy.

now I already said i just collect the engines and rolling stock. bulgy is probably going to be the one vehicle I buy. I was impressed about the handrail being metal. so I'm definitely going to get him when he's released.

now I just hope they show samples of sidney and the mainland diesel. I'm just pretty excited to see them released. (even though I've mentioned I hope the faces on them would improve to how paxton turned out. I thought of buying paxton since I joined my local ho club. we have a thomas layout for the kids and we have a model of paxton. and looking at him i guess the face isn't too bad looking when see in person than watching video reviews. so I would like to buy all three of them).

and now I'm just anticipating when salty is finally released. it's been almost four years since they announced he would return to the line. I can't believe it's been that long. so I hope he's released soon.

and of course I am curious to see when the flying scotsman is released. (I'm just waiting to see about the price and the how they do the tenders).

now I just hope they do duncan again as I've been saying and hoping repeatedly. but we'll just see.

It's nice that sir handel is finally released after almost four years since he was announced.

he looks great from the images. bachmann did another great job.

I definitely like to buy him eventually along with most of the recent rolling stock for the narrow guage line.

(all three of the new slate wagons in the different paint schemes. and the one of each of the high side wagons. I'm kind of thinking the red and green ones. as there were more of those than there were of the brown ones though i may add the brown ones).

still hope the gondolas and the gunpowder wagons come soon. and as always I hope they say they'll do duncan again in 2026 or the following year. (maybe I shouldn't hold my breath for that it's just out of all the recent canceled items duncan was the one I was the most disappointed with). but we'll just see.

I looked at the stream for this evening.

Glad that the open carriage is fully done just and this was one of the products doug was involved with before he retired.

and I'm glad to know that there's progress on sidney and the mainland diesel. (though I've mentioned I'm just hoping they're going to have the faces improved to how they should look like unlike how they did paxton that's just what I'm really hoping for).

and of course I am glad they're adding the flying scotsman to the line. (been busy with life where I've not been active that much). yes it's disappointing the 80th anniversary set was canceled. but doing the flying Scotsman makes up for the canceled set. and also the atticapation for the release of sir handel is coming close.(still am hoping for duncan for 2026).

so it was a nice stream to see what progress has been done. look forward to see what comes next.

Thank you very much Yard Master. really appreciate the information. look forward to the coach to be restocked later in the year. thank you very much again.

I just wanted to ask the question if the red composite express coach will be back in stock. (for awhile I wanted to buy the red express coaches).

but the composite one always seems to sell out quickly everywhere. while the brake one is the only one available.

(I wanted to buy those for duck as a option if the slip coaches don't come or not as prior to the slip coaches he always pulled the red express coaches in season's two and three.  he did pull the express coaches again in season four but they were the green one's).

I just was wondering if the composite will be back in stock down the road.

(I just seem to like the red ones more than green ones I just think they're more appealing for some reason).

I did buy the red branchline coaches (and they're really nice looking just wish they had the plastic coupling hook they just look different without the plastic coupling hook).

just wanted to ask that question. thanks very much.

I shared this in the suggestion for future products form.

I made a idea about ideas for more troublesome trucks. the one that really has been in my mind if bachmann would do another troublesome tanker.

yes we got the 6th one that was from the bwba movie. as I shared I just was thinking they could another one but with the fuel tanker just like the ones from journey beyond sodor.

I mean we got four of the open wagon troublesome trucks 1 2 4 and s.c. ruffy

three different vans. troublesome truck 3 as the cattle wagon, troublesome truck 5 as the salt van, and the upcoming 7th one as the 12 ton van.

so I just thought another troublesome tanker could be added to the line with the 6th one. one tanker that's well behave and the other misbehaves.

so I just thought I'd do a discussion about the possibility if bachmann would do another troublesome tanker.

I bought three of each of troublesome trucks 1 and 2 so 6 of them.

I do plan to buy troublesome trucks 3-6 and when 7 is released down the road. I just thought another troublesome oil tanker could be added to the line. but as I said maybe the one based from the ones from journey beyond sodor. it's just been my mind a lot lately.

that's what I thought i'd share this a discussion for now.

Well I'm disappointed. I was really excited for duncan to come after sir handel. but now I'm extremely disappointed. (I've been trying to coupe after I got hit by Helen). and now that duncan is canceled just is more disappointed. (hope he'll come to the line soon).

This is a subject I thought I'd bring up. I'm strongly considering buying the n scale toby model. (with henrietta coming soon and the n scale version of her will have the face she gained in season 18). I've strongly considered buying them. (though I did thought of buying the ho version of Toby but I'm just wondering if they'd ever do a second henrietta with the face in ho). just thought I'd bring that up for a discussion.

Since I've always seen a thread about going over what characters bachmann is going to do I thought I'd do one on the announcement with Duncan.

I was really excited that Duncan got announced cause he was the next narrow gauge engine I wanted them to do. I'm still excited.

since I started buying the narrow gauge engines bachmann has done I just totally like them a lot. (I was going to wait till they did all of them than buy them all but I decided to go ahead and I'm glad I did).

whenever he's released I'll be buying him and the gunpowder wagon (really surprised they're doing that one cause ertl was the only one originally who did this wagon). thought some may disagree I don't mind if Duncan is done like he was in the cgi series (I never cared how good looking the characters they brought back I was more excited about the one's they were able to return).

I've also hoped for duke too (just really want all 7 of the narrow gauge engines despite the demand from Mattel).

this maybe a repeat of what I might of typed on other posts I'm just happy that bachmann has reached all 6 of the original narrow gauge engines.