Quote from: Zorran202 on December 18, 2025, 11:01:15 PMAfter contemplating for a bit, I caved and purchased Sir Handel. Normally I wait until Amazon releases him on there, BUT he's more expensive than he should be, so I got him somewhere else.... hopefully he'll arrive before Christmas 😅

Got my model, despite it getting it before Christmas like I anticipated... I was gonna post it after I got it, but I ended up being busy due to the upcoming Christmas rush, as well as came down with a cold and I ended up having to take care of recovering from it... something was floating around that's for dang sure... -_-

Anyways, I enjoyed the fact that Sir Handel got a model that's even more detailed than his CGI model...! I'm Happy that he's finally released... Normally I usually wait until the following year to be able to get the models on Amazon, BUT seeing how absurdly expensive he was getting, I opted to go to eBay for this guy, and in a way, he was well worth the trouble...! Separately fitted parts, dark blue paint, and now there's no blank spot in the middle of the numbering lineup. Now we just need Duncan in the future, and then we'll go from there!

Happy New Years everyone!!

Rather than talking about what individual stuff we want, I was wondering up until now, we've only seen Thomas for the Christmas sets right? Wouldn't it be nice if we got say other characters like Percy or James be added in these sets if it's doable since having only Thomas makes it feel monotonous... Like maybe another coach utilizing one of the Branchline coaches and/or more tankers and closed vans because I've been seeing more 4 wheeled flatbeds as opposed to more varieties (granted I could understand if cost were to come into it...)... Obviously not now, but sometime next couple of years at least....

After contemplating for a bit, I caved and purchased Sir Handel. Normally I wait until Amazon releases him on there, BUT he's more expensive than he should be, so I got him somewhere else.... hopefully he'll arrive before Christmas 😅

Thank you for the update! It sucks that Duncan couldn't be made initially due to his CGI model being very far off the mark, but I'm curious to see how he'd be made IF greenlit... ala Beau mixing both CGI and real-life elements intact, we shall see...

ANYWAYS 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?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/406425509485?_skw=bachmann+sir+handel&itmmeta=01KB390RBV5JY1NZZCF290N6MQ&hash=item5ea0d91e6d:g:eRsAAeSwuylpJ3DK&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1cAKe6njU7cLDH5K2aSgIQgCrN3jTGx%2B6gIHoJOBVHWpoVHSCCLoBk2%2BDk6pkPPBtBYF6GwTMLSYTJpJdf4tESJmZ58ulQYUBZ6xv2pKy35zmfUEd3hRU6Rh9f2ucB6NyTWP0RzzmnyGIekr0Rtct3LmX%2FNJfWanS2ECTI8ZWn6VNuMcqPMHuY%2F1nXIZFhBjY2oIPnmBT1Irg3TuRnbACUbWX%2BANh3B9rBXwP7%2BKZ0C9aS4IE7baj3QAVLnsdeg3ys%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4iGg-nYZg

Well, I'd say the model of Sir Handel seems to be available on eBay! Not sure about anywhere else, but that's what I just saw today....!

Look, we get that you want to see that BIG list of characters we want to see be made, but there's only so much Bachmann can do as a company since this isn't the only line of merch that they're focusing on. You don't need to make a bajillion posts of what YOU want to be made. We too want to see the characters you made, but again, you need to be patient and level headed...

Back to what this topic is about: if there's a chance that the characters could be potentially be made, I'm gonna be realistic to what's possible at least in terms of the steam engines/diesels, since rolling stock is a free-for-all if the likes of the Spiteful Brakevan was made despite being a classic series character;

HO/OO (engines and rolling stock):

Spencer (silver paint from Season 10 onwards): considering Spencer's been with the show even going into the CGI era as one of the Season 7 characters to make it past the New Series, it would make sense if they needed to have a repaint of sorts. Heck, we got repaints of existing characters like Rosie w/ her Cherry Red livery, Thomas' LBSC from TAB, James' w/ his Black livery + Busy Bee repaint from Season 10, and even Rheneas' Yellow livery from BMM. I'm rather surprised nobody considered it, if not recently or if this was somewhere mentioned in the early parts of this thread.

Salty's Green livery (from Season 16): again, like Spencer (and this is assuming that he's made without delays this time), this can be another alternative if they need to, plus he'd be the first diesel to get a repaint livery. Also if the Busy Bee James/Yellow Rheneas that only showed up once would even be made into the line, I hope this is possible...

Stephen: since the open carriage was made, it would be fitting if he were made to go along with this piece of rolling stock.

Hector: if they need a unique rolling stock that's a hopper that they could potentially reuse for the other ranges, he's the one they need, albeit w/ some slight modifications regarding his size...

Slip Coaches: since we have embedded faces on Annie and Clarabel, hopefully they can utilize this onto the Slip Coaches too. They'd just have to reuse the same coach model (maybe use Spencer's Coach, just also changing the front and back of it to accommodate the face and unique window placements...) as well as make different faces for the first, second, and third coaches.

Dexter: man, imagine if they could reuse the red brake coach to make Dexter as a character, that'll be amazing since he doesn't have any merchandise to my knowledge.

Old Slow Coach: if they can mould together the roofs of Emily's coaches and the moulding of the express brake coaches, Old Slow Coach can be possible since she's a brake coach herself, it would be amazing to see her made after all this time...!

Kevin: this is only if Victor gets made, but the Steamworks duo wouldn't feel the same without one or the other due to them being shown together most of the time...AND would be a new road vehicle after Bulgy.

HOn30:

Victor: again, if Kevin gets made, it would make sense he'd be considered since there's only so much CGI narrow gauge characters made in the show.

Luke: since Duncan was canceled, he can be next in line to be made, plus the fact we got the high side wagons and the gondola wagons seen in the Blue Mountain Quarry, it would only make sense he'd be made for the Skarloey Railway.

Millie: I'm sure she'll be made after the latter two seeing that she barely showed up in the show after KOTR/Season 17-18...or unless if they need a female character to fill in the gap of the majority of male characters running on narrow gauge rails, who knows...

Mighty Mac: IF Bachmann ran out of narrow gauge characters to make, he should be the next to keep the flow going since it would be fitting since if they needed to, they could use the Season 12 CGI faces as reference to add onto the model itself.

Proteus: not only they'd be able to reuse Sir Handel's model, he'd just need a new face, yellow paint, and a magic lamp added on top of him like in the tale being told by Skarloey back in Season 9.

Quote from: Yard Master on September 15, 2025, 08:58:19 AM

Quote from: Zorran202 on September 13, 2025, 10:14:48 PM

Quote from: Awesometrain77 on September 07, 2025, 10:17:58 PMI really hope nothing else gets cancelled but on the topic of the cancelled items and the fact that Bachmann has hinted more RWS wagon I think that the Brakevan from the canned 80th set could happen .

This does give me an idea: IF the Open Wagon, Closed Van, AND the Brake Van was already made (maybe even throw RWS Thomas into the mix too), but they couldn't ship it due to the situation a couple months ago, could they alternatively make it as a "train pack" set akin to the Tomy/Tomica rolling stock sets released back in the mid-2000's? Instead of including the track as the "sets" they usually make it as, couldn't they do it as a "value pack" looking like that, only for Electric Trains? Just throwing it out there as an idea so that they can potentially be "uncanceled" since it sucks that the only thing I was looking forward to was the brake van because of how different it was in basis...!

https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Motor_Road_and_Rail?file=MotorRoadandRailTobyValuePackbox.png

https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Motor_Road_and_Rail?file=MotorRoadAndRailPercyValuePack.jpg

The decision was made to cancel the set before production began, so we don't have Thomas or any of the rolling stock actually made.

Ahh, I see. That answers that. Thank you for answering Yard Master sir! If anything I never expected that part, but at the same time, understandable why the set got canceled.

I was looking forward to seeing that unique brake van we never saw released since it would've been a unique basis we've never seen before (and probably the 3rd new version overall to be released after the regular brake van/Spiteful Brake Van and Toad in HO/OO Scale if it was released without interruption).

Quote from: Awesometrain77 on September 07, 2025, 10:17:58 PMI really hope nothing else gets cancelled but on the topic of the cancelled items and the fact that Bachmann has hinted more RWS wagon I think that the Brakevan from the canned 80th set could happen .

This does give me an idea: IF the Open Wagon, Closed Van, AND the Brake Van was already made (maybe even throw RWS Thomas into the mix too), but they couldn't ship it due to the situation a couple months ago, could they alternatively make it as a "train pack" set akin to the Tomy/Tomica rolling stock sets released back in the mid-2000's? Instead of including the track as the "sets" they usually make it as, couldn't they do it as a "value pack" looking like that, only for Electric Trains? Just throwing it out there as an idea so that they can potentially be "uncanceled" since it sucks that the only thing I was looking forward to was the brake van because of how different it was in basis...!

https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Motor_Road_and_Rail?file=MotorRoadandRailTobyValuePackbox.png

https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Motor_Road_and_Rail?file=MotorRoadAndRailPercyValuePack.jpg

I'm honestly surprised they hadn't released the BR Brake Van by this point, like for the other range scales had been 3-4 years after their range's debut year (HO 3 years after it launched & Large Scale 4 years after it launched)... I'm honestly not sure why they opted to do the LMS version instead of what's been in the other ranges after all these years. Heck, they can do a double whammy and do a generic version (maybe like the 12 Ton Van from the HO Range, release 4 total versions) plus a Spiteful Break Van version....!

I certainly hope that after Edward, they can make at least Oliver (to go with Toad, since you know, at least in the TV/CGI series, it makes sense) or Duck (to make the consistent numbers from 8 onwards).

Quote from: Chaz on August 01, 2025, 02:13:32 PM

Quote from: Mulfred100 on August 01, 2025, 04:26:35 AMGreat suggestions Chaz. I can definitely see those happening, in 26-27. Maybe with another van recolour or museum coaches or the Red Express coaches added in aswell to utilise existing tooling in the case of the 12 ton Van and Express coaches and eventual tooling with the museum coaches. I also wonder how Bachmann may tackle adding more troublesome trucks to the N scale line. Weather they'll go on order of HO or maybe branch out. Tooling is there for Tt6 and 7, so will Bachmann wait to introduce tooling for 3-5 or will they maybe make a tanker or 12 ton van troublesome truck first. I'd definitely love to see Cranky in N scale. I definitely can see him being a good first non rail introduction before characters like Bertie or Harold.

Given the reception to the reintroduction of the red express coaches, I feel a bit silly for not including them in my earlier post. I'm sure those will be a big hit with fans, alongside the red branch line coaches. But more than anything, I'd really love to see Bachmann expand their freight stock. Particularly with a BR 20-ton brake van and the coal wagon with load.

As for an N scale Troublesome Truck #3, one of my biggest issues with Bachmann using the Farish tankers is that they're too small compared to the other stock in the range. I could definitely see them using the box van tooling and labeling it something like "Box Van: Troublesome Truck #3," possibly even reusing the same illustration as HO Troublesome Truck #7 in the catalog. Or maybe giving it a model-era face for bonus points and more of a contrast to the HO model and in a different color:



Either way, would love to hear further thoughts on my earlier N scale post.

I was about to say, wasn't the green cattle van the official #3 since the HO scale one was the 3rd Troublesome Truck made in the range? But yeah, I would love to see them release more troublesome trucks for the N scale range, to see whether or not the trucks made in HO can be replicated, if not made better ala Toad style.

Speaking of Toad, I'm surprised Oliver hasn't been thought of, since they're the duo that goes together, unless if it's just getting the other main characters out of the way first...., but that's just me...!

Also regarding the tankers (if they get to them), wouldn't they also have the advantage in this scale due to how flat the front and back of the barrels are? I'd say it'd be easier to apply the faces onto them 🤔

I find it ironic that even the Flying Scotsman Tenders that did show up in Season 3 had the correct lining on it, but not the CGI render. I'd imagine that if they do correct the lining on the tenders, then overall it'll be a perfect model of the T&F Flying Scotsman.

Quote from: Armada Starscream on July 08, 2025, 02:47:17 AMI just had a thought on a potential design method Bachmann could use to make Duck's Slip Coaches faces.

https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Slip_Coaches_(T%26F)

Maybe they could design a single Slip Coach body, as all 3 Slip Coaches are mostly the same in the TV Series with only the faces being different. When they design the Slip Coach, they would make it so that the front of the coach has a special slot that can only be accessed when the model is disassembled. Bachmann could then design 3x interchangeable plates that they could slip in to that special slot when the model is assembled, with each plate having a different Slip Coach face. That way, when assembling potentially Slip Coach 1, Slip Coach 2, and Slip Coach 3, they would just need to mass-produce a single coach body and the three face plates, and just slip each face into the slot on the front of the coach, rather than designing and assembling a whole coach for each face.

Maybe this could save them some money and make Duck's 3 Slip Coaches easier to mass-produce. I don't know if this is plausible or makes sense, but I wanted to put the idea out there and see.

Given that Annie and Clarabel have the same concept w/ only their faces being different and their name plates (to the point that Clarabel herself looks completely off without her guard's compartment), the Slip Coaches would be possible to make since we also got Duck in the range, so I hope we can see them considered in the future... the only thing I'd imagine them having to do is reuse Spencer's Coach since that has those whatchamacallit connecting things for the passengers (the ones present on Gordon's Coaches/Red Composite Coaches) removed... AND the fact that they made Hannah in N scale, while different from HO scale, yeah I hope they can be the first CGI coaches to be made for the HO range...

What about Sir Handel? He just needs a box sample to be ready to ship out right?

Saw the live: understandable that the 80th Anniversary Set got canceled due to the unpredictable tariff situation and the timing to no telling if they'd be able to release it on time, so no exclusive rolling stock from that set, although I hope they at least make a brake van based on that version though, because that would be an interesting basis like the N scale line to catch up on in that sense.

The Classic Logo trucks however look pretty decent as well as the unpainted sample of the open coach looks amazing! The latter rolling stock will certainly have the same, if not similar "NEM-lock" coupling like Toad (HO Scale), so that's interesting and a good from a design asthetic.

Man, if only they can revamp the James model overall... I would buy the revamped James in a heartbeat!