Hi John,

The Heisler was unfortunately cancelled due to low dealer orders.

The Track Cleaning Tank Car is scheduled to deliver in 2027.

Hi all,

The Davenport will be upgraded with all metal gears.

We hope to have it open for pre-orders in the next few months, as soon as we receive pricing information from the factory. I'll make another post when it is available for pre-order through dealers.

Hi Kevin,

Cars 105, 106 and 107 were just announced as part of our mid-year announcements. They will ship in 2027.

https://shop.bachmanntrains.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=258_316_1296

Cars 108, 109, and 110 are planned for a future release. Any additional cars beyond that have not been decided on yet.

Hi Nitratefury,

The locomotive in the set is DCC "friendly"- it does not have a plug-and-play socket, but the motor is isolated from the frame. Installing a decoder will require soldering it inside the locomotive.

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This topic has been merged into Future Thomas & Friends product suggestions and predictions .

This topic has been merged into Future Thomas & Friends product suggestions and predictions .

Hello everyone I've not written for awhile on the fourm (life stuff always in the way). I know I'm really late after a week since bachmann made the announcements one week ago. I thought i'd share my thoughts on what was announced. (just felt overwhelmed with all the excitement from the announcements).

first is the retooling of both thomas and percy. this is a joy that bachmann has finally listened to everyone about updating the older models that started the line 24 years ago. (hard to believe next year is 25 years since they started doing the line).

this is a great welcome edition that there updating two of the three engines that started the line. (I do think james might be the next one they do since I think the line has gotten better with the models that would follow compared to the first three though i don'tknow if they'll retire the old models in favor for the new designs but we'll just see).

I know I've seen everyone suggestion on some of the others models for a redesign (I would say gordon and henry I've seen everyone say more. I think toby and edward are perfectly fine as they are). I hope this may be a sign that they may do emily with the no. 12 on the tender.

rolling stock well I'm happy they announced a product that I made in the old suggestion post for future models last year.

the wagons with the stone load. (they're using the tooling from the china clay wagon so this is great they're doing more wagons with loads). though I'm torn how many I might buy (they'll go great with mavis though i don't know why they didn't do the stone load with the ffarquhar quarry wagon they announced earlier this year but this is still a great edition with more wagons with loads).

and they're doing a chocolate syrup tanker for ho. this one a piece of rolling stock in the g scale line so it's nice they're doing a piece of rolling stock from the g scale line to the ho line. (I'll ponder about this one)

for the narrow gauge line well I'm happy they announced the tipper wagons.(nice that the line is growing with more rolling stock). was hoping again they would announce duncan for the 100th time but no. okay i may sound annoying about duncan I just really want them to do him again to complete the core skarloey railway roster.

for n scale I like that they added the red express coaches (I actually like these more than the green ones the red ones just look nicer). I do plan to eventually buy the ho ones just wanted those a lot.

and they're adding both the fun fair vans into the line. (I did change my mind on those when they did the 12 ton vans for ho I had no intention to buy the fun fair vans I just only bought the christmas and the grey ones but I'm changing my mind that I may get the fun fair ones maybe just a bit of different rolling stock).

and I know there's a lot of disappointment that they did the sodor coal co. and mining wagons instead of the regular coal wagon. (they may do the regular coal wagon the next one).

I think out of the two I changed my mind on the mining wagon. (I decided to get a few of the ho mining wagon and the scrap co wagon in ho as i don't know if they'll discontinue them like they did the coal co wagon earlier this year). i think both are more uniquely different from the coal co. wagon since the latter one is the regular coal wagon with lettering on it. (i thought i'd buy the coal co. wagon before it disappeared off the shelf but no I now decided to get the mining and scrap wagons instead I think they were probably the better wagons they did when they were released 7 years ago). but that's my opinion.

and nice that they included tidmoth sheds as a welcome edition to the line. (was hoping they would announce a new engine but probably in 27 as Henry is still being worked on i think Edward might be the next one they announce) but as always we'll see.

for g scale I'm happy they're finally doing henrietta for g scale. she'll go great with Toby that everyone has been asking bachmann for years. (and yes they're doing hannha though i prefer henrietta). I'm also happy they're doing henrietta with the face for g scale like they did her in the n scale line. I just hope they do her with the face for ho than I definitely would buy toby.

and the big one everyone's excited about diesel 10. I never did expect bachmann to do diesel 10 since he's been requested so much over the years. but they're finally doing him. (though like the flying scotsman i don't know how much he's going to cost and how they'll do his claw). I know he's still in the talks if designs but I'll just wait to see when he's released.

when bachmann said they were going to do someone we didn't expect i was thinking originally they were finally going to do stepney. (since he was just announced as a toy in the new meatel collection and possibly maybe returning in the show but maybe they may finally do him as I always say we'll see).

So bachmann did some great announcements from the nmra convention. hope to see how these products turn out down the road. and hope to for more exciting products in 2027. thank you bachmann for these announcements.

Quote from: MrNormalDraws on August 12, 2026, 10:35:53 PM

Quote from: TrainFan97 on August 12, 2026, 05:21:10 PMThere's still hope for Diesel 10 to have his body lowered to cover the gap, and for the claw to pinch.

I know they had to modify Rebecca's front buffer beam slightly because it's a bit too long and they don't want it to grind her front coupling, so I'm sure Mattel would let some changes done for D10.

That and what Bachmann did with Sir Handel's model, give me hope for Diesel 10's model fixing some things that CGI changed.