Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends

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I understand this is a show aimed at very youthful audiences, but I figured since this is an Aupsie forum people wouldn't be too bothered about a 15 year old like me enjoying this show as much as I do.

But to keep it short, I simply adore this show.Thomas is easily my favourite character, I was out of the show for 5-6 years, but when I recently saw it on Nick Junior I couldn't help myself ^.^ Thomas is one of the best characters ever, and he's British too (In series 1 & 2 he kinda reminded me of Sonic for reasons besides his blue paint & red sections though, he could he quite concited sometimes like Sonic, but also had a way of being very kind & helpful sometimes aswell...quite odd how those 2 characters remind me or eachother and one is a machine...=P)

Last Wedsnday I got Series 1 & 2 of the Thomas classics collection, and love 'em to death ^.^

Thomas' Train is a really cute one from Series 1, he gets to pull a train when Henry is sick, and when he sets off he isn't coupled and assumes he has the train saying things like "Henry says pulling trains is hard, but I think it's easy. Hurry Hurry Hurry!" He puffed, pretending to be like Gordon...

Better stop before I start going on and on, man for the past 5-6 years I've been living in a dream world, grow out of Thomas The Tank Engine? Never gonna happen to any true fan like I was as a little kid, and always will be ^^

Anyone else here love this show? ^^

For more years than I care to think, but the books long before the TV series.
Of these I have every one that the Rev. Awdry wrote, and only those. (Just about everything in those after the first book referred to something that had happened to a real engine or train, somewhere).

His son just didn't have the same touch. Same with the TV series ones. It shows, especially with the American "Shining Time Magic Railroad"

Gulp... I was going to recommend you get, used, the book
THE ISLAND OF SODOR: Its people, history and railways. (ISBN: 0434927627)
which sets the whole Thomas story in a detailed imagined history.
But my first looking place for second-hand books: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/
lists one copy, at US$ 268.43! Ouch. My copy is worth £150?



There are one or two other train fans around here, of varying ages.
http://www.picturetrail.com/emettplus for my particular take on the field.

My son was obssesed with that show and had to have everything that had to do with it .

I've watched the show a few times. My favourite character is Bugly the Double Decker Bus. (What a big suprize!) I feel like Bugly, sometimes.

Emettman, is there any way to get those books in £ in the UK? (I'm not American)

And here is a great site for Thomas fans, and there's a forum for it too, which I'm on ^.^

http://melgarvewarrior.tripod.com/sodorisland/

I loved the first 3 series, 1 and 2 more so than 3, but I still want to get the Thomas classics collection Series 3 DVD ^.^ Hopefully I will later this year

Ah, I wasn't sure.
There's 26 little books to the Rev Awdry stories before Christopher took over, each with four stories.

Here we go... From http://www.abebooks.co.uk/
(I missed this,as I tend to use the international site first)
There's a one-volume collection with all those starting at £12.00, new from about £22.

Search for "Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection"