Thomas & Friends Y4083 Wooden Railway Engine Toy

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Every child's imagination has stories to tell – and this cheeky steam engine is the perfect helper. Children create the stories, Thomas just delivers inspiration. Changes In late 2017, twenty-five years after the debut of the Wooden Railway line, it was retired and replaced with Wood. The replacement was originally announced to take place in 2018, but ended up happening sooner.

Harvey's model's cab is oddly short to accommodate his hook. He is also brown instead of maroon red and does not have a boiler. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the line was overhauled and the majority of the models underwent major redesigns. The wooden funnel and smokebox were replaced with a separate plastic smokebox with a more realistic funnel. The tender engines received an additional upgrade, with a moulded plastic coal pile for their tenders.Oliver appears in the Boulder Mountain Set despite not being featured in the episode it was based on: Rusty and the Boulder. Early 2002 (new larger face, bigger smokebox, wide boiler, no ledge on rear, new details, shorter dome, funnel hole removed)

These improved designs were manufactured until 2002, when they were replaced with a third generation of design, which included new and more detailed faces. 2011 saw another slight re-design in the form of new faces to coincide with the recent CGI Series switchover. The second known prototype of Thomas seen features six red HEROS wheels, no coal bunker details, and a face borrowed from Thomas's ERTL die-cast vehicle.face with printed 2D details, rivet, cab handrail and step details, painted buffers, molded dome, molded coal in bunker, larger wheels with spoke details, detailed cab) Features Winter Wonderland Thomas, Paint-Splattered Thomas and Breakfast Thomas; reissued in 2013 with the Breakfast Thomas being replaced with a Fish-Splattered Thomas. In late 2016, some engines received smaller faces that no longer cover the whole smokebox front and others' faces were changed. Volume VII (Note: Tiger Moth's propeller differs from the production model, suggesting the one seen here was a prototype)