I like the final shot. Not being able to see AEG Thomas. We don't know if he's smiling, proud of killing the series' legacy, or is upset and feels bad...

@davinsmith7543

24 күн бұрын

I want to believe the former.

@herrice3227

24 күн бұрын

I'd like to think this is AEG!Thomas discovering his origins. He went on an adventure through time (cos why not at this rate lol) and found on his travels that he is the latest incarnation of a legendary figure, finding the one-before-last in this state. What AEG!Thomas makes of this I can't say, but I doubt he'd delight in the fate of his former self. He'd probably be proud and boastful of his legacy, but not to the point of enjoying the downfall of his former selves.

@becdoesyoutube

24 күн бұрын

I think considering the AEG shorts uploaded before then, he feels uneasy and upset about what’s going on.

@austinreed7343

24 күн бұрын

I think he's bored out of his skull.

@Glaceon2009

24 күн бұрын

I feel like hes very confused and wanting an answer of everything he just witnessed

“It was time for Thomas to leave, he had seen everything.” And the magic went with him.

@victoriabrown6830

13 күн бұрын

But he left some of his magic too.

So this is what'd happen if Mr. Conductor never found more gold dust

@AbbeyYard

24 күн бұрын

Magic Railroad's not canon.

@DonaldTheScottishTwin57646

24 күн бұрын

​@@AbbeyYardIt's not not canon either. Complicated

@phantomgaming4771

24 күн бұрын

@@DonaldTheScottishTwin57646 So it's cannon, but it's not?

@Fortnite_lover.

24 күн бұрын

@@AbbeyYardit’s just a joke but he is probably right tho

@DonaldTheScottishTwin57646

24 күн бұрын

@@phantomgaming4771 They never say. It's up to you to decide if the movie happened in your au, or just rewrite it.

There’s something about the opening shot that makes it feel different, it’s familiar of what it should be but it’s so different it’s almost unrecognizable (that can also apply to the rest of the shots of Thomas’s Branchline). It feels like all the life and magic from it has been sucked out until it’s nothing but a hollow shell

This feels depressing to watch. Mattel just cares more about making money and making the press happy that this E2 tank engine’s legacy. Reverend Wilbert Audrey would be furious at Mattel if he were around today. Although in this world, George and Bulgy would be over the moon.

@averagethomasguy13

24 күн бұрын

i feel like the aeg thomas is horrified at what his creator did to his father

@jarrodprieto5841

21 күн бұрын

I agree completely. If Awdry was still alive today, he'd settle a lawsuit with what Mattel had done to his characters and stories.

@360Nomad

20 күн бұрын

*George gets replaced by Japanese and American mega-rollers and scrapped Bulgy runs out of passengers thanks to Uber, is left forgotten in a scrapyard where drug addicts smoke meth inside him*

@OldIron1923

18 күн бұрын

When you spoke about mattel, it make me realistically realize this is.. kinda like that, mattel is ruining Thomas, and breeching.. ruined branchlines.

@Remnant09

17 күн бұрын

@@OldIron1923 exactly. 2 despicable beings responsible for destroying countless lives through their downsizing initiatives

_The two blue steam engines faced each other down, mirrors of one another, but vastly different lives.._ “You took everything I had.. and bastardized it..” _The larger engine spoke harshly, bitter and jaded by what he’s seen._ “You aren’t worthy of bearing my face.. my colors.. my number.. my *name.*” _The larger tank engine sat, his colors fading slightly as steam billowed from his chassis._ “There’s only so much you can reinterpret a legacy before it loses any meaning it once had.” _More steam flowed from under the engine, his metal frames creaking slightly._ “You can call me a cynic.. just wait until they do the same thing to you.” “Little engines can do big things, but every engine will eventually find the thing that’s just too big.” _As the cloud of steam, obscured the larger engine, what was once an actual engine with a face, a personality, was now just.. a Brighton E2 class tank engine, with six small wheels, a short stumpy funnel, a short stumpy boiler, a short stumpy dome, and a nameplate on each tank reading ‘THOMAS’ in brass lettering._

@TheSandwhichman108

18 күн бұрын

The smaller tank engine wakes up with a fright in the early hours of the morning unsure of what just transpired as they sit alone in the sheds on a railway that use to mean something…Now he sits there…Alone and abandoned realizing eventually the world will forget about him and move on… So he sits alone in what was once tidmouth sheds counting the seconds to pass the time…Watching the world go by.

George really was not joking when he said when he was turning the rails into roads..

Reminds me of the description part of "The Island's Swansong"; a fanfic found in Wattpad that describes Sodor's decline and abandonment "The Magic is Gone. Their Universe has been forgotten. The adventures of the engines on the Island of Sodor have captivated generations of children. But as their market success strayed further from the truth, and with the world around the Island changing, the final adventures of the engines of Sodor were lost to history." "In a different world, where society has moved on from steam and diesel engines of old, one urban explorer makes a pilgrimage to the lost, deserted Island, hoping to uncover what happened to the famous engines. Piecing together what happened in the final days of the Fat Controller's railway, It's time to learn what really happened to Thomas and his Friends."

@LightningTheLMS3FJinty2020

24 күн бұрын

Can we have the link to it?

@Canadiansteamer43

24 күн бұрын

Imagine a sequel where the explorer tells people "go to sodor and save the engines"

@travisevans7522

24 күн бұрын

I want to read that

@fallwoodcentral7991

24 күн бұрын

Man, I need to read that.

@christyhardison5019

23 күн бұрын

​@Killmeplease43 or "go to the island of sodor. We need to save this island, and uncover the engines and find out what happened on the last few days of it's existence"

Seeing the bridge and signal box reminds me of how most of the big non highway roads are actually the old right of ways of electric interurban railroads that used to exists with little indicators of there formers existence still with us. Looks like George had his way.

seeing how annie and clarabel parked at ffarquhar fenced off with rails removed along with no thomas feels very depressing to see while also being faceless

@MilwaukeeF40C

20 күн бұрын

Original Thomas had no face.

@s2klover261

5 күн бұрын

I personally think they’re facing away from the camera

Again I think the use of an old CRT of the TV shows era, sat atop a pile of dirt and metal really just kind of shows how the show has been a warm hazy memory for a long time now. The world has moved on. There’s only really two or three generations that remember Thomas on TV in the way we do, Thomas on the eyes of the public was a show in the 80’s, then the laughing stock of the internet, and now one of many pawns of an american toy conglomerate. Certainly far from the British countryside, I’ll say. I’m just glad Thomas is remembered by those who remember him, even if his owners seem to neglect a majority of the work done by hundreds of people over the 25 years of model style episodes. Hopefully a new generation will fall in love with the world of Sodor someday, and if not, the memories of warm summer days on the railway are always there.

@MilwaukeeF40C

20 күн бұрын

I have a son. I am not sure if we will get in to Thomas. How many kids will there even be to sustain it as a revenue generating enterprise? Best put the old stuff somewhere free with ads.

This is a great video because it shows a realistic look at what happened to so many railway lines once the advent of trucking started to take over business. So many tracks were torn up and converted to trails or roads with jobs lost and communities left without rail service.

@thunderbird1921

7 күн бұрын

And often times, when the rail lines die, the communities along it often slowly die as well. That's at least what happened in the US between 1960-80, rural areas in many places never recovered. It was DEVASTATING. And worst is, few of our leaders even gave it a second thought.

The magic is truly gone.😔

@traingameiacs

24 күн бұрын

it will never be gone, not if you don't let it go

@maxproracing-j4f

24 күн бұрын

​@@traingameiacsyou are absoluty right

@pepsi-ol6jo

23 күн бұрын

​@@traingameiacs facts

@OldIron1923

18 күн бұрын

But in this canon.. no vehicle was even alive.

@traingameiacs

17 күн бұрын

@@OldIron1923 how do you know?

Damn, that's a really morbid watch seeing our beloved Ffarquhar branch line removed and forgotten about. Just hurts to see. The cinematography captures that pain perfectly. Weird but interesting inclusion of the wind turbines. It definitely paints an image of "progress", but not in the same destructive way of the roads being built and ripping up the rails. It's a very different from the elements that mirror the Dr Beeching branch line axings of the 60s. Side tangent but I'm sure if they books continued, they would have added them on Sodor.

The part of this that’s really sad for me is that it mirrors what happened in real life to many of these places where there’s so little left of what used to be

This video was so surreal the opening shots reminded me of how much of North American 🇺🇸 looks like all car centric, gray and colorless and run down. as for the ending I think aeg Thomas wasn’t so much as proud but rather empty inside he looked like he was saddened because he knew what the original Thomas meant to people and what he represented. A time long since forgotten but the magic isn’t gone as long as people through out the fandom still remember it and persist to keep it alive someday the magic will come back stronger than ever

The unease I had while watching this was uncomfortable

@CadanHartleyElliott

24 күн бұрын

Fancy seeing you here! I'm a huge fan of your music.

Thomas and the Magic Railroad was the beginning of the end.

I loved the kind of fallout feeling in the video and with the "I don't want to set the world on fire" instrumentals in the back as we see the, what I call "rodeified" Sodor (sorry if I spelt that wrong) and the final shot of AEG thomas staring at the old faceless Thomas Well done 👏

as long as we still keep thomas with us, the magic will never truly disappear. bro i felt so uneasy watching this growing up with thomas and still being a huge fan. especially 0:47. seeing all the factories and the tracks gone just makes me feel so sad

This sadly very accurately sums up the state of Thomas under Mattel's thumb.

Harder to tell stories about trains when there are far fewer trains

Haunting. The shot of the car going under the iconic bridge was genius. Excellent work! ... would've been really funny if you used the old closing theme at the end lol

When I first watched this video, my whole life of Thomas just.. flashed before my eyes, and then I see this, grey.. wasteland.. of the 20th century, or as we used to call it, “The Farker Branchline.”

I just know, it's right in front of me, planted inside my brain, Mattel will just never EVER see this, but I hope there's an alternate reality somewhere where they do. Then I wonder how they will react, if at all.

@CoronaMacGuinness

24 күн бұрын

"Interesting fan video, now let's get back to that spinoff of All Engines Go where Thomas travels through time to meet vehicles from different eras and have adventures there. There's a really fun episode in the pipeline where he is confronted by robbers while pulling a stagecoach in the Old West!... what, rails? No, he's filling in for a horse, why would there be rails?"

@ScarfNJam

24 күн бұрын

Oh, and don’t forget Ronald the Monster truck! Thomas’ friend who has no wheels to represent the disabled community! Haha, we’re so good at running this show.

@DonaldTheScottishTwin57646

24 күн бұрын

@@ScarfNJam The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.

@graytrapfazrich1324

24 күн бұрын

This is the future Mattel made. We are powerless to stop it.

@Canadiansteamer43

24 күн бұрын

​@graytrapfazrich1324 unless Thomas and friends enter the public domain

I know how that Feels, seeing why the tv show struggled to be more for it's identity

NO THE MAGIC IS NOT GONE AS LONG AS WE THE PEOPLE WHO GREW UP WITH THAT LEGACY KEEP REMEMBERING OF WHAT THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE USED TO BE THE MAGIC WILL REMAIN WHOS WITH ME

@jarrodprieto5841

21 күн бұрын

I am!

@lastswordfighter

18 күн бұрын

The series will endure. The books and episodes will outlast Mattel and Hit.

@victoriabrown6830

14 сағат бұрын

Count me in!

I never felt more depressed in my life than after watching this video. Whenever it's the allegory alone or together with the imagery and the sound, I feel just sadness. Nothing I try to turn my attention to can make me ignore it. I don't know the best way to describe this, the closest I have is: I got broken in a way. Not beyond repair, but enough to look at and think about everything this video is. It doesn't seem like a lot. A simple animation discussing a innocent, beloved TV show. About sentient trains of all things. How it lost it's way. Nothing that much to most people. And yet, here am I. Getting over-philosophical about it. Why? Because I care.

Looks like George's wish actually came true

@supergenesisstation1991

24 күн бұрын

The real question is, did it finally become worth it after getting what he wanted?

@TimTheWellTank

23 күн бұрын

George is probably dead by now

@OldIron1923

18 күн бұрын

George 1. Probably was never alive, givin factor to Annie and clarabel and Thomas

@Trenton-videos

13 күн бұрын

Diesel 10's wish as well

@s2klover261

5 күн бұрын

Chances are he never lived to see it fully happen as he was replaced by a more modernized road roller

Error is, is this thing working?.. well if it is, My name is Sir Richard Topham Hatt. And…. Well my beloved home and my beloved engines. Are gone. I don’t know why or even how this happened but it did. Everything has become so unrecognized.

like in the last upload, we see the magic railroad getting overgrown again and Lady in a scrap condition. Her condition is tied to all this.

Just a reminder that Thomas him self directed all of this

A reverend once said (and I summarize) "Once Americans took hands on it, they'll forever tarnish it..." Regardless, he was right all along

@MilwaukeeF40C

20 күн бұрын

At least U.S. freight rail blows all of Europe out of the water. Even Mexico is better.

I like how a question mark appears after “the magic is gone” as if it’s possible a revival could come in the far future, but for now there’s little hope. It speaks very well about the state of the franchise in current times.. This whole thing gives off major Fallout vibes. Well done!

George: …*Sits in an old junk yard watching more modern road vehicles pass by.* …I still remember all those things I said about ripping up rails…the insults…the hatred…Now…I wish I could take it all back.

I.. was not excepting to be crying.. yet here I am. Thomas the Tank Engine was a huge absolute huge part of my childhood, the original series is my absolute favourite, the CGI series is okay, the newest version is nothing even remotely close to Thomas. It that’s my opinion. This video is truly incredible I salute you for your talent. *EDIT* typo

My goodness this hits every feel I have. Very well done with this video my friend ☺️🚂🚃

Innovation is humanity savior ......But Innovation is vehicles grimm reaper

The magic is never truly gone so long as a fandom like this keeps the fires burning and preserving the good times of what Thomas used to be and passing it on for others to see and enjoy. Mattel might care more about $$$$ than preserving Thomas' legacy, but where Mattel fails we can succeed.

@lastswordfighter

18 күн бұрын

No amount of devalued stocks or shares will save Mattel.

It's incredibly sad what corporate greed has done to this beloved franchise. But for me - the magic will never be gone. The endless hours of watching early season VHS tapes as a kid will never be looked at as anything other than magical. The fact that we still have all of the other seasons available to us is such a wonderful thing. The magic will only ever be gone if *we* let it disappear. And I don't believe that I or anyone else is willing to let that happen.

Mattel: We did it Patrick! We saved the show. Just think of what would happen if we didn't buy out the franchise. In all seriousness, this was hauntingly well done.

@1987AnimeBoy

24 күн бұрын

Who's Patrick?

@YeomasBros.2008

23 күн бұрын

@@1987AnimeBoySpongeBob reference

This perfectly sums up the fact that Mattel has NEGLECTED Thomas the Tank Engine and focused more on its toys. If that's how it has to be, Mattel, if you're reading this, then why set up Mattel Creations? You might as well shut it down for all we care.

Feels really dark to imagine the North Western Railway is closed down and Thomas has no face, but to see an All Engines Go replica of Thomas, I can see why this reflects. 😢

I'm already hearing Stacy Jones' cry of despair.

@TrainEnthusiast4014

22 күн бұрын

Me too

@lastswordfighter

18 күн бұрын

There is no curse in steam, electric, diesel, or the tongues of Sudrian for this treachery. Our business is with Mattel tonight with a rock and stone!

Once in The Island of Sodor, all engines live happily and working hardly with Sir Topham Hatt leading the Railway. But as time passes, everything changed, as all engines are being scrapped, and replaced by Cartoony Engines that seems to last forever. The Magic of Sodor is no more, and the only thing that’s still alive is the place where “All Engines Go”. What caused this, is that someone at a certain Toy Company who produces diecast cars and plastic dolls must be responsible for this, after the buyout of this place we all know and love.

It’s not gone yet. There’s still hope!!!

Your endless creativity is really inspiring to me

Wow, over 30 years after watching the original Thomas series, this just breaks my heart.

Sad reality of the British Rail network's during the Beeching Axe of the 60s

@MilwaukeeF40C

20 күн бұрын

Never should have nationalized and never should have subsidized roads.

From the series ending and Tons of Trackmaster essentially quitting, this video hit me hard.

This man can make extremely depressing feels.. oh my GOD

“Cinematic Thomas short movie” is wild

I will admit that was dark. I could see this as a movie actually, Like the Island of Sodor years later after the Royal Engine. Roads are starting to take over and Thomas is hiding, and his friends are scattered around different parts of the world and Thomas goes around the world to try and find his friends and to take back Sodor.

Sodor will never be the same without our number one

It's true when all engines go came out I swear something inside of me broke and the magic that was in me for years of watching the show, reading the books, collecting the merchandise was gone and I don't see the island of sodor like I used to. The magic is gone.

This kind of hits hard for me as my hometown was a Beeching axe victim. The old railway station is now an industrial estate and a Tesco.

Thomas:Years of the Railway Series, the TV Show and my Dream of seeing the World wasted

Feels like the aftermath of the Project G1 😮😮

This is scary accurate, at least for children today. The generation who grew up with Thomas in the 80s, 90s, and 00s know Legends Never Die.

It’s sad… But it’s wholesome that Edward was put with Thomas. (Because in the RWS Thomas and Edward built the line together. At least I think so, if it isn’t true. I’m making it my own headcanon.) (Also in case anyone didn’t notice, that engine frame was of edwards build. Or at LEAST a K2 class.)

@jamesscrivens6308

23 күн бұрын

If you're talking about the engine in the foreground at 0:40, I'm pretty sure that's City of Truro

@Chiglit495

23 күн бұрын

@@jamesscrivens6308 oh… Let’s pretend it’s edward😅. It makes more sense if it was.

@MCDTSB

4 күн бұрын

0:24 can't be thomas since he's in the shed?

the magic maybe gone in the tv series but its not gone in the fandoms hearts who keep giving us classic type stories in that way its not lost and it will keep creating the old music to be better as well i love the fandom its ashame they cant band together to create something to rival matel with

so this is what happens when sir topham hatt retires..

Why does the _Bionicle_ song _As Above, So Below_ perfectly fit what this video is describing? *Is this real, the fear I feel* *When the noise starts dying down* *Is it true, that there's a place for you* *When the sun burns out?* *Don't you fear that it's too late to turn the tide?* *These machines were never built to make things right*

“The magic is gone… Why did I take my Gold Dust for granted? I can’t help without my Gold Dust. What is the source of my Gold Dust?”

Years later Sodor evolved and left the railway turning them into roads... Meanwhile Bulgy: I FREED THE ROADS

@rantroller1662

24 күн бұрын

George the Steamroller would be very proud

@Canadiansteamer43

24 күн бұрын

Meanwhile sth: are you sure about that?

George: i won. but at what cost?

The beginning intro sounded like a speech given by Dr Beeching who was notorious for shutting down railway lines in the name of budgeting.

It was seen Starting to get Events in 1983 0:22 from Shed 17 ever since I watched it. But it was seems to me but island of sodor it isn't realife it has never exiting, it was in the cartoon illustration is on the book and later on the TV show star.

I see Thomas and Edward in the first shot

@comradeopthomasthehedgehog

24 күн бұрын

I think that’s James instead of Edward

@theredline2283

24 күн бұрын

Actually it’s City of Turo I believe

Holy S*** This is absolutely amazing and depressing at the same time. So happy that we didn't see the AEG Thomas face at the end seeing as it absolutely destroyed the series.

In the opening shot with the TV you can see city of Toro and a Thomas body

This feels liminal, so cool!

"It's not gone, it's just lost."

Lucas: I remember that time as a worker on sodor. I always thought the island would never end *sigh* oh wrong i was.

Yes, it is gone, but hopefully not permanently.

A masterpiece

This actually upset me. Its Over. Billions must weep.

The end result of this study of all engines go Thomas was looking at it’s old self

If he's lucy, a month from now, best case scenario - Thomas is a jumble of metal in a scrap-yard in Sodor. This is brilliant! Matches the destruction of the UK's railways by crooked Ernest Marples and his lapdog Dr Beeching with the typical gold-digging, drive-it-into-the-ground approach of Britt Alcroft and Mattel when it comes TTTE and these sorts of IPs. It's surreal seeing some of the key Thomas intro-shot locations re-imagined as car parks and lifted tracks.

@theredraven

18 күн бұрын

Harold Wilson's government actually did most of the closing of railway lines recommended by Beeching despite having pledged not to. You mourn the loss of the S&D and Great Central? Blame Barbara Castle for signing off on closing them. Perhaps in hindsight, nationalising the railways post war was a mistake. No nationalisation, no motive to reduce losses for the taxpayer which is why Beeching was asked to do his report in the first place.

La Magia se Perdió,por un Reinicio que Fallo (Esa Frase si me salio Bien :D)

Absolutely stunning. Great choice of music, important very heavy words, and even heavier images. I don't believe we've seen the end of the thomas franchise but only the online community that loves the stories and classic show so much is what keeps it going. Mattel let go of the magic, and they don't understand the power of what they're sitting on. I feel for the late Reverend Awdry. If only he were with us still.

I'm not gonna let ALL ENGINES GO take it all away from me!

Where transit policy and kids TV combine!

And even depressing more.. we see the old signal box.. and the old.. *Station*..

So that’s the reason Thomas was missing a face, the Magic and the Railway is gone (again amazing work Winwatch with the visuals and audio, what software do you use for the editing)

@victoriabrown6830

13 күн бұрын

This may also apply to the rest of the Steam Team.

Tbh you could actually probably use this as an appeal to who ever owns the rights of the show

Excellent.

Well this explains a lot. It all ties up and ties in into each other.

Reminds me of the Fallout 3 intro.

Best way to roast the reboot

i like this, the ending is a small letdown, i expected a decollate wasteland of ffarquar. Still a banger

I don't want to set the island on fire.

George’s wish came true

Had it in season 1-7, lost it for a while, decent things still came out but nothing near the original, season 17 came out and brought back some charm, immediately got taken away in season 24 found it again in tiger moth, but that’s probably not gonna happen thanks Twitter, found it in unlikely fandom, get some suddle shots from the pilot, and now wait one more year for the 80th

Well in the future, they will replace railways into roads. For example, the trucks are replacing freight trains because they’re cheaper and easier to deliver things. Buses and cars will too

Okay, this guy’s cooking up some deep shit tonight

Shed 17: are you challenging me?

Thomas was one of those shows I watched when I was REALLY young, and around 6-8, I just kinda stopped watching it. Never hated it, just stopped watching. I was never really into trains, but I still enjoyed the stories! Thomas and the Magic Railroad is one of my favorite movies! A lot of people complained that Thomas shouldn’t have Magic, but they’re talking trains! A lot of people think Thomas fell off after it, but I still enjoyed those episodes up until the CGI era. The original episodes with the trains not moving their faces had so much charm. Now they’re going for the cartoon route…it’s a shame how corporate it’s become. This show was never the most popular show in America, but a lot of people grew up with it. It’s sad seeing how it turned out

The first shots are the realistic ending of the RWS.

Absolutely fascinating video! A good representation of the current generation indeed. I'd like to see more of these. Perhaps wondering what the rest of Sodor and Thomas's branchline looks like in this universe.