Thomas The Tank Goes Multicultural.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6120347/Inclusive-gender-balanced-multicultural-characters-steam-Thomas-Tank-Engine-revamp.html

If they are supposed to come from India, China and Africa etc, why have they all got European faces?

[steg]

Nia looks like an African, look at the nose and the lips

[Spicerack]

Looks coked up to me.

[Mamyalynne]

What fun, more new characters - just glad I don't buy the merchandise anymore.

[douglas9401]

A couple of them are showing a blatant disregard for health and safety with both overspeed travel and generating sparks while most of the country is still tinder dry after a long hot summer.

They'll be on the wrong end of a Taser before they can say Jack Lobinson.

Or something.

[ichkeria]

That’s right aog: Annie and Clarabelle :-)
A couple of flirts

[Old_Geezer]

About time Thomas had a holiday, he's been looking steamed up for ages. Hope he don't find foreigners use the wrong sort of track.

[anotheoldgit]

steg
Never seen a grey faced Kenyan before. :0)

[steg]

But now you can say you have :)

[douglas9401]

Google Mau Mau uprising, AOG. Plenty to choose from.

[roopower]

Annie and Clarabel, the carriages could be very naughty. There was a Japanese engine called Hiro I remember and there are now quite a few female locos.

[Mamyalynne]

In AOG we have our very own Sir Topham Hatt. :-)

[anotheoldgit]

Get back on 'track' Mamyalynne, you naughty carriage.

[Mamyalynne]

I'll retire to the sidings for a while.

[Hopkirk]

Is Sir Topham Hatt still referred to as the fat controller, or is that non PC?

[Mamyalynne]

I don't think it's mentioned as much with the latest incumbent Sit Stephen, but then I rarely watch now.

http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Sir_Topham_Hatt

[Kathyan]

Instead of changing existing books to make them multicultural, why don't they write new books and leave the old books alone? They are trying to change our history.

[Mamyalynne]

They aren't exactly changing anything of old, simply adding new characters and adventures.

Children love new and exciting, the old books are still there for us to read with them.

They've updated most of the ones I grew up with but I can still access my old dusty copies of Rupert annuals for example.

[jno]

the shortlisted companies in the running to build HS2 trains were Alstom Transport, Bombardier Transportation UK, Hitachi Rail Europe, Patentes Talgo and Siemens. You're going to have to get used to foreign trains, but you could always have a chat to them to improve their English.

[Theland]

What about disabled amputees?
A train with a wheel missing and a hole in the boiler.

[Kromovaracun]

There's a theory which says Thomas the Tank Engine is actually a dystopian nightmare in disguise:

http://www.dorkly.com/post/85280/creepy-horrifying-thomas-the-tank-engine-episodes

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-repressive-authoritarian-soul-of-thomas-the-tank-engine-and-friends/amp