LC99723 - Wooden Battery Thomas the Tank Engine and the Jet Engine
See Thomas Rocket around the Track with the Runaway Jet Engine
Thomas is a blue tank engine. He came to Sodor in May 1915 as a station pilot at Vicarstown until 1946, at which time he was transferred to Wellsworth following an incident with some trucks. Later that year, after rescuing James after his crash, he was given charge of the Knapford-Ffarquhar branch line and two coaches whom he named Annie and Clarabel.
Thomas is rather cheeky, but is good at heart and generally behaves well, except when he is getting into mishap. Thomas loves teasing the others and on occasion brags about his superiority, but is always brought down to earth in due course. If Thomas has one major character flaw, it's that he's forgetful, and slightly impatient. However, he's also optimistic and idealistic.
Although their friendship has been turbulent at times, Percy is generally portrayed as Thomas' best friend.
Thomas is painted in the NWR's standard blue livery with red-and-yellow lining and the number "1" painted on his tank sides in yellow with a red border. In the Railway Series, he carries two plaques on the sides of his cab stating that he works on the NWR, his number, and the last time and place that he was rebuilt.
In the first two seasons of the television series, Thomas also had red lining on the back of his bunker. However, when characters received new models in 1994, the lining had been excluded for unknown reasons
Learning Curve have been producing the Thomas & Friends Wooden Trains and accessories for a number of years, they are not compatible with Take Along Thomas, Mattel/Fisher Price Take-N-Play Thomas, Tomy Thomas Motor Road and Rail, Trackmaster Thomas, Hornby Thomas, Megabloks Thomas, but are compatible with train sets from Tesco, IKEA, Brio and many other wooden train sets.
The Learning Curve Thomas the Tank Engine range used to come with Character Cards, but this stopped in 2010, the range is most comprehensive out of all the Thomas & Friends Train systems with many destinations from the Island of Sodor and feature many destinations from a lot of the DVD Feature films such as Misty island Rescue, Hero of the Rails, Calling All Engines, Thomas and the Magic Railroad and the 2011 Release Day of the Diesels.
Please have a good look round our store www.buythomasthetankengine.co.uk where you will find one of the largest selection of Thomas & Friends items in the UK, Peep Peep Thomas stock Wooden, Take-N-Play, Take Along, Trackmaster, Hornby, Tomica, Britain’s, Lamaze, we will also be stocking soon Hello Kitty, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Phineas and Ferb, Peppa Pig, Ben & Holly
We will have in stock this summer the new characters from the 2011 Thomas film release "The Day of the Diesels", these new characters will include Belle, Flynn, Dart and Den
