Oh Thomas the Tank Engine Fandom...
 

Thomas the Tank Engine has a surprisingly large adult fandom on youtube, who have produced many odd videos. These include:

*Thomas/"insert cartoon show here (usually Sonic or TUGS, although Mario, SpongeBob, Disney, and TMNT have become more and more common). Thomas clips synced up to audio from another series.
*"Interviews" with toy trains, not always Thomas ones, but generally in the same scale.
*Thomas's Adventures, an offshoot of the equally bizarre "Pooh's Adventures," in which Thomas clips are inserted into various movies and made to look as if Thomas is interacting with the film's cast.
*Re-Enactments of episodes using Trainz or toy figures.
*And lastly, The Rise of Steam, a fan made sequel to Thomas and the Magic Railroad, in which a murderous engine named only "Steam Engine" tries to wipe out all of dieselkind and brainwashed several engines.
*And then there's all the myriad AMVs, redubs, etc.

Your thoughts on all this?

You are the last person to be calling out other fans for being weird.

Erm... I got nothin'

I don't think TMNT fans are that bad...sure we have the Turtle shippers, but still...no fandom is without their darkside

If the Internet has taught me anything it's that everything, no exceptions, has a weird fanbase.

Who cares? You have a weird obsession with Sonic, Venus, and Ninjara, so you really shouldn't be calling anyone else out for their fandom obsessions. I believe that would be the pot calling the kettle black.

That it's wonderful?

Sounds like a pretty normal fandom to me.

Are we sure they're even adults?

Are we sure YOU'RE an adult? Your avatar suggests otherwise.

Seems a bit extreme...

I just mean that those Pooh's Adventures videos look to be made by teenagers. So how do we know these videos aren't made by teens, too? It wasn't necessarily a condemnation of adult Thomas fans, just that bad Youtube fan videos are generally made by teens.

*sits by and waits for someone to post one of his lame videos with the "adult" question...*

I was kidding, man, because this thread is dumb. My bad!

S'alright. Sarcasm is hard to read in just text. Also not sure why I'm taking this, a miru thread of all things, so seriously.

Leave it to miru to create such a stupid thread...

Interestingly a 20-something year old did make a full length Pooh's Adventure parody crossing them over with the Toxic Avenger and it was expertly made and frightfully better than anything the teens behind those videos could ever reasonably come up with:P

I did my own spoof of the genre, but it's pretty bad in comparison

.........Miru.......Stop........Now

Did it have actual dialogue and not silent movie style title cards?

There's a Thomas the Tank Engine fandom?

It uses both. Audio of lines from other r-rated movies and dialoge cards for other scenes, but all of it is satirical.

^^^^Pretty much this in a nutshell. Every fan base has it's bizarre and weird sides.

My daughter loves the show, but not the newer CG one.

I personally like that on the internet anything can have a fandom, including Thomas the Tank Engine. Still, it's a weird franchise to have a fandom but hey, more power to them.

I practically wore out my VHS copy of "Better Late Than Never and other stories" cassette, and for some reason I was afraid of the trains' names on a board that appeared between episodes (I've had some weird phobias). I even had a train for my Brio set, but I'm amazed at how much recent train sets/accessories can look like the show. Too bad that some rights will prevent certain DVD's from giving us a complete series. But I was never more than a casual fan.

These crossovers sound hilarious; I'll check out some of them.

I loved Thomas as a kid. It was my childhood for the most part. I ,like many fans, have been annoyed by the shows decrease in quality. But it happens, every show that doesn't die young will eventually run out of steam and become stale.

However, I'm not surprised that TTTE has such a large adult fandom. In fact, one of the first YouTube videos I ever saw was the shows intro. It has lasted for over 65 years and still continues to make new content. And to be fair, some of the TTTE vids on YouTube are pretty entertaining.

I agree with snake here Miru, enough with these threads like this. Please just stop.

Yes, Miru, please stop making threads like this one you made nearly 10 months ago.

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wish I was good with editing, would definitely edit thomas in this

My kids like Thomas the Tank Engine. As a dad, I can't say I care for the cartoon, but building the train sets is fantastic.

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