Thomas the Tank Engine is finally getting racial diversity. Is this progressive /co/?
Raul, the Brazilian!
Yang Bao, the Chinese!
Ashima, the Indian!
Carlos, the Mexican!
but they're trains
their race is train
>>81093106
>>81093121
>>81093141
>>81093177
>diversity
>faces are still white
#ThomasSoWhite
>>81093177
mexican eh? I bet he's not a very useful engine
Don't you mean nationality, instead of race?
>>81093106
>>81093121
>>81093141
>>81093177
>trains
>races
lolwut
there fucking steam engines, not people
>>81093141
Does she go to the designated shitting sheds?
>>81093177
>Mexican engine
>not one of their god-tier 4-8-4s
booooooooooooo
>>81093089
Forgot the article.
>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/business/media/thomas-the-tank-engines-expanding-world.html?_r=0
>With more than $1 billion in annual retail sales, Thomas the Tank Engine and his locomotive pals constitute one of the world’s largest preschool toy and television franchises. Created in 1946 by a British clergyman, Thomas has charmed generations of boys and girls — especially boys — by teaching gentle life lessons on the fictional island of Sodor.
>But the property’s old-fashioned sensibility makes some parents angry. In 2014, for instance, an essay attacking the “Thomas & Friends” series for a lack of diversity, among other things, spread quickly online after publication in The Guardian. Mattel, which bought Hit Entertainment, the owner of “Thomas & Friends,” for $680 million in 2012, lists about 100 characters on the brand’s official website. The vast majority are male and apparently white.
>At the same time, Mattel has been eager to capitalize on its investment by finding ways to make the franchise more popular in fast-growing markets around the world.
>Enter Yong Bao and Carlos, among others. In an expansion two years in the making, Mattel is giving Thomas 14 new friends, with many coming from countries like India, Brazil, China and Mexico. Four are female trains. The characters will be introduced in a DVD movie called “The Great Race” that is scheduled for staggered global release starting in August; related merchandise will jointly arrive worldwide in stores.
>Consumers are demanding more diversity — just ask the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — and preschool entertainment is no exception. To go with quaint stalwarts like Winnie the Pooh, Disney has introduced series like “Doc McStuffins,” about a creative little girl who happens to be black; Disney will soon introduce a Latina princess, a first for the company.
>>81093324
Did you complain when Donald and Douglas were Scottish?
>>81093431
So... /pol/ was right?
>>81093431
>The vast majority are male
It's a series about trains. Trains appeal to autistic boys and autistic boys only, I refuse to believe there are women out there who give two fucks about trains.
>and apparently white.
They're fucking TRAINS.
>>81093089
It ain't diverse until there's black people
Because apparently that's literally what diverse means to most of the internet.
>>81093623
You should read The Guardian article that the NY Times article linked to.
>For one, these trains perform tasks dictated by their imperious, little white boss, Sir Topham Hatt (also known as The Fat Controller), whose attire of a top hat, tuxedo and big round belly is just a little too obvious. Basically, he's the Monopoly dictator of their funky little island. Hatt orders the trains to do everything from hauling freight to carrying passengers to running whatever random errand he wants done, whenever he wants it done – regardless of their pre-existing schedules.
>Inevitably, the trains get in a fight with or pick on one another (or generally mess up whatever job they are supposed to be doing) until Hatt has to scold one of them about being a "really useful engine", because their sole utility in life is their ability to satisfy his whims. Yeah, because I want to teach my kid to admire a controlling autocrat.
And gems like
>Well guess what? It's not OK. You think a little boy watching Thomas is going to file away the lesson that pink is OK for boys? No, what kids remember is that James was laughed at, cruelly, over and over again, because he looked different and was clad in a "girly" pink color.
>And that's not even to get started on the female trains. Well, actually it's hard to get started on them, because they barely exist. Take a quick scan of the more than 100 trains and characters in the Thomas universe – it spans multiple books, toys and continents in addition to a TV show – and you can quickly count on two hands the number of lady trains that populate is Isle of Sodor. Emily – the only lady train to get name checked in the opening credits and the only one who regularly hangs out with the boy trains – is said to "know her stuff." That's the sole description of her personality. What does that even mean?
>>81093141
I dunno, she's kinda hot. porn when?
>>81093431
I aint reading all that shit
>>81093449
no because the fucking island is next to scotland I can suspend disbelief that a few scottish trains got to the fucking island by bridge or something. Not that people would pay to ship a 20-30 ton machine halfway around the world for the sake of having a train from china/india/mexico
>>81093782
Came here to post this
>>81093765
>Yeah, because I want to teach my kid to admire a controlling autocrat.
that's a dangerous amount of concentrated irony...
What about Hiro?
Is nothing sacred?
>>81093089
Whatever happened to that movie that was announced like 5 years ago?
>>81093209
They're more a grayish color than white.
>>81093324
I am sure you can hold races between trains.
>>81093859
Articles about diversity never mention "Oh, by the way, we've had other characters around for years."
See Silk: The first asian superheroine
>>81093089
>no symbiont train
that's xenophobic, and speciesist the bbc need to check there Earthling privilege
>>81093089
>we won't even be able to talk about Thomas the Tank Engine anymore without /pol/ and tumblr-bait
>>81093782
We never got porn of the Indian plane from Planes either, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
>>81094048
Meant to reply to >>81093959
>>81094069
Thomas has had a Cuban engine as part of the main cast since 2009.
>>81093765
>Well guess what? It's not OK. You think a little boy watching Thomas is going to file away the lesson that pink is OK for boys? No, what kids remember is that James was laughed at, cruelly, over and over again, because he looked different and was clad in a "girly" pink color.
How the fuck are you supposed to teach a lesson if you can't show the stuff that the lesson is about? What the fuck? Children aren't that stupid, if you ask them what the moral of the story was they can tell you because most children don't have the IQ of a greasy rock. Apparently this guy's kid does, but that's not the norm.
>Racial diversity
What? They're fucking sentient trains. They don't have races.
>>81093573
/pol/ is always right.
>>81094217
no its just there idiogy requires them to think the absolute worst of everything,if your not with them your an enemy, if you don't care you're an indoctrinated weak minded fool who needs saving. Hence the believing kids are idiots who cant tell up from down
>>81093089
>soviet flag in background
>>81093431
so after all these years, that's what the flying Scotsman looks like
He Looks EXACTLY THE SAME AS ALL THE OTHER GOD-FORSAKEN TRAINS
>>81094380
>soviet flag
>>81093573
in brightest day and dankest night, the saddest words to hear are /pol/ was right
>>81093431
>The great race
cmon
>>81094420
>Gordon's brother
>Looks like Gordon
Well bust my buffers.
Well at least none of them have brown faces considering they've always had grey faces
but now I'm wondering... why ARE all their faces grey? Why aren't they the colour of the train, or something
>>81094443
>the great race [war]
>>81094476
they ran out of play dough so they used clay
>>81094476
>Why aren't they the colour of the train
For diesels they are.
>>81094470
>Gordon's brother
What? The only episode I remember having TFS was in the original series, where they only showed his coal carts. It's canon Gordon's his brother now?
>>81094421
So the Chinese flag just happens to have a hammer and sickle on it, does it?
Where is superior nippon bullet train?
>>81093431
>old-fashioned sensibility makes some parents angry
>not using token minority characters is old-fashioned
>>81094597
That's a star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=462KBuAhncU
>>81094716
please no
>>81094185
And no one care about him.
>>81093141
>>81093089
>that guady fucking decoration
WE GET IT OH MY GOD YOU'RE A GIRL
FUCKING GIRL TRAINS GET OFF MY RAILS TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
>>81094713
Zoom in on the image. There's a hammer and sickle with a star above. Are you blind?
>>81094567
>He never read the books
>>81093089
>racial diversity
>via stereotyping
White people are behind this. Guilty white people, who lack self-awareness.
>>81094716
>show this to a friend
>he can't look at anything thomas anymore without visibly looking anxious '
>>81094801
You're the blind one here
>>81093209
I'm really surprised that this isn't the complaint people are having. I think all these new engines are fine, but is no one latching on to the greyness and calling it white?
>>81093431
>bashing mattel
>the company that made he-man
If you ever watched He-man you must know the morals were progressive as fuck
>>81094716
>Shed 17
hola reddito
>>81094799
>TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
my sides
>>81094916
look at the castle nigger
Who the fuck was offended that a bunch of sentient trains in a circa fifties england setting were too white?
>>81094799
>FUCKING GIRL TRAINS GET OFF MY RAILS TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
I hope the Chinese train tries to bring communism to Sodor.
>>81095006
that does actually look like the soviet flag
>>81094716
>there's going to be a sequel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsSjltVnPOY
>>81093089
>The Great Race
So, the film is about figuring out the greatest race? I'm game.
>No Jewish Israeli train
OY VEY
>>81094716
ahh we getting into some good shit now
>>81095086
FUCKING STEAMIES GET OUT OF MY SHED! PAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!
>>81093141
fun fact, I've been on trains in India and instead of toliets they have holes in the floor to shit through onto the tracks
>>81095199
No, now feck off.
>>81095256
>POO IN CHOO CHOO
>>81094799
Pepe the Cross engine.
>>81095086
I doubt it will be that good a second timeAnd oh my god all the cancerous reaction videos
>>81093141
>>81095283
>>81095256
When you blow the horn does it go POO POOOO
![in0102[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gsP63pi.jpg "in0102[1].jpg")
>>81094799
I know what you're getting at, but Indian railroads really DO cover their steam engines with gaudy shit. Just like they do with their trucks.
What if the Board-tans were trains?
>/r9k/-tan is the controlling intellect of the Troublesome Trucks
I am scared.
>>81095309
saved for future train fuckin
>>81095339
Peep peep peep! whistled Thomas
Poop poop poop! replied Ashima.
>>81093141
Why is there not a hundred indians sitting on the roof of her.
>>81095367
Well, there go my sides.
>>81095086
Holy shit
>>81093324
>>81095309
underrated
I think you mean international.
>>81095358
shame they cover the tracks with shit
>>81095649
Harry King would not be amused.
>Show is popular in Japan
>No Japanese train
>>81095702
japs love western culture, unlike the west.
>/co/ is so /pol/ that multiculture trains sets it off
>>81095702
>"I don't know who Hiro is." the post.
>>81093431
>1 billion per year
I knew it was a successful franchise, but not that fucking successful.
>>81095702
The Japanese train was introduced 7 years ago.
>>81095702
The show already has one
>>81095746
Isn't he moot's replacement?
>>81095775
KAWASAKI!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGSsQDvfb4I
>>81095793
Who?
I think its actually MORE rascist that they gave each train a stereotypical thing representing their country or origin.
They can just be a normal train that happens to be from china? Fuck no, he needs a chinese fucking dragon on top of him for decoration!
>>81095775
>>81095793
>There's a Hiro and a Boco on 4chan
>There's a Hiro and a Boco on Sodor
>>81095885
>Fuck no, he needs a chinese fucking dragon on top of him for decoration!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoOIh02_Nt8
>>81095309
sav'd
>>81094567
>They do a movie about racing trains
>There will be no multi-track drifting
I'm disappointed ahead of time.
>>81095805
that kid in thomas is high as fuck
also "useful" control
>>81096006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbhLtjOiRc
>>81096006
You need locos with bogies for multi track drifting. Maybe now Daisy's back you'll get your wish.
>>81095885
They're trying to represent all of china with one single character, so that character has to be as inoffensively stereotypical and wide reaching as possible. It's the problem with all token characters, you can't just have a single black woman in your script because now that black woman represents all black women somehow. So you can't make her, say, the dumb joke sidekick character that nobody takes seriously because that's disrespectful and racist.
>>81094799
>TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
hue
>>81093141
>>yfw she just dumps her firebox on the tracks
>>81096006
they never said there WASN'T multitrack drifting
>>81095083
>>81094380
IIRC, Thomas is set in the 1940s-1960s.
>My face when I have no face when I realized that I assumed all the black characters were theCoal Trains/Box guyswhen I was a kid.
So, no German steam engines? Strange, because the country is full of train otakus.
You people are grown, right? Why do you care about this?
>>81096244
>Want to push racial diversity
>Use european countries
>>81096288
Because we like trains.
>>81096244
There is one, but only her toy has been seen so far.There's also Italian, Russian, and Belgian engines coming.
>>81096288
/co/ is the board that gave birth to the MLP fandom. What the ever-loving fuck did you expect?
>>81093431
>flying scotsman
Well, at least they got something right.
>>81095886
>Literally think of that Diesel every time I see Boco's trip.
>>81095086
How the fuck do you make a sequel?
>>81096315
>>81096358
I know you fags are autistic but I didn't think you fags were legit autism spectrum autistic.
>>81096451
>>81096288
shouldnt you be in the nu-ppg thread fag
>>81093089
That qt girl train has boobs under her face.
>>81093089
>Thomas wants to go to the Great Railway Show, but the big engines only laugh at him. They say he's not strong or big enough to compete from the best around the world, but Thomas is determined to find a way. First, he tries to get himself streamlined, but the Fat Controller decides that it would better be suited for Gordon. Then, he tries to get himself repainted like a brightly coloured engine named Ashima, from India. His plans go horribly wrong. Thomas learns how to be himself when he finally discovers a way to compete. Thomas nearly gets to the show when Diesel threatens his chance once again.
haha what
>>81096451
>4chan
>not legit autists
>>81096504
SMALL STEAM ENGINES
>>81096504
>thomas streamlining himself
This is getting dumber by the minute.
>>81096288
/co/ are racist manbabies
>>81096626
you are /co/ too
>/co/ seriously considering fucking trains now
Even actual Thomasfags don't do this.
>>81096504
So Thomas is basically saying that steroid abuse is a-ok as long as you get to be with your friends.
Good god this is retarded.
>>81096598
BIG DIESEL ENGINES
>>81096661
No, he's Tumblr.
>>81093089
I for one welcome all the threads about people wanting to fuck that train. They'll probably be very entertaining.
>>81096665
>implying you wouldn't
>>81096665
I've seen /aco/ sexualize anthropomorphic planes and /v/ sexualize plants.
Sexualizing trains isn't that big of a stretch.
>>81096749
I would consider that thing because at least it's humanoid.
>>81096687
implying there is a diffrence
>>81096749
That's not a train; that's a furry.
>>81096780
We're two sides of the same degenerate coin.
>>81096792
You mean that thing that newfags made up?
>>81096806
>>81093089
Rontell, the African-AmericanI'm black but couldn't resist
>>81096749
sauce?
>>81094716
>That entire reveal scene
Jesus Actual Fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czU-EHpClQc
hey guys check out my train oc
>diversity
>in a show thats 99.9% nothing but talking trains
>this thread
>>81096994
0/10 not based on actual train
>>81096830
>>81096749
>Windshield in the middle of her forehead
>Eyes on her cheeks
So, basically, if you were somehow able to kiss this thing, she wouldn't be able to see shit because side eyes and you'd be staring directly at the old balding conductor working the controls instead.
>>81093141
Her face is like loli-Wondy
>>81096504
I can't wait for the final moral to be that all races are equal except diesels. What are diesels a metaphor for? Gingers?
>>81094716
>Always seen this posted on /co/
>Always passed on viewing it from lack of interest and thought people were just being memeing faggots with their reactions
>Decided to watch it now
>It's legit fucked up shit
What the fuck, man?
>>81097185
A hatred and refusal to accept technological progression.
>>81097071
Six months in photoshop.
>>81093089
Is there a engine that was built at a factory that produces engines but it identifies as a caboose so it plans to undergo a process that will remove its boiler and in the meantime it demands to be painted red and be connected behind all the cars and get pulled around, not using its boiler to help in any way?
>>81097036
its a tran
Nazi train when
>>81097278
>being picky in this sparse job climate
>>81097314
>>81093089
>The Great Race
Sounds good. Nothing could go wrong.
>>81097350
YOU IDIOTS! GERMAN ENGINEERING IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD!
>>81097294
I want to say those already exist, but I can't remember the basis. This isn't really the same, but the best I can think of right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_13
>>81097424
Someone needs to draw Stroheim the Loud Engine falling down a hole.
>>81096316
Where the fucks my United Stats of Pure Americans, Canadians, and African American trains?
Oh wait, the coal trains are probably the blacks.
>>81097502
90% of the show is coal burning engines
>>81093703
They already have niggers though
http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Troublesome_Trucks
Any Thomas Yaoi around?
>>81093106
Carries logs illegally cut in the Amazonian rain forest.
>>81093121
Runs on tracks that killed thousands of workers to construct.
>>81093141
Transports up to ten times the recommended amount of passengers.
>>81093177
Is also known as "the grinder" because of the large number of illegal migrants to the US who attempt to jump on, and are ground beneath his wheels.
![PRR-K4s-Aberdeen[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qB7cSox.jpg "PRR-K4s-Aberdeen[1].jpg")
The hypothetical American locomotive should be a PRR K4s. This is an absolute fact.
>>81093177
>>81093353
I mean, I understand why they couldn't do it because of how massive they were, but the QR-1s are one of the most iconic Mexican steam engines there are.
>>81097567
That's great, they even look like black people too.
>>81097548
I think he's referring to these guys
>>81093177
Taking their jobs!
>>81097572
go back to the shadows
>>81095086
>shed 17
>IN 60FPS
Are they gonna put a Canadian Train, eh?
>>81094716
>>81098190
Fuckboy Thomas and Tsundere James is my fave!
>>81095086
>60FPS Shed 17 Train boxing
I've seen it all.
>>81097278
>>81095983
>>81095358
>mfw they're actually being accurate with this
I'm... sort of interested in this? I do actually know some Indian and Chinese people, so I'm at least interested to know what they think.
>>81097863
>Runs on tracks that killed thousands of workers to construct.
That is pretty much a lot of tracks.
>>81097572
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un-8L89ClQY
>>81096767
humanoid plants or plant plantslike flowers?
>>81095309
>>81093141
Her sacred cow catcher is too low and too small.
>>81093177
As a mexican, I will be disappointed if he isn't La Bestia.
>>81097951
They already had one. He was in one episode and just fucking vanished.
>>81095404
this, at least they should be more accurate with that >>81093141
>>81094716
might as well a franken fran chapter.
>>81093336
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh473k-uHH0
>>81100016
That looks like a Dark Souls boss
>>81100039
>>81093431
The Flying Scotsman did appear in the 3rd season of the TV series, but only his tenders were shown because the modeling crew apparently didn't have enough money to build the full engine.
Also, in the book series Flying Scotsman was Gordon's brother; I'd be surprised if this was kept in the TV show.
>>81094944
Wait, He-Man was progressive? How?
>Blonde, blue-eyed male with a rag for pants
>Damsels all over his dick
>Power Fantasys galore
>>81093994
What movie? There have been lots of DVD Thomas movies lately, you're gonna have to be more specific
>>81094185
Yeah, the show has also had Japanese and American engines in addition to the Cuban engine, I don't know why people are only making a fuss now.
>>81094321
Donald and Douglas?
>>81094526
What? BoCo, Daisy, Diesel and Mavis all have white faces.
>>81094380
.....china's flag?
>>81094801
Are you blind?
>>81093859
>no because the fucking island is next to scotland I can suspend disbelief that a few scottish trains got to the fucking island by bridge or something. Not that people would pay to ship a 20-30 ton machine halfway around the world for the sake of having a train from china/india/mexico
>I can suspend disbelief
Anon.
It's Thomas The Tank Engine.
The entire premise is just silly.Why are there so many adult Thomas fans anyway?
>>81100742
Because from my experience, trains make for an excellent autism magnet. Just look at the communities based around train simulator games and stuff.
>>81098838
All the other trains tease her about it but she doesn't care because body positivity.
>>81094799
when i was a kid, i used to think gordon was actually a girl
>>81093141
She is... an attractive train.
I want to fuck a train now. Thanks /co/.
>>81097502
There was 1 American engine in the books, but there were several in the TV series.
>Rosie
>Hank
>Timothy
>Caitlin
>Connor
>Porter
>Philip
>Bash
>Dash
>Ferdinand
There was also an Allegheny named Sam who was a toyline exclusive.
Toby was already a nigger
>>81093265
Carlos!...that's not a pun
Planes>Trains
>>81101430Planes>Trains and Automobiles
>>81101534
heh
>>81101020
Shut your whore mouth.
>>81097246
nice
>>81094716
I still don't get how people think this is scary, even when it goes all Scanners at the end I was cracking the fuck up
>>81101651
It's the pacing that makes it effectively scary, but still, horror is relative.
>>81093089
>thread about Thomas
>and diversity
>nobody posts this masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H16XWnIQo08
VIN DIESEL'S BACK!
>>81101766
I miss WTLNetwork.
They weren't that funny, but occasionally, they'd make a joke that was fucking hysterical.
>>81096841
Somebody's had to have modded Thomas toys like this.
I'd pay top dollar. Especially if it had a grill.
>captcha: all images with TRAINS
>>81100069
>>81094716
such a perfect allegory for British and European culture right now
personally the series needs to die now intend of let it become cancerous like it is now
this is closure to my childhood, because it is really captures the world we are in now
we need to find closure from our pasts in order to move forward
there are things coming that we millenialls need to be ready for
>>81097048
>anyone who thinks sjws aren't obnoxius retards is a nazi
>>81100220
He-man was gay. That's pretty progressive.
>>81101651
I was laughing at parts and unnerved at others
I like it because its a good balance of horror and humor
can't have a thomas thread without posting the massive lore
http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Island_of_Sodor
http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline
>>81101894
>He's not using text captcha
It's a million times easier and faster dude, use it.
>>81094863
that's exactly the goddamn problem with the SJW's/progressives.
>>81095702
The Japanese dub is legit better than the English voice acting they use in the show.
Thomas is voiced by a women, yeah sure but I think characters like Diesel sound more badass in that language.
>>81093106
Does his chuffing sound like HUEHUEHUE?
>>81100974
Also, more recently, THIS...thing.
>>81104517
What
>>81104517
That thing can literally kill someone.
>>81104517
it's the Snowpiercer train
>>81095513
>>81104688
you do know that trains run people over right? adding a big fan to the front wont really make it any more dangerous
>>81093141
LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THOSE BUMPERS
>>81093782
>>81097246
Seriously, I need to see this girl train taking a fat dick, or whatever sort of goofy and unsettling dick analogue the train creatures of Thomas and Friends possess.
>>81104517
Preferably by this bad-ass looking ice drilling motherfucker.
>Thomas the Tank Engine is still on air
>>81095030
literally no one was.
OP is the literally the only one claiming this was done for some sort of diversity quota.
An international race is an actually interesting plot for a show about trains. Fucking /co/ always takes the bait
>>81096767
And don't forget about the infamous tile-fucker from /v/
>>81105118
>OP is the literally the only one claiming this was done for some sort of diversity quota.
See
>>81093431
>>81093765
>>81099753
Holy shit, he IS a K4s. That's incredible.
>>81101651
I just found it really, really disappointing.
>>81104887
She's a train, she already IS a giant dick analogue. Just need to wait for some .gifs of her plowing through Fatty McHatty's tunnel.
>>81093141
>poopoo train
