Thomas & Friends
The children's show Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends was filmed on a model railway at Shepperton Studios from 1984 to 2008. All of the locomotives and other vehicles in the show were operated by radio. The models were built with moving-eye and eyelid mechanisms and removable clay faces, and the engines also included smoke generators. For Series 5 through to 12, some larger-scale models were used for the narrow gauge characters so that there was room for the complex mechanisms while retaining a sufficient level of detail. The model filming ended in 2008 when season 12 was over. The show then switched over to CGI. The models are now on display in a special exhibit at Drayton Manor Theme Park's Thomas Land.
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Famous quotes containing the words thomas and/or friends:
“In a fiercely mourning house in a crooked year.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Oh, Scott, for people like you and me the world can be a wonderful place. The sky’s as blue as it is for the giants, the friends are as warm.”
—Richard Matheson (b. 1926)