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:
“Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“I came on a great house in the middle of the night
Its open lighted doorway and its windows all alight,
And all my friends were there and made me welcome too;
But I woke in an old ruin that the winds howled through;
And when I pay attention I must out and walk
Among the dogs and horses that understand my talk.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)