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Thomas beating up Horseshoe Curve on a visit from the UK towing a hatful of happy children.No need to hide anything. Maybe it's me, but if you are quick you might catch me inventorying the latest in the Thomas stuff. If Strasburg can arrange for a steam Thomas and run it on thier line I dont see a problem as long the children enjoy it.The real test is when the old gaurd rolls in for the ops session. What do you suppose will happen if they were confronted with Sodor and Sir Toppenhat with a fist ful of train orders and waybills?Once we get past that, we might have a little fun. I recall a trainshow recently where they had a small layout that featured Thomas and Sodor running inside a armored and child proof glass display case. It was right next to a highly finished quality built HO scale layout with a reasonable reproduction of a town, yard etc.The children didnt pay the big layout any mind. All they wanted to see was Thomas.I take the position that perhaps the big trains have thier time and when Children are over, break out the Thomas and let them run it. Once they get old enough they might get into the bigger trains.The challenge is in us old folks who may be too corroded by life to consider it.The other challenge and a much bigger one is stopping the kids from zoning out on the end of the Ethernet Cable or transporting themselves to neverland on a video game long enough to actually enjoy something that requires laws of physics and mechanical/electrical power of the old style to provide entertainment.If you keep a home free of such distractions the school will feed them the internet and ruin em that way. In fact, with the wealth of knowledge now on the Internet, who needs skool anyway? =) Just a retorical question folks...In trucking at a place in Missouri there was a old style electro mechanical game that required a dime to run. It was carefully balanced with a helicopter on a pole where you had to fly it to hit the various trip wires. I recall one evening where about 200 dollars fell into that thing sitting in a hall full of the latest, loudest and best high tech video games. All the drivers had a good time trying to get all of the sensor hits in the shortest time. They actually wore it out a little bit. Some of these fellas were old with one foot in the grave but for a time, everyone was having fun and none of that mattered.Those big fancy video games? Not one game played on there all that night.
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