The true form of Thomas the Tank Engine

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Also Gynoug, a less flamboyant but just as weird one from the same artist

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I decided to look up this show and I’m deep into Tank Engine Wikipedia now…

Also, apparently George Carlin was the conductor, which of course people have had some fun with:

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I have to take issue with the conclusion that Sodor is a communist state.

It’s The Other Railway that is the socialist nationalised British Railways. Also, I remember there being fear and anger at the possibility that the engines would be replaced by diesel or electric engines who would pull their carriages (who were all female back when I read the books last). The few diesel and electric engines that are on Sodor are treated as a lower class than the steam engines.

So, we have an island where there is propaganda causing a strong hatred of socialism, and a belief that immigrants will come to take their jobs and women. Sodor is clearly a fascist regime, not a communist one.

Sorry, Thomas and Friends are all Nazis.

I’ll be back later to destroy another treasured childhood memory.

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Never heard this before; in the UK the original series was narrated by Ringo Starr. Some of the best post-Beatles output tbh.

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Yes, in the US we got one or two seasons of Ringo, but then they changed to George Carlin as the Narrator/Conductor. My son was a big Thomas fan back in the early 2000s, and when he got older and discovered the Beatles, it blew his mind that Ringo was a Beatle. Both Ringo and George did a fine job as Mr Conductor.

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No, no, I approve of this deconstruction.
Also notice that the Isle of Sodor is a reference to the Bishop of Sodor and Man, i.e. the Isle of Man is intended. And that is indeed a backward, UKIP-loving, tax haven.

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There is also the matter of “Bulgy”; the red-painted straw-bus commie who denounces the existing mode of transportation and ends up being converted into a chicken coop for his crimes.

“Pah!” snorted the bus. “Enjoyment’s all you engines live for, taking the petrol from the tanks of us workers. Come the revolution,” he went on fiercely, “railways’ll be ripped up. Cars 'and coaches’ll (buses) trample their remains. Free the roads from Railway Tyranny!”

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I think it had something to do with this.

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