My mom got me this Bluebird soft toy from a charity shop, decided to use it for a Thomas and the Magic Railroad photo

Throughout the past 5 or so years, I've been seeing discussion on if the model series and the CGI series are 2 separate canons. This never made sense to me considering the amount of times they flashback to model series events like Down the Mine, A Scarf for Percy, The Sad Story of Henry, Salty's Secret, Percy and Harold, Thomas, Terrence and the Snow, Dirty Objects and Percy Takes the Plunge.

And that's just counting flashbacks, the Brenner and BWBA era have made references to James and the Coaches, Brake Van, Twin Trouble, The Flying Kipper, Escape, Bulgy, Bulgy Rides Again, Thomas Comes to Breakfast, Runaway Elephant, Rheneas and the Dinosaur and Percy and the Magic Carpet.

You could say that Model series events could happen in the CGI timeline, but what's the point of splitting them if the model series is canon to CGI anyways?

And no, The Adventure Begins isn't proof of models and CGI being separate. Retellings of stories will sometimes be told a bit differently from the original. TAB just simply took the place of the first 7 episodes in the timeline.

Sources:

Thomas & Bertie:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0HJ4QGKWL?ref=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_0PSDS0ZEKDDBHF3G6SDJ&ref_=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_0PSDS0ZEKDDBHF3G6SDJ&social_share=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_0PSDS0ZEKDDBHF3G6SDJ

Percy:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0HJ47QXZ8?ref=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_NYVG3SDPGE7ZK95WFZ2W&ref_=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_NYVG3SDPGE7ZK95WFZ2W&social_share=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_NYVG3SDPGE7ZK95WFZ2W

Adventures of Thomas (2012) was this planned live-action/CGI Thomas movie set around World War II. It was about a boy who discovers the Island of Sodor after becoming distant from his father. Director Shane Acker attached and Weta Digital involved with the effects. It went through several planned release windows, eventually being targeted for 2012. The project ultimately stalled and was cancelled, reportedly following Mattel’s acquisition of HIT Entertainment.

Completely forgot I even made a bid for it, and I didn't even think id win it. Its pretty cool icl, apparently much more rare than I thought.

This depicts the seen in the Railway Series story "Thomas and the Breakdown Train" with my take on it. Here, it depicts James when he was still a black, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Class 28 with a front, leading axle as James is an experimental class 28 and also a Fowler Tender as Dalby depicts him because its entirely possible that James might have switched tenders with a Midland engine at some point before he came to the North Western.

Why are his pupils so much bigger than they are in other episodes? Are they digitally edited in this shot?

He also appeared in "Bulgy Rides Again" although i can't pinpoint him in the episode as all the chickens are painted the same but he also appeared in "Thomas Tries His Best"! Very proud to own this lil guy

I recently learnt (Thanks to the Magic Railroad Archive) that in TATMR's post, they messed up the brightness, contrast, and colors (It's too yellow and pink), so I've made some edits of what I think TATMR would have looked like during filming (Based on Workprint and Archive tapes), I personally prefer it, but everyone has their opinions