Thomas The Tank Engine is 'classist, sexist and racist'

conorhal · 23-07-2014 09:14AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Jesus Christ is anything sacred

Clearly not if you're prepared to take our Lord's name in vane like that you oxy-moron you! :pac:

Links234 · 23-07-2014 09:22AM

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

I'd love to see what the wagon who wrote this piece would say about Girls und Panzer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsjZuKrgCp0

Gotta love the Japanese haha

Yeah, but that's not something your average preschooler would be watching though

Unless your an awesome parent :pac:

Seriously amazing show

floggg · 23-07-2014 09:28AM

Caliden wrote: »

Another clickbait article.

If only newspapers could be fined for posting ****e

Well not falling for this crap would have some pretty obvious monetary implications for them...

SEPT 23 1989 · 23-07-2014 09:39AM

Dr Bob · 23-07-2014 09:52AM

One of the blessings/curses of being a parent is that you have to watch kids tv with them.
Thomas..is feckin' terrible..for those of you without kids the version thats on tv now has crap cgi , been Americanized and has an AWFUL theme song..at least the old series had Ringo Starr , and the quaint models.(still though its a f*cked up show ..one of the episodes had a train continuing to refuse to work ..so he was walled up inside a disused tunnel...and then the episode ends! ,they let him out in the next one ..but thats still f#cked up.)

At least Peppa Pig/Ben and Holly and the like have some subtle humour aimed at adults.

Also this was the ad they ran with last year:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeU0qB741_s

23-07-2014 09:57AM

anncoates wrote: »

I won't watch the new aberration with my kids. They fcuked it up with that sht new title song and animation. Only 80s Ringo job in this gaff.

I just see some Guardian columns as necesassry revenue generating titbits put in for a certain near parodic segment of their 'Tristan and India' readership. Like the intellectual equivalent of a magazine running titty line ads to fund the rest of the articles

I was giving out just yesterday that the new version has gone too PC - it has American and Japanese engines on the island for diversity.

Also this is a place: http://www.draytonmanor.co.uk/thomas-land.php

Manic Moran · 23-07-2014 10:02AM

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

I'd love to see what the wagon who wrote this piece would say about Girls und Panzer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsjZuKrgCp0

Gotta love the Japanese haha

Awesome show. I'm helping the animators a bit with the movie due out early next year.

cloud493 · 23-07-2014 12:15PM

The ghost train episode was **** scary, wish I hadn't watched that when I was a child.

Links234 · 23-07-2014 12:15PM

Manic Moran wrote: »

Awesome show. I'm helping the animators a bit with the movie due out early next year.

Oooh, really? What's the movie about?

SEPT 23 1989 · 23-07-2014 01:33PM

cloud493 wrote: »

The ghost train episode was **** scary, wish I hadn't watched that when I was a child.

When poor James got buried alive (bricked up in the tunnel) by that out of control thug the fat controller because he didn't want his shiny red paint to get dirty was another harrowing episode to watch

cloud493 · 23-07-2014 01:41PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

When poor James got buried alive (bricked up in the tunnel) by that out of control thug the fat controller because he didn't want his shiny red paint to get dirty was another harrowing episode to watch

That was henry it was green paint :pac: or blue. Henry is green, but I think his paint was blue at the point.

iguana · 23-07-2014 02:15PM

Actually, while the article is over the top, I've recently watched a couple of episodes of Thomas the Tank engine and she kind of has a point. Every single episode I saw has a really unsubtle theme of 'know your place' which is a pretty shít message to send to kids. And the theme tune is not the one we remember, it's now a painfully embarrassing rap. It's pretty awful.

"Thankfully" it's all about the Paw Patrol in this house.

Hande hoche! · 23-07-2014 02:26PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

If the Guardian is to ape the Daily Mail in firing out cheap articles designed to attract clicks then they'll need to put more ads and referral links on their site. Hell, even the journal.ie does a better job. Papers like the Telegraph and Irish Times are dying because they still hold on to this old-fashioned concept of journalistic integrity.

They have their tourism articles, their online dating service and advertising still.

23-07-2014 02:36PM

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

The bad guy is a "person of colour". Like bright red.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El65C0u_J3U

wally79 · 23-07-2014 02:38PM

Great article. Really opened my eyes.

My cars exhaust fumes have been a bit dark recently and I thought it was burning a bit too much oil.

I was going to take it to a mechanic but what if it's just a racist?

Can a mechanic fix that?

Or am I the racist for wanting to fix it?

fleet_admiral · 23-07-2014 02:45PM

Ive just thrown all my sons thomas take n play, bed clothes, scooter, bike, books and train sets in the bin, just to be safe like

SEPT 23 1989 · 23-07-2014 02:55PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Ive just thrown all my sons thomas take n play, bed clothes, scooter, bike, books and train sets in the bin, just to be safe like

you did the right thing

Wibbs · 23-07-2014 03:06PM

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

I'd love to see what the wagon who wrote this piece would say about Girls und Panzer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsjZuKrgCp0

Gotta love the Japanese haha

Well they'd be out of her targeting range as they're not white. They could do what they liked.

I do love the Japanese myself. Completely bonkers and nice people with it IME. Though I would have some agreement with AA Gill when he wrote; After 10 minutes in the land of the rising sun, you realise the Japs are off the map, out of the game, on another planet. It’s not that they’re aliens, but they are the people that aliens might be if they’d learnt Human by correspondence course and wanted to slip in unnoticed. Might be why I dig them and much of their culture though.

annascott · 23-07-2014 03:09PM

What is classist?

Hande hoche! · 23-07-2014 03:11PM

annascott wrote: »

What is classist?

The fat controller and his shenanigans.

Potatoeman · 23-07-2014 03:13PM

iguana wrote: »

Actually, while the article is over the top, I've recently watched a couple of episodes of Thomas the Tank engine and she kind of has a point. Every single episode I saw has a really unsubtle theme of 'know your place' which is a pretty shít message to send to kids. And the theme tune is not the one we remember, it's now a painfully embarrassing rap. It's pretty awful.

"Thankfully" it's all about the Paw Patrol in this house.

It is their job though isn't it. You can hardly run a train system where everyone does what they want.

Dyr · 23-07-2014 03:15PM

¡Hasta la Victoria Siempre Locomotiva!

darkpagandeath · 23-07-2014 03:16PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Ive just thrown all my sons thomas take n play, bed clothes, scooter, bike, books and train sets in the bin, just to be safe like

Good choice, as your woman would think it's a kin to them bad guys from ww2 and your giving your kids there paraphernalia to raise them that way :pac:

Tony EH · 23-07-2014 03:19PM

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

I'd love to see what the wagon who wrote this piece would say about Girls und Panzer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsjZuKrgCp0

Gotta love the Japanese haha

That's the greatest thing I've seen all week.

Sometimes I just have to admire the sheer level of "not giving a fuck" that the Japanese have.

:pac:

Dyr · 23-07-2014 03:20PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Good choice, as your woman would think it's a kin to them bad guys from ww2 and your giving your kids there paraphernalia to raise them that way :pac:

I grew up with nazi toys and it had no visible ill effects

Action Man was particularly good for third reich playthings. Panzer commander action man cut quite the figure

lintdrummer · 23-07-2014 03:21PM

As I was reading that i was assuming it was taken from some crazy leftist blog. It's a shame that such poorly written drivel passes as journalism in the 21st century, regardless of the subject matter, which of course is nonsense. I mean, this person actually believes that if the kids don't see people being bullied because they're different on a cartoon, then it won't happen in the real world.

hatrickpatrick · 23-07-2014 03:22PM

Major SJW alert. At least the word "cis" didn't make an appearance, it could always have been worse

Tony EH · 23-07-2014 03:22PM

Dr Bob wrote: »

Thomas..is feckin' terrible..for those of you without kids the version thats on tv now has crap cgi , been Americanized and has an AWFUL theme song..]

But, it used to be so brilliant. All of those lovely little models...

wally79 · 23-07-2014 03:24PM

Bambi wrote: »

I grew up with nazi toys and it had no visible ill effects

Action Man was particularly good for third reich playthings. Panzer commander action man cut quite the figure

We had the 3 nationalities of plastic soldiers. Gerries, Yanks and Tommies.

I have to say my German troops were much more successful than their real life counterparts.

Hande hoche! · 23-07-2014 03:28PM

wally79 wrote: »

We had the 3 nationalities of plastic soldiers. Gerries, Yanks and Tommies.

I have to say my German troops were much more successful than their real life counterparts.

That's a fair point, don't think I ever saw plastic Soviets.

Thomas The Tank Engine is 'classist, sexist and racist'

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