The All Aboard Live Tour: Revisited

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  • @steam-powered-cyborg
    @steam-powered-cyborg Рік тому +21

    I legit was one of the few to see the most documented Live Tour. For such a simple little story they really went all out with making the models big enough to feel real, as opposed to the very much cubeish live props I've seen in some performances overseas.

  • @thomasthetankman111
    @thomasthetankman111 Рік тому +13

    Yeah I saw the All aboard Live tour. I still have the tour book/poster you could buy at the show. I actually always thought the big live tour and all aboard were the same show and they just switched between stories for different shows. But I was wrong. Maybe why they didn't keep continuing past 2007. Because it wasn't obvious it was a different live show! Great video my friend!

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому +3

      Yeah it was madly confusing, I'd always assumed it was down to arena size or something. Overall I think it was budget reasons it stopped. Cheers man, badly need to watch your latest vid too 🔥 I need to catch up ahaha

    • @Sudriantank743
      @Sudriantank743 9 місяців тому

      ​@TheBlueE2 I owned the thomas Prop between 2018-2021 when I gave him to a prop collector

    • @vickycoleman-smith5684
      @vickycoleman-smith5684 4 місяці тому

      U had the Thomas prop Whre did u get it from?

  • @TheSudrianStoryteller
    @TheSudrianStoryteller Рік тому +13

    It’s a shame how these props have not been given enough respect for what they were used for and what history they left.
    I myself had not seen it and wish I had in person, but I live in the USA and had only seen it being used to advertise the later “Live! On-Stage” theatre shows, and through the defunct website I rediscovered during the pandemic through deeper research.

  • @Evsta101
    @Evsta101 Рік тому +6

    Every so often I randomly remember that I have seen both the Big Live Tour and the All Aboard Live Tour and every time I often feel like it's a fever dream (no one else I knew growing up saw either!)
    So, anytime this has come up in the fandom I feel like my sanity is safe and others share in my nostalgia.
    Cheers for this, really made my evening! :D

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому +3

      Both shows? Ah you lucky duck. Must've been great seeing both in person to compare the differences
      Good to hear from you also hope you're well 🔥

    • @Evsta101
      @Evsta101 Рік тому +1

      @@TheBlueE2 My general consensus was that the first show was better - the second show suffered from what I now know to be HiT era influence, therefore wasn't as good IMO.
      And you good sir, also a pleasure to see one of your videos land in my Sub box!

    • @jameslisterthemarthplayer8322
      @jameslisterthemarthplayer8322 Рік тому +1

      @@Evsta101 Hmm, yes, I wonder if anyone of your family filmed any footage as I am desperately wanting more footage of The Big Live Tour to resurface.

    • @Sudriantank743
      @Sudriantank743 9 місяців тому

      I know where thomas is, and he's not destroyed

    • @vickycoleman-smith5684
      @vickycoleman-smith5684 4 місяці тому

      @@Sudriantank743 Whre

  • @MyHeartIsOpen2You
    @MyHeartIsOpen2You Рік тому +6

    The live models are really impressive for what is essentially a show for 5 year olds.

  • @TracksideProd758
    @TracksideProd758 Рік тому +12

    There is some hilariously cruel irony in the fact that the star of the show, Thomas, was the only one to be scrapped.

    • @Sudriantank743
      @Sudriantank743 9 місяців тому +1

      That is not the case. I saved him. I gave him to a live tour prop collector in 2022

    • @StephentrainboyRailfanbrony
      @StephentrainboyRailfanbrony 9 місяців тому

      @@Sudriantank743 do you have any proof about it because Thomas’ prop was scrapped in 2018

    • @northyw64
      @northyw64 7 місяців тому

      ​@@Sudriantank743yeah, sure, we believe you..

    • @chazzywaz
      @chazzywaz 7 місяців тому

      @@Sudriantank743proof?

  • @PlayDontPause
    @PlayDontPause Рік тому +3

    "Not a useful engine anymore" is a banger, and nobody can tell me otherwise.

    • @PostmanDouglas2011
      @PostmanDouglas2011 Рік тому +2

      Too overrated and that is one of the reasons why my favorite song from the live tours is A job for Jack which is underrated sadly.

    • @Sudriantank743
      @Sudriantank743 9 місяців тому +1

      I used to own Thomas’s prop after saving him. Gave him away to a prop collector in 2021 for 1,000 dollars.

    • @PLG8gen
      @PLG8gen 2 місяці тому

      ​@@Sudriantank743 cap its been confirmed to be scrapped

  • @mistermadmachine6311
    @mistermadmachine6311 Рік тому +3

    😢if only the show that came to the US was more like this

  • @TARDIS9
    @TARDIS9 Рік тому +8

    Huh. So the prop Thomas gets scrapped, like the E2s. And the others are exposed to the elements, awaiting their fates, like most steam engines in the 1960s. Somehow, this thing has gone full circle.

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому

      Literally 😬
      They say apparantly it was too badly damaged, though I think it was just too unfit for sale as the remainders were Ebay'd hence their random scatter across the UK

  • @TRAINMASTER321
    @TRAINMASTER321 Рік тому +4

    The Big Live tour was the one I saw. It was class

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому +2

      Jack wasn't in my version because he was just gone for his walk

    • @jameslisterthemarthplayer8322
      @jameslisterthemarthplayer8322 Рік тому

      I wonder if you have any footage, because that would be good to have some more footage of The Big Live Tour online.

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому

      @@jameslisterthemarthplayer8322 Read the description, links to a Google drive containing footage of the show is there

    • @jameslisterthemarthplayer8322
      @jameslisterthemarthplayer8322 Рік тому

      @@TheBlueE2 I was talking to trainmaster321 if he had any footage that hasn’t been posted online.

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому

      ​@@jameslisterthemarthplayer8322 Ah shoot, my apologies for the confusion

  • @ryansock8269
    @ryansock8269 Рік тому +1

    I didnt see this show, but I saw the smaller scale one that was doing the rounds in the mid 2000s (I remember it had Diesel, I think it was A Circus Comes To Town?). We had to get the bus up to Dublin to see it, and as a little kid (I think I was 3) who loved Thomas, but was also autistic and a bit afraid of Thomas too, I remember having my Thomas blanket with me to hide under when it became too much. I think we had to leave before it was over too, to catch the bus home 😅. I wish I'd been able to actually watch it, because these sorts of things are nearly impossible to re-experience after the fact - aside from someone's 2007 handheld digital camera recording. All I remember is the bright lights on the ceiling when it started, and I think the Night Train song? Though they changed the lyrics to be about going into a mine in the live shows
    Excellent video btw!

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому +1

      Ahhh Ryansock good to hear from you again! Cheers also
      I can defo understand the fear no doubt, I had a small advantage in that I was around 8 or 9 for this

  • @thesudriana016
    @thesudriana016 10 місяців тому +1

    5:15 Wonder how James would've reacted to him (well a larger model of himself in the stage tour) being in the Book of Records. I mean, this could work for a potential story idea with him wanting to be in the Guinness World Records after seeing some passengers showing it to their friends. I mean, remember TheBuriedTruck's story called 'Records' which is about album covers or Stanley in Space by NWR1991? This could work.

  • @LukeOfSamhain22
    @LukeOfSamhain22 Рік тому +1

    Fun fact: A few characters are mentioned in both shows
    Edward was mentioned in the all aboard live tour
    Henry was mentioned in the big live tour
    Bertie was mentioned in both shows
    And Donald and Douglas were mentioned in the big live tour

  • @whytheheckarewedoinginhere1886

    Guys, Guys, Good News, Good News, Thomas from Big Live Tours, have been Saved and Found, he is no longer being Scrapped!

  • @chrismaskell5702
    @chrismaskell5702 Рік тому +2

    A moment of silence for the props from Thomas the Tank Engine life tour you all had a good run entertaining children and parents and
    rest in peace to the big life-size Thomas the Tank Engine prop one day you will get your shining time again soon Thomas you'll be with all your brothers now rest in peace to live size Thomas the Tank Engine you're always a really useful engine and you're always my number one engine

  • @TBLTfan
    @TBLTfan Рік тому +1

    Awesome video man! - Fun fact, the tour was actually meant to continue past 2006 but was shelved due to HiT taking most the profits the show ever generated while also making the show runners jump threw hurtles just to keep it touring; leaving them to decide it wasn’t really worth doing the show anymore…

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому +3

      Yeah I'd seen they even wanted to go to Australia with it. Shame really, there was insane efforts put into it and from the promo reel you can tell the people behind it loved working on the show

    • @Sudriantank743
      @Sudriantank743 9 місяців тому

      ​@@TheBlueE2 Thomas’s prop is in somebody's collection and isn't in the best condition. I know, I gave him to them

  • @IMEEntertainment
    @IMEEntertainment Рік тому

    I think with comparison, considering HIT had more control over the Bob the Builder Live show, this is why that had a VHS/DVD release and the Thomas Live Tour didn't, because it was outsourced over to Tell-Tale, and HIT had little control over the production.

  • @TenShine1productions
    @TenShine1productions Рік тому

    I watched the big live tour when I was very young

  • @gothnerd887
    @gothnerd887 Рік тому +1

    1:39 DING DING DING! TOP OF MORNING!

  • @JosephRailwayStudios2000
    @JosephRailwayStudios2000 Рік тому +1

    Wonderful Video

  • @SudrianFirelighter
    @SudrianFirelighter Рік тому

    0:55 I was at Awdry Extravaganza 2, I remember meeting you! I wasn't there when that video was taken though.

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому

      Are you going to it this year too? 🔥

    • @SudrianFirelighter
      @SudrianFirelighter Рік тому

      Yep! Hyped for it, I heard Sam's planning on bringing the LS Rheneas to it.

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому +1

      @@SudrianFirelighter ahh that'd be good! Fitting given Dolgoch's back in action and well, Skarloey #1 was there last year

    • @SudrianFirelighter
      @SudrianFirelighter Рік тому

      I feel like Duncan will get a new face this year, his current one is.. questionable. Or maybe Rheneas, though this time disguised as 'Smudger'

  • @Whistle17
    @Whistle17 Рік тому +3

    Why do people always do great things with props but then the next minute they are forgotten and left for dead just why those props could have had a bright future ahead but no that future was rot away in pain

  • @DavidLawrence1996
    @DavidLawrence1996 Рік тому

    Wow. I guess all of this makes complete sense.

  • @gothnerd887
    @gothnerd887 Рік тому

    1:53 I've never related to thomas more in my life

  • @jameslisterthemarthplayer8322
    @jameslisterthemarthplayer8322 Рік тому +1

    I did really want to try and buy James’ prop from the tire place in Southampton, but the person who my dad spoke to on the phone said he was £10 000, plus they probably weren’t going to sell him along with the two others. So now I want Gordon’s face in my possession.

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому +1

      Cheers for the story! Interesting
      Christ £10,000's a lot for James despite him missing several details
      Honestly has me curious what the Southhampton lads have in mind for their stock

    • @jameslisterthemarthplayer8322
      @jameslisterthemarthplayer8322 Рік тому

      @@TheBlueE2 Plus James and the two others probably aren’t for sale.

  • @LeodisTrainSpotter
    @LeodisTrainSpotter Рік тому +1

    5:05 james tender is infront of jack and behind harold

  • @GothicSteamEngine96
    @GothicSteamEngine96 Рік тому

    Really enjoyed that, good one man! XD

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому +1

      Had to include that interaction 😄 cheers mate

    • @GothicSteamEngine96
      @GothicSteamEngine96 Рік тому

      ​@@TheBlueE2 No worries! I will say though Belfast Odyssey looks more well laid out than Wembley was lol.

  • @TheGreyTurtleEntertainment
    @TheGreyTurtleEntertainment Рік тому +2

    They really don't make live shows like this anymore do they?
    The newer Thomas live shows are so godawful.
    Pity this toured at a time when Thomas wasn't airing regularly in the US. Would have loved for it to have done an American tour.

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому +1

      The shows following this do look to be much lower in budget and quality for sure. Mad respect that this one embraced the fact the characters are trains and didn't hold back on making a big train set to accomadate it

  • @JamesQuick-tq2eh
    @JamesQuick-tq2eh Рік тому

    Thanks for telling me where there 😈

  • @PostmanDouglas2011
    @PostmanDouglas2011 Рік тому

    2:27 That's not right because Act 1 really ends when Percy crashes into the buffers then the interval and Act 2 starts with Thomas getting decorated.

  • @LukeOfSamhain22
    @LukeOfSamhain22 Рік тому

    Man, i wish i was born in the 2000's

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому

      Same
      Being a mid 90's kid loses its charm once you're dangerously approuching 30 and frantically trying to find a way to turn back time

  • @Splodge-productions_2010.
    @Splodge-productions_2010. 6 місяців тому

    5:29 Thomas Gordon James and Percy are like the banana splits of Sodor like Thomas as fleegle Gordon as bingo James as drooper and Percy as snorky I wish my mum was very rich and she could save those models and I can display them at my house but when my mum was younger she was broke nowadays she can afford anything or not exactly but still

  • @herbiejr-ty8oh
    @herbiejr-ty8oh Рік тому

    Well, someone found a picture in testing. 2018 was Thomas a tank engine from the big live tour. 2002 He found him at the dock at the Harbor. He was outside the office How I know it's someone found it on Google map In my video won't be up on UA-cam to next month on the September 12 2023

  • @herbiejr-ty8oh
    @herbiejr-ty8oh 7 місяців тому

    thomas and friends the big all aboard live tour 20th anniversary

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  7 місяців тому

      Never gonna happen

  • @harrisonallen651
    @harrisonallen651 Рік тому

    I reckon Thomas was thankful being scraped after the tours ended if he were to where the others would end up….. ☢

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому

      Honestly? I'm amazed they wern't all demolished before 2010

  • @victoriamaynard722
    @victoriamaynard722 Рік тому +1

    is it just ,me or does that gordon prop look like his pilot model?

  • @rwsthomasmlp-fan1238
    @rwsthomasmlp-fan1238 Рік тому +1

    I Like Thomas & Friends The Big/ All Aboard Live Tour, It Was Really My Childhood.

  • @overly7997
    @overly7997 Рік тому

    saw a version of the show at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, i honestly remember nothing about it, was 2008 I think

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому

      Really? Was it this style or the Thomas/Percy/Diesel show they began doing though

  • @amyrodgers4252
    @amyrodgers4252 Рік тому

    I am for some reason getting fnaf vibes just from looking at the engine props.

  • @bowseythetankengine2445
    @bowseythetankengine2445 5 місяців тому

    5:07 I see Gordon's face!

  • @herbiejr-ty8oh
    @herbiejr-ty8oh Рік тому

    I've never been there till the UK kingdom Thomas a friend's big live tour I'm being a mile wide so I didn't know hurt cause iPhone the USA so yeah that makes sense But I was memes for a quit week there was be a Thomas or friends 20th live on stage theater It was called Thomas saying today It was It was about how to show Las Vegas It was not playing the show but I decided to cancel it at the last moment I have no idea why I just know that's I just don't know I was in AZ

  • @spinballpac-man
    @spinballpac-man Рік тому

    Wait,I haven't seen any of this footage aside from the camcorder recording of the whole thing!! Where were they from?

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому +1

      Links are in the description, if you just want to see video footage then the UA-cam playlist (esp the first video in it) is your best bet

    • @spinballpac-man
      @spinballpac-man Рік тому +1

      @@TheBlueE2Ok. Thanks. 😊
      Great job on the video, but just have to correct you on one thing. It’s a tyre recycling plant in Eastleigh, not Southampton. Turns out that it’s only a 20 min drive from my hometown, Romsey (Which,Fun Fact, is actually where Wilbert Awdry himself was born! 😃).
      When I had to do an errand in the heart of Eastleigh just yesterday, I just about had some time to drive over to this place and see if I could spot at least one of the props.
      Nothing prepared me for the huge surprise I got when I drove in! Percy & James are not only still there, THEY’RE RIGHT BY THE FRONT GATE AS YOU COME IN!!! It’s a sight that’s permanently ingrained in my memory!! 🤯🤯
      I had no idea what to do next, but the props were just barely beyond my reach, and if anyone who worked there knew why I was there and would supervise me so they were confident I wouldn’t vandalise anything (Not that I’d be willing to, but it’s just to prove the staff there to trust me 😅),then I could hopefully get as close up to the props as humanly possible!
      I shouted out from the front gate to see anyone was there. Someone’s voice came out of a speaker somewhere and told me to ring the number on the company’s trailer right next to me. Called the number twice and it just went to voice message! So I called out to the guy again and told him that I was interested in looking at the props, to which he told me to check in during the site’s opening hours. As I work 8-5 from Monday-Friday and the site opens 7-5 in the week & Saturday from 7-12,I only had one day to try and make as I’m gonna be busy the next weekends coming. I drove to a local Asda afterwards and thought I’d try to call them one more time! This time, somebody picked up (Not that guy that was on the speaker)! I told them once again about my interest in the probs and if it was possible for me to come in. The guy on the phone said I could do it, just so long as I call them again this Friday coming!
      So there you have it! I might be seeing these props up close soon! I hope to give whatever videos & pictures I got to Southern Steamer should I get full permission to do so. Let’s all just cross our fingers and see.

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому

      @@spinballpac-man Ahh nice one man! Cheers for the insight that'll be cool to see. Fair play to them for allowing you to have a look at them soon
      Cheers for the correction on their location also!

  • @MSwolfdog158
    @MSwolfdog158 Рік тому

    in 19 years you went to the show? I saw the the video.

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому

      19 years ago, saw it on April 18th, 2004 in Belfast

  • @OreothepupfromYTvideos
    @OreothepupfromYTvideos Рік тому

    1:42 Was someone screaming “SHUT UP!” or is that just me?

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому

      Yep I added in some audio from Father Ted as it suited the moment haha

  • @243crissy
    @243crissy Рік тому

    Wait, did you just say that you owned the Percy model?😮 5:40

  • @AdTheTankEngine13
    @AdTheTankEngine13 Рік тому

    5:40 FR!?!?!? DOES ANYONE KNOW THIS GUY'S ADRESS

    • @TheBlueE2
      @TheBlueE2  Рік тому +1

      No no just wishful thinking 😄 Percy's just rotting away in a Southhampton recycling plant alongside James and a coach
      That's why I said "If it was up to me I'd have Percy in my garden," if the fate of the props somehow fell into my responsibility
      Even if I did it wouldn't be worth it, bit like the guy who owned the Lady prop you'd have to take away so many elements like face, numbers and buffers to avoid being sued by HIT

  • @micklovin2086
    @micklovin2086 Рік тому

    I like it when there rotten away because i can recycle and reuse them!!!!!!!!!😏😏😏😏😏