Thomas The Privatized Tank Engine: 'Thomas Is Grounded' & Other Stories - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2024
- Thomas, politics, you wouldn't THINK those mix well.. and they don't! This book is an exception though! :)
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The Grey Controller is a reference to John Major, the (Conservative) Prime Minister of the UK between 1990 and 1997, who oversaw the privatisation of British Rail. He was incredibly dull and boring and was always portrayed in satirical media as having grey skin.
That's his stupid face on tbe cover of the book.
As I recall, that was the big reason why “Spitting Image” ended after Thatcher: Major was just too boring to satirize!
I like this story because it shows what a more adult version of T&F could be. Not overly edgy or anything, just a bit more grounded in reality.
Literally grounded is how you can best describe it. The stories are very down to earth and realistic, yet it’s still entertaining as it doesn’t need to be so out of the box
@@datguymiller Victor’s stories are very entertaining as while they are realistic, it’s more that they have a historical timeline to them, as if you were to watch the entire series in chronological order, you start to realize what (roughly) year the story is being told on. Victor is a very impressive creator for someone who works practically on his own with everything, from filming to post production and voiceovers being all him.
Broke: Making Thomas the tank engine a gory,swear laden,scatological parody
Based: adding privatization and more concepts from the real world related to the rail system in,adding an extra layer of depth and commentary
"Gordon The Virgin Engine" Bro, you didn't have to do my boy Gordon dirty like that.
Nah nah….virgin Gordon is glorious. He’s both the ultimate masterpiece and blank canvas. I find it extremely intriguing.
If Gordon's the virgin engine, then who's the chad engine?
@@SirTophamHakurei Henry
@@ezugen HELL YEAH!!!
@@SirTophamHakurei well, they were all virgins once. Um I can assure they aren’t anymore. N it was quite an enjoyable undertaking. The females n spencer, Billy, n a few others r still virgin as far as I know. I don’t deal with them
100 yards on your left you'll find the nissan car showroom
part fucking killed me
Ah man. 2023 and that aged like wine. I test drove a Versa, but it was so terrible I’d rather get a used Focus.
this story just stands out from the other books
Hmm, I wonder why
This book explains politics in a child friendly way : P
This is such an underrated piece of Thomas media. I always wanted to know what the stories were in this book when the cover and random illustrations appeared online. How many stories are there in this book?
28 stories.
@@tompratt9112 I must have them all
@@icedagger64gaming Gotta catch 'em all!
I had never heard of Thomas the Privatised Engine until now and, this is probably my FAVOURITE TTTE media. The stories are also very well read, well done bud.
Thank you brother man :)🙏
Hey man no worries
At that point Thomas is better off becoming a museum piece
When the narrator cant always say “lucky nobody was hurt”
Honestly, I wanna see you make models of Thomas, Terry and Shawn from this book. That’d be so interesting
Shawn wouldn’t be too hard!! Now Terry may be interesting but worth the shot 🧐
@@ItsTrainBoy maybe use the ruston?
@@metal_wheels I would’ve thought Shawn was a class 07 like Salty
@@noahcarlosthenumber12engin38 same but that would be an option not to trashed the ruston loco
Don't forget Gordon the Virgin Engine.
These were stories I never knew I needed. But to hear my boy (my TrainBoy if you will), narrate them with sound effects and music cues. It’s a nice chill bedtime story for me
The face of John major on the cover told me everything I needed to know about the depressing stories that would come forth, and I was right.
Ian Hislop truly is a gem at times. This was one of his best insights and most poignant warnings. Alas, it fell on deaf ears.
Thanks, Major and the EEC.
this book is super interesting, love the comical social commentary, it’s executed in such a way when it’s super funny
“Gordon the virgin engine”
Me: drools. Wink wink. No comment.
Also, had to purchase the book.
*h u h?*
This is pretty much the state of the US rail industry in the 60s and 70s.
One suggestion I wish to see a PDF of all the stories from this satirical parody book alone. I remember hearing about this book before, and hearing about it again in 2023 somehow interests me even more.
I have this book, it’s really interesting, with all these characters, and political babble, it’s really interesting. I wish they had more stories like this!
I still remember when you where but a small relatively unknown channel with these animations, (if I remember correctly), about this very book. I remember thinking those animated shorts were odd, almost surreal, but very intriguing non the less. Seeing you cover this book again as well as cover the context behind them almost feels like a return to form as such. And it's cool to see how far you've come. Good on ya TrainBoy.
This book is weird but also very cool, I cant really decide what to think of it. Whats your opinion Trainboy?
One of my favorites personally, that’s in the first few seconds lol! :)
I'm just happy to see a London Underground Train in the Thomas world. XD
Yess! I love all of these! Can't wait to watch part 2! :D
Love this allegory, thank you for helping bring it to light!
I get the feeling we're never going to get the full effect of this because none of us were alive in 1980's Britain to really get the references. If I didn't watch a bunch of old Spitting Image episodes, I wouldn't even recognize the politician the caricature the tunnel on the cover was supposed to be. I forget his name though.
John Major (Prime Minister), in this book as The Grey Controller. He appeared grey dull and uninteresting puppet in Spitting Image.
@@alexanderlebaigue3954 No wonder I forgot the name. That's like the most generic sounding name I ever heard. Worst part, like a week ago someone found some obscure British TV bumpers that had the John Majors puppet in them.
You say, as though 1980 is beyond living memory??
Glad to see another one of these man.
Good morning when you sit down with a cup of coffee and listen to Thomas the privatized tank engine when you get your day going
i had a dream a couple months ago where i was in a thrift store or something and there were stacks of maybe like 40 different books of this same style, the place around me was haunting and nobody there when i grabbed one of the books i...
I thought it would be funny, I found it depressing. Britain's Railways have been going down hill for a long time since we said goodbye to Thomas' steam powered friends.
Bro Terry the Tube Trains design got me lmao!
It took you a while to make a comeback with this series
I like the idea that sodor is basically a heritage railway in all but name. So when privatization hit they just continued services as if nothing happened except for mainland services.
sounds more like BR's modernisation than privatisation lol
Well, I'm pretty certain this was trying to predict where privatization would lead. Except it never considered the biggest downside to privatization, would in fact be the government....
Ngl I see parallels in both 🤣
"What the hell?"
Thomas' famous line of course...
I can already hear Spitting Image's theme song when i saw John Major's face on the tunnel
MA BOI GOT PRIVATISED!!1!1!1!1!1
*MAN FREE GORDON FROM THAT VIRGIN DEAL*
@@ItsTrainBoy LEZ GOOO!
@@ItsTrainBoy FREE 🅱️ORDON CONECTION TO DA BIG CITY!1!1!1!1!1!
Just imagine a gordon with a Virgin livery.....
5:03 & 5:15
I see you used the R46 Subway Car Door Chime and Horn
"Gordon the Virgin engine"
In the UK the problem is Privatization.
In the US the problem is Nationalization.
Wild
Actually UK rail has already been privatized so both the US and UK both have the same problem of needing nationalizing
@@josjos-x5s Actually our railroads we're nationalized at one point. USRA wasted millions on infrastructure that wasn't needed and ran the railroads into the ground, Thankfully that idea was flushed in the 20s.
Amtrak is another great reason to never let the U.S government run a railroad.
in fact 90% of our problems can be traced back to their mismanagement.
The exact opposite of the UK.
@@boxcarthehusky420 That's not entirely true. Amtrak only controls the passenger services on the rails and must always yield to freight traffic handled by private companies, because freight is more valuable to the economy- which makes amtrak slow and unreliable. Not to mention that there is a lack of motivation for the US government to improve Amtrak because they're being lobbied by the car industry. So yes, Amtrak does suck but there are external factors increasing their suckage.
@@lampwick4427 Amtrak and the auto industries monopoly over the government are prime examples of why nationalization isn't needed here.
@@boxcarthehusky420 poor government planing is not equal to the concept of nationalisation being a bad idea. If you have an actually competent government then you can give a better service and have better planned infrastructure because you don't have to worry about profits and competition thag you need to do better than but also work with.
Awesome video trainboy
This was the thomas book I always see as a kid but my mum and dad would always be like nope you not having that
Tldr we need Thomas the tankie engine
Why are there MTA sound on a London Underground 1972 or 1967 stock?
Edit: it's a 1973 stock. Its pretty hard to distinguish these 3 simular trains. But it's my fault that I didn't notice that the edges were not smooth.
"They thought about it the whole day, and the next day, and they still hadn't come up with any answer." Sounds like the public sector to me.
This is a really good book, the stories are really funny & well made it has thomas what more could you want?
"gordon the virgin engine?"
Seems true to his personality
Virgin Trains is a rail company, part of Richard Branson's Virgin empire.
Narrator: A woman's head was trapped in the doors
*bonk sound effect plays as the train leaves*
OMG Im laughing so hard rn even tho thats actually really bad just the bonk sound effect with the context
🤣🤣🤣
EDIT: TAKE MY LIKE AND MY FOLLOW!!!
One of the biggest problems with the UK rail system since privatisation has been that it doesn't have "Owners" it has "Operators". The rights to service the routes are bought by multiple companies, the rails are pretty much leased by another company, and a lot of the rolling stock is rented. The government also make all these companies rebid for these contracts every (IIRC) 4 years, so if they spent billions getting everything into top condition, they may only be paying all that to hand it over to whoever DOES win the contracts if they aren't successful.
The whole system is designed in such a way that it actively discourages anyone doing more than patching over the cracks and bodging things together just enough to get them to the end of the current contract.
There's also the problem where the private companies are running the train service AS A BUSINESS (Who'd have imagined it) ! If the contract says the train operator needs to provide service to some small out of the way station, but the cost in fuel of stopping and accelerating the train isn't covered by the 2 or 3 people who use that station, a business will look at their obligations and work out a more cost efficient method of complying with the wording (If not the spirit) of the rules. For example, One company realised that it was costing them money to cover a load of out of the way rural stations with a train, so as they were contractually obliged to offer service, they had a taxi company send one of their taxis to drive the same route every day, then wait in each stations carpark at the trains advertised arrival time. The stations had a signs stating that there was a "Vehicle replacement service" in operation, but if there happened to be more than 3 people wanting to use the service on any day, all other people would be out of luck...... The rail company was contracted to lay on the service, there was nothing in the rules that said all passengers were garenteed that there'd be room on the "Train" for them.
They did this because these few stations were consuming a significant chunk of THEIR little slice of the pie. If they'd had the WHOLE pie, the few fork fulls that these stations took could be offset against the money made from the more profitable city to city express lines, but other companies bid much more to get those. :(
If the government just sold the whole system outright to one company I think (Depending on WHO the company was) it could solve a lot of problems.
Hmm these story’s are interesting. I want to hear more
Love it!
Are their seriously 3 controllers (“fat”, “grey”, “bearded”)running the tiny landmass that is the island of sodor?
5:16 Terry sounds like a decent character, I wonder if he could appear elsewhere.
Excellent
Sorry but can someone explain to me the concept of this series?. Im from south america so i never have a grasp of the U.K rail and trains history.
Basically whenever infrastructure falls apart or prices surge, instead of doing something to the people who are responsible the Opposition will clamor for privatization (if the service in question is nationalized) or nationalization (if the service in question is privatized) without any regard for actually solving the problem. Then, crony capitalists and/or communists squirt out a little propaganda like this and the masses either run with it or don't, no major change takes place, and the service continues to operate in a duality of being over- and under-regulated, over- and under-funded and over- and under-utilized.
6:03. Luckily, no one was hurt.
I knew that you have talked about this before. I mean, I had the feeling that this was shown here before. Whatever. This is still great contend
Good video
Ladies & Gentlemen, Our TTPE Narrations are back.
Didnt you do one of these a few months or heck a year ago? but who cares epic video
If I ever get model trains, I'm doing this, possibly with this narration right here
Thomas the Tank Engine and the Ohio Train Derailment
Nice.
Where does the book take place? Sodor or UK?
I can't sleep now.
also epic vid
It’s been confirmed that Sodor is between the Isle of Man and the English mainland. So both
@@TheGiggler333 I actually know that.
I mean does this book take place on former BR or NWR?
I like this
If you see this you unlocked the side quest
I love this book its my favourite peace of thomas media
Wasnt Thomas under Topam Hat always private?
How the hell did i not find this book sooner
cool
4:46 the controller k.o. the man.
What if i were to tell you that in the first 2 books, he wasn't nationalized yet?
Bro why did Gordon get called out like this? 1:14
Virgin is a rail company it’s not calling him one directly, don’t worry that one confused me the first time too 🤣
Ok now Trainboy needs to narrate the entirety of the RWS too.
And then someone needs to adapt it.
.....
Maybe Trainboy should just adapt the RWS? Cut out the middle man?
Interesting
I literally had no idea this even exists.
Looks like an early concept for Salty in story four
6:27 that is the 1973 Rolling Stock
Le bonk
6:04
Thx for the like TrainBoy : )
Haven't we done this before?
it's not great to be an engine. escpecially in the privatization era
Thomas went from sodor to Brighton dammm
Terry the tube train is based of a 1972 tube train, witch dose not go to Heathrow
I realized his back buffers are different
It's funny seeing Europeans clutch their pearls over privatized rail.
Theres a reason why america is a tarmacked wasteland and we dont want that lol
@@josjos-x5s apples and oranges
@@sd80mac Trains are the future
@@dsssingh they basically incentivize the rail companies to treat it terribly because every 4 years they auction it off to the next company so basically it's the governments fault. Noone is interested in engaging or improving something that someone else could own with not effort or investment on their end and you left with nothing.
17 hours till this is 24 hours or 1 day old
Brit here. I love the fact that my country has the most expensive train tickets in Europe!
I wonder what audience this book originally was intended for since it contains politics and other stuff.
Japan proofs this book wrong.
@@dsssingh private rail systems being the most efficient in the world, and the UK system is a corporatist cycle of ownership as an auction stock renewed every 4 years. That isn't private that is a monopoly charter from parliament.
Say, is this fan made?
I dont think so
@@Captain_Timezone if it is official,
This is the best piece of thomas media ever
I’ve never seen a Thomas Book SO Politically Charged-
HI
Ur very cool
Very funny Gordon the Virgin engine
4:37 lol
Yipper
So this is how cho cho charles was born...
Never heard of this.
Wha- How…
This is real..?! Like I was already in shock that Thomas has met Proteus, but, this is a whole different level..
Is there any real Thomas Media where he actually swears? Not just “What the Hell?!”
There was Henry’s sneeze 1953 but that was changed.
I’m pretty sure he says a TAD worse somewhere in this book? Nothing overtly crazy I think though!! 😅
Not like how I’d be on a Cursed DOWT haha
@@ItsTrainBoy *Laughs in TrainBoy fan*
Let's just hope Thomas the private gets more of an adoption
Wftcwas this book