TrackMaster Bert & Arry Chinese knockoffs

They are not like almost any other knockoff, it definitely seems like after Mattel canned classic TrackMaster the factory that had been making them held on to molds, packaging plans, paint layouts, etc and started pumping them out. They are basically just late Mattel era Trackmaster stuff, with some oddities like liberated tender James having the old HiT James Goes Buzz Buzz design applied, and some having the wrong wheels - I think it's Dennis that has the wrong shade of wheels that actually belongs to one of the logging twins. Interesting that they had all the packaging layouts and plans too, and that they put out things like the Stephen with no tender simply titled Rocket