Something interesting I would like to say is that my dad thinks that the running out of budget may not have been the only reason why they switched to cgi. Since HOTR was going to be the last model series production anyway, he thinks that they wanted to switch to cgi because it was becoming very popular amon shows : a trend. So they switched to cgi to be like every other show out there (like the unlucky tug said: thomas is losing it's idenity).
Train it, plane it, you name it!
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