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The end of Thomas and friends from Plarail?
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Maybe that's what plarail should do...
Proud owner of Tomy/Plarail trains.
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(05-10-2015, 06:04 AM)plarailfan Wrote: I can't quite understand how FENBO can produce these Thomas liveried models ! Do they need to pay a licence fee to Mattel ?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fenbo-Thomas-A...20f9e4a71c
Mattel owns the entire Thomas franchise now?! What about Christopher Awdry? And what about hit entertainment? Besides, isn't that train livery a real life train livery in Japan?
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Christopher Awdry sold it to Britt Allcroft, The Britt Allcroft Company (which changed to Gullane Entertainment in 2001) was bought over by HiT Entertainment in September 2002, a company specialising in children's entertainment.
Now Mattel owns HiT who owns Thomas.
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Just something new here, um my profile pics gone on my device?!
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Been doing some more research and I will bold the important part of this statement...
The transaction is expected to be financed with a combination of cash and debt and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2012. The transaction is not expected to have a material impact on Mattel’s 2012 earnings, but is expected to be increasingly accretive as the benefits of owning these brands are reflected in Mattel’s results, including the addition of Thomas & Friends® wood business in 2013 and retention of Thomas & Friends® plastic and die-cast business from 2015 onwards.
read the whole article here: http://www.hitentertainment.com/corporat...spx?nid=87
Sick of reading mattel annual reports they are boring lol
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Plarail Thomas is officially discontinued
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Well, There Goes The Best Of The Battery Powered :/ (in my opinion) Its A Shame They'd Do That But Hey, At Least Its Not The End Of Plarail Entirely
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Play nice & have fun!!
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(01-12-2016, 09:32 AM)Trainboy90 Productions Wrote: Plarail Thomas is officially discontinued
May I ask which 'official' channel this post was based on?
As far as I can see, no 'official' channels have stated explicitly the discontinuation of the series.
I would really like to know if this is true.
-plarnold
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(01-12-2016, 06:15 PM)plarnold Wrote: May I ask which 'official' channel this post was based on?
As far as I can see, no 'official' channels have stated explicitly the discontinuation of the series.
I would really like to know if this is true.
-plarnold
He shouldn't have simply written something like that without providing a source. It could cause a lot of rage and disappointment.
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01-12-2016, 11:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-12-2016, 11:54 PM by Super.)
I don't think there has ever been an official announcement nor, if true, do I ever see one coming business wise. Unless it was Plarails own idea of canceling a product line of their own making a statement that they have lost their rights would not be to their advantage. IMO. Time will tell
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(01-12-2016, 11:54 PM)Super Wrote: I don't think there has ever been an official announcement nor, if true, do I ever see one coming business wise. Unless it was Plarails own idea of canceling a product line of their own making a statement that they have lost their rights would not be to their advantage. IMO. Time will tell
Super is correct plarail won't be discontinued
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if you read the thread, we werent discussing plarail as a whole being cancelled, but the thomas and friends side of things. there was a large gap between new releases, and when they did come they were very slow, leading to fears that tomy/plarail had lost the license.
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I still stand by this, we got 1 engine this time and it was Ryan, nothing new has been announced  No-one is sadder than me as my whole channel was based on Plarail and Trackmaster Thomas train reviews. If I have nothing to review there can be no channel.
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