Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Awdry, a Church of England cleric, noted that while there was an Isle of Man, there was no island of Sodor. [note 2] He decided to create a fictional island of "Sodor" as the setting for his books. Sodor would be between England and the Isle of Man, isolated from the British railway system, but somewhere that readers could easily imagine.
Trainz is a series of 3D train simulator video games.The Australian studio Auran (since 2007 N3V Games) released the first game in 2001.. The simulators consist of route and session editors called Surveyor, and a Driver module that loads a route and lets the player operate and watch the trains run in either "DCC" mode, which simulates a bare-bones Digital Command Control (DCC) system for the ...
Thomas & Friends (formerly known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) is a children's media franchise created by Britt Allcroft and currently owned by Mattel.The franchise revolves around an ensemble cast of anthropomorphic steam locomotives and other vehicles, including the main protagonist Thomas the Tank Engine, who work on the Island of Sodor.
List of The Railway Series books at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 February 2007) (in PDF). The Real Lives of Thomas the Tank Engine—documents real influences behind the series; Awdry Family Website at the Wayback Machine (archived 17 April 2008) Sodor Enterprises (publishing company) at the Wayback Machine (archived 22 December 2007)
only), a Sodor search & rescue centre worker ("Toad and the Whale"), the policemen, a Diver ("Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure"), Some Passengers, Albert ("Thomas the Babysitter"), Mr. Bubbles, the Welsh Bird Watcher ("Sidney Sings and Three Steam Engines Gruff"), one of Dowager Hatt's friends ("Best Engine Ever" and "Sidney Sings"), the ...
Success of Dark Reign spurred interest in the game engine from other games developers, and Auran began in-house development of a generalised version of the graphics engine for licensing to third-party companies based on its self-developed middleware game engine called the Auran JET and in 1998 began development of a more specialized version for what became the game engine for the Trainz series ...
Series 2 was first released as three separate VHS volumes by Pickwick's Screen Legends imprint in 1986. The Video Collection later re-released them in the 1990s, and have seen numerous re-releases over the years. Video Collection International released a complete series VHS set in 1999, available as either a single-VHS or double-VHS release.
Thomas & Friends is a children's television series about the engines and other characters working on the railways of the Island of Sodor, and is based on The Railway Series books written by the Reverend W. Awdry.