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trainmanauxl1 — Real life little engine that could model
Published: 2012-11-14 23:14:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 547; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 3
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I made this for my doom railroad series, this was going to be featured in episode one of the Dust Bunny Railroad Series. Sadly, school got in my way, and i originally filmed it in stop animation and i just couldn't get the timing right.Related content
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Not at this moment. The drive wheels are molded into the boiler. Maybe one day i'll learn to kit bash and put rolling trucks on the front and back. Then i'll have a motorized boxcar push it along.
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nice model tille. o_o
it reminds me of my c.jr prototype
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So that is what they call her... I always called her Chessie. Also, how has your Casey Jr model been doing? I still want to build one, but don't have the parts or the money.
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Yep. There's a 1991 film based on the Watty Piper version of the source book, with Kath Soucie in the title role, from which Tillie's name originates [ www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmBhnx… ]. The 2011 CGI remake [ www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUOnH5… ] leaves her unnamed and voiced by Alyson Stoner, but the 2011 film, unlike the 1991 original, also deviates greatly from its book source by regulating the other engines to background filler, turning the Kind Rusty Engine (named Jebodiah in the 1991 film, but named Rusty in the remake) into a mentor for the Little Engine, gender-bending both Tower (in the 1991 original, he's male, but in the remake, Whoopi Goldberg's voice makes Tower female, even though the Tower doesn't exist as a character in the source book, as neither does the doctor train exclusive to the 1991 film, who wraps-up the situation with Birthday Train Georgia by taking her to the Rail House for repairs) and the "funny little toy clown" (he's male in both the source book and the 1991 original, in which he's given the name Rollo and voiced by Frank Welker doing his Rain Man impression, but in the remake, the head of the toys becomes a female clown named Beverly, who's voiced by Jamie Lee Curtis), replacing the toys from the 1991 film (a panda named Sandy Pandy, a Stretch Armstrong type character played by Scott Menvile [sp?], a stuffed elephant named Trunky, a dancing ballerina as voiced by Kath Soucie in the Russian accent she used for Linka on Captain Planet, a clanging monkey named Jeepers who acted as Rollo's assistant, etc.) with a sock monkey (who's voiced by the voice actor of Darwin from The Wild Thornberry's), two giraffes (one being voiced by former High School Musical alum, Corbin Bleu), a tin solider, and another ballerina (who's replacing Kath Soucie's Mitzi from the 1991 film), creating a real villain called the Nightmare Train to try and stop the Little Engine (he mocks her when she loses power due to a hole in her boiler that needs a patch job, only offers to "help" by tricking her into giving up her cargo so he could continue to spread nightmares worldwide, and tries to push her off the tracks in a brutal attempt at train murder, just to be sent careening into a desolate gorge when tracks are switched), separating the world of talking trains (called Dream Land in the remake) from the "real world" (there is no such separation in either the original book or the 1991 film, nor is the location of where the story's said to take place ever mentioned in either), and adding a boy named Richard from the "real world" into the world of talking trains (Richard is exclusive to the remake, as there is no separation between the world of talking trains and reality in either the source book or the 1991 film, never mind that there's this awk-weird tension between the Little Engine and Richard, because Richard conveniently has a hobby involving model-building, so he knows how to fix the Little Engine when she breaks down the first time due to a loose screw/popped bolt, but as he's repairing her and they make introductions, there's innuendo when you take into consideration how the animators animated the Little Engine giving Richard "bedroom eyes" - eyes that are drawn with the lids half closed - as they converse, had her make a questionable comment about how "tight" it feels as he's putting her screw/bolt back into place, and emitting white steam from beneath her wheels instead of her smoke stack when Richard asks if she feels better once fixed; I mean, I know there's "nothing like a boy playing with his train", but that's going a little overboard, IMO). If I had to choose between the two, I'd always pick the 1991 original over the remake any day.
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...well... you've certainty done your research.
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ur pic was in search results of tletc.
and casey is... under resurch for motor fittings
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Ah, same here. looking At using a 'gandy dancer' for a motor for Chess.
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