Prop Vehicles
There are several vehicles that appear in various episodes as props. The Ertl Company range of die-cast models featured a number of them and named these "characters" for ease of identification, for example the Dyson Low Loader and the Sodor Soft-Side Truck.
From Season 3 onwards, a number of the background vehicles were used from the defunct television series Tugs. These included the Boats, the Cars, the Lorries, and the Cranes. Also appearing are the Fire Engines based on a 1956 Dennis F8 fire engine.
Read more about this topic: Non-rail Vehicles (Thomas And Friends)
Famous quotes containing the words prop and/or vehicles:
“Them she upstays
Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while
Herself, though fairest unsupported flower,
From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)