Models
Some of the models, including Big Mickey the crane were passed over as background models for Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. It was said that most of the original models had been repainted but in mid-2012, several face masks were auctioned off on eBay and models of the characters were confirmed to still exist in December 2012. As of 9 January 2013, the models have been confirmed sold as a near-complete collection (a few models, most notably Top Hat, have gone missing) and are being preserved by The Sodor Island Forums and Fansite, who have now began a trust to restore and preserve the models. They were delivered to their new owners on 26 January 2013.
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“The greatest and truest models for all orators ... is Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“The parents who wish to lead a quiet life I would say: Tell your children that they are very naughty—much naughtier than most children; point to the young people of some acquaintances as models of perfection, and impress your own children with a deep sense of their own inferiority. You carry so many more guns than they do that they cannot fight you. This is called moral influence and it will enable you to bounce them as much as you please.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)