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Mighty & Mac
The Skarloey Railway
i decided to draw whoever is in the photo above⬆️ (i know that Mac is not visible in the photo. but still).
Sooo I saw @asktrio516 draw their favorite one-off character and that REALLY made me wanna redraw mine. It's the Double Fairlie lads!
I just think they're neat.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWW, MY BOYS 💓💝💝💖❤️💕❣️🤧
Mighty Mac 💞✨
one of my favourite things about holding onto all the thomas toys ive collected since i was literally a baby is making batshit insane stories with them. my mom and i literally make entire soap operas with them.
presently lady hatt is cheating on sir topham with farmer mcoal, and as a result sir topham hatt turned to alcoholism. spencer stole the express coaches from molly. mollly attempts to crash into spencer to stop him, but she fails and rosie takes her to the works to be repaired.
rosie abandons her work to chase spencer down. she caught him, and as punishment, sir topham bans spencer from the tracks. bulgy steals the passengers on the express and holds them hostage while he drives all over the road. spencer then jumps onto the road to try and take them back. thomas then appears out of no where with gasoline and explosives and blows up a tunnel, then jumps on the road as well to confront spencer for causing trouble. bulgy and caroline are forced off the road from their feud. all while that was going on, emily was supposed to pick up the express passengers from molly, and has been on a wild goose chase this entire time to find them. such shenanigans involved conspiring with henry to cause spencer to crash, asking mighty mac about it while he does all of rosie's work, and going all over the island multiple times.
with bulgy off the road, emily finds him and takes the incredibly pisses off passengers to dinner, and they can only be calmed down when mighty mac brings them booze. sir topham figures out spencer caused all of this and bans him from the road too. spencer, in retaliation, jumps onto bulstrode and hijacks him. so how are you all spending your weekends?
So the other night my brother and I started brainstorming a somewhat Choo Choo Charles inspired Thomas & Friends AU where almost everything is the same, except the trains have legs...
And I've done a bit of concept drawing
The point of these sketches were basically just to flesh out the proportions/structure of a handful of the character's hypothetical legs
I've also decided to give each type of vehicle legs that match a general species group, such as: The mainline steam engines will have mammalian legs akin to big cats or dogs (e.g, lions, wolves, foxes, etc), diesel engines will have somewhat bug-like legs, narrow gauge engines will have hoofed goat-like legs since they generally traverse mountainous areas, flying vehicles will have avian (bird-like) legs, water traversing vehicles will have fins or flippers, and road vehicles' legs will likely fall into a more ambiguous species category
There are a few exceptions to this rule, such as Duck having avian legs (I couldn't resist taking his name literally) or Salty having reptilian legs with webbed feet, but for the most part the characters will follow this species category rule
As for the amount of legs the engines will have, that will differ depending on the engine's size. Tank engines and standard diesels would have 6 legs each, bigger mainline engines would have up to 8 legs (12 with a tender coupled), and narrow gauge engines would typically have 4 legs.
The biggest exception to this rule would be Mighty Mac. Since they're conjoined twins they have a set of legs each, making them the only narrow gauge engine to possess 8 legs. Plus all of their limbs are front legs with opposeable thumbs, another anomaly among engines in general.
Since this has been an unusually text heavy post for my blog, I shall leave you with two bonus (very rough) sketches:
Here we have James in a pinup-style pose (my brother's suggestion) as well as Thomas and Percy hanging out on a shed roof after somehow fining a way up there
Currently trying to design some engines as marketable plushies, more updates will likely be up soon!
TTTE, TUGS & Theodore Tugboat humanized male characters no. 3
Thomas & Friends humanized characters no. 5
TTTE, TUGS & Theodore Tugboat humanized characters by religions (Part 10)
I'm myself already drawing and painting the picture of humanized Mighty Mac from Thomas and Friends. In their engine form, they're both a conjoined Double Fairlie tank engine.
But in their humanized form, they're no longer conjoined and the only pair of fraternal-identical twin brothers who drove their own Double Fairlie engine. Even also they're both raised in their Catholic faith.
Robert "Mighty" & Ronald "Mac" Evans - Catholics
Random TTTE fun fact: Mighty Mac are the first and only conjoined twins in the show.
That’s True!
This is actually really good lore info that you gave us, so ty for that hun! The thought of kind of a “light essence” controlling the cable is really interesting to see!
Also, POOR OLLIE! Getting traumatized by a wrench and nasty scrappers! 😭
If the trains have no crews, then why do they have cabs? Those are specifically for crews to keep them out of the weather. Even if cabs are weirdly required for the trains to come to life, then they'd certainly be either removed after the train awakes or at least boarded up to keep train-hoppers off. (If James didn't notice some boys messing with his controls, then the trains not noticing a stowaway in the unmanned cab is a real concern.)
Adding to this, the earliest locomotives don't have cabs, just footplates where the controls are. The controls are meant for the crews to use. If the engines don't need them, then the controls would also be phased out designs and removed (or at least made inaccessible so troublemakers can't distract the train by messing with the controls).
(My sincere apologies if the first panel comes off rude, this entire ask really rubbed me the wrong way for multiple reasons.)