Sodor = Tracy Island?

[ffutures]

A post by curiouswombat about a bizarre road accident on the Isle of Man reminds me that my 2-year-old grand nephew was watching some Thomas The Tank Engine episodes yesterday, and every time I looked up something seemed to be falling off a truck or a bridge, trains were running away, biplanes were crashing, bouulders were running down the railway lines, etc. etc., to an extent that I began to think that the island of Sodor must be in the Thunderbirds universe... You sure as hell wouldn't get me using public transport there...

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[aitkendrum.livejournal.com]

It is all rather dangerous isn't it. I once ran a GURPS fun game using the background at a con. As the players were actually plastic models they could only hop around and several died getting stuck on railway tracks and being cracked to death.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Nice!

I once started to write an RPG in which all of the characters were sentient steam engines etc., but eventually decided that the players might feel a bit railroaded.

[aitkendrum.livejournal.com]

Yes I can see the options being limited

"So the monster is charging you. Do you want to go backwards or forwards..."

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. There's a slight hint of the ideas I was toying with in the sections on automaton design in Forgotten Futures IX - limited vocabulary and monomania were the main features, as I recall.

[ggreig]

Groan!

(of appreciation)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

You know my track record...

[very-true-thing.livejournal.com]

http://www.sfsfw.org/a/21/trucks.php

You reminded me of this old Rag article. Which made me spot several typos in the online version. :-(

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yes, I remember that one.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

"... that I began to think that the island of Sodor must be in the Thunderbirds universe..."

Uh-oh! The nitroglycerine-powered demolition derby car has exploded! No one could have predicted that ... nor the flames now consuming the lacquered-paper stadium in which it's being held. And right next to the new rocket base with its giant liquid-hydrogen and liquid-oxygen tanks ... better call in the Thunderbirds!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yup ;-)