A Year in Review - 2014
As it is the last day of 2014 we are going to look and reflect upon what we have done this year. To do this we are going to take a month by month look at the year using pictures and links to the relevant videos. So without further ado let's get started.
February
16th
We kicked off 2014 with our first video in February. In this video we had a look at The Merit Big Big Train Set.This is a very nostalgic set from around 1985, the same year as the accompanying music. The video proved popular and gained over 11,000 views and over 20 likes.
Check out the Gallery page for more pictures.
17th
The next day we followed up the previous video with a collection of out takes and deleted scenes from the original filming. It's always fun to see what you were not meant to see, but sadly this video didn't get many views in comparison to the main one.
More pictures are available via the
Gallery page.
March
3rd
To commemorate 75 years since the Mallard set the steam locomotive speed record of 126mph the National Railway Museum arranged for Mallard and her 5 remaining sisters to gather for one last time in the two museums. I was lucky enough to see the engines at the Locomotion museum in Shildon and shared some of my pictures from the day in a video. It was fantastic to see six iconic engines all in one place, though very difficult to get any good photographs!
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Gallery page for more pictures.
15th
Shortly after seeing all six remaining Gresely A4 Pacifics I had the great pleasure of seeing 4464 Bittern pulling into Carlisle train station. It was fantastic to see and even if I do say so myself, I was in the perfect place when the train pulled in!
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Gallery page for more pictures.
June
24th
In this month we revealed that we had a copy of
The Sad Story of Henry and Other Stories VHS with a green video cassette. This video sparked quite a bit of interest and was our first VHS collection video for a very long time. We do plan to make a video showing our entire VHS collection in 2015.
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Gallery for more pictures.
July
5th
We actually made a video of the Bandai Cartridge Viewer on our old channel (
Cyril227ify) about three years ago, but this time around we had the original packaging. The cartridge viewer is a very interesting addition to our collection. It features a cartridge containing a tape with the story "Down the Mine" and a viewer. The cartridge simply slots into the viewer and your turn the handle to move the tape. One of our promo pictures was actually made using an illustration from the box and the same illustration is currently in use as our
Twitter cover photo!
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Gallery for more pictures
August
2nd
In this month we showcased a train set in a Garden Centre. This was an enjoyable video to make and apparently quite enjoyable to watch, the video gained over 500 views and 15 likes.
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Gallery for more pictures
7th
This is another video recreated from our old channel (
Cyril227ify) featuring our collection of the Johnny Morris singles. Take a look at the video and remind yourself of just how many of these singles were produced!
September
23rd
This was the first of a few videos to come featuring the Rev.W.Awdry record of 1957. This first video allowed you to get a close in depth look at the record and considered some of the adversing and publications that mentioned this incredibly rare recording.
27th
After four days we released the first side of the record "Edward's Day Out", narrated by Wilbert Awdry with accompanying steam engine sounds. The audio from this record had been released two years previously by Youtube user
The Railway Stories Audio Collection, the audio featured in his videos he had actually restored so it is comparatively high quality.
29th
We released the second side a couple of days later. We also released a blog post that discussed the information that myself and
The Railway Stories Audio Collection had discovered.
Also view the pictures on our
Gallery page
December
17th & 18th
As a special early Christmas surprise we uploaded both sides of the Question Time With Sir Topham Hatt Cassette released exclusively for Thomas Club Members in the late 1990s. This had been uploaded three years previously on our old channel (
Cyril227ify) but we felt it was time for a revamp!
Check out our
Gallery page to view the pictures and download both sides of the audio cassette.
25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, & 29th
Our Christmas special last year was of course the
Ladybird audio collection, this was a difficult task to beat. The Ladybird audios proved to be very popular. This year our Christmas special was releasing all of the
William Middleton illustrations, sadly the excitement wasn't as great as we were hoping as the illustrations were already released earlier this month. Still it was good to see them paired with the Rev.W.Awdry.
It has been a very busy year for ThomasTankCollectables and we would like to take the time to say a big thank you to everyone who as supported us over the years and made all of our work worthwhile! Thanks guys, hope you all have a fantastic new year!
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