Most toddlers have one-track minds, meaning they will fixate/preoccupy themselves with one particular thing. This can occur in children to give themselves structure or comfort in their changing lives. This especially occurs in children with Autism, like myself. This is what I would call a childhood obsession. For me, there is no prize to whoever guessed what this for me, Thomas The Tank Engine. This carried on from when I was a toddler to my mid-childhood years.
Toddler Years
I suppose I got my love of Thomas The Tank Engine from my playing with my brother's Thomas toys. I would rock that Thomas jumper or Thomas and Friends T-shirt while playing with nearly every single train that I could find within a mile radius of my house. I could also be seen in many old tapes singing the tune of the intro of the show like a little rockstar.
The Show
I was in love with watching Thomas The Tank Engine. Whenever it was on we would record it on the old VHS tapes as I didn't have most of the episodes on video and this was before the days of YouTube. My favorite season was Season 3, 4, and 5 as these were the seasons I had the most episodes recorded, on video or DVD.
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| My old Season 3 DVD |
The Toys
I have no douth in my mind that I had one of the biggest Thomas collections EVER!!! Every Birthday and every Christmas, in came the trains, tracks, and accessories, if I got money, guess what, I bought more trains. Ertl, Take-Along, and Tomy were my favorite brands or the big trains (Tomy) or small trains (Ertl and Take-Along) as we would call them.
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| (Left to Right) Tomy, Ertl, Take-Along |
Memories
My family would be blue (like Thomas) in the face from listing to me talk about all the characters. I knew/still know most of them off by heart from ones that appeared all the time to the ones that were only in one episode. My layouts were another story. I could have made a track starting in the sitting room going threw the hall ending in my sister's room with all sorts of twists and turns.
Thomas and Me Today
Even though I don't watch the show or collect the toys anymore, I did hold on to the show for a long time in my life. However, every now and again I will Google the show and see what it's like today and how it changed. The older episodes are pure nostalgic for me and it still holds a place in my heart because of all the memories I have with Thomas The Tank Engine.
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| This Blog was fun because I got to relive my childhood |
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