Big Bird and Thomas the Tank Engine travel the tricky tracks to global expansion

Little, white me was addicted to Thomas the Tank Engine as a 4-year-old. My family lived a block from a real-life train station, but those trains didn't talk, or have names like Gordon, Percy, Douglas or Neville. I'm not from Britain, on which the show's made-up island of Sodor is based, but it still never occurred […]











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