And here he is: The Sodor Troublemaker. Diesel is a model that was released in 2007/2008 and was discontinued sometime around the 2010's. Diesel was then reintroduced in 2014 with Lionchief controls and stayed in Lionel's catalogue for a few years before being silently discontinued again in 2016-2017. Luckily, in 2019, Diesel along with Thomas, Percy, and James were re-released (again) with Bluetooth Lionchief controls! What a wild ride! So why don't we get started? Diesel is perhaps one of the best models in Lionel’s “Thomas & Friends” range. This may not be saying much, but there is more to Diesel then meets the eye. Much like the other models, do not go on Google and look up a picture of this model, photo-shops and poor quality photos do not do these models any justice. When you physically see the Diesel model you notice a lot of unique details. For one, unlike many of the models in this range, Diesel cosmetically is near perfect. Proportionally, he looks great
Thomas the Tank Engine He is an engine who needs no introduction. Meet Lionel's O Scale representation of Thomas the Tank Engine. This model was originally produced back in 1996 and has been around in Lionel's catalogue ever since. Over the course of nearly two decades, Lionel has changed very little with this particular tooling. If anything, they have only ever updated the mechanism inside! But let's take a look at this infamous little engine. When it comes to colors, Thomas looks just as he should. With a bright blue paint job, red lining, and a bright number one on both sides, Thomas looks just as he appears in all official media. Over the course of this model's history, paint application has gone from good, to great, to poor, to simply okay. The images you are looking at here are from the 2017 release. The 2019 (Bluetooth) release is a bit of a brighter blue than seen here with but cosmetically all is the same. Details are where we begin to start nit picking. On