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An excerpt from a newspaper story explains frustrations from the family of the author of the "Thomas the Tank Engine" books over recent decisions to replace "Christmas" with "Holidays" in some of the popular steam engine's forthcoming content: "A move by television producers to scrap any reference to Christmas in the latest episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine has upset relatives of the man who created the hugely popular children's character.   The TV studio has rebranded "Christmas" as "holidays" for "politically correct" reasons, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported.   Reverend W Awdry, author of the original tales about the little blue engine, would be distressed about the omission of the significant religious event, said his daughter Hilary Fortnam.  "He would feel very strongly about this politically correct age and that those who now write his stories should not have taken the Christ of the Chri...

Image via Wikipedia Our two year (and 2 months!) old has officially fallen in love with everything Thomas. From the moment my wife picked up a cheap Thomas and Friends DVD at Target , which he watched, mesmerized, he has evolved his love of trains to where his GeoTrax and Lego train sets are no longer sufficient. Now, his trains must be wooden, be propped up on a table, and the trains must be able to be manually pushed along. It does seem like a step backwards, after all, the GeoTrax ran on their own, as did the Lego set. The Thomas videos were a bit creepy at first, where the trains were speaking but their mouths were not moving. Yes, they were narrated ( George Carlin and Ringo Starr, nonetheless!) but it just wasn't quite right. They've since fixed this oversight and the newer films offer a true mouth-moving experience -- much more realistic. Now, to find the Sight and Sounds Deluxe set somewhere... Related articles by Zemanta Lego fish tan...