Thomas Mini Me - Smallest HO Powered Thomas

[MrMichaelDogson]

Leo, I'd hate to ask, but would you sell the HO crane that visible in the siding? I had a crane of my own before my local hobby shop closed, but you know as much as I do, children love to play rough.

[Dieselworks123]

it really sucks because the pez thomas collection aren't sold in New Zealand which is where i live

[ajracer101]

I just made a diecast thomas runner and i will run it at model train shows

[R26HMATZORILEY]

I LIKE THE EVIL LAUGH U HAVE GIVEN 2 THE LEGO MAD SCIENTIST

[LouCosplayPro]

will the gandy dancer fit in other take n play models

[TheFunnyguy9000]

Lego guy?

[Stuingtion]

Can you do another video to show how to remove the little men and handle?

[birca04]

The Skit at the Beginning was SO Funny and clever, I shared it with my friend

[mrduckandBubbles]

How did you get the parts off the Gandy Dancer without pulling the model apart?

[birca04]

FANTASTIC VIDEO! So Informative and Fun to Watch!

[boxer2244]

dear leokimvideo you misspelld gandydancer 7 times

[Th3RussBus]

What street in Hornsby did you get it from. Anywhere near Orara St?

[leokimvideo]

@Th3RussBus in the info area is a link to the shop where I buy train stuff

[legotrainzman]

you can motorize the james-model if you hide the gandydancer in the tender

[4Corry]

Can you buy Thomas Wooden Railway Edward, Gordon, James and Toby next and review them please.

[TalktomyfaceBoy]

How much can it pull????

[ThePonygirl03]

I have built one.

[MrRailroadrunner]

Nice mod and all, but why did you select normal trucks for annie and clairabel? I think I am going to try bachmann 4-4-0 pilot trucks for a lower fit. Lastly nice idea and I had fun building one of my own.

[bohemianh]

Well done interesting modeling!

[TheRailfan747]

Will you do some customs with PEZ toby and James later too? Toby would fit the bachmann chassis perfectly.

[username5515]

how much is the gandy danser because i don't think it's on the website anymore

[3HenrytheGreenEngine]

Lets get this video up to 1,000,000 views, lets ease Mr. Leo's pains with the contest!

[naffo10]

Great! thanks this will be really useful for my upcoming model projects :)

[TheShnizNite]

perhaps you should try this with an ERTL.

[leokimvideo]

@TheShnizNite yes thats a very good thought, the only problem is the ERTL Thomas is not easily available these days, in fact it's becoming more difficult to find than hens teeth.

It may also be too slender to pull this conversion off, I really need to have a closer look on this

[TheShnizNite]

@leokimvideo yeah, I just got back into collecting Thomas around September, and remembered how fun it was to collect the trains so many years ago. I didn't even know ERTL went out, but it is great to see the wooden railway is still going strong.

Anyway, your videos are amazing, and this is one of my favorites, so that is why I asked the question. I wish you luck wherever your creativity leads you.

[Percyfan1991]

@leokimvideo how much is 1 gandy dancer

[TheRacro]

@leokimvideo i have a thomas ertl model in prime condition :)

[Stuingtion]

What's the number for the bachmann Gandy dancer because I'm having trouble finding it in spokane WA

[leokimvideo]

@Stuingtion i'm hoping a bachmann fan can help you, i really don't know

[MrLegotastic]

where do you by ho tracks and the gandy dancer and how do you turn the Gand dancer on

[leokimvideo]

@MrLegotastic the gandy dancer turns on by applying power to the train tracks like any other HO train

[natertater360]

Leo you can do the same thing with the Dewitt Clinton

[MrTrainboy1]

hey leo, can i please have a plan of your model train set, as i'm getting a permenent one set up soon, and your layout looks nice, so please?

[leokimvideo]

@MrTrainboy1 my train layout in this video is nothing special, the sidings were a bit tricky as I had to cut small pieces of track to bring it all together

it's a generic loop track with a weird custom siding, it's definitely not a out of the box layout

[MrTrainboy1]

@leokimvideo ahh well, it did look nice

[Stuingtion]

It's fall in America now what's it like at Australia now?

[leokimvideo]

@Stuingtion starting to warm up

[tropicalfishswim]

the views continue to climb, let's hope this can hit 1,000,000 by christmas

[leokimvideo]

@tropicalfishswim yes the views continue to rise, really difficult to know exactly when it will crack the finish view count as it increases with views every week it's up

[Bero12300]

A very good way of powering the Tiny Thomas'. If I had all the components I would get started with those instructions now!

[leokimvideo]

@Bero12300 i can see loads of other thomas tubers jumping onto this, maybe I have started a whole new trend here

[22MarieTina]

I don't know how to send vids to u so will u come check them out for your contest

[cubeproduktion]

when you said "gandy dancer can come out as dandy gancer" does that count as a mistake?

[koquicoqui]

Recently got PEZ Toby off Ebay

[leokimvideo]

@koquicoqui still waiting to see all the new Pez thomas stuff where i live

[thomas9012]

@leokimvideo Have you seen the new pez Gordon & Henry yet Leo?

[ToaCelon549]

Lol, some of your mispronunciations such as "Fandy Gancer" or "Gandy Prancer" cracked me up.

[joshuapegasus]

leo i am in victroia australia

[joshuapegasus]

you said Gandy dacer wrong 4 times

[cubeproduktion]

hooray! I still have a long time so I can expand my collection

[leokimvideo]

@cubeproduktion i would.t be so sure, this video is starting to pull massive views now

[cubeproduktion]

@leokimvideo only 900,000 views left, thats a lot

[leokimvideo]

@cubeproduktion i think you better do your math again..lol

[cubeproduktion]

@leokimvideo its an estimate, not the exact number

[TheRyanCarMan]

@leokimvideo If it was at approx 100 000 views 2 weeks ago, and about 200 000 views now, then we have about 4 months to wait! That depends if the views rise at the same rate.

[22MarieTina]

We want u to see our videos for your contest

[PjLightning10]

dang you could work for thomas and friends engine toys

[leokimvideo]

@PjLightning10 no, if i did I could not bring to the tube reviews which point out the good and bad side to toys, i will always be independant

[bertiethebusfan14]

889100views left

[leokimvideo]

@bertiethebusfan14 this video is starting to pull lots of views a day now, the magic is starting to happen

sadly the contest is a run away and possibly totally out of control, i can no longer remove videos which are outside the rules, i don't think the tube is designed for 400 video responses to a single video

[LBCSport2010]

can do this on a wooden model thomas please?

[TheMrbigtires]

PLEASE DON'T CLOSE THE CONTEST!!! I REALLY WAnT A SHOT AT SUCH AN AWESOME MODEL!!

[KnapfordMaster98]

Could you use the gandy dancer as the front bogey on the take along/take n play diesel 10 you made? I'm curious as I want to make an HO take n play diesel 10 as I cant currently afford the proper running prototype.

[CynthiaWarden]

um borin jk awesome and unny

[cubeproduktion]

enjoying my summer! I enjoyed in the holiday part when I traveled but when i came back to Dubai, 38 degrees Celsius to 46 degrees Celsius. Good video!

[TheNw1218]

Can you do a review of a gandy dancer just by itself?

[leokimvideo]

@TheNw1218 i'm hoping someone who is a real rail buff can do it for me

[meg0n00by]

@leokimvideo

There are 13 Gandy Dancer you said.

[spdaylight1]

Do you think you could do Henry and Gorden

[super58173]

Does Thomas have a throat?

Apparently, nobody wants to find out, which is why he has two large tanks strapped to him.

[ninjakio930]

BECAUSE OF YOU, I'M GOING BACK TO TOY MODEL DESIGNING. THANK YOU.

[ThePercyfan06]

i got a bachmann gandy dancer today

[famaliyof4]

only 900,050 more views

[leokimvideo]

@famaliyof4 without giving too much away if I titled this video Chuggington mini me it would rocket away like all my Chugger videos, seems this is a fail upload

I wonder what I will do now, any ideas? A few tubers have asked me to cancel this contest, maybe I should listen to good advice!

I have been a fail for a long time on these networks, and now it really shows

[Stuingtion]

@leokimvideo don't cancel the contest

[Stuingtion]

@leokimvideo Just shorten the top view count to end the contest.

[minifiguremob37]

@leokimvideo NO! please don't cancel! change the rules or something so that its when it reaches 100,000 views! Its not a fail upload, you've got over 90,000 views!

[leokimvideo]

@famaliyof4 I just had a look at the views data, this video is only pulling 2500 views a day peak, I need it to pull 30.000 views a day like my Chugger reviews!

It's funny so many tubers tell me Chuggers is not popular, but my views tell the the opposite!

[maltipooRosie]

Hi im trainboy0330 maltipooRosie's brother so can you try a take a long percy ok i you do it thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sirgresley6007]

could you do a video of you taking the parts of the gandy dancer as i am going to do a similar project and going to need to remove the same parts

[leokimvideo]

@sirgresley6007 pulling the Prancy Gande is real easy, the little men just fall off, the arm between them is easily pulled out and the arm which powers them from below is a open cresent and pulls out easily.

Look carefully at the illustration of the pull apart Fancy Kancer and you will see there's not much to those little men at all.

[joshuapegasus]

leo you said gandy dacher 4 times worng.

[oliverhrichardson]

did the thomas set come with a controller?



[leokimvideo]

@oliverhrichardson yes it's spoken about in my Hornby FAIL video

that controller found the bin real fast

[oliverhrichardson]

can take along thomas pull other rolling stock?

[TheMrbigtires]

ok... nevermind. sorry. i heard about the viewcount problems...... forgot when i posted that. that"s really awesome that you got so many views in a week!

[TheMrbigtires]

well.....the number of views is increasing very slowly. also considering he said that the contest was gunna end next week.... which is now this week.....

[leokimvideo]

@TheMrbigtires just to let you know there has been a massive youtube glitch over the past week, everyone suffered frozen view counts, i am owed over 800.000 views as my average daily views is around 200.000 views a day

ask any tuber about this massive tube wide glitch, youtube has posted bulletins about it, sorry to sound like a smart ass but they are the facts, it pays to do a bit of homework before laying in a comment!

[leokimvideo]

@TheMrbigtires here is the blurb direct from youtube

A known technical issue in our reporting systems resulted in incomplete / inaccurate video view count data from July 11 to July 18. Please be assured that any views not currently updated are still being recorded. We hope to have any view count discrepancies resolved as soon as possible, but please note that it may take a few days

[leokimvideo]

@TheMrbigtires have anything else to say?

[leokimvideo]

@TheMrbigtires correction the data stall was over 8 days, so at 200.000 views a day thats 1.6 million views owing to my channel

FRED would be owed over 20 million views

i suggest you read back the previous comments to fully understand the views issues lately, once you have a grasp of the problem get back to me

[TheNw1218]

One question, what do you think would happen if chuggington began making Bachman or Hornby trains? Do you think they'd still look like the characters on tv?

[leokimvideo]

@TheNw1218 going from what we have all witnesses with Chuggers I'm pretty sure if they did some HO models they would be as good as the Bachamnn version of Thomas. Chuggers have been very careful to keep their characters in toy form very close to the TV series.

[leokimvideo]

@Calebtrain thanks

[Calebtrain]

@leokimvideo Oh I'm sorry. My older stepbrother went on my youtube account and found my favorites list. He is the One who posted that comment. Not Me. Sory about that!. Then he decided to go on all my subscriptions and Post rude comments on their videos. Sorry for the confusion!

[leokimvideo]

@Calebtrain well the lesson here is keep your account log on to yourself, don't let others use your account name!

[Calebtrain]

@leokimvideo Yeah, I usually never leave myself logged in, I must have been out of it that day..........

[TheMrbigtires]

not to be rude, but you should reduce the amount of views for the contest to close to 50,000

[leokimvideo]

@TheMrbigtires in that case it will finish next week!

I would like to think this contest will be open for some time, and the mystery prize just gets bigger and bigger as time goes on

The big call I always get is we want really good prizes, not short contests

This contest will give all of us a opportunity to see everyones Thomas collection in a ay like no other, already there are some amazing entries, stuff which I have never seen before

[TheMrbigtires]

i wonder where i could find a thomas pez.....

[Scoova123]

He is so cute i want him

[TheEdwardBlue]

4 that you said gandy dancer wrong

[DAVE01568]

By the way, dumb question. What dose HO stand for?

[CineSteam]

@DAVE01568 Doesn't really stand for anything. A popular largish scale for modelling trains is called 'O'. 'HO' is simply 'Half-O', in other words it was created at exactly half the dimensions of O.

[leokimvideo]

@CineSteam thanks, never knew that one!

[CineSteam]

@leokimvideo No problem!

[CineSteam]

@leokimvideo By the way, everything in 00 (the British scale) is just a little bit bigger than HO, except for the track which isn't any wider, so the tracks are narrower than they should be in 00. There is another scale called EM which is the very same as 00 except the track is a bit wider, so it's 00 with the (almost) correct track 'gauge'.

I say almost because even that is one millimetre too narrow. There is a scale called P4 or ProtoFour which is absolutely correct. Only for rivet-counters!

[DAVE01568]

Those converts are fast. I got to win one for Jake. Going home to make a video with him ASAP

[ThomasModeller]

Hello, could I enter this competition?

[ThomasModeller]

Are you planning to do Toby as well?

[BrendenReis10]

wow! If i dont win the contest, wich i will lose, i will try this with that little pezboy

[TheNw1218]

@leokimvideo, so in other words, you were doing it on purpose. Why did I think Ut was an accident? DAMN.

[leokimvideo]

@TheNw1218 everything I do has a purpose, and without purpose your only wasting your time

[rusty2therescu]

you should submit this to guiness world records.you'd probably get one for smallest HO train.

[leokimvideo]

@rusty2therescu smallest HO Thomas!

dare say some one else has beaten me to it, they always do

[TheNw1218]

First time you mispronounced gandy dancer, that's ok, second and beyond it's annoying. No offense of any way shape or form, but get it right!

[SecretTubeTips]

@TheNw1218 lol it's part of a contest challenge, maybe you should re think your comment

[leokimvideo]

@TheNw1218 not sure if you know it's set up as part of a contest, sorry if you did not watch the whole video which explains this!

[KnapfordMaster98]

I feel bad for you that your hornby thomas did not come with traction tiers. Maybe with your expert modeling skills, you can order some spares from hornby and make thomas really useful once more.

[leokimvideo]

@KnapfordMaster98 issue being if the book in the set speaks of traction tyres and they are not there I should not have to do anything except ask for a full refund

surely thats fair considering the poor performance this model now has

i don't spend $200 and expect to start fixing something from new!

[KnapfordMaster98]

@leokimvideo You have a good point there. If I were you, I'd sell that one and hunt on ebay for one that DOES have traction tiers.

[leokimvideo]

@KnapfordMaster98 i should also add all the details behind the Hornby fail is in the video after this..i think

[14warr]

You should have bought the railway modelers controller. If you did no short circiut stuff will happen. Plus run your Hornby Train every morning around a track to give your train full potential.

[MasterOfTheLemons]

I never imagined being able to do that with a Pez Thomas! Good thinking, leo!

[leokimvideo]

@MasterOfTheLemons believe me it's a very tight squeeze, it's a mod which is quite difficult to pull off but I feel it;s worth it just because I feel the Pez Thomas is so cute and fun.

I liked the Pez Thomas from day one, and it's dirt cheap which is even better. I still see boxes of them in toy stored here and just bought another box.

[pwalpar]

awesome production

[SilverZEntertainemnt]

Does the mis-pronounciation at 11:52 count? And how big a part will the number of mis-pronunciations question play in the deciding of the competition.

[trainsandtrek]

your summer looks amazing here in calgary it is snowing a blizzard and it is minus 26 ):

[leokimvideo]

@trainsandtrek lol

[trackmaster1999]

Nice! i like went you use minifigure with thomas again

[psp880]

why dont you take a take along annie and clarabel and make them for the take along thomas

[leokimvideo]

@psp880 maybe thats something the audience can work on, I am hopefully showing you a way to get your fav toys moving

[leokimvideo]

@TheBritishRailway thats fine, let them hate as i know thats all they are able to do

[RandomRobloxian]

"She's a thristy girl."

O_O That was a little... umm... how do I put this... weird?

[leokimvideo]

@RandomRobloxian i'm a expert in weird, do it all the time!

[RandomRobloxian]

you keep saying "Gandy Dancer" wrong.

Gandy Prancer, Dandy Gancer, Gandy Gancer, etc.

[leokimvideo]

@RandomRobloxian it's sort of sick, maybe it's for a reason!

[Heroduothecomedian]

is that rocky or an ho model that rocky was based off of?

[leokimvideo]

@Heroduothecomedian hmmmmmmm, it's the old late 70's crane, not sure if it's related to Rocky but I can see the similarities

[TheThomas64fan]

I'm thinking about putting a Gandy Dancer chassis in a take 'n' play Bash or Dash

[trainznthdrbrds24]

@andrew20012002 Leo isn't an American, he's Austrailian. Can't you watch a video without spamming out the comments? If someone needs to go back to school, preferrably Pre-School, it would be you.

[leokimvideo]

@trainznthdrbrds24 thanks, sometimes you just have to let tubers show themselves for what they are, it takes all sorts to be a tube audience

[cubeproduktion]

at 11:18 you can hear a gunshot!

[leokimvideo]

@cubeproduktion yep there would be someone trying to shoot me down, happens all the time

[thomasandferdinand14]

Is it possible to convert Bash and Dash using this method?

[leokimvideo]

@thomasandferdinand14 not sure unless i did some model bashing..lol

[thomastrain132]

does the time you said "it comes out as dandy dancer" count?

[thomasfreak5]

@andrew20012002 woa whats that about stupid americans?? i suggest you keep your racial comments to yourself. We did nothing to you, and besides iove the UK, but i was born and raised in the USA! Being with the military, i dont respect people like you who disrespect the USA. Oh and dont even worry about commenting back, i dont want to hear your whining.

[kr4449]

leo do u think that u can find the playrail trains on ebay?

[leokimvideo]

@kr4449 sorry to say i don't use e-bay

[kr4449]

@leokimvideo ok then

[GeebMachine]

You know what? I think you've just given me an idea of how I can make an HO model of Dart. ;) ;D

[thomasrosiefan1]

@GeebMachine Hornby's already making a Dart.

[GeebMachine]

@thomasrosiefan1 I'm in the US. I can't get Hornby so easily.

[leokimvideo]

@thomasrosiefan1 lest hope it has traction tyres!

[leokimvideo]

@GeebMachine good luck

[meg0n00by]

There are 13 Gandy Dancer words stuffed up in this video.

[ShadowNick5]

Bachman captures more of the TV Series Engines and the Hornby is used for more of a Railway Series look, but I haven't had a Hornby or Bachman model in years so :(. Also in the video you can see that Annie and Clarabel are wet. Finally don't feel bad Summer in New York looks like your winter :|.

[leokimvideo]

@ShadowNick5 many years ago I lived with a family up there in New York state, a small town called Mechanicville.

It's interesting as it has a rail line which divides the town and for this fact has two fire departments either side of the rail line

[ThomasTheTrainBoy1]

Leo just to let you know you can buy replacement set of Thomas Wheels and axels That Have Traction Tyres. And with your Large mind you could put them on in 2 minutes.

[ThomasTheTrainBoy1]

Leo just to let you know you can buy replacement set of Thomas Wheels and axels That Have Traction Tyres. And with your Large mind you could put them on in 2 minutes.

[punterseyes]

where did you get the gandy dancer from?

[Trainsforlife286]

ya New York State is like that.AND ITS SUMMER!!!!!!! >:O

Anyways nicevideo. can you make a ho powered version on the mini ertl thomas?

[TheNw1218]

I originally thought you borrowed the hornby Thomas from simierski. Now that I know you bought it, I now know where it came from. Also, the scientist needs to look a lot more intimidating.

[leokimvideo]

@TheNw1218 as for the mad scientist, I don't think he's been through acting school. you may class his acting as wooden...mind you he's actually plastic

[leokimvideo]

@TheNw1218 if I had simierski's Hornby Thomas maybe this video would not have had the issues which came from my very poor performing Hornby model

it seems there are some major differences between what look like two identical models, it's a story best told b a special video outlining the differences

[DEATHOMEGA69]

LOL 6:07 "gandy prancer"