This might bring Bad Dad out of hiding, we need a good toaster oven story!
UN called to make Thomas the Tank Engine GENDER NEUTRal
THANKS UN TONY!
THOMAS the Tank Engine is being overhauled to become more gender balanced, it was revealed today.
A row erupted after it emerged the United Nations had been called in to advise how to update the image of Thomas & Friends, the children’s TV favourite.
The changes by US toy maker Mattel, which owns the show, will mean the end of Henry and Edward, two of Thomas’s friends who appeared in the original books by the Rev Wilbert Awdry.
They are being replaced in the Tidmouth Sheds by two female engines including Nia – the first African engine, developed with the help of the UN.
Thomas will leave his home on the Island of Sodor for the first time for adventures abroad, in episodes that support the United Nations’ “sustainable development goals”.