Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited

[partyspiritz]

Hi All

How about this for a Route. Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited. Ok in short Ivor The Engine. I would like to get a group of Train Simmer's together and turn this children's animation into a route.

I think it would be magic and fun to do. Take a look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_the_Engine
Or drop onto YouTube and watch video. I would love your input and to find a team to help build it.

Ivor the Engine was based in the "top left-hand corner of Wales” by the seaside. There are so many thing's to ask. Like do you build it in Narrow Gauge or Stranded Gauge. At the moment I just want to see if there would be any interest


Regards



John

[growler37]

Hi
I agree, it would make a great little route,i remember the route being produced for trainz some time ago with a neat little Ivor,complete with organpipe whistles and rolling stock,i still have a B/W video somewere
Regards
Kevin

[prairie4566]

Surely we'd need 'the locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited' - ie. Ivor - to run on it?

[GavNormandale]

you'll also need a welsh volcano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT3ZFG71QZg

[stuart666]

You know, I had forgotten how good that programme was.

Good luck with it, I look forward to seeing how you do the Volcano.

[welshdave]

Top stuff! I loved this program when I was a kid!

But I can't help wondering that if it was based in the "top left-hand corner of Wales” (by the sea!), which would put it anywhere from Llandudno, Bangor, Caernarfon or the Lleyn Peninsula (the county of Gwynedd, basically) and anywhere in between, why do they all have South Wales / Valleys accents? The equivalent is of a Teessider being given a Northumberland accent! Maybe I'm nit-picking And why does Mrs Griffith sound not unlike Nina Wadia (British-Asian comedienne from "Goodness Gracious Me")?

We need to return to the good old-fashioned values of low-tech 70s-style stop-frame animation, I think!

Regards,

Dave Randles

[partyspiritz]

Thank you for your input I think this would be good fun. What I need now is help to do it.


Regards



John

[pacerpilot]

But I can't help wondering that if it was based in the "top left-hand corner of Wales” (by the sea!), which would put it anywhere from Llandudno, Bangor, Caernarfon or the Lleyn Peninsula (the county of Gwynedd, basically) and anywhere in between, why do they all have South Wales / Valleys accents?

They'd all have Liverpudlian/Plastic Scouser accents other wise [Runs away ]

This would make a great little route though. Do we have a suitable way of modelling Dragon Clag yet?

[partyspiritz]

We have things that fly we can have Dragon Clag



Regards



John

[cymro]

Re pacerpilot's crude dig: on Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:51 am

" But I can't help wondering that if it was based in the "top left-hand corner of Wales” (by the sea!), which would put it anywhere from Llandudno, Bangor, Caernarfon or the Lleyn Peninsula (the county of Gwynedd, basically) and anywhere in between, why do they all have South Wales / Valleys accents?
They'd all have Liverpudlian/Plastic Scouser accents other wise [Runs away ]"

I think he's mistaking Gwynedd accents for those more along the North East Wales coast. You'll find that most people in Gwynedd not only have distinct and very Welsh accents, but that for most of them English is a second language. Ivor the Engine unfortunately followed the usual stereotypical pattern of using the southern valleys accent used by about 15% of the Welsh population, rather like using a Norfolk accent to portray anywhere in England.

[dlljones]

Don't forget the Cofi (pronounced covi) langage spoken in Caernarfon!

Bangor Lad

[buckbeak]

This is really weird. I was watching this on youtube with my dad and I was saying how someone should make the route and Ivor for Railworks I for one would love it. Used to be up at like 5 every morning when I was 5 can't remember what channel it was on but it was awesome
Danny

[hertsbob]

I can remember watching it when I was five as well. And then going "pisssshty-cuff" all round the house afterwards.

[buckbeak]

You're not the only one, I'm sure there were many Me included I really hope this does make it to RW *crosses fingers*
Danny

[partyspiritz]

I wonder if there is anyone who would be willing to help with this. I think this could a route of fun. As the Bacup Branch is on hold until I can get running in Railworks 2 I need to get on and build something.

There is stuff like dem data that I have very little knowledge of.


Regards


John