#ivor the engine

[agustinserrano62]

Thomas and the Firework Display ✨🚂🎉🎆

[wren59]

IVOR THE ENGINE

here's something I meant to upload a while back!, a sketch of everybody's (second) favorite tank engine, Ivor!

I can't hear bassoons in any music anymore without thinking of Ivor the Engine. does this count of Ivor The Engine Brainrot?!?!

[normalcartoonic]

Happy Holidays 2023 Part 1

[ebenelephant]

ivor the engine is such a weird programme because ostensibly it's a kids show about a lovely little welsh man and his best friend, the train engine, as they go about their day, except that the fourth episode introduces the fact that one of the secondary characters wholeheartedly believes in aliens and in the fifth episode the cast meets a dragon. the little welsh man and the train engine are also very good friends with a donkey named bluebell. everyone in this village is weirdly chill about the sentient train and the dragon, and no one seems to mind that a train participates in the choir competition (because ivor sings bass in the local choral choir, don't you know) (ivor cannot actually speak) but yet it is still made clear that sentient vehicles are Strange because in the episode with the dragon, ivor gaslights the woman from the antiquarian society into thinking that the little welsh man has fully lost his mind by simply refusing to blow his whistle in response to anything he says.

after those two strange episodes, everything returns to sweet little railway antics, and you could be forgiven for forgetting about idris the dragon completely - not that anyone ever does. a few episodes later, the main conflict revolves around the fact that the railway may or may not be nationalised. the episodes are 5-10 minutes long

[snaggletoothedbastard]

look I made a meme

[downthetubes]

Candy Jar Books relaunches Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's "Ivor the Engine", partners with Great Little Trains of Wales

Great Little Trains of Wales, whose purpose is to promote tourism by using public transport throughout Wales, already unites twelve enchanting railways, and has announced a thirteenth member: the one and only Ivor the Engine

[boardgoats]

Boardgames in the News: When is a Meeple not a Meeple?

Answer:  When it’s not a Hans im Glück Meeple, apparently.  The term Meeple was allegedly coined nearly quarter of a century ago by Alison Hansel while paying the tile laying game, Carcassonne.  It was a conjunction of “my” and “people” and was used to refer to the characteristic wooden people-shaped pieces.  Since then it has been modified and the suffix “-eeple” has now come to mean game token…

[valiantcheesecaketrash]

[petermorwood]

Here's that first-episode opening in its original form, in New English and with movement.

If the character designs look familiar, it's because Peter Firmin (who did the pictures) based them on the Isle of Lewis chessmen.

Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin founded Smallfilms, which produced small but sparkling gems of children's TV.

Besides "Noggin the Nog", these included:

"Ivor the Engine", (There he is, look!);

"The Clangers" (Tweetwee tweet-tweedle tweee);

And of course "Bagpuss" (baggy, and a bit loose at the seams *)

( * But Emily loved him...)

I was Officially far too old for the later ones, but I'd been just the right age for the earlier ones and have seldom let "Officially" get in the way. Besides, they were broadcast during lunchtime while I was at home for an hour, escaping the culinary rigours of School Dinner by making something of my own, so I absorbed them by a sort of osmosis.

Anyway, if someone as professionally acerbic as Charlie Brooker can make a tribute like this to Oliver Postgate, I don't think I'm alone.

Not by a long chalk...

A different Noggin

After @petermorwood and I got married, we started the process of many long discussions about what kinds of media we'd each grown up with that the other one had never seen or heard of before.

During this process I discovered to my astonishment that a limited-animation series of which I had only the vaguest memory was actually a real thing. (Which was reassuring, as for some years I'd half believed that I'd dreamed or hallucinated it.)

It turns out that WNET in New York—my home PBS TV station—had for a short time in the early 1960s carried episodes of a charming British animated series the name of which I'd long forgotten. But when I described a memory of "mournful clarinet* music" and mentioned the first few lines of the only episode I thought I remembered—"In the land of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold seas—" Peter immediately laughed and said, "Noggin the Nog!"

And of course that's what it was: one of numerous BBC animated series devised by the amazing writer/animator Oliver Postgate and his collaborator, puppeteer and artist Peter Firmin—later jointly responsible for classics like Bagpuss and The Clangers.

Noggin (for those of you who haven't met him yet) starts out as the Prince of the Nogs, the northern people over whom he eventually becomes King, despite the continual machinations of his evil uncle Nogbad the Bad. It's all extraordinarily good-natured and gentle stuff, witty and inventive, with Noggin's intelligence and kindness repeatedly saving him and his friends from trouble. You can see the first episode of the series here.

What brings the subject up right now, though, is that this morning I mentioned Noggin to Peter and said "I wonder how much Noggin they've got on YouTube?" Peter went looking... and then found something astonishing: an episode of Noggin that someone had fandubbed into Old English. Here it is. (Do turn the captions on: they've subtitled this episode in OE.)

...Meanwhile, if you're already familiar with this series, you may like to hear that The Sagas of Noggin the Nog is available on DVD from the Dragons' Friendly Society.

*Actually oboe, I think.

[agustinserrano62]

Gina Training Eric

Eric belongs to @WildNorWester (c)

Original sprites by CJ-The-Creator and Princess-Muffins (c)

[gello-strands]

My very normal average comfort characters

(REBLOGS>LIKES!)

[ellegaardfan27]

mildly obsessed with the old order of the stone

[oldtrain]

"Well, what is it?" "Oh, well, it's hard to describe, really! Parts of an old lorry and some sawn up slag tubs... Byne and Smith put it together, he calls it a juggernaut!"

[yourdarlingwarrior]

I thought it'd be good as any for my first post to be this edit I made! I love them, if you couldn't tell

[radiantrookie]

The original Order of the Stone at an enchanting table.

[sculknavigator]

╗Happy Belated New Year to all!! Here are the long-awaited New Year renders!╔

╗P.S. This render features not only Aiden, but also Cora, a character by user Lora_Lemons╔