THOMAS & FRIENDS™ – CELEBRATING 70 YEARS!

Did you know that Thomas has been a friend to children all around the world for 70 years? Holy cow right? I had no idea! I asked my husband the other day if he remembers Thomas from his childhood and he definitely said yes, he’s known about Thomas since he was just a young boy too. Now, I can’t wait to ask my own dad! I wonder if he also remembers Thomas from when he was a boy.


Being a boymom to three, one of the things I’ve noticed with boy toys is that they never go out of style. All of the same favourites I raided from my brothers bedroom are toys my own boys play with now. And my kiddos are expecially lucky because my husband kept a lot of his special toys from when he was young, so many cool vintage memorabilia from Hot Wheels, G.I. Joe and Star Wars! 

To mark this huge milestone for Thomas, we’re celebrating the special multi-generational relationships Thomas has had with families over time, especially between dads and their sons.

To honour fathers and all that they do, Thomas and Friends™ is helping you find ways to take time every day to thank and celebrate dad!

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Put His Health First.

Being a dad is a busy job and, just like mom, sometimes their health can come second. This Movember, Thomas and Friends  is reminding dads everywhere to get regular check ups from their doctor. In support of Movember, Thomas and Friends™ is also selling blue mustaches, which can be purchased with all proceeds being donated in support of the Movember initiative which raises funds for prostate cancer research.

 

Take Time to Show Your Love.

Getting caught up in busy routines, you can often forget to show your appreciation for dad. Make sure you give him a hug every day and let him know that you love him. While this may seem small, it will go a long way in making him feel loved and appreciated.

 

Have Fun Together.

Try taking the initiative to set a fun activity up for him and the little ones. If he loves baseball, proactively ask to go to the park as a family and throw the ball together. Spending time together doing something he loves will create memories that will last for years to come.

 

Disconnect to Connect.

It can be easy to spend time together as a family plugged in watching a movie or catching up on your favourite TV shows. But, rather than spending all your time in front of a screen, try setting your littles ones up in a quiet space with dad and their favourite toys. They can have fun building the ultimate Thomas and Friends™ track and dad can share his memories of growing up with Thomas has his best friend!

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Comments

  1. Juliee Fitze says

    My favorite childhood toy was my walking taking doll until my sister cut off her string.

  2. My favourite toy was my Barbie Camper!

  3. One of my fave toys was the family treehouse, a tree that top popped up and there was a little elevator and people
    here is a link: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Kenner-Tree-Tots-Play-Family-Tree-House-97000-Complete-Ages-2-6-610-/371481207861?hash=item567e016435:g:pbIAAOSw~OdVdjqC

  4. kathy downey says

    My favourite childhood toy was Barbie

  5. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    My favourite toy over 60 yrs ago was Bayko, it was a building toy that used rods and bricks, I spent hours playing with that. 🙂 Here’s a link so you can see what I mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayko

  6. Dayna Wilson says

    I was a big fan of my Playmobil barn.

  7. Belinda McNabb says

    I was addicted to barbies when I was a kid

  8. My favorite toy as a child was my Fisher Price Garage

  9. I guess my Lite Brite – as I still have it!

  10. Jennifer P. says

    My favourite childhood toys were my Little People when I was younger, and my Cabbage Patch Kid when I was older.

  11. My favourite toys growing up were my barbies and all my barbie horses, the travel trailer and the dream house, yes I had everything barbie!!

  12. Anne Taylor says

    My favourite childhood toy was my slinky!

  13. My Cabbage Patch Kid

  14. My favourite toy from my childhood was a Little Orphan Annie doll from the 1982 movie!

  15. Holly O'Gorman says

    I loved my Holiday Barbie.

  16. Doreen Lamoureux says

    Even though I am a female, my favorite childhood toys were little cars.

  17. Marilyn Legault says

    I loved my wiggle baby

  18. My favourite was my Barbies.

  19. Ginger Gervais says

    I had an old teddy bear that I loved 😉 also loved my Barbie’s and popples.

  20. My fave were Barbies 🙂

  21. I loved my “Just Like Me” American Girl doll!

  22. Veronica S. says

    My teddy was my favourite. But for all my boys, I know it will be Thomas and Lego.

  23. lynn clayton says

    my fav was my pet monster

  24. My favourite toy was my Superstar Barbie.

  25. I had a giraffe that I loved. It was giant to me, but probably not really.

  26. My favourite childhood toy was my cabbage patch kid!

  27. Jeanette Jackson says

    My favorite childhood toy was my building blocks

  28. My favourite was Barbies.

  29. Cabbage patch doll! Super happy I received that from Santa!

  30. My favorite toy was a stuffed dog name d Shaggy. I still have him. I got him when I was five so I guess Shaggy is 55.

  31. Aimee Robison says

    My favourite was my Care Bears.

  32. My favourite childhood toy was my Cabbage Patch Kid!

  33. Rosanne Robinson says

    My favourite toy was a doll.

  34. my miniature smurfs, or my cabbage patch doll

  35. MY favourite toy was Barbie and I had some barbie furniture, a barbie car and camper

  36. ivy pluchinsky says

    i really liked my popples and she rae princess of power dolls which i still have

  37. Angie Andrews says

    My favourite would have to be She-Ra

  38. I had a walking doll she was about 2 feet tall

  39. My favorite were my board games. I loved playing games.

  40. kristen visser says

    my favorite childhood toy was the Easy Bake Oven

  41. My favourite child hood toy was a train set

  42. Holly Kennedy says

    I loved my big wheels.

  43. I had a Barbie Jeep and it was wonderful

  44. Nancy Parsons says

    My favourite toy would have been Mr Professor. I use to hide under my covers when I should have been sleeping with my Mr Professor and my flash-light doing math problems.

  45. Angela Mitchell says

    My favourite childhood toy was Barbie.

  46. My son would love this, he loves Thomas, would be a great Christmas gift for him.

  47. Rose Reeder says

    We didn’t have much for toys when I was young as many families, but played with a doll that was given to us.

  48. LISA BOLDUC says

    A lot of my child hood memories are of me skipping on a huge skipping rope

  49. I had a plush Smurf doll that I carried around and played with all the time. It was gifted to me on my 5th Christmas. Thanks.
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  50. Nena Sinclair says

    My favorite childhood toy was my Easy Bake Oven!

  51. My favourite childhood toy was my Barbie.

  52. My fav toy as a kiddo was my Bert puppet. The poor thing was dragged around everywhere!

  53. Charlene Lucas says

    I loved pick-up-sticks or monkey in a barrell (toys weren’t so advanced back then LOL).

  54. Barbie

  55. melissa fowers says

    My doll house was my favorite

  56. My favourite was my Barbie dolls.

  57. My favourite childhood toy was a FisherPrice rotary phone on wheels

  58. Florence Cochrane says

    My doll and crib. Only toy I could remember owning.

  59. Raveen Chung says

    My favorite toy was my 100 piece puzzle of three dogs that I LOVED to do over and over and over.

  60. a red fire truck

  61. It was a stuffed Rin Tin Tin toy that I carried everywhere.

  62. Gillian Morgan says

    I had a doll that was bigger than I was and was heavier than me but I loved it and took it everywhere.

  63. My fav childhood toy was my Cabbage Patch Doll!

  64. I had a tiny, but very detailed doll about 2in long with moving hands and legs and I loved making dresses for it.

  65. Wendy hutton says

    my favorite an only toy as a child was a toy stuffed monkey, he held a banana that you could put in his mouth

  66. My cabbage patch doll!

  67. Caroline M. says

    I was fortunate to have many favourite toys, but probably the best was the game trouble.

  68. Monica Miller says

    I had a stuffed horse named Nelly. We also had a giant little tykes barbie house which was epic!

  69. melissaandkeith miller says

    I loved My Little Ponies growing up!

  70. My lightbright was my favorite toy!

  71. I used to adore my Cabbage Patch kid!

  72. My favourite childhood toy was my glow worm

  73. I loved barbies

  74. My favorite childhood toy were my Barbies and all of the accessories (like the car, etc)!

  75. My favourite childhood toy was a pink doll buggy.

  76. Erinn Lishman says

    I loved my Popples stuffed animal. She slept with me every night, I just wish I had her still!

  77. Loved the Easy Bake Oven!

  78. Poly pockets were my favourite toy as a child.

  79. I loved my ride-on duck!

  80. My stuffed rabbit Hoppy. I still have him, he’s blue!

  81. Carol Denny says

    I loved my dolls and my slinky. We had two stair cases in our house so I had hours of fun.

  82. Erika Belanger says

    I loved my big wooden doll house and all my barbies!

  83. Lego was my favorite!!

  84. I can’t remember any toys that I used to play with but, I know that I had a bunch of Fisher Price toys (barn, camper, school house) because my kids are now playing with them!

    My kids LOVE Thomas and he’s one of their favourites.

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  85. Victoria Ess says

    I loved legos.

  86. Terri O'Donnell says

    My favorite childhood toy was a Smarty Bear. My sister & I took it everywhere with us

  87. Sarah Stickney says

    our nintendo was my favourite

  88. oh geeze, uhm i was really into holly hobby

  89. My. fav. childhood toy is my handy bake oven.

    Was so much fun to play with,

  90. My favorite was my gameboy

  91. my collection of ‘popples’ were my favorite toys

  92. my little pony was my fave

  93. My cabbage patch was my fav toy!

  94. My she-ra castle was my favorite toy

  95. I loved my Easy Bake Oven as a child !

  96. I had a large doll named Wiggy and she came with 3 wigs that I enjoyed!

  97. My Barbie dream house. I played with it all the time

  98. My favourite was my ballerina barbie doll.

  99. My favorite toys were my stuffed animals and my books.

  100. My Speak and Spell was my favourite

  101. I had an awesome Jem and the Holograms set that had the dolls and a stage with mics and instruments. i played with it every single day.

  102. I have always loved Lego 😀

  103. I don’t remember what my favorite toy was… I know I had My Little Ponies, and Barbies, and Legos… I love Playmobil! I had a cabbage patch doll, too….

  104. My favourite childhood toy was an Easy Bake Oven.

  105. Elva Roberts says

    My favorite childhood toy was the doll I received at Christmas.

  106. Melissa Federer says

    as a child, I spent alot of time playing with my She-Ra dolls 🙂

  107. Wanda Bergman says

    I always liked borrowing my brother’s toys … his cars & trucks were a lot more fun than my dolls. LOL!

  108. Haroon Khan says

    My fave was Barbie!

  109. My favourite toys were lego. My son, however, is a HUGE Thomas fan!

  110. My favorite childhood toy was my Easy Bake Oven. I used it all the time for ages.

  111. Brittney House says

    I used to love playing the Barbies. I loved dressing them up.

  112. I loved my Cabbage Patch Doll!

  113. Wendy Jensen says

    My favorite childhood toy was my teddy bear.

  114. My favourite was my fisher price doll house.

  115. My favourite toy was my doll house. It was one you had to build and was all metal with folding tabs.

  116. I loved my slinky until my younger brother got a hold of it. 😉

  117. My cabbage patch doll!

  118. Moppets secret doll house was my favorite toy as a child.

  119. I loved K’NEX! Those crazy rollercoaster sets that take up a huge amount of space we’re awesome!

  120. Tracey Flattes says

    I loved playing with my Cindy doll (UK equivalent to Barbie!)

  121. I loved my lincoln logs

  122. I can’t really remember. I was more into colouring and arts & crafts than toys.

  123. Tricia Hope says

    I loved my Easy Bake Oven until I got a third degree burn from it.

  124. Jeffrey Rossnagel says

    Mine was etch-a-sketch

  125. I loved my Holly Hobbie doll.

  126. Darlene Schuller says

    Mrs Beasley was my favourite.

  127. I loved lego until i was way to old for it

  128. Sean Pynaert says

    my favourite toy was a wooden garage my grandpa made for me

  129. My favourite toy was LEGO!

  130. I loved my My Buddy doll and my Fisher Price telephone when I was little.

  131. Bailey Dexter says

    I loved my Barbie’s, now my grand-kids have a few of them still! They even play with them in my old tonka trucks! LOL

  132. I loved my little buddy doll! I took him everywhere!

  133. My puffalump! She was a cow that I named puffy. Creativity has never been my strong point.

  134. Tammy Dalley says

    I loved my cabbage patch kids dolls

  135. Shelley Homel says

    so cute i would love to win this for my grandson he loves Thomas!!!

  136. Maegan Delorme says

    Polly pockets or barabies for sure! hours of fun.

  137. Natasha Severson says

    when i was a kid i had this doll that lit up when you pulled her head back! Thanks for the amazing giveaway!

  138. my favorite childhood toy was barbie. loved dressing her up and doing her hair.

  139. Dorothy Pyefinch says

    It really all about myself as I have a 4 year old grandson who is autistic and he cannot talk. He is nearly 5 years old and carries an iPad to show or Talk to me to ask Grandma what he would like or what he wants. Thomas the Train … well, he has everything as he relates to Thomas. I know one thing he doesn’t have is the “the product shown in the picture. I could see his face now … of course, if I win.

  140. my favorite toy was the Easy Bake Oven

  141. kathy thorn says

    My favourite toy was a jointed teddy bear.

  142. I loved my baby shivers doll

  143. Anna Johnson says

    My favourite childhood toy would be a skipping rope. We didn’t have much and I loved to skip a lot!

  144. Carey Hurst says

    I had the original Wrinkles dogs and my Cabbage Patch kids all of which I still have today

  145. Mary Warner says

    I had plastic horses. Boy did I love those horses

  146. Nicole Beaudry says

    My favorite childhood toy was my buttercup doll!

  147. aarone mawdsley says

    barbies were my favorite

  148. Edith Rennes says

    It would have to be a doll

  149. Sandy Couzens says

    My favorite toy was Barbie. I could spend hours and hours just pretending, trying on different outfits and doing their hair. It was always more fun when you had a friend to play with that had Barbies too. Thank you for the Wonderful Giveaway 🙂

  150. Charlene Vidal says

    My favorite toy was the Easy Bake Oven

  151. Kim Mellick says

    I loved my cabbage patch doll

  152. A stuffy named Boo Boo Kitty.

  153. Old Fischer Price toys. we still have them and are still working great. and they don’t need batteries.

  154. Barbie. My son loves Thomas, this would be awesome.

  155. Tiffany Steadman-Collins says

    I loved my Baby Alive doll, baseball glove and Lite Bright

  156. SweetPanda says

    There was a bunny that my mom made for me that I loved the most

  157. Tiffany Rotulo says

    My favorite childhood toy was Lego

  158. my fave childhood toy was “skip-it” I’m a child of the 80s… a few friends had it but I didn’t so I would borrow theirs when I went to their houses 😉 It was fun!

  159. Susan Chester says

    I loved my roller skates. My sister and I skated nearly every day!

  160. michelle hebert says

    my favorite toy was the Polly Pockets

  161. Brenda Witherspoon-Bedard says

    I loved my doll house

  162. kristine ewald says

    Cookie monster calculator

  163. My fave childhood toy was Barbie. Thank you for having this giveaway, and the chance to win. 🙂

  164. Stephanie Liske says

    I had this Monster stuffed animal with chains that would break apart when you pulled at them. He was the ugliest thing but it was my favorite.

  165. Kelley Moore says

    My favourite toy was Barbie

  166. My favorite childhood toy was my baby doll that I named Stephani! 🙂

  167. I was obsessed with Polly Pockets! The little ones (not the big boring ones now lol) – I loved the one that was the water park…they were so fun!

  168. dolls

  169. One of my many fav childhood toys was my cabbage patch kid

  170. It was a stuffed bear and tiger. I loved both.

  171. My favourite toy growing up was those high heel plastic shoes, loved to play dress Up!

  172. I liked my cabbage patch doll.

  173. Caryn Coates says

    My favorite chilhood toy is Barbie and I love that my girls love Barbie as well, any excuse to play;)

  174. Wanda Tracey says

    My favorite toy was a little tea set I had and would enjoy having tea parties with my dolls.

  175. Has to be my roller skates or my bicycle.

  176. Thomassssss

  177. Dot Pyefinch says

    My 4 yr. old grandson is AUTISTIC and he cannot speak. To help him, he carries along with him an iPad. He presses characters that are developed by educator’s to tell me what he wants. In other words, if he wants an apple, he presses the Apple icon and the iPad will tell me, “I want Apple” Now my favourite toy was an Easy Bake Oven when they first came out and that was many moons ago lol!

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