You would make your kids watch VHS tapes? Like, "sit here while I rewind the tape?" Yikes! Okay, I'm going to pull out our massive pile of Thomas DVDs and have the kids watch some. It's a lot better than some of the shows out there now! This is a good write up! I like the video too. Winnie the Pooh also said, "bother!" a lot. Maybe it's an older British word? Yeah the new CGI ones aren't as good as the originals! We have a lot of track and Thomas train cars that the kids like to play with. Interesting about the books. I might need to look into that. Thanks for passing along the post!