With their apple cheeks, British accents and feel-good life lessons, Thomas the Tank Engine and his train-yard friends are favorites to the point of obsession in the toddler-to-kindergarten set.

RC2, a suburban Chicago-based toy company, voluntarily began recalling some Thomas the Tank Engine railway toys because the Chinese factory that makes them used lead paints. Parents are outraged ...

Thomas the Tank Engine’s Sales Go Off Track. ... And when families’ toy budgets are cut year after year, it can start to look like the flashing red lights at a railway crossing.

Parents are fuming after learning that 1.5 million of the popular Thomas the Tank Engine toys are being recalled. The toys, made in China, contain lead paint especially dangerous for children.

Thomas the Tank Engine. Tracy Van Slyke recently let off steam in The Guardian earlier this month, blasting the hit TV series and toy franchise for a litany of sins including sexism, classism ...

Thomas the Tank Engine is no stranger to pervisions. On the kids' TV show, a misbehaving train was entombed alive, never to travel the railway tracks again. But how this slipped through the net we ...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas the Tank Engine, one of the oldest The toy manufacturer hopes to turn the talking train and his friends - Engine Emily, Butch the Tow Truck - into a property on a par with Hot ...

At the time, Mattel was making toys for HIT, selling $150 million worth of Thomas the Tank Engine plastic and die-cast toys in 2010. But it wasn't until 2013 that Mattel acquired the rights to ...