UPDATE: Thomas The Anim-EL Train Poster **Steve Thomas just sent me a message**

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  • huntersthompsonhuntersthompson Posts: 918
    edited August 2018
    still trying to decipher that post above.  Were they adopted while in line?  Just learned they're adults now?  And they won't move out???  I'm so confused.
    I did adopt them while in line...they just seemed so appreciative.  In hindsight, I suspect that they were just wanting to cut in line, but I was filled with Pearl Jam beer, bourbon and candied nuts.  When in that state of mind I find it difficult to decipher ages...I usually think people in the twilight of their respective lives are a lot younger than they are.  This has gotten me in a bit of trouble, but has allowed me to reap the rewards of some not-so-well known AARP discounts.

    After I adopted them, but before I realized that they were over 50 and terrific indulgers in Spaghetti-O's, I took them to my house to what I suspected they would eventually come to call home.  Imagine my suprise when I woke up and they were making calls to their kids in Australia on my home line.  I don't even have an international plan.  As you know, it can be very difficult to evict people from your home, especially after adult-adopting them in a Pearl Jam line through an attorney (was she an attorney?) who happened to be walking by Safeco Field.  

    While there is much more to say, I have digressed too much at this point...suffice it to say that the bastards have moved on to consuming all of my Chef Boyardee Beefaroni (despite an expiration date in the late 1990's), are pretending that "Australian" is a different language and that they cannot understand me, and are demanding through hand signals and pictographs for me to give them money and their share of the "Train" poster set.  By the way, thanks to those hard core PJ fans who so willingly sent me a copy of each poster (except for the Ozzy Crazy Train---can someone pick up the slack please?) for the "kids".  I know that it appears that I may be flipping them but it is just a coincidence that "ThunterSHompson" is trying to sell those exact posters (also minus the Crazy Train variant) on Ebay....total coincidence...move along, these aren't the droids you are looking for....
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  • I thought the snake gimmick was for Taylor Swift this year?
    Gimmick?  A realistic representation of the difficult people that Ms. Swift (if you're nasty) has had to endure on her way to the top of the music world is more like it...

    (heard she is going to cover Sirens when she gets to Seattle)
  • manitoumanmanitouman Posts: 1,085
    A request for these variants:
    KITT
    Maximum Overdrive semi
    Kramer and a rickshaw
    General Lee from Dukes of Hazard (Daisy Duke edition)
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  • I thought the snake gimmick was for Taylor Swift this year?
    Gimmick?  A realistic representation of the difficult people that Ms. Swift (if you're nasty) has had to endure on her way to the top of the music world is more like it...

    (heard she is going to cover Sirens when she gets to Seattle)
    serious question.  If PJ were to do a Taylor tag during Daughter, what medley from a Taylor song would you want to hear?  

    I'd go with:

    Do you remember, we were sittin', there by the water?
    You put your arm around me for the first time
    You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
    You are the best thing, that's ever been mine
  • igotid_8igotid_8 Posts: 501
    Thank the Lord for this thread.  Man, I needed this!
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  • Do you remember all the city lights on the water?
    You saw me start to believe, for the first time
    You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
    You are the best thing, that's ever been mine

    Oh, oh, oh, oh

  • I'm like a tab
  • I really wish that this thread would never die...someday it will slip to page 3, where no one dares to venture...but until that time, I will continue to follow the genius that is Thomas the L train.....
  • Big Bank HankBig Bank Hank Posts: 8,639
    they should do a Blues Brothers & the Bluesmobile variant since they are in Chicago, seems only appropriate 

  • This is great.  Really need to zoom in too to appreciate a lot of the little references! The graffiti and cousin Eddie in the window are greatness.
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  • BlackCircleBlackCircle Posts: 371
    edited August 2018
    Sooooo....
    I opened my Facebook messenger and I see a notification from Steve Thomas.
    My heart drops and I consider jumping in front of a bus outside, because with my luck, I'm about to get a C&D with a notice I'm being sued. 


    Turns out Steve LOVES the variants, and he wants to put some on his website... 
    He asked if he could tag me. 
    The artist... asked if he could tag me... on a fake poster he created!!!!! 

    I'm so freaking excited. 
    BTW... he said the Back to The Future one is his favorite. 


    I'm like a tab
  • on2legson2legs Posts: 15,123
    Sooooo....
    I opened my Facebook messenger and I see a notification from Steve Thomas.
    My heart drops and I consider jumping in front of a bus outside, because with my luck, I'm about to get a C&D with a notice I'm being sued. 


    Turns out Steve LOVES the variants, and he wants to put some on his website... 
    He asked if he could tag me. 
    The artist... asked if he could tag me... on a fake poster he created!!!!! 

    I'm so freaking excited. 
    BTW... he said the Back to The Future one is his favorite. 


    Awesome.  Good job!
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  • CopperTomCopperTom Posts: 3,028
  • Sooooo....
    I opened my Facebook messenger and I see a notification from Steve Thomas.
    My heart drops and I consider jumping in front of a bus outside, because with my luck, I'm about to get a C&D with a notice I'm being sued. 


    Turns out Steve LOVES the variants, and he wants to put some on his website... 
    He asked if he could tag me. 
    The artist... asked if he could tag me... on a fake poster he created!!!!! 

    I'm so freaking excited. 
    BTW... he said the Back to The Future one is his favorite. 


    No waaaay that’s fuckin rad 
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  • Ray J. T.Ray J. T. Posts: 4,027
    Sooooo....
    I opened my Facebook messenger and I see a notification from Steve Thomas.
    My heart drops and I consider jumping in front of a bus outside, because with my luck, I'm about to get a C&D with a notice I'm being sued. 


    Turns out Steve LOVES the variants, and he wants to put some on his website... 
    He asked if he could tag me. 
    The artist... asked if he could tag me... on a fake poster he created!!!!! 

    I'm so freaking excited. 
    BTW... he said the Back to The Future one is his favorite. 


    This is fucking awesome! Sweet. 
  • Dug1200Dug1200 Posts: 200
    they should do a Blues Brothers & the Bluesmobile variant since they are in Chicago, seems only appropriate 

  • Big Bank HankBig Bank Hank Posts: 8,639
    Dug1200 said:
    they should do a Blues Brothers & the Bluesmobile variant since they are in Chicago, seems only appropriate 

    Hell Yeah!

  • igotid_8igotid_8 Posts: 501
    Sooooo....
    I opened my Facebook messenger and I see a notification from Steve Thomas.
    My heart drops and I consider jumping in front of a bus outside, because with my luck, I'm about to get a C&D with a notice I'm being sued. 


    Turns out Steve LOVES the variants, and he wants to put some on his website... 
    He asked if he could tag me. 
    The artist... asked if he could tag me... on a fake poster he created!!!!! 

    I'm so freaking excited. 
    BTW... he said the Back to The Future one is his favorite. 


    That is all sorts of awesome, Mr Circle!
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  • GT1015GT1015 Posts: 184
    That is so cool, and that he said Back to Future was his favorite, which was my pick.  I said this thread needed an award, but getting Steve to comment is dang near close.  
  • PSUS2HPSUS2H Posts: 2,194
    Nicely done OP! :-) 
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  • igotid_8 said:
    Sooooo....
    I opened my Facebook messenger and I see a notification from Steve Thomas.
    My heart drops and I consider jumping in front of a bus outside, because with my luck, I'm about to get a C&D with a notice I'm being sued. 


    Turns out Steve LOVES the variants, and he wants to put some on his website... 
    He asked if he could tag me. 
    The artist... asked if he could tag me... on a fake poster he created!!!!! 

    I'm so freaking excited. 
    BTW... he said the Back to The Future one is his favorite. 


    That is all sorts of awesome, Mr Circle!
    I was just making trying to make people laugh.

    I'm like a tab
  • goldrushgoldrush Posts: 7,537
    Awesome work!

    Thread Of The Year for sure! :clap:
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    This is the best. Stickers arrived and forgot to thank you right away so doing it now! There are awesome people on this site and you're one of them!
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  • HH140540HH140540 Posts: 545
    Thanks for doing this @BlackCircle! This thread is awesome. Great that Thomas was cool about these too.
  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 92,506

    This is great and flattering! Andrew Taylor has taken the time and turned my Pearl Jam train image into some fantastic Pop Culture variants. What makes these so great is all the "easter eggs" strategically placed throughout. These are just a few of them. Can you guess all of the references? The Dune one was a request from me.
    Check out his photography as well https://www.tayloredprints.com

    P.S. 85% of the prints are going out today. The rest will, unfortunately, have to go out next week. Thanks again!


  • DE483DE483 Posts: 447
    What about Spaceballs?  Can you do that?  
  • Big Bank HankBig Bank Hank Posts: 8,639
    Dug1200 said:
    they should do a Blues Brothers & the Bluesmobile variant since they are in Chicago, seems only appropriate 

    Whoa! I just noticed Aretha with the halo & wings, very classy touch!
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,076
    These are rad and pretty funny. 
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,076
    The Wonder Woman poster is fucking perfection.
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