Ready for another trip to the dark side of Thomas the Tank? Here's a very special look into the dangerous dark side of the illegal toy industry making Thomas & Friends toys. If you can't stand the sight and sounds of some very distorted Thomas models this is not a video for you. This is a follow on from my video Thomas V Thomas and Thomas Dark Side Ep1.

I take a detailed look at how one of these models produces smoke and get lost in different fluids to produce smoke for model trains.

There is a special warning before the Transformer model is shown, possibly the most distorted Thomas Tank I have in my collection. Sadly these toys present real hazards and are potential killers to very young children.

Thomas and Friends, "Томас и его друзья" "Thomas y sus amigos" "Thomas und seine Freunde" "きかんしゃトーマス" "토마스와 친구들" "Thomas et ses amis" "thomas dan teman-teman" "थॉमस और दोस्तों" "Thomas ei suoi amici" "โทมัสและเพื่อน ๆ" "thomas e seus amigos" "Thomas och vänner" "托马斯和朋友" "Thomas og Friends" "Thomas ve Arkadaşları" "توماس والأصدقاء" "Thomas và các bạn"
Thomas the Train, "Thomas el tren" "Thomas le train" "トーマス電車" "토마스 기차" "Томас поезд"" Thomas o trem" "Thomas kereta" "Thomas der Zug" "Thomas ang tren" "Thomas vlak" "托马斯火车" "توماس القطار" "Thomas a vonat" "Thomas tàu"

Web Links:

http://www.thomasandfriends.com/au/Th...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_t...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterf...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit
http://counterfeit.com.au/

Some web pages related to model train smoke:

http://www.girr.org/girr/tips/tips3/s...

Model train collectors strive to make their model train sets look as realistic as possible by painting them the colors of real-life trains, adding different cars to their trains and creating diorama around the tracks. So it only makes sense that model train collectors and owners would make their locomotives produce "smoke" as they chug around the track, despite the fact the trains run on electricity. Different mixtures can be combined to create model train smoke.

1 Fill a quarter of the measuring cup with glycerine. Fill the measuring cup the rest of the way with distilled water. Glycerine will settle at the bottom, so use a stirrer to mix it with the distilled water.

2 Pour the cup of mixed glycerine and distilled water into an eye dropper using a funnel. There will probably be more fluid then the eye dropper can hold so you should have some extra left over.

3 Use the eye dropper to put a few drops on top of the heating element in your model train locomotive. The mixture will create different amounts of smoke, based upon the solution's mixture. Adjust this accordingly if you want thicker or thinner smoke.