On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:31:23 +0100, Arthur Figgis
<afiggis@example.com.invalid> wrote:

>Trev wrote:
>> In news:be2c3934-612c-4fa7-959b-a7aee057cc0c@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com,
>>   Dragon Heart bashed on  keyboard and typed:
>>> On 31 Aug, 19:10, Arthur Figgis <afig...@example.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>> Dragon Heart wrote:
>>>>> On 31 Aug, 15:26, Arthur Figgis <afig...@example.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> Dragon Heart wrote:
>>>>>>> On 31 Aug, 10:14, "Jerry" <INVA...@INVALID.INVALID> wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Dragon Heart"  wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news:f74d8584-d755-4b58-bc4f-c61044870fa2@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com....
>>>>>>>>> Visited the Paddington Bear event @ Butterley on Saturday.
>> 
>>> These events are based on children enjoying themselves.  Do a poor or
>>> even an average job many children of today will not accept it.  I am
>>> surprised many accept everyday loco's with hand drawn face boards held
>>> on with wire as 'Thomas' loco's.
>>>
>>> Chris
>> Maybe the kids are not rivet counters. As a Kid I enjoyed my Trix Twin train 
>> set and To be honest the locos did not look like anything that BR had ever 
>> had. But I had two locos one black and one green what more could a lad want.
>
>I've seen plenty of kids shouting "don't be silly mummy, <character> is 
>a <type of loco> not a <loco in front of them>".

When we took our (British) modular O-scale layout to various NMRA
conventions, children in arms were saying "Ooh look Daddy, there's
Duck" etc. Even some I didn't know either of the Awdreys had written
stories about. Especially City of Truro - you don't expect a
pre-schooler to recognise it.