You are by FAR! One of the most creative people in this community. I remember watching TATHP, back 8 years ago. And I was absolutely hooked ever since. The story, the writing, and the characters are both amazing and engaging! You deserve everything grand after spending so long on this sequel, you and your team take as long as you need! And I’m eagerly awaiting how you’ll do with the third! Thank you Adam, for this gem of a Thomas Film!
4 months ago | 16
Honestly, this whole AU / franchise is imo WAY BETTER than most Thomas movies. You guys are the reason why this community exists and I love this fandom because of you guys! Thank you all so much again for creating the Half-Pariah and the Arcane Merchant and I can’t wait to hear more news about the 3rd movie!
4 months ago | 25
Tobias and the Arcane Merchant was an even more intense experience than Half-Pariah. I’ve been developing my own Thomas and friends fanfilm where Thomas discovers a conspiracy that could destroy Sodor while at the same time he is haunted by his past. It’s sort of inspired by both Tobias and the Half-Pariah and Sodor: The Dark Times.
4 months ago | 9
Thank heavens there's going to be a third film! I absolutely love the Arcane Merchant, especially with the amazingly crazy ideas like engines warring with each other, sky beams, and so on! This story has so much depth and substance, the likes of which has not been seen in many mainstream, big name studios! The Arcane Merchant left me utterly speechless, and I can't wait to see what you have in store for the 3rd movie!
2 months ago | 3
Mr Sensathe, I want to thank you for Arcane Merchant and Half Pariah. Half Pariah was already amazinf in terms of quality, but Arcane Merchant is actually the next Thomas and Friends fan movie I've ever seen. And I wanted to say it was most definetly worth the wait, you truly did amazing. It's better than most movies I've seen, and the score was amazing. Thank you so much again!
4 months ago | 12
Regarding the third film: like I've before said, I'll be happy to reprise the role of Oliver, as long as I'm available. (Also, if Sir Topham Hatt returns in the third film, I'd kind of want to play him, too. XD ) Regarding TATAM, you have every right to be proud. You have achieved something truly special, in my opinion: as absolutely frickin' INSANE as this movie series is, the passion, effort, talent, and intelligence used to create it is really something unique. I am honored to be part of this, however looney it may be, and I am pleased that so many people seemed to have reacted so positively to the result of so much time's work for everyone involved. Happy New Year, Adam. <3
2 months ago
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1. Happy New Year Tines! 2. To think all of this started because a Trainz route of Toby’s old line was released 3. I’m just going to guess what Movie 3’s title will be because it’s fun to guess. Maybe “Tobias and the Final Hybrid”? 4. I’m scared for Edward (for those who know about the death, don’t spoil it for those who don’t.)
4 months ago (edited) | 6
Half Pariah and Arcane Merchant will be my most favorite fan-made TTTE projects in the community, I'm so glad I stuck by for Arcane Merchant and it blew me away! You're absolutely creative, passionate, and resilient for these films and I can't wait to see what the 3rd film has in store. Thank you and Happy New Year! :person-turqouise-waving:
4 months ago | 6
Looking forward to the 3rd Tobias film. This is one of the most creative Thomas fan stories I've ever seen. And, the fact that this was a fan retelling of "Toby & the Stout Gentleman" originally. Now, there's lore and compelling characters, both good and evil. I don't care about how long it'll take until we get the 3rd one, as long as it turns out to be the best you can make it to be. Here's to a great future filled with Tobias. (Not Tobias himself, he can go rot in the recesses of Toby's mind after what he did.)
4 months ago | 4
You made a masterpiece here. Especially being one of the first people I've seen to do a Thomas and Friends/Railway Series AU. A wonderful job on the second film. I can't wait to see what you have in stores for this third movie. For now, you deserve a break. And I hope you have a Happy New Year!
4 months ago | 6
I'm so glad to hear that you're still pursuing this story. I admitted before that I used to hold a certain dismissal of Half-Pariah, for years even, until watching the Arcane Merchant. I spoke from a genuine place then and do now. I implore anyone hesitant to give it a shot to go for it. The story work is too good to pass up. I'll certainly be eagerly following development of the next one. You got this, Tines!
4 months ago (edited)
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I watched the film and it is just great. Montague is my favorite character and this film really makes you understand his point of view. Literally the only problem I have with it is Percy and Edward don’t have enough screen time but I like how they could maybe play a bigger role in the next movie in escaping James and his army of steam engines and helping in taking him down and saving the diesels.
4 months ago | 5
The world needs to see the “wake up, sleepy!” cut! It’ll be sick to see how much the script evolved since 2015 - 9 years is a lonnnnnng time to cook lol
4 months ago
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Happy New Year, Tines'! Get the rest you need for 2025. Once again, 'Arcane Merchant' has been an psychological and emotional rollercoaster of your Toby franchise.
4 months ago | 3
If Mattel themselves can't put out a decent Thomas movie, leave to the fans to create a piece of art so good, it has a spot on IMDb.
2 months ago | 1
I'm still wondering why the Fat Controller never intervened to stop any of the madness that happened. Is he on holiday and blissfully unaware of everything? 😆
4 months ago | 6
Happy New Years Tines, you did superb on the Arcane film and if you need a voice actor for the third film, just let me know my man. Here's to another years to come Much love, Star ❤
2 months ago | 5
Happy New Year Tines and I hope you have a good start to the year. It will be great to see a 3rd film be made and if you need a voice actor for a character or two I'm prepared to help as you and I both voice characters for WildNorWester so have experience with voice acting in Thomas videos.
4 months ago | 4
Which Trainz assets for Half-Pariah and Arcane Merchant will be released first?
4 months ago (edited) | 2
Tines Sensahthe
As I head into the New Year soon here in the states, I just want to say how grateful I am for the extraordinary response to "Arcane Merchant."
It was my goal this year. I was gonna finish TATAM for this year or bust! And I did it! And it was a lot of freaking work, but I *DID IT.*.
Over 100,000 views in a week, especially for a nearly 3 hour fan film, is pretty dang good, and I've seen so many amazing things born from the film across the interwebs: fan art, remakes, edits, music recreations, MEMES. Good grief, some of these memes have made me bust a gut laughing! And it's wild how TATAM has seemingly changed everyone's perception of Toby and Thomas as a character pairing here on the interwebs - if you've been on Twitter, you know exactly what I mean.
Thank you, folks. Y'all have been such amazing peeps, some of you waiting as long as 10 years to see this thing, and it has been immensely gratifying seeing all your reactions and thoughts on the film finally. Thank you for sticking around to see this thing finally come to fruition!
Now, I understand it's not to everyone's taste - I fully admit that this is a wild, absurd, crazy sci-fi/fantasy Alternate Universe take on Thomas the Tank Engine, this world and these characters. I fully acknowledge all the crazy things I do - I mean, I’m using talking trains and they fight each other! They get into complex political spats and turn into sky beams and have split personalities and mental breakdowns and traumatic hallucinations! And yeah - I killed off *SPOILER.*. This shit's wild! And you are free to just completely dismiss and disregard and reject the film for these reasons. That's your right.
But I've also seen a huge amount of people who *understand* and *jive* and *resonate* with the story I'm trying to tell exactly as I'm trying to tell it. It's not perfect, but it's completely me, and I'm proud of it, and seeing people connect with it in all the ways I wanted and more has made this journey more than worth it for me.
Thank you, people. Just - thank you.
Now! Onto some more news:
In the coming weeks and months, I'll be releasing extras and goodies pertaining to the film!
This includes Deleted/Extended/Alternate Scenes, Behind the Scenes photos and screengrabs, Concept Art, early drafts of the script, but most fun of all: I'm going to be releasing all the Trainz assets used in the production for "Arcane Merchant" as well as "Half-Pariah." This includes engines, rolling stock, routes, scenery objects, and face masks! All this will be released for Patrons first - first $15 Patrons, then $2 Patrons, and the publicly for free! Be on the lookout folks - everything will be released publicly for free in the coming weeks and months, so subscribe to this channel and follow me on Twitter and Bluesky to be notified of when all that happens!
As for the 3rd film: Yes, there's going to be a 3rd! I'll be making the official announcement either this weekend or the next. Also! Subtitles are still in the works for "Arcane Merchant," and once those are finished, I'll see about getting "Half-Pariah" subtitled as well!
Thank you so much again, folks! See you all next year in a few hours!!
Best,
Adam/Tines
4 months ago | [YT] | 659