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.

A suburban Chicago-based toy company is reeling from the recall of one of its most popular products — Thomas the Tank Engine. The company, RC2, voluntarily began recalling some of the popular ...

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RC2 Corp., which sells Thomas the Tank Engine toys, warned parents Wednesday to stop their children from using 1.5 million Thomas & Friends wooden railway vehicles and set components because their ...

Toy company Fisher ... that connects one train to another that can detach or become loose, posing a choking or magnet ingestion hazard. The toys being recalled are the Thomas & Friends Railway ...

What is it about toy trains that has continued to entertain ... as in the case of the Thomas the Tank Engine series, the humanisation of the machines - locomotives from the past still attract ...

1. Thomas was created by Rev Wilbert Awdry when his son Christopher was suffering from measles and asked him for stories. 2. In Christmas that same year, Awdry made a toy tank engine called Thomas ...

He was taken to a PDSA hospital, where an X-ray revealed he had got his paws on a Clarabel toy - a character from Thomas the Tank Engine. It was removed in emergency surgery. Read more on Falmouth ...