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OrigamiAirEnforcer (or OAE) is a user who joined YouTube on July 25, 2009; he currently has over 600 subscribers. Although he does not upload on OrigamiAirEnforcer, he is active and is the only one who uploads on OurTWRCommunity.

Background[]

In OAE's statements to Percyno6 during an interview on Percy's Ever Present Past, OAE discussed the original intent of his account was to be strictly relating to paper aircraft. Thomas was not something OAE had given any thought to becoming involved with initially.

Content and Activity[]

Main channel[]

In the years that followed, OAE's public videos would suggest that his original vision for his channel had been followed. In actuality, OAE had posted TWR content but subsequently privatized it.

Although not visibly apparent a decade later, OAE was an active participant in the TWR community in 2009 and 2010, albeit mostly as an observer looking at others' works. Even so, OAE's involvement with the community was such that OAE was featured in rbofill's 2010 The Biography series reflecting on TWR users and OAE was invited to be a part of the OurTWRCommunity channel in 2010.

In 2010, OAE did create and post two videos for his Thomas parody series Thomas the Moronic Tank Engine; these productions were visible for some time on his channel before being privatized. Around the same time, OAE was a voice actor in NWRNO6's series; that series has since been removed.

OurTWRCommunity[]

OAE was one of the original 10 members of OurTWRCommunity. OAE did not make a TWR video for the account in its first two years. Once Percyno6 and SirTophamHatt291 tried to reinvigorate OurTWRCommunity, OAE joined only 2 other original members to return to work on the channel. Since 2013, OAE's TWR videos have been exclusively uploaded to OurTWRCommunity and activity on the channel has tapered off to where OAE is now the sole user who posts there.

OAE has made five TWR remakes including:

  • The Runaway
  • Down the Mine
  • James in a Mess
  • Pop Goes the Diesel
  • Thomas Gets Tricked

In addition to his remakes, OAE has also reuploaded his Thomas the Moronic Tank Engine videos for public viewing and has uploaded behind the scenes videos showing some of the production of these videos.

According to statements made by OAE, other projects including a Thomas and Bertie's Great Race remake were in production but ended up lost due to computer troubles.

An Old Iron remake has also been in the works for many years but has yet to be completed.

Production style[]

OAE's videos have all been produced with stopmotion animation, which is relatively rare amongst the TWR community. According to OAE, inspirations for this approach included Jamesis5 and Pageboy72.

Because of stopmotion's rarity and relative difficulty, OAE did offer to provide assistance to TWR users interest in looking to the idea but did not receive responses.

Recent activities[]

In recent years, OAE has said very little regarding the TWR community beyond expressing interest in continued work while also lamenting over time limitations.

In his interview with Percyno6, OAE did mention an idea for paper skins for TWR models for use in film productions. The idea was intended to allow for customization without permanence.

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