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TWRC Collab Specials are another type of collaboration in this community. Instead of the typical collab, where 2 or more users do a crossover review, these collabs are remakes of Thomas DVDs and Original Episode Ideas.

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The logo for the collab that started it all

History/Creation[]

The concept for TWRC Collabs had been conceptualized for almost two years prior to the release of their first special. On July 3rd, 2014, a long list of users including (but not limited to) ThomasFan12341, Oliver Duck, HiroTheJapaneseTrain, LegoLover117, WoodenRS, TrainKing James, Roman'sTWREmpire, Crimson2091, TEHGJPTDDDO, TheRedEngine, jlouvier, and even TRAINSARECOOL2 started work on a community movie which would feature various voice actors, directors, writers, and editors. This project, partly inspired by the collaborative remakes on TheTTTECommunity channel, dragged on through the spring of 2015 until a combination of mental fatigue and frayed relationships caused the plan to fall through. However, it was during the making of this picture that WoodenRS came up with the concept for his "reality-tv inspired" comedy series, "The Lego Community." Throughout the remainder of the year, further ideas pertaining to collaborations came and went.

In the beginning of 2016, a big blizzard hit the east coast of the US, that impacted Matt, Roman, James, and MikeMike123. They all were stuck at home, and figured making videos outside would be a great way to make use of the blizzard. One day in January, everyone listed above were in a Skype call thinking of ideas for their blizzard videos. Matt suggested that they all come together a create a story about sodor during the blizzard. Everyone thought it was a great idea, and that day they worked hard with additional help from LegoLover to create a script. After three months of on and off work, the collab was released and met with praise. Everyone involved had so much fun, so the idea of another collab wasn't out of the picture.

Sodor Stories Episode 10: The Sudrian Blizzard[]

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The first collab in the series, "The Sudrian Blizzard," was the final episode in HiroTheJapaneseTrain's first season of "Sodor Stories." During the editing process of this collab, the group made a decision to include it in Matt's series as he was struggling to complete season one. The collab focused on a big blizzard that had hit Sodor and the surrounding areas. All the users that filmed shots for this episode went through back breaking work to film with their collection in the snow. It was released to Youtube on April 19th, 2016, and met with a lot of praise.

Remake Collabs[]

After the high praise met to the first collab, the users of the first collab and two new additions, WoodenRS and DuncanWoodenRailway, the decision to make a "sequel" was made. This time, by suggestion of Mike, the group decide to remake an existing Thomas and Friends US DVD. With a tough decision on which one to do, the group came to a consensus to remake the DVD "Thomas and the Special Letter." Later in the year, the group did a remake collab of the DVD "New Friends for Thomas." During Christmas of 2016, the group remade "Ultimate Christmas." After a long hiatus, the group finally returned on Thanksgiving Day 2018 with a remake of "Trackside Tunes."

Thomas and the Special Letter Full DVD Remake[]

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As a sequel to the original collab, all former members came together to remake a US Thomas DVD. This was almost the complete opposite of the last collab, and was the highlight for the group's summer of 2016. It was released on July 22nd, 2016 after over a month of hard work from the group. They remade all the episodes included on the DVD and even the sing along song "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover." The music video was edited by Roman, and even included the bouncing steam cloud effect from the show that follows along with the song. They also remade the nameboard intermissions between the episodes, which was a perfect opportunity to throw some originality into the remakes. The collab was an immediate success when it was first released.

Music Video/Controversy[]

Originally, the idea was to have one person remake the music video on their own, and that would count as their episode. When it came down to who did what, WoodenRS was put on the job of the music video. He was upset as he felt this was unfair as everyone else had their own episode with related shots, while Sam had several different scenes that didn't connect. This led to an argument, and Sam originally had no part in the collab. A new decision was made making the music video a project everyone comes together on to wrap up the collab. This same idea was used in the "New Friends for Thomas Collab."

New Friends for Thomas Full DVD Remake[]

After the explosion of support "Thomas and the Special Letter" received, and the enjoyment all the members had from making it, a sequel remake collab was made. This time the group saw some new arrivals and some departures. This time around WRO, Rondog248, and MasterOfTheLemons all joined the group to take part in the collab. Due to a time of tension and arguments MikeMike123 was in a conflict with several members of the last collab, and he did not take part in this collab. Due to business and disinterest in videos at the time, DuncanWoodenRailway, who was originally going to do a remake in this collab, dropped out. Eight users were involved in this collab, six of them remaking an episode, and the other two contributing to a portion of the music video. Rondog248 edited the music video for this collab.

Collab delays/Lack of time[]

When this collab was decided upon, many of the user's summer vacations were coming to an end. This meant less time for everyone to work on videos. In effect, this caused the collab to be delayed by over a month. Roman had several personal issues come up at this time, and as a result didn't give him enough time to finish his remake until late September. John had moved that summer and his new school overloaded him with work, leading him to become disinterested in making videos. In mid August John unfortunately dropped out and new comer MasterOfTheLemons did his remake. LegoLover had to set aside his hatred for Old Iron Bridges to let Lemmy in the collab. The collab was finally uploaded over 2 months after being announced on October 12th, 2016.

Ultimate Christmas Full DVD Remake[]

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After "New Friends for Thomas" was (finally) released, there was much speculation on what the next collab would be. Many users suggested a Christmas collab, which the friends had ideas for. To throw people off their scent, Rondog248 suggested they announce they were remaking "Creaky Cranky" instead. No one used this tactic, and there was really no fooling anyone. But it was a good joke to hold people over until December. On December 3rd, a trailer, edited by TrainKing James, was uploaded to HiroTheJapaneseTrain's channel, confirming that an Ultimate Christmas collab is coming. The users uploaded their remakes in a 12 days of Christmas style, and the full collab was slated to be released on Christmas Day. Everyone from the previous collabs, minus MikeMike123 and WoodenRS, returned for this 3rd installment. WoodenRS had signed on for the 3rd installment, but dropped out due to lack of interest. He has since disappeared off the face of YouTube and Skype. As a result, the friends enlisted the help of MultiGreenThunder, a new face to the Collab Trilogy, to fill up the last remaining spot.

Uploading Issues[]

Nearing the end of the 12 days schedule, time was running out for several users. Uploads started coming out later and later with users such as DuncanWoodenRailway, needing help filming and editing. Everyone's remakes and the group songs had came out on time up until HiroTheJapaneseTrain's Toby Had a Little Lamb remake, when his computer starting giving him troubles, and the remakes wasn't uploaded until Christmas Eve morning. Meanwhile, MasterOfTheLemons worked hard on the 12 Days of Christmas Song, but unfortunately some users didn't send their lines and clips in until Christmas Eve, and the Song was uploaded on Christmas Morning. The final collab couldn't be edited by Matt, as he was busy, so WoodenRS started editing the full collab on Christmas Eve. At the same time, the music videos for The Snow Song and Winter Wonderland were being finished. Roman didn't finish The Snow Song until the night of Christmas Eve, and was having uploading troubles. Thankfully, the problem fixed itself and the song was uploaded over night. During Christmas Day, the finishing touches were added to the final collab, and later that night it was public on YouTube.

James Goes Buzz Buzz | Thomas & Friends DVD Collab[]

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After seeing the success of the Thomas and the Special Letter collab, EzCuldee decided that he wanted to start his own collab. In Spring of 2017 Ez asked users Toby77 c, William Politeski, NWR Studios, TheOldIron Productions, TWRProductions4 (Quinton) and TWRfan128 if they would like to participate in the collab.

Replacements[]

Quinton ended being a no eventually, so his potential spot was filled. Will dropped out after not being able to complete his remake and was replaced by Woodenfan 1. Not long after TheOldIron Productions also dropped out and was replaced by Thomas Wooden Remakes. After losing his filming set up Thomas Wooden Remakes was then replaced by Crimson2091. Even after all of the replacements there were still delays because many were not able to complete their remakes and music video clips on time. The entire collab was released on February 13th 2018.

Team Up With Thomas Full DVD Collab[]

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In early 2018 users EzCuldee and Heisel Productions decided to do a collab on Team Up with Thomas. Ez did Heave Ho Thomas! and Tram Trouble, while Heisel did James Works It Out and Push Me, Pull You. The collab was released on July 6th, 2018.

Rusty to the Rescue & Other Thomas Stories - Collab Remake with EzCuldee and Tracks Made "Eze"[]

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In March of 2018 users WoodenToby, EzCuldee, and Tracks Made "Eze" decided to do a Rusty to the Rescue collab. WoodenToby did Granpuff and Sleeping Beauty. Tracks Made "Eze" did A Bad Day for Sir Handel and Rusty Helps Peter Sam. EzCuldee did Rusty to the Rescue and Thomas and Stepney. The collab was released on September 8th 2018.

Trackside Tunes Full VHS/DVD Collab Remake[]

After a long hiatus, in summer of 2018 a new collab was announced. This time on a brand new channel, titled

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TWRCollabSpecials. A trailer was uploaded to the channel revealing that a collab on Thomas' Trackside Tunes was well underway. The trailer featured returning members TrainKing James, Roman'sTWREmpire, DuncanWoodenRailway, MikeMike123, Rondog248, and WRO. In addition to those listed above, Trainking James, the leader of this collab, enlisted Crimson2091, FredCoalCar, and Thomas Wooden Remakes to help contribute to the collab. A huge part of this collab was the music videos, and it was important to have enough people to contain variety in the music videos. In this collab, only two users were able to do remakes and the others' all edited a music video. Roman'sTWREmpire remade the episode Trucks, and WoodenRailwayOnly remade the episode Gordon and the Gremlin. All the bouncing cloud animation was done by Roman'sTWREmpire and the final collab was stitched together by TrainKing James.

Delays and Conflict[]

The collab was released on Thanksgiving Day of 2018, however, production on the collab began all the way back in April of 2018. Despite 9 users being mentioned in the section above, only 8 actually appeared and contributed to the final collab. Rondog248 was not included in the final collab as he had a hard time finishing his music video clips, editing his music video, and keeping good relations with all the collab members. Because of this, he was removed from the collab in August when things started to get wrapped up. While this was happening, user Thomas Wooden Remakes also kept going from being active in the community, to disappearing and not having contact with any of the other collab members. This caused lots of confusion and several times clips were redistributed because of Thomas Wooden Remakes' lack of communication. Ultimately, the clips that Rondog248 hadn't finished were given to Thomas Wooden Remakes as his summer disappearance caused him to lose most of his others. He also took over the role of editing Rondog248's music video. WRO also became very busy during the production of the collab, and caused a long wait for his remake of Gordon and the Gremlin. The collab was very close to being finished by late August 2018, but with school starting up for most, and TrainKing James leaving for college, the collab was pushed back quite a bit. After many delays, it was finally ready in November and released on Thanksgiving Day.

The Early Years Full DVD Remake[]

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The thumbnail for disc 1 of The Early Years collab

On October 12, 2019, the TWRCollabSpecials account uploaded a trailer for a new collab. The trailer

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The thumbnail for disc 2 of The Early Years collab

announced that they were remaking The Early Years DVD, and it included 26 users. This was a huge feat for the team, being led by TrainKing James and Roman'sTWREmpire. Work on the collab started in June 2019 when Roman and James started recruiting people for the collab. At first they asked the rest of the group involved in Trackside Tunes if they wanted to be involved, and Crimson2091, MikeMike123, and WRO all were on board to participate. From there, they contacted friends and many other talented users. In order to get everyone to choose their episodes, music video clips, and nameboards fairly, the group was assembled in a Twitter DM group and James used a random name generator to shuffle through people. The final roster in June consisted of James, Roman, Henry, Mike, WRO, EzCuldee, Bradenmc2, Enterprisingengine93, Jolly Good Idea Films, TankEngineThomas, The TWR Critic, LegoLover117, Ryatron 12, Callantale, Nick TF89, HarwickBranch, PercySix Miles, Woodenfan 1, Tracks Made "Eze", CuldeeFell1, The Stoic 9F, WoodenToby, William Politeski, Toby77 c, Heisel Productions, and WoodenRS. Despite the DVD not containing nameboards or music videos, the group decided to spice things up by adding them. They group remade Thomas' Anthem and It's Great to be an Engine for the music videos.

Delays[]

As usual with the collabs, there were some set backs along the way. Three users had to drop out mid-way through the production of the collab. WRO and William Politeski dropped out before starting to film anything as WRO was going off to college and Will didn't have room to film anything at the time. MikeMike123 also dropped out but he had completed filming half of his remake. In order to not waste the footage that he had already filmed, James decided to take over for him for the rest of the remake as James' set looked the most similar to Mike's. James filmed the second half of his remake and his nameboards and music video clips were spread out to others. SodorFan2K10 and TWRProductions4 were brought on to replace the other two. The collab was released in two parts to coincide with the fact that the release is separated into two discs. The first part was originally supposed to release on October 26th, the day Thomas & Friends came to the US 30 years ago, and the second on November 2nd. Due to delays from some of the members, the first part ended up being uploaded as a YouTube premiere on November 5th. The second part was released about a month later on December 7th after some complications with filming. Thomas Wooden Remakes was brought in last minute to film the last remake for the collab and then it was finally ready for release.

Salty's Secret & Other Thomas Adventures | Thomas & Friends DVD Collab[]

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After the collab "James goes Buzz Buzz" came out, EzCuldee and Crimson2091 started talking about a new collab in Early 2018. The two asked their friends if they wanted to join the collab. The collab eventually came to include Crimson2091, TankEngineThomas, TWRProductions4, WoodenFan1, Heisel Productions, and EzCuldee. EzCuldee edited the collab together and TWRProductions4 edited the music video and thumbnail. A majority of the remake "Harvey to the Rescue" was filmed during TankEngineThomas and TWRProductions4's meetup in August of 2019.

Delays[]

One major problem with the collab was the remake "No Sleep for Cranky". Originally the Tomy user NWR Studios was supposed to film it but had to drop out in the Summer of 2018. He was replaced by HarwickBranch, who then had to drop out in Summer of 2019. Due to TWRProductions4 already having involvement in the collab, he was brought on to replace HarwickBranch. After all the remakes were done, the only complication was members not having their music video clips done or not sending them in to be edited.

Gallant Old Engine VHS Collab[]

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Gallant Old Engine VHS Collab

Originally started in January 2017, Gallant Old Engine was a collab that was created by TWRProductions4 (Quinton). At this point it is hard for anyone to remember the original cast, but it is believed to have been Quinton, Crimson2091, Thomas Wooden Remakes, Pokébrick02, TWRfan128, and either WoodenRS or Rondog248. It finally came out on TWRProductions4's channel on January 21, 2022. Along with Quinton, EzCuldee, Heisel Productions, Crimson2091, Bradenmc2, and Arthur The LMS Engine filmed episodes for the collab.

Delays[]

Many delays happened because most people were not committed to the collab. Pokébrick02, WoodenRS, TWRfan128, Rondog248, and Thomas Wooden Remakes all dropped out within the first year. This caused Quinton to have to start from basically scratch to find new members. He was able to get EzCuldee and Arthur The LMS Engine on the team, as well as at one he had The TWR Critic, Roman'sTWREmpire, Domeless Engine, and TankEngineThomas. All while this was happening, Quinton was also in and out of the community at times, so he didn't get much done on his remake until 2018, and did not finish it until he came back for good in 2019. The aforementioned four all dropped out because of lack of motivation or availability. Quinton then was able to get Heisel Productions to do Henry and the Elephant, but the collab continued to stall until Quinton could find someone willing to take on Special Attraction. Finally, Quinton approached Bradenmc2 about doing the collab, and he said yes and was able to finish his remake very quickly, and then less than 6 months later, the collab was done and ready to upload, 5 years after its inception and with a total of 15 people being involved at any point. Integral to getting the collab out was the help that Quinton had, specifically from all those who stepped up to fill spots, especially EzCuldee. Quinton actually hid the collab from Ez for some time, but once Ez was onboard he was very willing to help Quinton. For this help, Ez earned the title of assistant producer in the credits. Unfortunately, Ez had gone silent from the community before the collab came out, but he did watch it and said he was happy to see it come out. Though this collab didn't come out when he wanted it to and it showed its age a bit, Quinton was still happy to get it out at all, since it was his baby.

Other Community Collab Remakes[]

Currently, it is unknown if the TWRCollabSpecials channel will produce another collab, as it has been silent on the matter. However, if you are looking for more entertainment it is highly recommended you check out collabs made by other users in the community. TroublesomeTruckFan1996, Comic fan 13, Rheneas Productions, A user with a Percy, WoodenRailwayGuy, and A Wooden railway channel have made a remake collab of Cranky Bugs. TWRProductions4 (Quinton) and TankEngineThomas (Parker) filmed a Twin Trouble collab remake on Quinton's channel, and a Rusty to the Rescue collab remake on Parker's channel, in 2020.

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