It went from a meme to an inevitability: if a game can be modded, sooner or later somebody's going to add Thomas the Tank Engine to it. The modder who originally brought Thomas's horrifying visage to Skyrim hasn't exactly endeared himself to Mattel, the toy company that now owns the rights to the brand, and with a new Morrowind mod he's effectively daring lawyers to come after him.
"I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine," as modder Kevin "Trainwiz" Brock says in a Bluesky post announcing his new Morrowind mod. (Thanks, PC Gamer.) "I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people."
