Thomas the Tank Engine

But until it makes financial sense for everybody's perspective, you're never going to get the IP holders in.

The folks that have the brands, how are we going to bring Thomas the Tank Engine into your Skyrim game? That's not IP approved, but it should be, right? And so you can entice them with the monetization side, but you have to have all those controls first.

And so it's very much a chicken and egg issue of how do you get all these teams to say yes? And it's an enormous challenge.

It is.

And it's like you bring up the Thomas the Tank Engine in Skyrim.

Like, that's great marketing for Skyrim.

Like, that makes me want to be like, oh, wow, I can actually like go in, like create something custom or just try it for like the lols, like just to play with my friends.

And I cannot stress this enough.

I was obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine.

I had the books.

I had the videos.

From Diamond City.

So the train, just like what was the name of the train? Thomas.

Well,

that Thomas, the tank engine or whatever the hell he's called.

Yeah, he's he's supposed to

come from Diamond City.

Yeah,

Thomas the Tank.

Every time

I was shitting in a plane, I imagined that the turd was just flying through the air.

Mm-hmm.

And then obviously we had, I believe Chewie mentioned, Chewie mentioned the Thomas the Tank Engine.

I think this is when you thought of an anime and he thought of Thomas the Tank Engine.

What? Which I think, oh, it was when some name came up, but it must have just sparked Thomas the Tank Engine.

Gurren Lagann.

Yeah, that's the one.

Teletubbies.

He's made millions on bringing, um, other shows, like Thomas the Train and this here, and he's like, "Well, hey, I'm gonna invent my own, and I'm gonna shoot it in my hometown, Michigan." Um-

The town of Michigan?

Well, I mean-

That's interesting.

But-

Now, I will say I remember watching, we used to watch a lot of Thomas the Train, and it did feel, like, very communist in nature because Thomas wants to be useful.

You know, he just wants to, doesn't wanna have individual talents or-

Yeah, the Flaggers.

And yeah, I took your son to Thomas the Tank Engine yesterday.

And it was incredible.

So I was up in Darwin for work.

There was some big dogs up there, but I got to do a keynote, which was awesome.

Met great people.

I got quite emotional because you were sending through photos of you and Cookie taking my son to Thomas the Tank Engine.

And you guys are just the best aunties ever.