In the 1950s and 1960s, the characters, including Gordon and Percy, inspired cardboard models and toy sets, and in the 1980s the animated television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends was ...

The "Thomas & Friends" production team, including creator Britt Allcroft, narrator Ringo Starr and author Wilbert Awdry Mattel In the five-minute pilot episode, Thomas makes a rude remark to Gordon.

Lemon is obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine, right, and everyone he meets, he sort of gives them a character from Thomas, whether they’re a Percy or a Gordon, whatever he thinks.

Using a jarring image to blast increased diversity on a children's TV show, a NRA TV show depicted characters from "Thomas & Friends" in white, Ku Klux Klan-style hoods on burning train tracks.