Trackmaster Dennis variation

MuddyPoppins

Our friend Bkiv sent me a listing today and I noticed something odd about this Dennis!! It seems there is a limited batch of these variations listed on eBay right now!! Can anyone see what is different???

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Super

At first glance I thought they were Porters but may be closer to Connors maybe??? Whatever it is its unpleasant to look at.

ripley802

Wheels look to be off. Different color. Is this the seller from China?

MuddyPoppins

They're Bash's wheels!!

Super

Ah...there ya go!

Ucwepn

wrong side rods too for Dennis

Ucwepn

Here's some errors I have collected pics of from various sources.

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Super

Ucwepn wrote
wrong side rods too for Dennis

Thats right, Dennis has those one of a kind rods, good eye UC,

Here is the same thing from a Hong Kong seller. Is this the same seller we were discussing about a knockoff Hank? http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Loose-Thomas-Friends-Trackmaster-Motorized-Engine-Dennis-/391467277766?hash=item5b25449dc6:g:YM8AAOSwLnlWpFRy

ripley802

That's a different seller than the one that had Hank.

Super

Then was it this one? http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Thomas-friend-train-trackmaster-Battery-DENNIS-/371572444855?hash=item5683718eb7:g:B9YAAOSwuAVWyBq~

MuddyPoppins

They seem to be factory rejects...printing, stickers, packaging, and production mistakes, but also just the shoddy ones too...
Here's another one that looks interesting with a simple change in an appointment:

Muddy Poppins wrote
They seem to be factory rejects...printing, stickers, packaging, and production mistakes, but also just the shoddy ones too...
Here's another one that looks interesting with a simple change in an appointment:

Fisher Price Duncan

Muddy Poppins wrote
They seem to be factory rejects...printing, stickers, packaging, and production mistakes, but also just the shoddy ones too...
Here's another one that looks interesting with a simple change in an appointment:

Fisher Price Duncan?(2011)

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DalaGStanator

Muddy Poppins wrote
Our friend Bkiv sent me a listing today and I noticed something odd about this Dennis!! It seems there is a limited batch of these variations listed on eBay right now!! Can anyone see what is different???

1) The wheels are the wrong colour, and are meant to have a Bulleid Firth Brown texture like Neville's (drop-shaped holes instead of spokes).
2) The siderods are missing the special part that's meant to give the allusion that they're connected to the crankshaft.

ripley802

Super wrote
Then was it this one? http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Thomas-friend-train-trackmaster-Battery-DENNIS-/371572444855?hash=item5683718eb7:g:B9YAAOSwuAVWyBq~

Yep, that's the seller.

Miksolo

I should've noticed this before. I always thought the wheel color looked off on these listings, but since I didn't know much about early Trackmaster I didn't think much of it... I wonder now if it actually is a fine, working non-knockoff engine that's just been tinkered with, or a cheap clone.
I probably should've known that something was up anyway, since Dennis does have one-of-a-kind siderods, but I had completely forgotten that. Now, why would honger_hehe be selling some genuine new items as well as cheap knockoffs and/or modded engines???