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Thomas & Friends™: Trackable Fun Facts

• For almost 65 years, families in more than 145 countries have enjoyed fun and adventure with Thomas and his engine friends, while experiencing timeless life lessons of discovery, friendship and cooperation.
• Thomas is the #1 train brand in the US and the #1 toy property in Preschool Toys (NPD 2007 - June 2008).
• Nearly 3 million¹ Wooden Thomas Engines have been sold in the US.
• More than 30,000,000 Thomas & Friends Wooden engines have been sold in the US; that's one engine every 17 seconds for 15 years!
• Since April 2008, more than 33,000 aspiring engineers (and counting!) have signed a petition to get Thomas inducted into the Toy Hall Of Fame...if we laid out each of the petition entries next to each other, that would equal nearly 2 miles of signatures!
• More than 21 million pieces of track² have been sold in the US. If you laid out all these pieces of track, you could drive your Thomas Wooden Engine from Boston, Massachusetts to Chenenne, Wyoming.
• A 15-ton replica of Thomas travels to more than 45 US Railroads yearly at Day Out With Thomas Events. Now in its 13th year in the US, Day Out With Thomas has welcomed more than 8.5 million passengers in its history.
• 100+ million children peep along with Thomas at home through the 45+ million copies of DVDs and VHS that have been sold in the US.
• 300 million different friends of Thomas visit his website every month.
• More than 55 million Thomas books have been sold in the US

1. Thomas Wooden Railway system launched in the US in 1993; All dates in this factsheet are from 1993 to 2008
2. 121,000,000 inches of track; 1,909.7 miles.