Evidence Post (2026)

[mimihylea]

 Please comment on this post if you are nominating:

• A crossover fandom, in which case please point us to the episode, installment, or other canon piece of media where the franchises are shown to share a universe
• A recursive fandom, in which case please link to a public statement by the author permitting transformative works
• A worldbuilding tag that might seem to overlap closely with the real world, in which case please explain why the fandom context makes it distinct

Missing evidence will be queried, but posting evidence in advance is much appreciated and will streamline nominations!

Comments

[marquisguyun]

Hi! I noticed that all my noms got accepted by one and I had kinda wondered if it'd get queried when I nommed it, so I wanted to go ahead and make a post here.

"WB: The rest of the Conductor family (Thomas and the Magic Railroad)" is a tag that I workshopped with the previous Worldbuilding exchange mod in a prior year. This is what I ended up putting in my sign up about it:

It's implied that Mr. Conductor and Junior (who are cousins) had more family at one point, but they aren't around by the time of the movie. It's also canon that neither of the current conductors were around when Lily's Grandfather Burnett Stone traveled to the Island of Sodor, so maybe their older relatives were? Basically I'm curious about what family they might have had (Parents? Grandparents?) and why they're gone (Can they die? Did they fade away? Something else?). Also, what exactly are the Conductors? They look like tiny humans, but Sir Topham Hatt doesn't. Where do they come from? How are they connected to the magic of the world? Or any kinds of related topics that you'd be interested in exploring!

Hopefully that's helpful, and let me know if you would prefer I rephrase/how you would suggest I rephrase in that case. Maybe "WB: The existence of the rest of the Conductor family (Thomas and the Magic Railroad)" or just "WB: The existence of the Conductor family (Thomas and the Magic Railroad)"?

Thanks!

[mimihylea]

Thank you for explaining! We were about to query this because it seemed more like a character study prompt. I think your alternate suggestion of "WB: The existence of the Conductor family (Thomas and the Magic Railroad)" sounds great!

[marquisguyun]

Oh good! I have gone ahead and changed it on my noms page.