( Skyrim’s Thomas mod is still up, though.) Similarly, if you click on links for old stories on the internet that previously led to the mod, nothing comes up. “It’s the reason why the Fallout 4 mod can’t be found on any normal website.” Sure enough, if you run a search for “Thomas the Tank Engine” on Nexus, the largest distributor of Bethesda mods on the internet, absolutely nothing comes up for Fallout 4. “Mattel pretty much want me dead at this point,” Brock says. According to Brock, the Skyrim mod got him in “so much trouble,” and that attention followed him across other Thomas the Tank Engine mods that he made. The Face has published a fascinating look at why people keep adding Thomas the Tank Engine to video games, and embedded in this report is a tidbit about how the iconic joke created problems for the original creator.
While the cameo has become a meme now, the joke’s explosion apparently put the modder in hot water with Mattel, the toy giants who own Thomas’ image. The tradition of adding Thomas the Tank Engine to video games started with Skyrim back in 2013, when Kevin Brock put the blue locomotive in Bethesda’s fantasy game.
