What Happened to Sir Topham Hatt?
Does anybody know why Sir Topham Hatt was not in this film?
shareI wondered that myself, I have no idea. Very odd, since he's one of the main characters in the TV show. Anyone else know?
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Because there was no good way to portray him.
Sir Topham Hatt, in the TV show, is a wooden figure. Since all the humans and animals on the show are also wooden, there's no problem. But in this movie, which features real people instead of wooden figures, there was no good way to portray him.
If he was still wooden, he would look very awkward talking to Alec Baldwin.
If he was made real, who would portray him? And that would not be true to the original series anyway.
The "vacation" stuff was a plot trick to keep STH out of the movie.
This is the same reason why the engines did not have drivers or firemen in the movie.
by the way he's called the Fat Controller, i have no idea why you guys call him by that other name
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He didn't actually show up, but Mr. Conductor did have some interaction with Sir Topham Hatt's picture. Remember when he was in Hatt's office? I thought that scene was funny.
I have the answer, I just can't find it.
He's called Sir Topham Hatt in the U.S. videos because apparently the producers were afraid of the political correctness crowd objecting to the use of the word "Fat"
share Bloody PC-ness! He was always the Fat Controller to me, I think he's only ever referred to as Sir Topham Hat once, if at all.
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"by the way he's called the Fat Controller, i have no idea why you guys call him by that other name"
As I recall in the UK version of the story where Henry won't come out of the tunnel, the narrator first identifies Sir Topham Hatt by that name, and then adds his nickname being the Fat Controller, and is called that in all subsequent stories.
He is first identified as the Fat Director. He only becomes the Fat Controller after the railways are nationalised in 1948, between, IIRC, the first two books.
shareBecause Sir Topham Hatt is his name, as it was in the original books. The Fat Controller is his nickname.
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He was having a gastric bypass.
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u lookin at me or are u chewing a brick? either way you're gonna lose some teeth
He was refered to as the fat Controler by engines and staff alike. There is one funny scene in Diesel's (not D10!) first appearance, he calls him the fat Controler - only to be corrected by Duck and told to use the real name.
A great pity is that they couldn't get John Candy to play the Fat Controller
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