



So a decorated cookie cake it was, and with a little green frosting, some Thomas minis, and train signs borrowed from our train set, this cute, easy Thomas the Tank Engine birthday cookie was created. I was going to do the KitKat train tracks on cupcakes and arrange the cupcakes in the shape of a 3, but as I noted in the Funfetti cookie cake recipe post, my boys just don’t particularly like cake. The theme coordinated perfectly with our other activities for his big birthday weekend: checking out the model railroad display at the Morton Arboretum and having dinner at 2 Toots, the boys’ favorite diner where a model train delivers your food to your table. (Incidentally, he’s been singing “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” on repeat in his adorable toddler voice.)

Thomas isn’t Sawyer’s favorite character or TV show (I think that honor would go to Paw Patrol), but he recently has become interested in all things trains. For Sawyer’s 3rd birthday celebration, I opted for a Thomas and Friends train decorated cookie cake. As the video above shows, there's really no good time not to have Thomas "the Terror" the Tank Engine bust into the scene, but here's hoping we'll see a matchup one day with Fallout 4's other Big Bad: Macho Man Randy Savage.We are riding the birthday train until the wheels fall off, friends. Fallout 4 is the latest title to get the Thomas makeover courtesy of modder trainwiz (the creator behind the epoch-defining Thomas the Tank Engine Skyrim mod).įor Fallout, trainwiz has replaced a number of items with Thomas's image, including all the deathclaws and vertibirds, missiles and mini nukes, and "one of the flight helmets, I don't know which, it's a surprise." Oh, and plenty of the game's sound effects have been replaced with Thomas's blood-curdling battlecry: toot, toot. There's not a game out there that couldn't be improved by the inclusion of everyone's favorite dead-eyed anthropomorphic train and/or capitalist allegory. Despite what developers and the crooked mainstream media tells you, there's actually only one thing true gamers want from their video games: Thomas the Tank Engine mods.
