The Xbox One enjoyed over 4000 mods (at the time of writing). It wasn’t just a token gesture either, with new assets being addable to the console versions to allow for some proper mods that completely change the look of the game or add new objects. So that was nice.”įortunately, no amount of legal meddling can stop the proverbial train here, which is why recent titles like the Resident Evil 2 Remake have been graced by its horrifying presence.When Bethesda announced that mod support was coming to Fallout 4 on consoles as well as PC it seemed as though a new world was going to open up to those of us who prefer not to dabble with PC gaming. The second time Youtube told them it was covered under parody law, with no prompting from me. “They issued takedown notices on the videos for it. “It was some intermediary law firm based out of Macedonia, saying how I diminished the brand of Thomas by showing him blowing up (nothing about him violently murdering people),” Brock said. We reached out to Mattel but the company did not respond in time for publication.
Apparently, Mattel sent its lawyers after Brock after the Skyrim mod blew up, The Face reports. ( 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.
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