[movie] Ivor the Engine: Bagpuss's Cartoon Brother on Track for Comeback

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Link: Ivor The Engine: Bagpuss's cartoon brother on track for comeback [bBC News]

 

He was the cheeky cartoon steam engine that sang in his local choir, went out on his own and provokes nostalgic memories of an innocent childhood.

 

Now 60 years since Ivor the Engine first steamed onto TV, his owners want to bring him out of the retirement shed and turn him into a film star.

 

Stablemates Bagpuss and Clangers are already well loved. Now "pioneering" Ivor could get another ride.

 

"I'd love to make a live-action version of Ivor," said his co-creator's son.

 

Inspired by Dylan Thomas' poetry and created by hand in a tumbledown cow shed by the late cartoon great Oliver Postgate, the cult icon turns 60 on Saturday.

 

The loveable locomotive of The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited lived in the top left-hand corner of Wales surrounded by his eccentric friends...