Percy (also released as Percy the Small Engine) is a cheeky green engine.
Product Description
Character Card
Percy is the junior member of the principal team of engines on the Island of Sodor. This little chap is quite happy puffing around the yard. He is always keen to oblige, even though the other engines are apt to take advantage of him.
2018 box description
Meet the best friend...
Percy may not be a thrill-seeker but he’s good-natured and always happy to help. He can be a little shy, but you couldn’t ask for a better friend.
Changes
- 1993 (small face, skinny flat top funnel, unpainted dome, cab door, smokebox not connected to front bufferbeam, solid black painted coal, flat magnets, thin undated wheels, staples on chassis)
- 1993 (no cab door)
- 1993 (painted dome)
- 1993 (shorter flat top funnel)
- 1993 (smokebox connected to front bufferbeam)
- 1993 (beveled top funnel)
- 1993 (green outline on cab roof, speckled painted coal)
- 1994 (no staples on chassis, fully black painted cab roof, made in China)
- 1994 (big round magnets, dated wheels)
- 1996 (small round magnets, new face, rounded wooden funnel)
- 1997 (big, flatter round magnets, thick wheels)
- 1999 (realistic plastic funnel and smokebox, funnel hole added)
- 2001 (name on bottom of chassis)
- Early 2002 (new larger face, bigger smokebox, wide boiler with stripes, no ledge on rear, new details, shorter dome, funnel hole removed)
- Late 2002 (funnel hole added)
- 2011 (CG style face)
- 2012 (updated face, no inner wheel lip)
- 2013 (gold dome, curved edges, longer magnet guards, other minor details)
- 2017 (smaller face)
- 2018 (printed details on exposed wood, larger cab, flat dome, smaller coal bunker, shorter length)
- Mid 2018 (metal pins in chassis, darker paint)
- 2019 (printed details on painted wood, minor detail changes, chassis built into body)
- 2022 (face with printed 2D details, rivet, cab handrail and step details, painted buffers, molded gold dome, molded coal in bunker, larger wheels with spoke details, detailed cab, short body)
Variants
Availability
Trivia
- Percy's smokebox is mounted slightly to the right of center.
- Percy's 2002 prototype is featured on the following boxes:
- Arched Stone Bridge (2002-2003)
- Down by the Docks Set (2002-2010)
- Honey Depot (2002-2003)
- Sodor Engine Wash (2002-2005)
- Percy is one of four vehicles to be available every year since 1993. The others are Thomas, Gordon, and James.
- Percy is one of five vehicles to have been introduced with a back ledge who never had one in 2002. The others are Thomas, Henry, Gordon, and James. All other vehicles would not lose their back ledges until late 2002.
- Percy is the only engine that does not have counterweights in the 2022 Wooden Railway range.