Toby

**Tail**
Showa: 30 feet

**Head-to-tail hypotenuse**
Showa: 75 feet

Red fox

Grizzly bear

**Toby** is a brown male steam locomotive dinosaur. He was the seventh monster to be encountered on Sodor, and is part of the Steam Team. He makes his first appearance in the 3rd chapter of the 1st arc, *Night of the Wooden Ringer*.

## Overview

### **Showa era**

#### **1-3. *Night of the Wooden Ringer***

Toby displays having a vivid grudge against the four diesels, the Iron twins and "Splodge". He interferes with James, who seemed almost just as ill-mannered as him at the moment. Toby also ends up in an violent encounter with Edward at Wellsworth.

### **Millennium era**

#### **10-1. *Sudrian Cataclysm***

Toby was one of the many monsters who was caught under the control of Androids during a massive alien invasion in 2005.

**10-3. *All to an End***

Toby and with the rest of the Steam Team monsters were relocated to the open countryside of Sodor in which they are all forced to fight against Thomas, whom was not under the Androids' control at that point. When Thomas manages to defeat his teammates, Toby's body slams onto a rocky ledge and falls to the ground along with the rest of the team, all knocked out and dazed at the end of the fight.

## General information

### **Design**

Among many steamers, Toby is easily one of the most unusual, although he retains few of the common features on a typical dinosaur. His body is almost entirely boxy, and does not share the metallic details that his fellow teammates possess - having sturdy wooden scales instead, in which they are chocolate brown with some paler, cream highlights. Uniquely, his shoulders and legs are adorned with metal plates - notably depicted as armor, offering protection from dangerous blows. His spines are thick, mountainous in shape and range in hue from grayish-brown to black. His eyes are sky blue. Toby wears a bow tie with strips outlined blue at the tips. His tail noticeably drags along everywhere he goes, with a brassy bell conjoined at the tip.

The Millennium Toby design has more realistic, defined and somewhat darkened wooden textures. His stature and proportions have additionally been tweaked to appear leaner whiles still retaining most of his signature bulk, making him slightly more mobile. His claws were also changed to black instead of silver.

### **Roar**

Toby's roars uniquely consist of low-pitched rattling noises produced by wooden or cardboard objects.

### **Abilities**

#### **Physical capabilities**

Although not exactly as naturally resistant as many of the quicker and stronger monsters, Toby can sustain against a fair deal of painful damage from opponents, as well as some forms of conventional weaponry. He usually relies on using his claws and fists during battle. His armor plates are helpful as a defense for several of his weaker points. Toby can quickly hide his head and limbs inside his boxy shell - in addition, also being able to use this technique in the air as an alternative means to faster falling. He is jokingly referred to as a "box turtle" for it.

Starting from the Millennium era and beyond, Toby's movements became somewhat faster and more flexible than in previous eras. While obviously not to the extent of the far more agile monsters, it remains a prominent improvement for him in terms of physical finesse.

#### **Energy capabilities**

##### Smoke fireball

Toby's breath weapon is a fairly normal fireball is quickly becomes engulfed with smoke, and impressively, is able to cleanly smash through multiple hard surfaces at time, before wearing out or forming a short-radius explosion.

##### Burrowing

Toby is capable of digging large holes through the earth, and exceptionally skillful at creating quick underground paths in the form of tunnels. His holes are distinctively square-shaped, unlike those of many other burrowing monsters.

### **Weaknesses**

Toby represents a "glass cannon" archetype. He is able to deliver respectably heavy blows on opponents, although his poor durability renders himself unable to withstand similar amounts of damage - which can make him highly susceptible to pressure. He also cannot afford to be targeted by particularly powerful forms of weaponry. Because of the way his overall frame is built, Toby is not very nimble and his main form of locomotion often forces him to move at a slow pace, even when running. In all eras until around the 2000s, the tail was the only part of his body unable to move voluntarily by will, in which it would drag along the ground, seemingly useless. Many of Toby's weaknesses can be easily exploited all-in-all, but typically they are just as prevalent as his strengths.

### **Personality**

Toby was initially very stubborn, temperamental, and ill-mannered in his introduction. Although he has improved to an extent, he still shows signs of not exactly being gentle or subtle as a mentor. Toby evidently shows that he is not very trusting whenever his ideas are challenged or criticized. He feels ready to speak his mind and is not easy to back down, even in a situation that is one-sided. Unlike Edward, Toby usually does not feel hesitant or embarrassed about scolding whenever he is cross with others who behave difficult with him. He can seem quite easily annoyed and irritable, but does occasionally display a softer and wiser side. He is exceptionally very friendly and docile towards humans, for example.

## Trivia

### Development

* Toby's earliest design only stood about 6 feet tall.
* Toby overall had the least drastic design changes in early development.

### General

* A Christmas-related Twitter post suggests that Toby can grow a full fur coat similarly to Edward.