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The show has gone through several changes over the years. In 1994, the London production got a major overhaul -- adding a lot more emphasis on Pearl, eliminating C.B. and Belle, and having Electra also crash in the end and promise to convert to steam. These changes were ''not'' popular with the fandom at large. The American productions, meanwhile, maintained C.B. at least but made the female characters' costumes extremely [[Stripperiffic]] and still decided to make Electra share in Greaseball and C.B.'s comeuppance in the end, depriving him of an ''epic'' [[Villainous Breakdown]] in the process. The closest production to the original still running is the Bochum, Germany production, which nevertheless features the altered ending for Electra and no Belle, as well as elements from the late London and U.K. tour versions.
To the general public, this show is mostly famous for being performed entirely on roller skates, giving the anthropomorphic train characters the ability to move as smoothly as a real train would. Within its own fandom, however, it's known for a ''startling'' amount of [[Broken Aesop|broken]] and [[Family
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