The Aquarium Cars (briefly known as the Light up Aquarium Cars) are two cars of water tanks containing sea creatures.
Product Description[]
Character Card[]
Colorful and fun, the large tanks of the aquarium cars help to transport sea creatures to all festivals and carnivals on the Island of Sodor.
2018 box description[]
Something's fishy about this delivery (literally)...
Who says you can't have aquatic adventures on land? When a child's imagination is inspired, anything is possible, like creating endless stories about the journey of these rescued sea creatures.
Changes[]
- 2001 (square red and blue wooden tanks)
- 2004 (cylindrical plastic tanks)
- 2011 (light-up version, octopus replaced with squid, shark replaced with hammerhead shark)
- 2013 (silver magnet casing)
- 2018 (printed details on exposed wood, unpainted chassis and edges, neon green wheels, wooden flatbed with removable lavender hammerhead shark and plastic cover, plastic tanker with lavender stingrays and light blue magnet casing)
- 2019 (painted chassis, chassis built into bodies)
Variants[]
- Clown Fish Cars from Aquarium Set
Availability[]
- 2001 Engine Assortment
- Brendam Docks Pack (shark car only)
Trivia[]
- The 2001 prototype Aquarium Cars are shorter in length, feature a different Sodor Aquarium logo, and swap the octopus and shark.
- The liquid in the original version tends to leak after a few months of use due to the fragile nature of the wood surrounding the tank windows.
- The Clown Fish Cars from the Aquarium Set are a lighter shade of blue than the 2004-2010 Aquarium Cars.
- Despite being redesigned in 2004, the 2001 Aquarium Cars continued to be available in Europe until 2007.
- The clown fish in the Clown Fish Cars feature a small mechanism allowing for their back fins to loosely sway as if they were "swimming".
- The boxes for the Light up Aquarium Cars label it as the "Light up Aquarium Car" despite it including two cars.
- The Sudsy Tanker and Engine Wash Car share the same base as the 2004-2010 Aquarium Cars.
- The 2013 Oil Tanker and Paint Tanker share the same base as the 2013-2017 Aquarium Cars.