My son loves Thomas the tank engine (now called Thomas & friends) and it is his birthday next week. We were hoping to have a Thomas theme but cannot find anything with Thomas (or any kind of train) on it, such as balloons, paper plates, cups, stickers etc.

Has anyone seen a shop selling Thomas the tank engine party items?

Maybe you can just get stickers and decorate some cups/plates (as I did once). You can try to get some images off the internet. Otherwise, I can't help as I have just moved here.

In Hong Kong, Thomas shirts (street market), pencil cases/pads/bags/etc (stationery store that stocks Hello Kitty and etc.) is the rage. Also I KNOW that some of the japanese department stores must have some stuff as it is popular over there (TOMY is a japanese brand which I know you know makes a bunch of Thomas toys).

Try posting in the Where to get section.

You can find some Thomas the Tank items in some shops at the Pu An kids market, random tho...the vendors are saying that Thomas is getting to be quite popular here now so maybe you will have better luck!

I have manged to find items like towels, bags, umbrellas, stickers, waterbottles and clothes etc...

Gd luck!