Subliminal Trains

What is it with these trains?
Thomas the Tank Engine is over 60 years old and Kieran is just crazy about them.
Is there something subliminal in the videos?
Are the eyes on the trains hypnotic? Instructing kids to get their parents to buy this and increase the profits for the toy company?

He even dreams about them. We hear him say "zzz...Thomas...zzz" at night.
If you look carefully in the background you can see some of his toy cars and bus and he puts them all in a row like a choo-choo train. Except he'll call it choo-choo bus.
These trains aren't cheap either. We got a cheapo one wooden one from Ikea for 17.99 or something for Christmas for him. Not sure how much the real one costs at Toys-R-Us. But at this age as long as it's a train. It's considered Thomas.
He got this one from his Grandparents. He spent a week with them and he must have been going through some Thomas withdrawl.

So this is what happens in the morning and he asks for Thomas, we don't always put it on, but it helps him to eat and he sings and is happy. So I put it on so I can get our stuff together to get him out the door to daycare.
I just wish that they could make a video that would tell kids not to put food all over their face. That one I would buy.