Unlike the contemporary Motorized and Push Along ranges, the Wooden Railway range uses designs primarily based on the original television series style with a combination of the All Engines Go television series art style. In late 2017, twenty-five years after the debut of the Wooden Railway line, it was retired and replaced with Wood. The replacement was originally announced to take place in 2018, but ended up happening sooner. Percy is one of four vehicles to be available every year since 1993. The others are Thomas, Gordon, and James. Features Winter Wonderland Thomas, Paint-Splattered Thomas and Breakfast Thomas; reissued in 2013 with the Breakfast Thomas being replaced with a Fish-Splattered Thomas.

In 2007, several Wooden Railway products were recalled by RC2 Corp due to traces of lead in the paint, which posed a poisoning hazard. About 1.5 million products were recalled, although no cases of children being affected were reported. The recalled products included:

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Features Skarloey with Gravel Cars; Gravel Cars are repaints of the Boulder Cars from Rheneas and the Boulder Cars. Fergus' reintroduced model has entirely white wheels despite his original model having the correct red wheels with a white rim.

face with printed 2D details, rivet, cab handrail and step details, painted buffers, molded gold dome, molded coal in bunker, larger wheels with spoke details, detailed cab, short body) Gordon is one of four vehicles to be available every year since 1993. The others are Thomas, James, and Percy. The Talking Railway Series was a range of interactive engines and playsets. The engines have special gold magnets which, when they are at a destination, will prompt the Fat Controller to greet them. This range is discontinued. Being one of the most detailed iterations of the Wooden Railway line, one of the new features for some of the steam engines is their firebox glow reflected in their cab windows and doorways.Early 2002 (new larger face, bigger smokebox, wide boiler with stripes, no ledge on rear, new details, shorter dome, funnel hole removed) Harvey's model's cab is oddly short to accommodate his hook. He is also brown instead of maroon red and does not have a boiler.