The models by Chris Burgess were taken down in 2008 due to the amount of "gimme pigs", which resulted in the formation of the famed Sodor Island 3D, which itself was shut down in January 2018 after a DeviantArt user illegally uploaded the 2010 models, and responded to anyone telling him to take them down with profanity.
As a result, the remaining episodes of The Modern Years have been cancelled, and Wildnorwester has stated he is quitting YouTube.
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In response, Wildnorwester shut down his website (though left the door open for a future return, and the models were still available if one knew the web addresses for the download pages, but while the pages still exist, the download links were set to private sometime in March 2020), and all but disappeared from DeviantArt (though his profile is still open, revealing that all characters were receiving 3D faces in the lead-up to final episodes of The Modern Years at the time of the shutdown, the only updated models publicly released were Toby and the Scottish Twins). When asked to take them down, the offenders insulted him. Creator Breakdown: In September 2019, several of Wildnorwester's models were illegally reskinned and posted on Discord.