There's Something about TOG II | The Tank Museum

A special feature from TANKFEST Online about the biggest and heaviest vehicle in The Tank Museum's entire collection - TOG II. Nowadays it's one of the Museum's most popular exhibits, yet it was a complete and total failure! Join The Tank Museum's Director Richard Smith as he runs you through the TOG story. If you missed TANKFEST Online, or want to relive it - you can watch it all again for FREE!
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[andrewhills]

The Tank Museum were very kind in reaching out to me for my part in this video and I appreciated the opportunity to dispel some of the misinformation, inaccurate comments and meming on why the tank looks the way it does. To say it is a failure is not correct - it exceeded the criteria it had to be built to.

[melvinwallin]

The Bovington tank museum the only tank museum who can get away with having a battleship on display

[markguttag]

An idea for a possible Tank Museum fundraiser: See if Tamiya (or another model company) would be interested in producing a 1/35 scale TOG II with an included set of figures of David Fletcher, David Willey and Richard Smith so modelers can create Tank Chat dioramas.

[emobaddie]

TOG designers could never know their tank would finally go to war as computer coding controlled by noobs

[Lord.Kiltridge]

"I was going to tell a joke about the TOG, but it's too long."

[LordBillington]

Moved it using washing up liquid... Something about that seems so wonderfully British.

[haraldlorentzen]

They need to make this magnificent beast move again. Seeing this move at tank fest would be a dream come true.

[HellbirdIV]

"Look at how silly the Germans were, building a giant tank like the Maus! Clearly they had no understanding of the realities of the war on the ground."

The Old Gang: *sweating nervously*

[rada]

The Royal Navy did a great job making TOG.

[Moggster]

"When I grow up, I wanna be a Tog 2"
- King Tiger

[fatpython]

Only ship that Yamato is afraid to diss

[MrBigCookieCrumble]

*_Coming to a cinema near you:_*
_The Adventures of 2 the TOG and Semple the Bob!_
~~~~Beeest frieeends for eveeer~~~~

[Cooliemasteroz]

I could imagine a good lighthearted World War II movie about the TOG tank. Maybe the old gang could’ve been frustrated by the rejection of their design and through rich and powerful contacts get a few made in the good old USA, get some volunteer crews from the empire and allies with some great accents and join the fight in north Africa. Of course it would all have to be computer generated along with some really good engine sounds, maybe be a bit of extra smoke, maybe exaggerate power of the gun and maybe also include some terrible mechanical sounds such as the sound of un lubricated metal on metal when the turret rotates along with some dammed fine British terminology of the day. I suppose there could be some embarrassing scenes in the beginning before they learn how to use them but they could save the day in the end. It doesn’t have to be too believable for people who know about tanks.

[roeng]

You really need to get that tank running, can you imagine the amount of people who would go to see it at tankfest. Start a go-fund-me.

[ryanbrewis]

This is essential. We need the TOG back in running condition. What other nation can say they have a working land battleship?
TOG is love. TOG is life. Fund TOG today.

[JanEikeK]

TOG never panics, TOG always calmly carries on. - TOG<3

[PricieGaming]

If there was a statistic for 'most hugged tank at the tank museum' you know the TOG II would be the winner!

[bullettube]

I laughed when I saw them moving the TOG sideways in a pool of soapy water. Long ago in the shop I worked at, we had a Caterpillar D-8 sitting in a bay we needed for something else. Well, we had removed the injectors and sent them out for cleaning, so we tried to push it sideways using a D-4. It struggled and the concrete floor started to be gouged. So my boss thought, "hey, lets throw some floor soap under it". So we did and we pushed it again with the D-4 and it slid very nicely. It worked and it was a bonus that the bay also had the cleanest floor in the shop!

[Captaincinquo]

I utterly love my TOGII* in World of Tanks. Whenever playing it, I imagine TOG TALK LIKE THIS. It's fun. It's funny, it's amusing and wonderful. Tog is love. Tog is life. I went to Bovington a year or so ago and paid my homage to TOGII*. The fact it's right next to a children's playground seems absolutely perfect for Tog's character.

[ConstantlyDamaged]

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