9:07 Henry's face is getting ready to sneeze 🤧

What is the name of the first song that is in the background translation?

This is one of those times that the book should be a total number of “2/4 stories adapted for TV” but ends up being “4/4 stories adapted into 3 episodes for TV” because of 1 episode being almost completed by the production team

2:07 Postman Henry

Isn’t a special also a movie?

May you please mention the “stepney’s special” title in a sentence, please?

My theory towards James arriving with the vans instead of coaches, in the TV episode of 'Better Late than Never', was to give Thomas some goods supplies for him to take down his branch line. But still it would have made more sense for him to arrive with coaches full of passengers. Also, did you notice in the episode that Henry didn't have coaches nor anything behind him at all, despite the fact he was supposed to be giving Thomas his passengers? That is really strange.

7:00 What Does That Have to Do with Me Drowning a Disgruntled Boat 7:59 It is Time for the Finest Cocoa to Leave,He Had Seen Everything

The moment when diesel’s cupping brakes was adapted, is season 6

3:13 You forgot to mention Stanley’s brief cameo in The RWS Adaptation Of Bulldog Jeffrey.

Doesn’t really show how long duck was at wellsworth.

This is the first book to be narrated by Willie Rushton

At the beginning of Percy takes the Plunge he was telling Bill and Ben about him in Percy’s Promise from the next series.

11:03 They’re Rams Jeffery.

RIP spot the difference the series had a good run

This song is great

Actually, Thomas didn't steal Duck's dialogue. He probably just borrowed. Not sure.

While Smudger and Stanley (MSR#2) are completely different (i.e., Smudger is a repaint of Rheanas with a different face), I can understand where the team was coming from. After all, there's only so much you can do when you have small budget and creating functioning (albeit troublesome) narrow gauge engine models is no easy task. This is also why I can understand the exclusion of the miniture railway until the series transitioned from physical models to computer animation. Basically, the smaller the model, the more challenging it is to work with, hence the restriction regarding just how small a physical model can be made. However, with CGI there are far fewer size restrictions, which means that issues like jamming siderods and lost screws aren't an issue. Therefore, when combined with a much larger budget, more and smaller characters can be included.

I put it down to a hopper malfunction (i.e., the person operating tried to get it to stop dispensing coal, but the flap couldn't be closed properly). The result: a dirty and grumpy tank engine.

3:21 😂

David Mitton said the replacement for The Missing Coach was Thomas, Percy, and the Coal. Many fans are of the view this is a Mandela effect on his part given that the story is technically complex for a replacement, and moreover it is thought that the entire series’ worth of shots were filmed on each set. Therefore many fans have surmised that it is Better Late Than Never as a replacement for these reasons, but I have seen other theories that suggest Percy Takes The Plunge.

I always assumed that Percy's driver was surprised at just how fast Percy could go without being thrown off the footplate or bounced around.

Not to be direspectful, but Sir Handel is not purple. Instead, he's sapphire blue, which remained unaltered in the TV series so that it was easier for children to tell the narrow gauge engines apart. This principle was also applied to Peter Sam (forest green), Duncan (yellow ochre), Rusty (orange), Duke (russet brown), Rheanas (vermillion) and Skarloey (scarlet).

When Gordon's passing him, I can imagine Edward thinking "Oh, puff off!"

In my opinion, some of the changes made in the TV series made sense since there's more which can be done with animation than with live action and physical models. This is especially true for computer animation given the software which now available. Also, it's important to remember that David Mitton and Robert Cardona carried their experience from working on Tugs over to Thomas and Friends to help refine the scenery and model work. As for Thomas being sceptical about City of Truro not noticing the Sudrian engines, I can't really blame him since the Sudrian steam engines are still working engines. This means that they are required to complete a variety of tasks throughout the day, which often results in them getting dirty and becoming quite weathered.

I read the book as a kid, and as a result Jinty and Pug are engrained into my memory. I remember feeling cheated when watching the show and seeing them recycling existing side characters. I get that they needed to save money on the models, but the crew could’ve used spare shells of Thomas and Percy, made single faces for each and sprayed the models black.

As boring as More About Thomas The Tank Engine is, I don’t mind it. I imagine that there were often boring days on the railways, so I imagine Thomas and friends had a few very uninteresting occurrences.

Can you please post a link to the will yino come back again song you used please

Bill and Ben actually debuted in “Percy Takes The Plunge”.

As far the indignation meeting in "Bowled out" is concerned, I'm inclined to believe that Stepney was elsewhere at the time.

6:36 wait dose mean bulstrode died?!

Having rewatched the classic model series, it's likely that some of the changes were made due to budgetary constraints, which meant working with what they had available at the time. Also, it could be that episodes "Steamroller" and "Special Funnel" were intended to be released after "Gallant old engine" (just a guess). Finally, there will always creative differences when making adaptaions (e.g., emphasing that Sodor is a completely different location) and when working with physical models, details like winks aren't easy to include, especially when the models are tiny to ensure everything is to scale.

#thecaseofthemissingcoachepisode

Sir Handel's not purple, he's blue.

My favourite book 🎉 🎉🎉🎉

Posttrain Henry 2:07

2:18 among those engines is Reginald.

This is also the last book Willie Rushton narrated.

Does that mean The Scottish Twins told the Troublesome Trucks to shut up?!

We should Wilbert Awdry credit for this story as well as Britt Allcroft and David Mitton

The Fireman actually had a bumped head sculptured for Whistles and Sneezes, but it was never used.

They should have used super rescue for when they wrote Henry out of the show, idk how they would do it but it would have been smart

Very nice spot the difference between the books & tv series. It would be nice to see Mr. kindly in the TV series & to have a specking line. Also Mrs. Kindly getting plastic surgery 😳, surprise to hear that one.

4:32 EEEEEEEEHHHH!!!!!!

A missed opportunity was to have Clarabel (and not the guard) agree to give up her floorboards for Percy’s fire. Would have been a nice character moment for her.

3:44 - 3:50 When the narrator said, "Gordon felt somehow that Edward saw only too well!" it felt to me that Gordon and Henry have learnt their lesson of never teasing Edward about the cows and that everyone, especially myself since I loved him more as a kid, was on his side and giving him support and protection from tease and harm. Plus, from what it said, Edward knew everything more than the others put together😆

Was Drip Tank ever planned for S2 of Thomas and Friends?

HELLO FATFACE

5:30 James: HA HA!!!!

I think the reason The stationmaster walked away shaking his head was because he heard that the festival don’t want Toby as their festival Attraction.