The Railway Series #22 Thomas & Friends: Tit for Tat ~ Mike's Whistle ~ Useful Railway "Never Overlook a Little Engine" instrumental music by UpsideNow
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@darkknight55412 жыл бұрын
I don't mind Thomas's addition to Tit For Tat in the episode, since its the only time he gets to directly interact with the man who created him.
@RoseSupreme2 жыл бұрын
Same. The other shoehorns though really ticked me off.
@darkknight55412 жыл бұрын
@@RoseSupreme Meh, by that point I'd learned to expect it.
@RoseSupreme2 жыл бұрын
@@darkknight5541 I wasn't surprised either. It's just so intrusive and unnecessary. Where's Oliver, Donald or Douglas? Thomas should be on *HIS* branch line, not someone else's like the selfish prick he is.
@nathancorcoran53472 жыл бұрын
In Season 24 episode The Great Little Railway Show, Percy also interact with the man who created him too.
@stingky3689 Жыл бұрын
@@RoseSupreme ngl i chuckled when Thomas was imitating duck's whistle
@Steamenginesunited34562 жыл бұрын
It feels so weird to be reminded that that adaptations were made during season 20.
@BriceInkling1382 жыл бұрын
Coming from a near perfect but amazing season, I'm happy they did that. Even to this day.
@NintendoGamer26002 жыл бұрын
@@BriceInkling138 agreed. The adaptations were still very good
@navchinna Жыл бұрын
@@BriceInkling138 And then....BWBA
@UsefulEngine112 жыл бұрын
I am so glad that you tackled small Railway engines as I was shocked to see these stories adapted for CGI and at the same time Andrew Brenner and his team did a great job adapting these stories. Beautiful work on this video
@rayvenkman20872 жыл бұрын
A shame that they’re the only RWS stories made in the CGI era. Super Rescue would have been great to see on TV.
@saltbombcreations83362 жыл бұрын
@@rayvenkman2087 And let’s not forget about the Culdee Fell Railway stories, Thomas and the Swan, Birdstrike, Thomas and the Twins stories, and that time when Thomas went to the National Railway Museum.
@Thomasmemoryscentral2 жыл бұрын
@@saltbombcreations8336 Is Thomas in any situation where he is interacting with Bill and Ben under Brenner's time as head writer?
@saltbombcreations83362 жыл бұрын
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Only if the Els bridge needs repair and Thomas is too heavy for it
@ciarangleeson28802 жыл бұрын
There’s another difference that you forgot. It’s how Willie realised that he was running late. In the book, he was startled by Rex’s whistle, but in the episode, he checked the time on his watch.
@mack_r-s2 жыл бұрын
I was pretty much 100% sure you would skip this book, but how about that. Talk about a great video to wake up to on thanksgiving Sunday. Happy thanksgiving fellow Canadians!
@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory2 жыл бұрын
The CGI background looks so much like the book, it's incredible
@EssexAggiegrad20112 жыл бұрын
There were benefits to the cgi
@SrMechaGojira932 жыл бұрын
I’m grateful and delighted that they adapted another RWS book after 20+ years. *Still* wish Bear made it!!!
@joelcartagena9532 жыл бұрын
In the book the small railway passenger coaches appear to have embedded faces similar to Annie and Clarabel, the Skarloey railway narrow gauge coaches, the Culdee Fell mountain railway coaches and Duck's GWR slip coaches. But they don't appear to have faces at all in the small railway episodes.
@tidmouthmilk122 жыл бұрын
Well this was certainly an unexpected surprise!
@JamesIsHere52 жыл бұрын
If Wilbert saw these episodes he'd probably say yesn't
@saltbombcreations83362 жыл бұрын
So yesn’t means yes not?
@dinowhizz4442 жыл бұрын
@@saltbombcreations8336 yesn't
@h.j.mullinerandco.47022 жыл бұрын
One Very Minor Thing : The Clergymen's Car In The Railway Series Had The Shape Of A BMC ADO16 But In The TV Series, It Had A Shape Of A Generic Saloon Which Lacks The Thick C Pillar
@primrosevale19952 жыл бұрын
1:48 The Little Western was built under government order in 1916, but only ran skeletal services after the mines closed in 1946. From then until it was relaid in 1964 it ran only skeletal services. No engines were known to work the line regularly at that point but it is likely that several engines were trialed on the line upon its opening and were likely called up as needed.
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
Around the mid-Sodor
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
Bert: I don't wanna be a moving picture in a book! I just wanna stay as I am.
@RexTheMiniature Жыл бұрын
*laughs*
@HedleyOnTheHill2 жыл бұрын
i went to the ravenglass and eskdale railway during the summer. I highly recommend going there
@SodorStudiosAndCoProductions2 жыл бұрын
QUICK THEORY: Mike said that with his red paint he looks like a pillar box, which are used to collect mail So what about a story where Mike gets to run a small railway mail train? Like Percy, but in a much smaller scale and covering just a portion of the Island (the Arlesdale Railway) I mean just think about it, mail has to be collected in trucks and we know that Mike likes working with trucks much more than coaches so overall I think it would be fitting enough
@mikematthews36022 жыл бұрын
Mike's Whistle is actually the second time an engine looses his whistle in TV series. The first being Faulty Whistles
@mack_r-s2 жыл бұрын
He mentions that episode in the video Mike. You should know since I ASSUME you actually watched the whole video before commenting. Just go back to working on the Arsdale Railway Mike ;)
@joelcartagena9532 жыл бұрын
Something I want to point out, was that in the CGI series the small railway engines wheels are painted as their matching colours. Furthermore in the episode the 2 clergymen were driving their car on the other side of the railway track 5:25.
@joshuaW56212 жыл бұрын
This is why I long to help save Thomas and make it great again someday if Mattel goes bankrupt.
@charlessapp18352 жыл бұрын
If I had the money, I would buy the rights to Thomas and redo the entire series. Starting with new stories of when Thomas and Edward finished building the North Western Railway, and adapting all of the stories from the books in chronological order. I would also go back to using models and not CGI.
@islesofforeignrails7917 Жыл бұрын
Never will ever happen.
@callum1105972 жыл бұрын
Awesome. Been ages since I read the book...and I've only watched the episodes once, but thanks for pointing out the differences. ...I know for one, Thomas wasn't in the book, when I wanted him to be. ...And I'm surprised you still used Willie Rushton's recordings, for the CGI.
@Thomasmemoryscentral2 жыл бұрын
Pretty neat how good Willie's narrations sync up to the CGI mouths talking. Wonder if they used his narrations as dialogue reference or just a happy coincidence?
@callum1105972 жыл бұрын
@@Thomasmemoryscentral I'm not sure. Finest Cocoa must've done so well.
@bladeobrian21442 жыл бұрын
I wonder what Christopher thinks of this adaptation? Also, I can understand why this didn’t happen until the CGI era. These stories would, admittedly, be difficult (but not impossible) with models.
@Thomasmemoryscentral2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps adapting them during the hit era with the larger skarloey engine redesigns from S5 onwards could have been pulled off? The models could have been Narrow gauge sized?
@bladeobrian21442 жыл бұрын
@@Thomasmemoryscentral possibly, You know it’s understandable why adapting these stories/characters would’ve been hard, but characters like Wilbert, 16, Pip and Emma, Bear, and D199 would’ve been easy to make in comparison!
@charlessapp18352 жыл бұрын
Today with the advancement in model railroad technology it could be done, but it would have been too hard in the classic series. It was hard enough for the Skarloey Railway in season 4.
@Thomasmemoryscentral2 жыл бұрын
@@charlessapp1835 Hit Entertainment probably could have pulled it off had they acknowledged Duck beyond a cameo in Navigation and the Scottish twins in Gordon And The Mechanic but given they tended to misunderstand the characters aside from a few such as Duncan and Peter Sam, probably the best they didnt waste their money on the model creation for them
@herrice32272 жыл бұрын
Thats a good question! I'd love to know what Christopher Awdry thought of the adaptations
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
Verra wee engines brung yon ballast doun fra rhe hills.
@ciarangleeson2880Ай бұрын
Would I be correct in assuming that the “verra wee engines” must be some kind of magic?
@Charliejashworth2 жыл бұрын
Well done i’ve been thinking to myself how is it gonna fit it all together and now you finally bring it out and you’ve answered my question!
@thomasegcouplesandships19562 жыл бұрын
Yay! They're finally here!
@bennythevultureofficial2 жыл бұрын
In faulty whistles, (which is the loose adaptation of Mike's Whistle) Duck is replaced with Peter Sam, except Peter Sam loses his whistle, because it gets knocked off by a low hanging branch. In the end of the episode of the application of Mike's Whistle, Duck's whistle is finally cleared out and the small controller doesn't appear for the rest of the episode, and he also doesn't scold Mike at all.
@ciarangleeson2880Ай бұрын
Also, Mike is replaced with Duncan.
@bennythevultureofficialАй бұрын
@@ciarangleeson2880 I know
@csabatoth52302 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this video, and all of these comparisons, thank you for all of it
@gregkiteos19362 жыл бұрын
This is good. I did wonder whether you would cover this book because the stories were adapted in the CGI era, but it actually makes for a more interesting comparison.
@samuelfarris19492 жыл бұрын
Another difference I think should be worth to point out in 'Mike's Whistle', is that when the author describes Mike's safety valve to 'blow off', he didn't literally mean it broke. My experience in railway terms indicates that, when the boiler's steam pressure builds up at the start of the day, a blast of steam from the safety valve indicates simply that the engine has reached full working pressure to start away. Mike's driver, upon noting this in result of Mike being anger-triggered (though one is left to speculate just how the engine's face can trigger an effect on their boiler), notes that he is the first to be able to leave the shed. While the TV series' perspective is also applicable, I wanted to explain the real intention of the author. Regards, Samuel Farris.
@TylerRakstis2 жыл бұрын
Finally, I was wondering when you'll get to that book and it's episodes based on that.
@ShortPuff2 жыл бұрын
That ending was amazing-
@joelcartagena9532 жыл бұрын
I had recently discovered that in the CGI series the Thin Clergymen aka Rev.W.Awdry was voiced by Rob Rackstraw, secretly I would love it if they had Christopher Awdry do the voice instead. Doesn't anybody else agree?
@robertrowley49292 жыл бұрын
That would be interesting to watch.
@joelcartagena9532 жыл бұрын
@@robertrowley4929 Yeah it definitely would. I'd like that very much.
@joelcartagena9532 жыл бұрын
@@robertrowley4929 and maybe have Brian Sibley as the voice for Teddy Boston aka the Fat Clegryman.
@robertrowley49292 жыл бұрын
@@joelcartagena953 I wouldn’t say no to that 😉
@joelcartagena9532 жыл бұрын
@@robertrowley4929 Brian Sibley is the Rev.W.Awdry's biographer. He had been a part of The Thomas The Tank Engine Man documentary.
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
Rex: They're silly, but they're really useful, too! Farmers sell their wool for people to make their clothes from. Ya know, those things that they wear instead off paint.
@joelcartagena9532 жыл бұрын
Another thing I had noticed is that in the CGI series episodes the small railway engines each have lamps fitted on the top of their smokeboxes, but in the book they don't appear to have any lamps at all. Come to think of it those photos shown in this videos of the real Ravenglass and Eskdale railway engines aren't fitted with lamps either. Is that really the way they do things on the small railway?
@pwsthetankengine32592 жыл бұрын
The unlucky tug really likes the movie these engines were introduced in.
@DmayExpress2 жыл бұрын
Great job and I’ve enjoyed it. Thanks for accepting my request for this one that I’ve been hoping to see someday Jeffrey:)
@williampulfer-melville8536 Жыл бұрын
Another difference I noticed in useful railway is the trucks used to carry the wool as in the original book they are scaled down Bulkhead bogie trucks but in the TV series they were changed to scaled down 7 plank trucks
@BiggCityB0i52 жыл бұрын
This… Is the finest cocoa.
@isitredormaroon21962 жыл бұрын
NEVER OVERLOOK A LITTLE ENGINE
@brandonlu9280 Жыл бұрын
I guess given that they needed to flesh out the characters, maybe that's why they adapted these short stories. Could you imagine if the mountain railways was introduced.
@NitroIndigo6 ай бұрын
They mentioned Culdee Fell in a DVD extra for Blue Mountain Mystery.
@pedro581772 жыл бұрын
Final scene: gold
@harrisonallen6512 жыл бұрын
Best episode yet
@Kidsmtvslvback2 жыл бұрын
They could’ve been adapted for Series 3 but they weren’t due to budget reasons and the popularity of Thomas as well as utilizing other characters.
@charlessapp18352 жыл бұрын
They probably wouldn't have been made because of their small size. They had a hard enough time making the larger Skarloey Railway in season 4 work.
@elifreemantle802 жыл бұрын
I love those little engines.
@roberthollingsworth35692 жыл бұрын
OMG, the cg whistle blowing off looks so rediculous, while the illustration looks very dramatic. Also, the sequence at the end you did. yeah, that seems about right.
@matthewfranks21982 жыл бұрын
I was hoping you do this video! Also, I think in Mike’s Whistle, instead of Thomas, it would’ve been better if Oliver was used
@mack_r-s2 жыл бұрын
Or maybe Donald or Dougles. After all, in the book they were the ones who told the other engines about the wee engines.
@mack_r-s2 жыл бұрын
Though of course they needed Thomas in every episode, so that couldn’t happen unfortunately.
@matthewfranks21982 жыл бұрын
@@mack_r-s They would make more sense
@charlessapp18352 жыл бұрын
@@mack_r-s Yep. It would have been Donald or Douglas. However, Oliver still could have been used since he or Duck would be the ones to gather the trucks and get the train ready for Donald or Douglas to haul away.
@killdozer77922 жыл бұрын
It was a sort of unwritten rule by that stage that Thomas HAD to make an appearance in every episode, or almost every episode.
@pk_arcfire2 жыл бұрын
FINALLY ITS HERE :D
@a.c99382 жыл бұрын
I was expecting you to go to the cgi era after the last one
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
Mike: Whistles are important. Engines without whistles aren't proper engines at all!
@ciarangleeson2880Ай бұрын
Rex: Mike, do you know what I’d do if I had a whistle like yours? I’d lose it.
@klipsfilmsmelbourne2 жыл бұрын
its was pretty sad they weren't able to get frank and jock to be in the cgi show
@ciarangleeson2880Ай бұрын
Don’t forget Sigrid and The Blisters.
@seanalailima5929Ай бұрын
Can you do differences between The Adventure Begins? Also it is not fully adapted because Series 5 onwards just has filler episodes.
@ASHE_ATTACC2 жыл бұрын
Awdry being canon in both universes means that we as Thomas fans are canon.
@ciarangleeson28802 жыл бұрын
Whoa. That’s mind boggling.
@twilightanimate98932 жыл бұрын
0:58 is James afraid of his own creator? Because it looks like his face says it all.
@SparklingJam5 күн бұрын
He’s scared cuz at any point he could be written out go through a crash or be painted blue
@StationFilms123452 жыл бұрын
Im see you vídeo "sir handel the purple engines" and ar you realy a color blind or was juts a joke? But from the vídeo im realy like im was waiting from this vídeo and then this...this is realy coll sooooo thanks for the vídeo:)
@CurdsFromDaCulvers4202 жыл бұрын
Hey at least awdry is actually in the cgi episode of tit for tat
@josephmarrison46062 жыл бұрын
I prefer the book versions, as Thomas’s TV appearances felt not needed in my personal opinion. Duck and Oliver should have had his scenes in the episodes if you ask me, since they work with The Small Railway Engines.
@DavidBContentExtravaganza39672 жыл бұрын
At least Thomas interacts with the Thin and Fat Clergymen in Tit for Tat. Be happy the book was adapted for the show.
@supermariof05212 жыл бұрын
I take it that Thomas' appearance was likely Mattel's decision, instead of Andrew Brenner.
@ciarangleeson28802 жыл бұрын
Well, it kind of seems like they HAD to start including Thomas all the time, what with him being the protagonist. It seems like one of those situations where no one can win.
@DavidBContentExtravaganza39672 жыл бұрын
@@supermariof0521 Let's not leap to conclusions. Not every day a character interacts with his/her creator.
@supermariof05212 жыл бұрын
@@DavidBContentExtravaganza3967 I know. I'm just saying that Thomas being included into a story he originally wasn't apart of, was likely a decision by Mattel. As this was produced during the post-HIT era.
@seanalailima5929Ай бұрын
Can you do differences between The Adventure Begins?
@jessicarich75062 жыл бұрын
Thank you for my request coco
@khorcalson66562 жыл бұрын
5:50 That’s hilarious!
@vinkhail9642 жыл бұрын
never overlook a little engine
@eggmannega68952 жыл бұрын
Didn't see that one coming.
@quarrylocomotiveproduction54392 жыл бұрын
It might be Shane the tractor from the extended railway series
@ciarangleeson28802 жыл бұрын
Yeah that was where he came from.
@supermariof05212 жыл бұрын
What is your overall opinion on the Andrew Brenner seasons as a whole?
@josephmarrison46062 жыл бұрын
He said in his Q&A that he hasn’t seen all of them, due to not being a fan of Thomas these days, but the writing did get better in his opinion.
@supermariof05212 жыл бұрын
@@josephmarrison4606 Ah I see. Its been a while since I saw that Q&A.
@joelcartagena9532 жыл бұрын
If anyone has seen my previous comments about this video, something else that I had wanted to point out was that in the CGI series the 3 small engines are fitted with headlamps on top of their smokeboxes. But they don't have any lamps at all in the book.
@joelcartagena9532 жыл бұрын
@@supermariof0521 it's a shame the other small railway engines weren't in the CGI series you know.
@billyjudd33264 ай бұрын
11:03 They’re Rams Jeffery.
@TheFinestCocoa4 ай бұрын
Some breeds of sheep have horns. Regardless how the illustrator drew them - the author says "Mike had trouble with sheep"
@billyjudd33264 ай бұрын
@@TheFinestCocoa i see.
@ShreyanshKumar116 Жыл бұрын
13:51
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
Doesn’t Thomas’s carven accident in the movie seem similar to the Lindal railway accident (the real-life event for down the mine)?
@whovianhistorybuff2 жыл бұрын
Do you mean cavern
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
@@whovianhistorybuff Yes
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
5:54 Where’s that footage from?
@ciarangleeson28802 жыл бұрын
Laurel & Hardy.
@andrewmcneish53092 жыл бұрын
Thomas: sorry rev
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
CGI like the adventure begins
@sirwelcome2 жыл бұрын
and...?
@TheCyberman19662 жыл бұрын
So something funny when I Originally watched this I was questioning why you skipped some books but then realised that Your looking over the episodes that were adapted and some books were not god I felt like a moron
@Pro_gamer23622 күн бұрын
Why did the engines get color wheels instead of black wheels
@tjmfarming95842 жыл бұрын
Can I also add to this: In the illustration of ‘useful railway’ the tractor Willy is driving appears to be based on a Fordson (Recognised because of the Blue paint and rims) but in the episode it appears as a Fendt (Dark green with Red rims) I suppose this is because one of the animators preferred Fendt colours over the Fordson ones. Mind you they only bear resemblance to these tractors but aren’t specifically stated due to the fact that they don’t carry their brand names like other tractors do (Terence being another example)
@mrsaturngamingandstories2 жыл бұрын
Wow and cool bert is a 0-8-2 steam engine Rex and Mike is a 2-8-2 Mikado
@strasburgrailfan902 жыл бұрын
What did Christopher have to say about this
@DavidBContentExtravaganza39672 жыл бұрын
Happy.
@joelcartagena9532 жыл бұрын
Speaking of him I really would love it if he was the voice of the Thin Clergymen aka Rev.W.Awdry in the CGI episodes.
@skarloeyexpress43532 жыл бұрын
FINALLLY!
@jamie-leemorris1288 Жыл бұрын
Haven’t you heard of what happened to Duncan? Mike
@Lm-gj1wx Жыл бұрын
I know what is the thin and fat guys is wilbert and his fellow
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
Ravenglass & Eskdale railway
@sirwelcome2 жыл бұрын
what about it?
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
50 years
@Zombiehunter2_02 жыл бұрын
Bet you didn't think you would get into cgi,now did you?
@vincentikuomola29462 жыл бұрын
Cool in cgi
@terencewilliammckenna61212 ай бұрын
Isn’t a special also a movie?
@Ryaify69 Жыл бұрын
Imagion if the Arlesdale Engines were in the Model Era about 4 season like there were N scale
@user-ix6dm6tu4f Жыл бұрын
More like HO scale. The models for Standard Gauge are in Gauge 1 and the Narrow Gauge models are in Gauge O, so the Small Gauge locomotives should be in HO gauge.
@eshaanreza832Ай бұрын
@@user-ix6dm6tu4fI would pay top dollar for that.
@S0LARL1GHT2 жыл бұрын
Huh neat
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
Ballast wasn’t adapted
@mmandmcb142 жыл бұрын
Because of "Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure".
@71theredengine2 жыл бұрын
WOW
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
What does “verra wee” mean in English?
@whovianhistorybuff2 жыл бұрын
Wee is a slang word for little or small "verra wee engines" means very small engines.
@mack_r-s2 жыл бұрын
Just try reading the book The Twin Engines for the first time and not get stuck trying to pronounce Donald and Dougles’ Scottish mumbo jumbo.
@dannygmtg2 жыл бұрын
Verra wee would be Scots for very small. Not slag as some ignoramus here claims
@charlessapp18352 жыл бұрын
Very small
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
Andrew Benner
@nennaneves7764 Жыл бұрын
So what is Duncan doing here
@mattjudejoshua5693Ай бұрын
Wait the tractor has a face
@jimmymccartney2049 Жыл бұрын
Series 20(2016)
@jimmymccartney2049 Жыл бұрын
Narrated by:Mark Moraghan
@loanedengineproductions2 жыл бұрын
5:50 and 5:59 what is that from?
@ciarangleeson2880Ай бұрын
Laurel & Hardy.
@diamondjolt2 жыл бұрын
Why just upload a Geoffrey Kitsch video?
@ciarangleeson2880Ай бұрын
Jeffrey, not Geoffrey.
@jimmymccartney2049 Жыл бұрын
1967
@sirwelcome Жыл бұрын
No
@LYR55James2 жыл бұрын
Whats with postman pat
@terencewilliammckenna61212 жыл бұрын
Perkins
@sirwelcome2 жыл бұрын
um what?
@funnyclown25142 жыл бұрын
Worst RWS adaptations ever. Mikes Whistle in particular added in a fart joke and stupid bird slapstick. CGI Thomas really doesn’t compare to the classic series. I don’t care what you say is the worst adaptation I think these are the worst adaptations. The only thing worse than these adaptations are some HiT era stinkers, The Absymal Miller Era, The BWBA Era and worst of all that unwatchable reboot.