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.

@RoseSupreme

2 жыл бұрын

Same. The other shoehorns though really ticked me off.

@darkknight5541

2 жыл бұрын

@@RoseSupreme Meh, by that point I'd learned to expect it.

@RoseSupreme

2 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.

@nathancorcoran5347

2 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

It feels so weird to be reminded that that adaptations were made during season 20.

@BriceGum138

2 жыл бұрын

Coming from a near perfect but amazing season, I'm happy they did that. Even to this day.

@NintendoGamer2600

2 жыл бұрын

@@BriceGum138 agreed. The adaptations were still very good

@navchinna

Жыл бұрын

@@BriceGum138 And then....BWBA

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.

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!

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

@rayvenkman2087

2 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.

@saltbombcreations8336

2 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.

@Thomasmemoryscentral

2 жыл бұрын

@@saltbombcreations8336 Is Thomas in any situation where he is interacting with Bill and Ben under Brenner's time as head writer?

@saltbombcreations8336

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thomasmemoryscentral Only if the Els bridge needs repair and Thomas is too heavy for it

The CGI background looks so much like the book, it's incredible

@EssexAggiegrad2011

2 жыл бұрын

There were benefits to the cgi

I’m grateful and delighted that they adapted another RWS book after 20+ years. *Still* wish Bear made it!!!

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.

Well this was certainly an unexpected surprise!

If Wilbert saw these episodes he'd probably say yesn't

@saltbombcreations8336

2 жыл бұрын

So yesn’t means yes not?

@dinowhizz444

2 жыл бұрын

@@saltbombcreations8336 yesn't

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

i went to the ravenglass and eskdale railway during the summer. I highly recommend going there

Bert: I don't wanna be a moving picture in a book! I just wanna stay as I am.

@RexTheMiniature

Жыл бұрын

*laughs*

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.

@terencewilliammckenna6121

2 жыл бұрын

Around the mid-Sodor

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.

@Thomasmemoryscentral

2 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?

@callum110597

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thomasmemoryscentral I'm not sure. Finest Cocoa must've done so well.

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.

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

Thank you for making this video, and all of these comparisons, thank you for all of it

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!

Mike's Whistle is actually the second time an engine looses his whistle in TV series. The first being Faulty Whistles

@mack_r-s

2 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 ;)

Yay! They're finally here!

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.

This is why I long to help save Thomas and make it great again someday if Mattel goes bankrupt.

@charlessapp1835

2 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.

Finally, I was wondering when you'll get to that book and it's episodes based on that.

That ending was amazing-

Verra wee engines brung yon ballast doun fra rhe hills.

@ciarangleeson2880

24 күн бұрын

Would I be correct in assuming that the “verra wee engines” must be some kind of magic?

Best episode yet

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.

@ciarangleeson2880

24 күн бұрын

Also, Mike is replaced with Duncan.

@bennythevultureofficial

24 күн бұрын

@@ciarangleeson2880 I know

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.

@Thomasmemoryscentral

2 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?

@bladeobrian2144

2 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!

@charlessapp1835

2 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.

@Thomasmemoryscentral

2 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

@herrice3227

2 жыл бұрын

Thats a good question! I'd love to know what Christopher Awdry thought of the adaptations

This… Is the finest cocoa.

FINALLY ITS HERE :D

The unlucky tug really likes the movie these engines were introduced in.

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?

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.

Great job and I’ve enjoyed it. Thanks for accepting my request for this one that I’ve been hoping to see someday Jeffrey:)

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?

@robertrowley4929

2 жыл бұрын

That would be interesting to watch.

@joelcartagena953

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertrowley4929 Yeah it definitely would. I'd like that very much.

@joelcartagena953

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertrowley4929 and maybe have Brian Sibley as the voice for Teddy Boston aka the Fat Clegryman.

@robertrowley4929

2 жыл бұрын

@@joelcartagena953 I wouldn’t say no to that 😉

@joelcartagena953

2 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.

NEVER OVERLOOK A LITTLE ENGINE

Thank you for my request coco

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

I love those little engines.

Final scene: gold

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.

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.

@charlessapp1835

2 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.

0:58 is James afraid of his own creator? Because it looks like his face says it all.

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.

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.

@NitroIndigo

5 ай бұрын

They mentioned Culdee Fell in a DVD extra for Blue Mountain Mystery.

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-s

2 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-s

2 жыл бұрын

Though of course they needed Thomas in every episode, so that couldn’t happen unfortunately.

@matthewfranks2198

2 жыл бұрын

@@mack_r-s They would make more sense

@charlessapp1835

2 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.

@killdozer7792

2 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.

Didn't see that one coming.

I was expecting you to go to the cgi era after the last one

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:)

its was pretty sad they weren't able to get frank and jock to be in the cgi show

@ciarangleeson2880

24 күн бұрын

Don’t forget Sigrid and The Blisters.

Can you do differences between The Adventure Begins? Also it is not fully adapted because Series 5 onwards just has filler episodes.

Hey at least awdry is actually in the cgi episode of tit for tat

Can you do differences between The Adventure Begins?

never overlook a little engine

11:03 They’re Rams Jeffery.

@TheFinestCocoa

3 ай бұрын

Some breeds of sheep have horns. Regardless how the illustrator drew them - the author says "Mike had trouble with sheep"

@billyjudd3326

3 ай бұрын

@@TheFinestCocoa i see.

5:50 That’s hilarious!

Mike: Whistles are important. Engines without whistles aren't proper engines at all!

@ciarangleeson2880

24 күн бұрын

Rex: Mike, do you know what I’d do if I had a whistle like yours? I’d lose it.

Huh neat

50 years

It might be Shane the tractor from the extended railway series

@ciarangleeson2880

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that was where he came from.

Thomas: sorry rev

Awdry being canon in both universes means that we as Thomas fans are canon.

@ciarangleeson2880

2 жыл бұрын

Whoa. That’s mind boggling.

WOW

Doesn’t Thomas’s carven accident in the movie seem similar to the Lindal railway accident (the real-life event for down the mine)?

@whovianhistorybuff

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean cavern

@terencewilliammckenna6121

2 жыл бұрын

@@whovianhistorybuff Yes

Wow and cool bert is a 0-8-2 steam engine Rex and Mike is a 2-8-2 Mikado

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.

@DavidBContentExtravaganza3967

2 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.

@supermariof0521

2 жыл бұрын

I take it that Thomas' appearance was likely Mattel's decision, instead of Andrew Brenner.

@ciarangleeson2880

2 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.

@DavidBContentExtravaganza3967

2 жыл бұрын

@@supermariof0521 Let's not leap to conclusions. Not every day a character interacts with his/her creator.

@supermariof0521

2 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.

What is your overall opinion on the Andrew Brenner seasons as a whole?

@josephmarrison4606

2 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.

@supermariof0521

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephmarrison4606 Ah I see. Its been a while since I saw that Q&A.

@joelcartagena953

2 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.

@joelcartagena953

2 жыл бұрын

@@supermariof0521 it's a shame the other small railway engines weren't in the CGI series you know.

5:54 Where’s that footage from?

@ciarangleeson2880

2 жыл бұрын

Laurel & Hardy.

I know what is the thin and fat guys is wilbert and his fellow

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

FINALLLY!

13:51

Cool in cgi

Series 20(2016)

@jimmymccartney2049

Жыл бұрын

Narrated by:Mark Moraghan

Haven’t you heard of what happened to Duncan? Mike

Bet you didn't think you would get into cgi,now did you?

Isn’t a special also a movie?

What did Christopher have to say about this

@DavidBContentExtravaganza3967

2 жыл бұрын

Happy.

@joelcartagena953

2 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.

So what is Duncan doing here

CGI like the adventure begins

@sirwelcome

2 жыл бұрын

and...?

Imagion if the Arlesdale Engines were in the Model Era about 4 season like there were N scale

@user-ix6dm6tu4f

11 ай 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.

@eshaanreza832

18 күн бұрын

​@@user-ix6dm6tu4fI would pay top dollar for that.

Wait the tractor has a face

5:50 and 5:59 what is that from?

@ciarangleeson2880

24 күн бұрын

Laurel & Hardy.

Ravenglass & Eskdale railway

@sirwelcome

2 жыл бұрын

what about it?

What does “verra wee” mean in English?

@whovianhistorybuff

2 жыл бұрын

Wee is a slang word for little or small "verra wee engines" means very small engines.

@mack_r-s

2 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.

@dannygmtg

2 жыл бұрын

Verra wee would be Scots for very small. Not slag as some ignoramus here claims

@charlessapp1835

2 жыл бұрын

Very small

1967

@sirwelcome

Жыл бұрын

No

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)

Andrew Benner

Why just upload a Geoffrey Kitsch video?

@ciarangleeson2880

24 күн бұрын

Jeffrey, not Geoffrey.

Whats with postman pat

Ballast wasn’t adapted

@mmandmcb14

2 жыл бұрын

Because of "Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure".

Perkins

@sirwelcome

2 жыл бұрын

um what?

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.

@SrMechaGojira93

2 жыл бұрын

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Never overlook a little engine

@sirwelcome

2 жыл бұрын

Stop spamming comments

13:51