Product Description

Magic carpets, rip-roaring races, snow, sleet, wind and trainloads of ice cream! Every season on the Island of Sodor brings new opportunities for adventure and discovery. And that means there is never a dull moment for Thomas and all the engines on Sir Topham Hatt's Railway. Will Emily get the timber to Farmer McColl in time to save the baby calves? Will Toby muster enough confidence to push Gordon up a hill? Maybe with a little encouragement from his friends. And will James learn that it's better to be useful than to be important? Watch and find out. Share in these timeless stories featuring seven of the island's classic characters, and you'll see why it's true that it's great to be an Engine!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15855 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-09-21
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

Customer Reviews

I can't give you a review since the three DVDs
(Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends - It's Great to Be an Engine (Purchased on 01/14/2007, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends - Best of Gordon (Purchased on 01/14/2007, Thomas and Friends: Thomas' Sodor Celebration! (Purchased on 01/14/2007) were not working.

The pain of being the parent of a Thomas fan
People who know of the pain of the Pokémon or Yu-Gi-Oh! crazes have no clue as to the torment of parents of fans of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Children become little addicts, with photographic memories for every character created by the Reverend W.V. Awdry, and somehow quickly learn that there are books, puzzles, videos, TV shows, plastic tracks, wooden tracks, single tracks, double tracks, shunts, points, bridges, stations, windmills, traffic lights, overpasses, tunnels, wooden engines, battery powered engines, die cast metal engines, and more.

It goes without saying that you have to get `em all, even to the extent of buying the awful movie "Thomas and The Magic Railroad", and then of course you have to buy Diesel 10 and Lady in all the available forms and sizes, and it goes on endlessly.

This DVD has seven great Thomas stories, and in addition to the standard characters Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James and Percy, there's also Emily, Elizabeth, Toby, Spencer and more, all of course with available merchandise for the little collector. My four year old son loves this one, and knows the episodes by heart.

In this package, there's a wooden model train from the series, which is pot luck when you buy on-line, but which starts you nicely on your wooden train collecting spree. The wooden trains are really nicely made and painted, and there are magnets on either side for connecting them up (or repelling them). They are great take-along toys for car trips or play dates.


Amanda Richards, January 2, 2006

From a clueless, fledgling Thomas fan...
I got "Percy's Chocolate Crunch" on video for my little boy (now 20 months) and he seems to really like it. The result of that purchase was that we have watched that video countless times. Personally, my favourite line from it is "YOU HAVE CAUSED CONFUSION AND DELAY" in that booming voice after Percy gets tipped over. Anyhow, having grown up myself on Sesame Street, I have to say that this whole series/concept is very different for me and takes some getting used to...I usually don't find the stories particularly "funny" or anything else as so other Thomas fans.

That being said... I then purchased "It's great to be an engine" with a toy on DVD. I have to say that I miss the catchy soundtrack from "Percy's chocolate Crunch" and that funky voice that Alec Baldwin offers us. Brandon's voice on this edition seems rather bland and heartless (not much modulation in tone and volume). The first viewing for my little guy resulted in him walking away in the middle (but this may have been because the DVD is quite long) but, after that, he seemed to warm up to it and calls it his "Toot-Toot".

I'd like to get editions with better narration and maybe more imaginative stories but don't really know what to get and the "technical information" offered on Amazon pages doesn't indicate who is narrating the particular edition.

Of course, I also want to get ones which offer the toys (how do you know which toy is going to come with the DVD/video?...what if you get a duplicate?) because the genuine Thomas toys here in Cyprus cost an average of 25+ dollars (for one train car!).

Another question I have is if the toys that are offered for free with the videos/DVDs are the same size/type/style as those offered in the Thomas train sets (I want to get my little boy started on that).

All in all, I am pleased with my purchases in the Thomas area and will continue to develop our collection.