Product Description

Best of Thomas DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45524 in DVD
• Brand: Learning Curve
• Released on: 2001-09-25
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Live, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 67 minutes

Amazon.com
Thomas fans have spoken and this Best of Thomas: Collector's Edition represents eight, viewer-selected favorite episodes. An insecure Thomas learns just how much he's valued in "Thomas Gets Bumped," while Percy learns an important lesson about fears and bravery in "Thomas, Percy, and the Dragon." Jealousy threatens to eliminate any chance of friendship between Thomas and Stepney in "Thomas and Stepney," and Thomas comes to embrace diversity in "A New Friend for Thomas." Thomas learns the virtues of hard work and patience in "Thomas Saves the Day," "A Big Day for Thomas," and "Trouble for Thomas." Finally, cooperation and pride culminate in a visit from the queen that Edward, Thomas, and Gordon will never forget in "Thomas Meets the Queen." This entertaining, 46-minute tape concludes with the sing-a-long tune "Really Useful Engine." (Ages 3 to 7) --Tami Horiuchi

Customer Reviews

Great DVD!
While I echo the complaints about the looooong commercials at the beginning of the DVD, I have to say that this is a wonderful DVD. I bought it for my 2-yr old on a whim, as Thomas is not shown on TV in my area. From the moment he first saw it, all he said was, "Again! Tom-Tom again!" He loves the beautiful colors, which are so vivid on DVD, as well as the sing-alongs. He even enjoys the slightly scary story about Percy and the Dragon and delights in how mean the freight cars are to the engines. As a parent, I am really pleased with the message of the stories: unlike most other children's fare out there, none of the characters are all good or all bad; each has his own little quirks and different personality, as is the case in real life. I love that Thomas is not a goody-goody like a certain purple dinosaur we all know -- Thomas makes mistakes, suffers the consequences, and ends up okay in the end. I also thought that George Carlin did a very nice job of narrating the stories; his voice conveys the proper amount of excitement or emotion at the appropriate times, which really holds my son's attention. I also love the fact that there are other features to the DVD, such as games and a storybook, that will continue to interest my son as he grows older. We've had the DVD for a few months now, and my son shows NO sign of getting tired of it. It is a great DVD to introduce your kids to.

WARNING: read this before you buy
The DVD has a terrible amount of advertising that you're forced to watch before you can see any of the Thomas stories. It's advertising other Thomas products, so it's actually interesting the first time through. But you'll be forced to watch the advertising EVERY time you play this. Other DVDs are programmed so you can jump straight to the menu and skip the advertising. Not this one.

Once you run the advertising gauntlet and earn the right to watch videos, they're excellent as always. But given that all the Thomas collections are excellent, you should buy something other than this one.

Enough of the commercials!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I bought the DVD version and I have to have my child sit through a five minute long boring commercial EVERY TIME we watch the video. I was upset that the skip, fast foward and menu options were disabled during this commercial. I took it back and bought VHS.