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In the song "Will You, Won't You" from The Great Race, most of the engines who are currently in the show get a singing role. Incompetence, Inc.: With all of the crashes and runaways on Sodor, how does the railway stay in business? The logging company on Misty Island, too, which probably makes absolutely no profit since cranes keep throwing logs into the river. Locomotives of different gauges are scaled up or down to run on Sodor's two gauges. This is taken to an extreme in The Great Race, with engines from all around the world running on the same gauge for an Olympics-style competition. Additionally, many American engines can run on Sodor's rails just fine, despite Sodor being a British railway while American engines are far taller and heavier than British engines. The Law of Conservation of Detail: Averted starting from Season 22, where at the end of each episode, Thomas speaks to the audience and gives a summary of what happened in the episode, even though the audience already has already seen the events in question, and Thomas' summary adds no new information.

Thomas' LBSCR livery in the special The Adventure Begins. In real life, the LBSCR livery for tank engines was brown with yellow lettering and lining. In the Thomas universe the livery appears to be teal with white lining, matching the colors of the original Thomas toy Wilbert made for his son. He also carries the number 70 (referencing the franchise's 70th anniversery), while the E2 class locomotives were numbered between 100-110. Flanderization: Edward and Toby went from being old and wise to being just old, Gordon went from being somewhat pompous to being completely full of himself, James went from being snobbish, but cheerful and hard-working to being a lazy, spoiled narcissist, Henry went from a cynical but kind Gentle Giant into a cowardly Hypochondriac, and Percy went from being somewhat naive to making Homer Simpson look intelligent. Sounds | Engine Roll Call | A World Around You | Emily | Surprises | Determination | Patience | Ode to Gordon

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Averted in Season 17, where Charlie mainly tells his jokes during the off periods in between his and his fellow engines' work instead of doing it whenever he pleases. In the earlier series, Gordon, James, and Henry say the respective words, "Disgraceful! disgusting! And despicable!" Follow the Bouncing Ball: The sing-alongs at the end of almost every VHS, as well as the engine roll-call at the end of every episode since season 8, have a white puff of smoke bounce along the lyrics. Some of the specials also inject a sing-along sometimes, though lately this has been moved to DVD Bonus Content. Sometimes You Make a Friend" from Big World! Big Adventures!, as Thomas realizes he's been obnoxious and rude to Nia thanks to Ace's Toxic Friend Influence, and wishes to apologize.

Series 18 - Old Reliable Edward ( cameo), Signals Crossed, Thomas the Quarry Engine, Spencer's VIP ( cameo), Marion and the Dinosaurs and Samson at Your Service ( mentioned) Deadpan Snarker: Andrew Brenner and his team are tried to make everyone act like this from time to time in seasons 17-21. Reg is outright stated to be this. Sodor may even be a World of Snark! Toby sometimes thinks he is too old and that he is not a proper engine, like when Gordon called him a "slowcoach" when climbing up Gordon's Hill or when he thought he would be put on display in a museum.Thomas was subject to this treatment in the first few episodes, but this is mainly because of being a cheeky and fussy Attention Whore. Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Double Teething Troubles featured a BR Class 17 "Clayton" diesel which, as in real life, suffered from having insufficient engines crammed into a compact space. While originally named "Paxman" after the contained engines, the producers decided the company might not take so kindly to the reference. He went unnamed in the episode, but the merchandise now calls him "Derek." In 2009, the series introduced Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) as a replacement for the show's long-standing live-action models. Henrietta was recreated from scratch in CGI by Nitrogen Studios. Her model was "hand-sculpted" in Maya, a 3D animation and modelling software. Sir Topham Hatt I †| Sir Charles Topham Hatt II †| Sir Stephen Topham Hatt III | Albert Regaby †| Kevin Volley †

The first scene of The Great Race is a zoom-in on Thomas pulling into Kellsthorpe. The last scene is a zoom-in on Thomas with the rest of the Sodor team and Ashima pulling into Vicarstown. Dark Is Not Evil: A number of diesels. Diesels are stereotyped as being evil, but diesels like Mavis and Salty are friendly as can be.But Toby can usually be more cheerful and friendly, as well as having subtle shades of nervousness on top of being placid and easy-going, such as enjoying the peace and quiet of the countryside along Thomas' branch line. He even enjoys listening to the birds in the birdhouse next to his shed and is friends with the pigs at Farmer Trotter's Pig Farm. Although usually nervous and timid at times, and occasionally complaining in bad working conditions, Toby usually maintains a healthy sense of humour, and is not above laughing at juvenile level antics (notably, when he and Thomas were making fun of Sir Topham Hatt's white safari hat). In "Horrid Lorry" one of the titular lorries tells Toby that he should be in a museum instead of working at a quarry.