When Ruth's new car, Cleo, takes to the rails to race Thomas, she soon discovers why she is designed to stick to the roads. When Kenji hears that he must travel home to Japan alone, he gets scared and tries to hide, so Thomas sets out to find him.
When Rebecca tries to be more like Gordon, things do not go well for the big blue engine. Gordon and Rebecca do the same work, but they go about it differently. Yong Bao tells Thomas the story of how he came to have a magnificent tiger emblem on his tender. When the Rickety Old Bridge collapses, trapping Toby and Henrietta on the other side of the ravine, Inventor Ruth is asked to build a new one. Thomas helps Ruth fix up an old windmill into her new, energy-efficient workshop. Sonny is trying to prove himself to be a useful engine so that he can stay working on Sodor, but Diesel seems to be the only engine who can trust him. Nia uses what she learns about lighthouses to suggest covering a big wheel in Christmas lights so that Harold can see where he is going in a storm.Ĭleo is shocked to learn snow does not last forever and tries to stop it from melting. Thomas helps his friend Ace overcome his fear of animals so that he can compete in the Super Stunt Rally. When Thomas has a run of bad luck, he tries everything to get back on track, even if it means following Lorenzo's strange, superstitious advice. When Rebecca tells James he could be a comic-book super-engine, he takes her seriously, and Rail Rocket is born. Nia is bringing an elephant to the Sodor Animal Park, but the elephant does not like steam engines. Thomas pushes Shankar into entering the Fancy Costume Contest, even though Shankar does not want the spotlight on him. When a pretend emergency turns into a real emergency, Emily comes to the rescue. Thomas agrees to swap jobs with them for the day, but this causes more trouble than he expects. In Brazil, Thomas meets two wood-burning engines who have never travelled beyond their eucalyptus railway. When a Railway Show for little engines comes to Sodor, an overly excited Percy finally sees his chance to shine. Thomas discovers a missing dog on the railway and tries to find it a new home.
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All previous media is no longer considered canon to the reboot, as it was revealed that the new series is a completely separate show and franchise rather than a twenty-fifth series due to the 1984-2021 series ending.Įmily worries that she does not have a best friend, but when the other engines help her out of a tricky situation, she realises she has been surrounded by best friends all along. Later that same year, Mattel revealed that the show would be rebooted from scratch with Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!, which uses Flash animation instead of CGI and would be animated by Nelvana from then on. In 2020, it was revealed by Sodor Island Fansite/Forums that the series had officially concluded due to the failure of the Big World! Big Adventures! rebrand and would not be returning for a twenty-fifth series, although the franchise itself would continue on. Additionally, several episodes from this series lack the fantasy sequences which were present in every episode of the previous two series. Instead, there are six international episodes - one per country - while the remaining seventeen episodes are based on the Island of Sodor. Unlike the previous two series, the twenty-fourth series does not have an even split between Sodor episodes and international episodes. This was the final series animated by Jam Filled Toronto. ĭavid Stoten was announced as the new head writer for the series, succeeding Andrew Brenner following Steam Team to the Rescue. Production consisted of 20 11-minute episodes as well as three 22-minute specials following the then-recent revamp of the series. Mattel greenlit a new series and several specials for Thomas & Friends that premiered in 2020 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the franchise.