The world of Thomas has to consist of motionless wood figures whose actions and sentences are delivered by a narrator with a soothing smooth voice like someone poured delicious butter in your ears.
That's why the CGI one sucks too.
i tried watching season some of 17 and it had that notorious three strikes formula for several episodes so i stopped. i watched all of season 18 and i thought it was alright. didn't watch the other three. not him btw
It kinda is, but only because Shining Time Station's intended purpose was to introduce Thomas to a US market, while also complying with the US tv schedule.
it just feels like an unfinished film. The biggest mistake was putting magic, which was stupid. Thomas had real world locations and travelers. had a fantasy element with talking machinery but that's it.
all they had to do was make PT bomber an evil Diesel engineer that hated Sodor and invented Diesel 10 as his late creation. And he wants to buy the railway or destroy it. And just make Shining Time the Big City Station from the Letter episode. done. also, add some real people. seriously, the place was a ghost town, why were they even working at all in the movie?
re: the image, I'm pretty sure they extensively lightened the movie up in a lot of ways, like recasting the voice of Diesel 10 to make him goofier and less sinister, and recutting his scenes. He scared the shit out of a lot of kids anyway including myself so i understand why the producers would have been concerned about including actual death and grievous injury in a kids film on top of a character threatening other trains constantly.
>it just feels like an unfinished film
It is. Britt's original version was completely butchered and she got fed up and quit her work on the series when it bombed.
calling bullshit on this ending, nothing in the series prior to the movie even approached that kind of tone.
I mean, there's the Break Van and Scruffy, but even those were more cartoony than anything. Also, it's not listed anywhere on the ttte wiki, and considering the autistic research those guys get into, it's safe to say it's bull.
Australian. You could tell the production team knew that us Aussies could appreciate the show as much as the UK did. It's a shame that they never came to realise America mostly didn't care for the show.
They did a lot of pandering to Americans with the exclusive Shining Time Station TV show that had a new dub, the movie being loosely connected to said show and Tugs. But they were commercial failures. If that isn't any indication that a market doesn't care, I'm not sure what will. Not only that, but most of the shaming I see from people for even liking the show is mostly Americans doing it.
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i grew up with the actual show, not shining time station. my family had episodes on dvd and vhs. my step brother liked it when he was little too because he had a train phase. i could have sworn i met a good number of other people here that watched it as kids
I found the voice acting for the engines grating for everyone but Thomas. I mean, it kinda makes sense Percy to sound like a child, but not fricking James.
>hurr durr autism XDDD
Jesus Christ, I swear anyone with an interest and/or attention-span that lasts longer than a TikTok video now gets labelled as "autistic". You did your mathematics homework for 20 minutes, uninterrupted? AUTISM. You like the new movie that came out and want to discuss it a few hours after its premiere? AUTISM.
I dunno, I liked it.
Or at least that's what my childhood memories are telling ,e.
I still remember the song "I Know How the Moon Must Feel".
SPARKLE! SPARKLE! SPARKLE!
FRICK YEAH SPARKLE SPARKLE SPARKLE!
>Thomas with live action actors
The world of Thomas has to consist of motionless wood figures whose actions and sentences are delivered by a narrator with a soothing smooth voice like someone poured delicious butter in your ears.
That's why the CGI one sucks too.
You don’t even like Brenner Era? Seasons 17-21? I hear it’s like a renaissance
i tried watching season some of 17 and it had that notorious three strikes formula for several episodes so i stopped. i watched all of season 18 and i thought it was alright. didn't watch the other three. not him btw
It’s a weird crossover with shining time station iirc though I might be mistaken
It kinda is, but only because Shining Time Station's intended purpose was to introduce Thomas to a US market, while also complying with the US tv schedule.
>poured delicious butter in your ears
Yeah! I hated this one so much. Plus a fricking murderer is in this one.
it just feels like an unfinished film. The biggest mistake was putting magic, which was stupid. Thomas had real world locations and travelers. had a fantasy element with talking machinery but that's it.
all they had to do was make PT bomber an evil Diesel engineer that hated Sodor and invented Diesel 10 as his late creation. And he wants to buy the railway or destroy it. And just make Shining Time the Big City Station from the Letter episode. done. also, add some real people. seriously, the place was a ghost town, why were they even working at all in the movie?
re: the image, I'm pretty sure they extensively lightened the movie up in a lot of ways, like recasting the voice of Diesel 10 to make him goofier and less sinister, and recutting his scenes. He scared the shit out of a lot of kids anyway including myself so i understand why the producers would have been concerned about including actual death and grievous injury in a kids film on top of a character threatening other trains constantly.
Not really. Not the greatest, either.
That would've been metal as frick.
calling bullshit on this ending, nothing in the series prior to the movie even approached that kind of tone.
The old books skirted that line
you can look up the script leaks. also the scrap engines.
>it just feels like an unfinished film
It is. Britt's original version was completely butchered and she got fed up and quit her work on the series when it bombed.
I mean, there's the Break Van and Scruffy, but even those were more cartoony than anything. Also, it's not listed anywhere on the ttte wiki, and considering the autistic research those guys get into, it's safe to say it's bull.
It was so weird how Thomas enters the real world for like 10 seconds.
the Cgi was very bad in that screen.
Alec Baldwin is a murder.
the scene of Alec Baldwin playing with the bat and ball is really stupid but it's so stupid that it ends up being funny
I remember loving the silly shit Alec Baldwin did in the movie when I was young. Now I've realised they were pandering to the wrong country.
are you a brit?
Australian. You could tell the production team knew that us Aussies could appreciate the show as much as the UK did. It's a shame that they never came to realise America mostly didn't care for the show.
>America mostly didn't care for the show
really? i'm american, me and my sister loved it as kids
They did a lot of pandering to Americans with the exclusive Shining Time Station TV show that had a new dub, the movie being loosely connected to said show and Tugs. But they were commercial failures. If that isn't any indication that a market doesn't care, I'm not sure what will. Not only that, but most of the shaming I see from people for even liking the show is mostly Americans doing it.
i grew up with the actual show, not shining time station. my family had episodes on dvd and vhs. my step brother liked it when he was little too because he had a train phase. i could have sworn i met a good number of other people here that watched it as kids
>That butchered Tugs redub.
My God.
I found the voice acting for the engines grating for everyone but Thomas. I mean, it kinda makes sense Percy to sound like a child, but not fricking James.
Diesel scared the living crap out of me when I was a toddler seeing this in theaters.
That's literally all I remember.
I thought Diesel 10 was cool af.
this and the old show are literally the only thomas thing I watched as a kid and I don't remember hating it so
I can confirm LunaMedia found a DVD of this at his local goodwill and purchased it.
it was fricking kino,.
James made me genuinely gay. I'm not sure if it was the voice in the movie or his attitude in the show. Goddamn.
Probably. I wasn't an autistic child so I never watched it.
>hurr durr autism XDDD
Jesus Christ, I swear anyone with an interest and/or attention-span that lasts longer than a TikTok video now gets labelled as "autistic". You did your mathematics homework for 20 minutes, uninterrupted? AUTISM. You like the new movie that came out and want to discuss it a few hours after its premiere? AUTISM.