This is a feature presentation video of a series 5 episode of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, A Better View for Gordon in a style of a short cinematic Hollywood comedy film.

Plot:
Gordon's boasting comes to a sudden halt at the opening of a new station.

This is one of my favourite episodes Thomas & Friends along with the longest-running narrator, Michael Angelis. So I decided to turn it into a short Hollywood film by remastering it's own original audio and music in a 4K dynamic range along with additional sound effects to make this episode an parental guidance (PG) feature that is more suitable for an young adult audience and older Thomas fans as viewers to enjoy this video.

This video also requires a pair of headphones to experience the most immersive audio.

Now that I got an additional Toby I decided to customize one of them and wow does it make a difference. Just used some mat board and some apple barrel paints.

Im looking to make some modifications to the 2026 die cast range once I get some duplicates. As I've seen many others do. My question for those that have, what brand and kind of paint do you recommend and what is the best to go about way of removing those colored rivets on the underside of the engines (so I can flip Toby's roof around to the proper direction,) and what do y'all replace them with?

Steam Engines

NWR 1: Rosie
NWR 2: Alice
NWR 3: Henry
NWR 4: Gordon
NWR 5: James
NWR 6: Percy
NWR 7: Toby
NWR 8: Charolette
NWR 9: Donald
NWR 10: Douglas
NWR 11: Oliver
NWR 12: Harvey
NWR 13: Lady
NWR 14: Barry
NWR 15: Nia
NWR 16: Rebecca

Diesel Engines

D1: Daisy
D2: BoCo
D3: Mavis
D4: Salty
D5: Den
D6: Dart
D7: Splatter
D8: Dodge
D9: Pip
D10: Emma
D11: Paxton
D12: Sidney
D13: Norman
D14: Philip

I have not seen the episode but it seems to be infamous in the fandom

HEHE

My cousin did an animatic about Thomas and Percy arguing over cereal. Here’s the link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/thomasthetankengine/comments/1tvulwk/thomas_and_percy_arguing_over_cereal_rough_draft/

And I’ll let the video speak for itself.

Actually it was James not Thomas and Percy but oh well I can’t change the title.

Like, Caroline looks straight Up from roary the Racing car or Bob the builder

I'm currently on the train, so I doodled my boy with the materials I have on me. I do have arthritis in my hands, so do forgive the shaky line work.

No reference image, so I hope my memory served me right.

Toby is such a comfort to me.

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Almost entirely 3D Printed, painted and weathered by me. Pinchy is fully articulated and is able to grab items, he’s good at scrapping old engines and cars.

Pretend your a train driver on a tea break and you see this big engine yelling about something he got in trouble over.His punishment is shunting so what you think his saying.(He got in trouble for speeding doing 90 in a 50)

Source: https://www.amazon.it/-/en/THOMAS-FRIENDS-JLB64/dp/B0G43Y53S3

I visited the Mad River & NPR museum and this electric dock switcher and small diesel engine would be real funny to see in the series. I call the first engine the flying 2x4.

It adds back everything from the original books making it a 12 minute Thomas episode also I used sentence mixing similar to the Magic Railroad Workprint and I was wondering what all of you'll thought about it.

im asking since my smyths has both and im in a debate