Thomas & Friends - The Big & All Aboard Live Tours

Thomas and Friends - The All Aboard Live Tour/Thomas and Friends - The Big Live Tour is an old arena stage show in the UK produced by DC Entertainment and Tell-Tale Productions in 2002. The tour was repeated within the next 4 years and also toured Japan by Fuji Television in 2005.

Plot
The Live show has had two different stories, in which the set will be modified to set the story.

In the first story, Thomas is constantly being told off for being late, which James and Gordon tease Thomas about. Percy however tries to defend this, but finds that Thomas thinks he is not Really Useful anymore, and so runs away from Sodor. The next day however there is trouble at the tunnel, and when Gordon, James and Percy investigate they get stuck, Thomas and Jack are alerted by Harold about this news and manage to save the engines. Thomas is once again a Really Useful Engine.

In the other story, Thomas breaks his whistle and has to borrow the local school's bell as a replacement. Meanwhile Gordon, the Fat Controller, and various railway staff have caught colds. That night, when there is a fire at the Fat Controller's house Thomas uses the school bell to warn him. While The Fat Controller states that his tea cake burnt while he fell asleep, Thomas has proved himself a really useful engine. The next day, as the Fat Controller tells the engines that there is a parade taking place on Sodor, Thomas is to lead it, but during that day, James loses his special load. Percy hears a ghostly noise which sounds suspiciously like an elephant and is derailed before anyone can do anything about it, forcing Thomas and his new animal friends Nellie and Twinkles the elephants to pull Percy onto the rails. Later that day, the parade takes place and is a huge success.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy
 * Annie and Clarabel
 * Jack
 * Harold
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Mrs. Martin
 * The Mayoress
 * Edward
 * Henry
 * Donald and Douglas
 * Bertie

Trivia

 * The James model earned a Guinness World Record in 2003 as the largest electric model train.
 * Thomas's model was used for the Queens Party at Buckingham Palace in 2006 with Jonathan Ross playing the Fat Controller.
 * Gordon's model in the show was too big to go around the curves, so the model just moves in and out the shed. He is also missing his lamp-irons and coupling hook.
 * The model engines can blink and change their expressions through four buttons inside the cab. Four other buttons inside the cab can control the steering of the engines.
 * A poster for this tour can be seen on the side of a double-decker bus in the 2003 film, Love Actually.
 * The Troublesome Trucks are missing their couplings and buffers.
 * A few of the props were put up for sale on eBay; the faces on most of the characters were taken off, and were worn out, and the props themselves were not in the best of shape. The props are soon to be scrapped as the owner did not reach the amount they wanted from the bid.
 * Thomas' Prop still remains in the studio he was built in, but is unknown what it looks like to this day.
 * There were multiple songs throughout the shows, two of which were "Start the Parade" and "Watching the Wheels".