Minis

Minis are a range of Thomas and Friends toys produced by Mattel Fisher-Price. So far 100 models have been confirmed and are being released in different themes including Classic, Metallic, Chillin', Heroes, Robo, Spooky, Racers, Dinos, Old School, Neon, Advent Calendar, Warriors and DC Super Friends.

More sets are due to be released in autumn 2015.

Classic

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * Henry
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy
 * Toby
 * Bill
 * Ben
 * Emily
 * Spencer
 * Hiro
 * Charlie
 * Bash
 * Dash
 * Ferdinand (coming soon)
 * Scruff
 * Stephen
 * Porter
 * Gator
 * Samson
 * Diesel
 * Iron Bert
 * Diesel 10
 * Salty
 * Paxton
 * Sidney
 * Skarloey
 * Victor
 * Luke
 * Millie

Metallic

 * Gold Thomas
 * Edward
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy

Heroes

 * Thomas
 * Hiro
 * Samson
 * Diesel
 * Victor

Robo

 * Edward
 * Henry
 * Toby
 * Charlie
 * Millie

Racers

 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * Bill
 * Spencer
 * Dash

Neon

 * Henry
 * James
 * Toby
 * Bash
 * Iron Bert

Chillin'

 * Edward
 * Gordon
 * Paxton
 * Sidney
 * Skarloey

Dino

 * James
 * Percy
 * Ben
 * Stephen
 * Gator

Old School

 * Spencer
 * Scruff
 * Diesel
 * Salty
 * Luke

Spooky

 * Percy
 * Emily
 * Porter
 * Diesel 10
 * Salty

Warriors

 * Thomas
 * James
 * Percy
 * Millie
 * Diesel

Advent Calendar

 * Thomas
 * James
 * Henry
 * Toby
 * Ben
 * Diesel

DC Super Friends

 * Thomas (Superman, Batman)
 * James (The Flash)
 * Percy (Robin)
 * Emily (Wonder Woman)
 * Spencer (Cyborg, Two Variants)
 * Charlie (The Riddler)
 * Diesel (Dark Knight Batman, Two-Face)
 * Diesel 10 (Joker)
 * Luke (Beast Boy)
 * Millie (Harley Quinn)

Multi-Packs
3-Packs
 * 3-Pack A (Thomas, Spooky Emily, and Heroes Victor)
 * 3-Pack B (Percy, Robo Charlie, and Neon Bash)
 * 3-Pack C (Dash, Dino James, and Old School Scruff)
 * 3-Pack D (Diesel 10, Racers Gordon, and Chillin' Sidney)
 * 3-Pack E (Paxton, Chillin' Edward, and Racers Bill)
 * 3-Pack F (Salty, Dino Ben, and Heroes Hiro)
 * 3-Pack G (Bert, Old School Spencer, and Dino Stephen)
 * 3-Pack H (Millie, Neon Toby, and Chillin' Skarloey)
 * 3-Pack I (Victor, Neon Henry, and Old School Luke)
 * 3-Pack J (Charlie, Dino Gator, and Heroes Diesel)
 * 3-Pack K (Emily, Scruff, and Spooky Porter)
 * 3-Pack L (Bash, Sidney, and Heroes Samson)

8-Packs

 * 8-Pack 1 (Spencer, Hiro, Porter, Robo Edward, Metallic Gordon, Neon James, Dino Percy, and Old School Diesel)
 * 8-Pack 2 (Gordon, Toby, Gator, Racers Thomas, Robo Henry, Metallic James, Neon Bert, and Spooky Salty)
 * 8-Pack 3 (Henry, James, Stephen, Luke, Metallic Edward, Robo Toby, Old School Salty, and Chillin' Paxton)
 * 8-Pack 4 (Edward, Samson, Diesel, Skarloey, Chillin' Gordon, Metallic Percy, Racers Spencer, and Robo Millie)

DC Super Friends' Packs

 * Super Friends Minis 5-Pack (Superman Thomas, Cyborg Spencer, Batman Diesel [Exclusive to the pack], Joker Diesel 10, and Harley Quinn Millie; Exclusive to 2015 Comic-Con)
 * Super Friends 4-Pack (Batman Thomas, Robin Percy, Wonder Woman Emily, and Joker Diesel 10; Coming soon)

Other Packs

 * 50-Pack (Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, Percy, Toby, Spencer, Hiro, Charlie, Scruff, Stephen, Porter, Gator, Samson, Diesel, Bert, Diesel 10, Salty, Paxton, Sidney, Skarloey, Victor, Millie, Robo Edward, Robo Henry, Robo Toby, Robo Charlie, Dino Ben, Dino Gator, Heroes Hiro, Heroes Diesel, Heroes Victor, Racers Thomas, Racers Gordon, Racers Bill, Racers Dash, Neon Henry, Neon Toby, Neon Bash, Neon Bert, Chillin' Paxton, Old School Spencer, Old School Scruff, Old School Diesel, Old School Luke, Warriors Thomas, Warriors James, Warriors Percy, Warriors Diesel, and Warriors Millie; Warriors engines exclusive to the pack)

Sets

 * Collector's Playwheel (with Gold Metallic Thomas)
 * Twist-n-Turn Stunt Set (with exclusive Percy)

DC Super Friends™ MINIS Mash Ups Origin Story!
A video also known as Thomas and his Hero Friends uploaded to the Thomas & Friends YouTube channel shows a special story about Thomas and his friends in Minis form.

Plot
Thomas dreams that he, Diesel and Spencer are super heroes.

Characters

 * Classic/DC Super Friend Thomas
 * DC Super Friend Spencer
 * Classic/DC Super Friend Diesel
 * DC Super Friend Diesel 10
 * DC Super Friend Millie
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Classic Edward (cameo)
 * Classic Henry (cameo)
 * Classic Gordon (cameo)
 * Classic James (cameo)
 * Classic Percy (cameo)
 * Classic Emily (cameo)
 * Classic Annie and Clarabel (cameo)
 * Classic Rocky (cameo)
 * Mr. Bubbles (mentioned)

Locations

 * The Windmill
 * Dryaw
 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Sodor Steamworks
 * Sodor Dieselworks
 * Sodor Jail

Cast

 * Mark Moraghan as the Narrator
 * Joseph May as Thomas
 * Glenn Wrage as Spencer
 * Kerry Shale as Diesel
 * Matt Wilkinson as Diesel 10
 * Teresa Gallagher as Millie
 * Keith Wickham as Sir Topham Hatt and Sir Topham Hatt's First Assistant
 * Rob Rackstraw as Sir Topham Hatt's Second Assistant

Trivia

 * This video is made in the style of a DC comic book.


 * In this video, Teresa Gallagher voices Millie instead of Miranda Raison.


 * Despite not having Minis models Annie, Clarabel, and Rocky appear, possibly foreshadowing their release in the range.
 * The Narrator in the dream sequence is a nod to William Dozier, the producer and narrator of the 1966 Batman Television Series.

Goofs

 * When Thomas, Spencer and Diesel arrive at the Dieselworks, Thomas is missing his number.
 * When Diesel 10 and Millie are at the Sodor Jail Diesel 10's right (viewer's left) wheel is separated.
 * Annie and Clarabel's names aren't written on their sides.

Trivia

 * Thus far, every engine that has been released has a classic model and at least one other model.
 * In Australia, the Minis were only released as blind bag items and in separate waves, respectively marked by only the production batch number on the bags. This could be used to distinguished each new wave. So far, there have been 3 waves of Minis released in the number sequence of 1-18, 19-37 and 38-60 (Codes 57-60 include 4 of the exclusive DC Super Friends Mash-Ups). Each number is respective to a different character.
 * There are two variants of Cyborg Spencer. The one in the DC Super Friends 5-pack has a clear blue smokebox, while the versions sold in blind bags have black smokeboxes.
 * 99% of the time, the product number on the blind bags are distinctive to that particular engine.
 * Although the Minis are in 'blind bags' they can be clearly visible in certain areas of the bag.
 * Multiple prototypes differed for the final model:
 * Gator and Neon Bert had black wheels, Racer Spencer had grey wheels, and Metallic James had red wheels.
 * Charlie had a purple roof.
 * Old School Scruff had a black bufferbeam/footplate.
 * Old School Salty had a white face area, as well as grey bufferbeam/footplate and wheels.
 * Bash and Dash's prototypes have different wheels.
 * Multiple prototypes have much narrower front couplings.


 * Since every model uses the same buffer-beam/footplate moulding:
 * Gordon and Diesel 10's models have round buffers instead of oval shaped ones.
 * Bash and Dash's models have buffers.


 * According to the waves of the blind bags released so far, it can be seen, that the Australian and Japanese blind bag waves order of characters released are identical and follow the same production sequence, with only slight alterations to the latter wave releases.
 * Since HiT Entertainment partners up with DC Comics, SiF is currently discussing on future crossovers to the models, such as Power Rangers, Muppets, My Little Pony, Star Wars, Marvel, etc.

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