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- “It's a ghost engine! It's come to get me!”
- ― Diesel
Flour Power is the twenty-sixth and final episode of the ninth series.
Plot
On Halloween night, Thomas is alone at the sheds when the Fat Controller assigns him to collect the flour from the mill and take it to the bakery, because Sodor needed its morning toast and Lady Hatt and him need their crumpets. He also tells Thomas that he must work with Diesel which makes Thomas upset.
"BOO!!!!"
Thomas arrives at the docks where he is supposed to meet Diesel, but he is not there. He does not know that Diesel is sneaking behind him and gives Thomas a fright by biffing some oil tankers out of the way. Diesel teases Thomas for being a scaredy engine and they set off for the flour mill. When they pass the woods, Diesel says it is the haunted forest and calls out to Thomas in a spooky voice. Thomas crossly tells Diesel to stop it. When they arrive at the abandoned mines, they hear a banging noise and Diesel teases Thomas that it is a ghost engine looking for a steam engine to scare. Thomas says he is not scared, but secretly he is. When Thomas and Diesel stop at a signal, Thomas hears a strange cry and feels something touch his coal bunker which was a tree, but he does not know. Diesel cries out to Thomas that it is the ghost engine after his funnel. Thomas is so scared he peeps frightfully and Diesel calls Thomas a scaredy engine twice. Thomas is so cross with Diesel that he wants to find a way to pay him back.
Thomas disguised as a ghost to scare Diesel as payback
When they arrive at the flour mill and Diesel goes ahead of Thomas, Thomas has an idea to show Diesel who is the scaredy engine by biffing the trucks out of the way and gets covered in white flour looking like a ghost engine. Diesel is so frightened he runs out of the flour mill before he can hear that it is only Thomas. Thomas buffers up to the flour trucks and sets off for the bakery. While heading for the bakery, Thomas realises the thing Diesel said that was used to scare him is just a tree that touched him, the strange cry was an owl, the banging at the abandoned mine was just a door and that the forest he passed earlier was Henry's Forest.
Diesel is with the Fat Controller at the bakery when Thomas arrives and Diesel gets scared again and tells the Fat Controller that the ghost engine has come to get him, but the Fat Controller says it is only Thomas. The Fat Controller praises Thomas for his hard work and rewards him a special washdown. Thomas is looking forward to telling his friends everything that has happened.
Characters
- Thomas
- Diesel
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Henry (does not speak)
- James (cameo)
- Emily (cameo)
- The Dairy Manager (cameo)
- The Baker (cameo)
- Percy (toy cameo)
- Lady Hatt (mentioned)
Locations
- Knapford Yards
- Sodor Flour Mill
- Callan Castle
- Brendam Docks
- Tidmouth Sheds
- Sodor Bakery
- Henry's Forest
- The Abandoned Mines
Trivia
- Going by production order, this is the eleventh episode of the ninth series.
- The episode is similar to the ninth series episode Bold and Brave, which is just two episodes prior production-wise, in which Diesel tries to spook Thomas with falsehoods that Thomas has to be brave. It is also similar and seems to call back to the eighth series finale (production-wise) Halloween, in that Thomas has to work on Halloween Night with diesels that try to scare him but get inadvertently scared as comeuppance before Thomas realises all that was "scary" was just made up. Diesel even says, "Trust a silly old steamie to be scared on Halloween!"
- The name of this episode is a play on the 1960s saying Flower Power.
- When the camera looks beside the boy's bed, an ERTL Percy, a Thomas and the Magic Railroad poster and the medal from the seventh series episode, Three Cheers for Thomas are visible.
- A deleted shot of James passing Castle Loch without Henry passing by is used in the music video, Day and Night.
- In the US version, crumpets are called English muffins, which are both very different terms for the name of the food that is made in England.
- A deleted scene indicated that Sir Topham Hatt was originally going to dress up as a devil. The original small-scale version of this figure is now owned by ThomasTankMerch.
- This is the final episode narrated by Daniel Vulcu in Romania and Ian MacAmhlaigh in Scotland.
Goofs
- The narrator says "Suddenly, Thomas felt something touch his tender," but Thomas is a tank engine. "Bunker" would have been the correct term.
- When Thomas rolls under the chute, he biffs some trucks out of the way. Then, when Thomas comes out covered in flour, Diesel is in front of Thomas, not the trucks.
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Merchandise
Quotes
- Diesel: Woooooooooo! Thoooooomas!
- Diesel: Look out! The ghost engine is after your funnel!
- Thomas: Cinders and Ashes!
Home Media Releases
UKDVD Packs
AUS
DVD Boxsets
USDVD Packs
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| #01 Percy and the Oil Painting | #10 Rheneas and the Dinosaur | #19 Thomas' New Trucks |
| #02 Thomas and the Rainbow | #11 Thomas and the New Engine | #20 Duncan and the Old Mine |
| #03 Thomas' Milkshake Muddle | #12 Toby Feels Left Out | #21 Bold and Brave |
| #04 Mighty Mac | #13 Thomas Tries His Best | #22 Skarloey the Brave |
| #05 Molly's Special Special | #14 The Magic Lamp | #23 Saving Edward |
| #06 Respect for Gordon | #15 Thomas and the Statue | #24 Thomas and the Golden Eagle |
| #07 Thomas and the Birthday Picnic | #16 Henry and the Flagpole | #25 Keeping Up with James |
| #08 Tuneful Toots | #17 Emily Knows Best | #26 Flour Power |
| #09 Thomas and the Toy Shop | #18 Thomas' Day Off | |