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Misty Island Rescue is an educational video game for PC and Mac based on the special of the same name, released by Nova Development in 2010. It was released exclusively in North America, unlike several other video games.
Overview
The game is aimed at pre-schoolers and teaches a wide range of basic skills including mathematics, computer skills, coordination, recognition, moods and emotions, matching, and memory. It has ten levels.
Players can:
- Match cards with Sir Topham Hatt
- Guide Thomas to the Logging Locos
- Clear the tracks for Thomas on Misty Island
- Help build the Sodor Search and Rescue Center
- Catch jobi logs on a flatbed with Ol' Wheezy
- Help Cranky load crates onto flatbeds
- Put together puzzles with Thomas
- Play whistle songs with Thomas and the Logging Locos
- Describe how Bash, Dash or Ferdinand feel with Thomas
- Find Thomas' Sodor friends
Characters
- Thomas
- Percy
- Whiff
- Diesel
- Bash and Dash
- Ferdinand
- Harold
- Sir Topham hatt
- Ol' Wheezy
- Edward (speaks in clips only)
- Salty (speaks in clips only)
- Rocky (speaks in clips only)
- Captain (speaks in clips only)
- Henry (does not speak)
- Gordon (does not speak)
- James (does not speak)
- Toby (does not speak)
- Emily (does not speak)
- Spencer (does not speak)
- Hiro (does not speak)
- Mavis (does not speak)
- Cranky (does not speak)
Cast
- Michael Brandon as the narrator and Diesel
- Martin Sherman as Thomas and Percy
- William Hope as Edward, Whiff, Bash and Rocky
- Kerry Shale as Dash, Harold and Sir Topham Hatt
- Glenn Wrage as Ferdinand
- Keith Wickham as Salty and Captain
Trivia
- Stock footage from the said special was used in the game.
- This is the second and last Thomas & Friends PC game based on a special.
- This game was released exclusively in North America for unknown reasons. This was one of the only two games based on specials released in North America, along with Calling All Engines! for the Leapster. Thomas and the Magic Railroad Print Studio for the PC and Hero of the Rails for the Nintendo Wii and DS have missed out on being released in North America for unknown reasons, along with a few other games that are not based on specials, like A Day at the Races for the PlayStation 2 and Steaming Around Sodor for the Nintendo 3DS.
- This is currently the last Thomas & Friends PC game.
- The background in the "Find Thomas' Sodor Friends" game is reused from the main PBS Kids Play screen for the Thomas & Friends world, with Knapford Station replaced by Tidmouth Town Square.
- Images used for advertising and the box feature an unused logo for Motor Road and Rail on the card backs of the cards in the memory game. This was removed in the final game, and the card backs just feature a pattern on them.
Goofs
- Emily has the wrong siderods during one of the animations played in the beginning of the game.
- After finishing the matching game, the background is mirrored.
- In the animated sequence of the engines waiting for jobi wood at Brendam Docks:
- All of Henry's wheels are missing, alongside his lamp irons, coupling hook and brake pipe.
- Gordon is mentioned in the audio, but is nowhere to be seen.
- James is missing his lining, number, whistle, lamp irons and first wheel arch.
- Thomas also appears to be missing his rear wheels, is missing his lamp, lamp irons, coupling hook and brake pipe, and his stepladder is misplaced.
- Edward is missing his lamp, and his wheels appear to be off-center.
- The flatbeds seem to be missing their buffers.
- When the scene zooms in, Percy has taken Henry's place.
- During the "Find Thomas' Sodor friends" game:
- Toby has Henry's whistle.
- Hiro has Lady’s whistle.
- Gordon's artwork is misshapen, has the number 5 and is missing his connecting rods and valve gear. His wheels are also layered over his running board and cylinder, and he is depicted as a 2-6-4.
- When guessing the logging locos' faces, Ferdinand's wheels, cylinder and cab are not painted.
- During one of the minigames, Diesel's buffer beam is black.
- In one part of the game, Bash has Neville's whistle at a higher pitch, Dash has James' whistle at a lower pitch, and Ferdinand has James' whistle at a higher pitch.
- Ferdinand's cab is not painted in at his front view.
- All of the engine's siderods are not moving in some cutscenes.
- Thomas' wheels clip into his running board at his side view, as they were added over top Thomas' main body artwork as opposed to layered underneath his running board.
- Harold's name is missing.
- In two cutscenes of Harold, Sir Topham Hatt changes his promo.
- One promo of Thomas has a black number and missing siderods, front coupling, whistle and coal bunker lines.
- In the cutscene where Sir Topham Hatt says "You helipad will be over there Harold.", Thomas is derailed and Harold's face is out of place.
- In the 2D animated section of the cutscene of Thomas on the raft, the steam boat is nowhere to be seen and the raft is missing in some shots.
- In one cutscene, Thomas and the rails he is standing are sliding sideways in Misty Island.
- After the Misty Island maze minigame, Thomas' wheel arches are cut off and the rails can be seen.
- Salty's 2D artwork has a clean bufferbeam.
- In one cutscene, The Logging Loco's mouths are not moving when they laugh at Ol' Wheezy.
- At one cutscene of Brendam Docks, Gordon's tender is derailed, Captain is missing his windows and he has a different horn.
- Thomas' coal bunker is missing when he puffs to get out of Misty Island.