Series 11/Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

This is a behind the scenes subpage for Series 11. This subpage contains all behind the scenes material relating to said article.

1 Behind the Scenes
2 CGI Testing
3 List of Sets
4 References
5 See Also

Behind the Scenes

Storyboards

A miniature page of a Thomas & Friends script has appeared in Thomas and the Storyteller ^[1]

Episode Production

Filming the title sequence

Filming the "Island of Sodor" opening sequence

Filming the Engine Roll Call

Thomas and the Storyteller

Emily's Rubbish

Dream On

Dirty Work

Hector the Horrid (Note: Hector's eye mechanism is visible)

Gordon and the Engineer

Thomas and the Spaceship

Henry's Lucky Day

Thomas and the Lighthouse

Thomas and the Big Bang

Smoke and Mirrors

Don't be Silly, Billy

Edward and the Mail Alternate Shot

Hide and Peep

Toby's Triumph

Thomas in Trouble

Duncan Does it All

Cool Truckings

Skarloey Storms Through

Thomas and the Stinky Cheese

Production Orthographic Drawings by Conrad Ayling

Whiff

Billy

Modelling

Billy's inner workings

Whiff's eye mechanism

Skarloey's large scale weathered model under refurbishment and clean model under construction

Rheneas' clean large scale model from Wash Behind Your Buffers

Billy's spare chassis owned by Twitter user TomsProps

Character/Building Models and Faces

James' model in Dirty Work

Toby's model in Toby's Triumph

Whiff

Whiff's complete model and spare chassis

Billy

Billy's model and spare chassis

Diesel

Billy, Donald or Douglas, Diesel, Bill or Ben, 'Arry or Bert, Annie and Harold's models

Whiff and Donald's models with Bertie and Bulgy's in the background

Hector's model with one of the Horrid Lorries in the background

Bertie and Neville's models plus Derek's on the far right and Hector's in the background

Sir Topham Hatt's large scale walking model prior to being sold on auction on the prop gallery

Thomas' plastic model's last appearance

Henry's plastic model's last appearance

Gordon's plastic model's last appearance

Duncan's duplicate lightweight styrene/resin large scale model, used for scenes where Madge would pull Duncan on her trailer in Cool Truckings

Duncan's lightweight large scale NG model as now owned by Twitter user ThomasTankMerch

Duncan's lightweight large scale NG model when first received by Twitter user ThomasTankMerch

Annie and Clarabel's gauge 3 models on display in 2021

Hector's second stunt model owned by Series Producer Simon Spencer (the writer of his introduction episode)

Sir Topham Hatt's current car's new model formerly on display at Nitrogen Studios

The car's new model on display at the Clearwater Exhibition in 2021

The car's new model on display at the second Clearwater Event in 2022

Sir Topham Hatt's new small scale figure as owned by Twitter user CBanimator

Sir Topham Hatt's gauge 3 hiking figure as owner by Series Producer Simon Spencer

The Engineer's small scale figure as prior to being sold by The Prop Gallery

The Magician's small scale figure on display at Drayton Manor

The Magician's close-up model on display at the Awdry Extravaganza 3 at the Talyllyn Railway in 2023 (Courtesy of Twitter user _Crankster)

One of the remade Railway Board members' small scale figurine (reused as one of Allicia Botti's associates in Toby's Triumph) as formerly owned by Twitter user TheRailwayBoard

The Fat Policeman's gauge 3 figure prior to being sold on auction on eBay in 2024

Thomas' unused gauge 3 ninth series chuckling face

Donald and Douglas' unused eighth series smiling face

Rosie's unused tenth series clenched face

Rosie's unused tenth series cross face

Skarloey's unused large scale ninth series second smiling face

Rheneas' unused large scale seventh series smirking face

Sir Handel's unused large scale tenth series sad face

Freddie's unused tenth series disappointed face

Freddie's unused tenth series concerned face

'Arry and Bert's new snickering face

Thomas with his new disgusted face

Elizabeth's unused sixth series shocked face

A duplicate cast of Thomas' current grinning face prior to being sold by The Prop Store

The face and a spare unused eye plate owned by Twitter user TomsProps

Thomas' gauge 3 chuckling face on display in 2021

Gordon's unused disgusted face as fomerly owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

Gordon's unused eleventh series disgusted face as currently owned by Twitter user TheLilWestern

Gordon's duplicate unused eleventh series disgusted face owned by Twitter and Instagram user ThomasTankMerch

A prototype of Bill and Ben's grinning face prior to being sold by The Prop Store

Whiff's smiling face (without glasses) prior to being sold by The Prop Gallery in 2022

Whiff's smiling face (without glasses) as owned by Twitter user Machan of Sodor

Billy's happy and angry faces owned by Twitter user TomsProps

Billy's content and unused shocked faces in storage bags as formerly owned by a private collector

A production-made resin cast of Billy's unused shocked face as fomerly owned by Twitter user IsaacM6991

The face prior to being sold on Prop Store

Diesel's disgusted face in a storage bag as formerly owned by a private collector

Skarloey's large scale second smiling face on display at the Awdry Extravaganza 3 at the Talyllyn Railway in 2023

Skarloey's large scale second smiling face on display at the Awdry Extravaganza 3 at the Talyllyn Railway in 2023 (Courtesy of Twitter user _Crankster)

Skarloey's large scale horrified face (with it's added blush from Duncan Does It All) on display at the Awdry Extravaganza 2 at the Talyllyn Railway in 2022

Skarloey's large scale horrified face on display at the Awdry Extravaganza 3 at the Talyllyn Railway in 2023 (Courtesy of Twitter user The Crankster)

Elizabeth's worried, unused angry and shocked faces in storage bags as formerly owned by a private collector

A cast of Madge's joyful face before it was sold on The Prop Gallery

Whiff's eye controller before it was sold by the Prop Gallery

Madge and Donald's new JR Propo eye controller owned by Twitter user SkarloeyRailwayAdventure

CGI Testing

In 2008, Thomas and the Stinky Cheese was used for a CGI testing^[2]^[3] by Stardust Pictures before the series was switching over to Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) animation. A few of these re-created clips can also be seen in a 2009 CGI promo featured on certain DVDs.