Start Your Engines! is a US, UK, AUS, South African, Polish, Czech, Brazilian, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian and Indonesian DVD that contains six episodes from the nineteenth series. It was released under the name Reds vs. Blues for Indonesian audiences.
Contents
Description
US/UK
Thomas & Friends™ are racing on the rails! The clock is ticking for Thomas, Bertie and Spencer to get to the castle on time. As Philip shows Gordon how fast he can go, slow Stephen proves he can save the day. James and Thomas are on opposite tracks when the Big Game comes to Sodor, while Caitlin gives Emily an unexpected boost. Race down the tracks with Thomas and his friends!
AUS
The clock is ticking for Thomas, Bertie and Spencer to get to the castle on time. As Philip shows Gordon how fast he can go, slow Stephen proves he can save the day. Race down the tracks with Thomas and his friends!
Episodes
- Two Wheels Good
- Reds vs. Blues
- Slow Stephen
- The Little Engine Who Raced Ahead
- Best Engine Ever
- Philip to the Rescue
Bonus Features
US
Separate from the main feature
- Race with You sing-along song
- On a Journey Today sing-along song
- Go, Go Thomas sing-along song
- Guess Who? puzzles - Thomas, James, Scruff and Gordon
Part of the main feature
- Really Useful Engines - Bill and Ben and Marion
- The Earl's Quiz - The Lost Puff, Colors and Percy's Lucky Day and Percy's Parcel and Pop Goes Thomas
- Landmarks of Sodor - Whiff's Waste Dump and The Scrapyards
- The Fat Controller's/Sir Topham Hatt's Tales - Cranky
UK/AUS
- Really Useful Engines - Bill and Ben and Marion
- The Earl's Quiz - The Lost Puff, Colours and Percy's Lucky Day and Percy's Parcel and Pop Goes Thomas
- Landmarks of Sodor - Whiff's Waste Dump and The Scrapyards
- The Fat Controller's Tales - Cranky
- Really Useful Certificate (DVD ROM Print Off; Awarded from "The Earl's Quiz")
- "Race with You" Sing-Along Music Video
- "On A Journey Today" Sing-Along Music Video
- The Great Race Teaser Trailer*
*UK only
Trivia
- On the US release, an instrumental of Thomas and Percy can be heard on the Episode Selection menu.
- The UK and AUS releases have the new intro, roll call and credits, while the US release does not.
- This is the first UK DVD to feature nineteenth series intro, roll call and credits, as well as the first DVD Menu to play the nineteenth season Engine Roll Call song.
- The DVD is used as Disc 2 of The Complete Series 19 DVD as a bonus disc distributed by Mattel Creations.
- The second Earl's Quiz segment in the UK is reused from Spills and Thrills.
Goofs
- Steve D'Angelo and Terry Tompkins are credited for rearranging the theme song, but the new version of the theme song is not featured on the US DVD (the Series 13-18 intro is used).
- Some of the people are duplicated on the back cover.
- The digital release is slowed down to 24 frames-per-second.
Merchandise
Books
Wooden Railway
- Philip
- Streamlined Emily
- Speedy Surprise Drop
- Ready, Set, Race! Percy
Take-n-Play
- Philip
TrackMaster
- Philip
- Royal Spencer
- Blue Team Thomas
Clothes
- Handcraft Underwear and Training Pants
DVD Packs
UK
US
- Start Your Engines! and Up, Up and Away! Double Pack
Trailers
- DVDs
- UK VHS/DVD releases
- US VHS/DVD releases
- Australian VHS/DVD releases
- Spanish DVD releases
- Digital Video
- South African VHS/DVD releases
- Brazilian DVD releases
- Czech DVD releases
- Polish DVD releases
- Greek VHS/DVD releases
- Italian DVD releases
- French VHS/DVD releases
- Dutch VHS/DVD releases
- Canadian VHS/DVD releases
- Indonesian DVD/VCD releases