Start Your Engines!

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Start Your Engines!

Director(s)

David Stoten
Dianna Basso
Don Spencer

Producer(s)

Ian McCue
(HiT Entertainment)
Jennifer Hill
(Arc Productions)

Distributor

HiT Entertainment
(UK/US)
Mattel Creations (UK; Bonus Disc)
Universal (US)
ABC for Kids (AUS)
Vision Home Entertainment (IND)

Released

16th February 2016 (US; Digital HD)
1st March 2016 (US; DVD)
2nd March 2016 (AUS)
14th March 2016 (UK)
20th March 2017 (Poland)
26th April 2017 (Spain)
2nd August 2017 (Brazil)
2nd July 2018 (UK re-release; Bonus Disc)

Runtime

69 mins

Preceded by

Tales on the Rails
(US)
Signals Crossed
(UK)
Trouble on the Tracks
(AUS)

Followed by

Tinsel on the Tracks
(US)

Whale of a Tale
and Other Sodor
Adventures
(UK)
Railway Mischief
(AUS)

Start Your Engines! is a US, UK, AUS, South African, Latin American, European Spanish, Brazilian, Polish, Czech, Greek, 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.

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

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.
David Stoten is not credited despite directing three episodes.