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- "Come on everyone, we got a Christmas wish to deliver!"
"But Santa said this is your special delivery, Percy."
"But I wouldn't be here without the help of all my friends. We should deliver it together!" - ― Percy and Thomas
The Christmas Letter Express is a 2024 feature-length Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go special. It is the third All Engines Go film and the seventeenth Thomas & Friends film overall.
Synopsis
During Sodor's Christmas Eve celebration, our favourite engines and vehicles are merrily at work decking the rails -- and none more than Percy! While Thomas, Bruno and other engines are decking the rails and preparing their beloved traditions, Percy has finished delivering holiday gifts all over the island...only to discover a child's letter to Santa has got stuck in his mail van. Percy is determined to make things right, even if that means tracking down Mr. Claus himself. With help from Thomas and his friends, Percy travels through dazzling parades, sweet-smelling gingerbread bakes and snowflake flurries on a quest to deliver the letter to Santa and make a child's Christmas Wish come true.
Characters
- Thomas
- James
- Percy
- Whiff
- Nia
- Diesel
- Carly
- Sandy
- Kana
- Annie and Clarabel
- Bruno
- Harold
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Ryan (gasping only)
- Gordon (does not speak)
- Reginald (does not speak)
- Edward (cameo)
- Henry (cameo)
- Emily (cameo)
- Ashima (cameo)
- Kenji (cameo)
- Winston (cameo)
- Cranky (cameo)
- Hiro (portrait cameo)
- Ultratrain (portrait cameo)
Returning Character
Characters Introduced
- The Postman (does not speak)
- Grandmother Hatt (cameo)
Locations
- Island of Sodor
- The Mainland (map only)
- Kenya (mentioned)
Cast
UK
- Shaun Jemmett as Thomas
- Tom Dussek as James, Sir Topham Hatt and Santa Claus
- Oliver Milchard as Percy
- Matt Coles as Whiff
- Sade Smith as Nia
- Henry Harrison as Diesel
- Eva Mohamed as Carly
- Holly Dixon as Sandy
- Chloe Raphael as Kana
- Wendy Patterson as Annie and Clarabel
- Elliott Garcia as Bruno
- Jai Armstrong as Harold
US
- Kai Harris as Thomas
- Luke Marty as James
- Charlie Zeltzer as Percy
- Joe Pingue as Whiff
- Talia Evans as Nia
- Will Bhaneja as Diesel
- Jenna Warren as Carly
- Glee Dango as Sandy
- Ava Ro as Kana
- Catherine Disher as Annie
- Linda Kash as Clarabel
- Chuck Smith as Bruno
- Bruce Dow as Harold and Sir Topham Hatt
- Michael Dobson as Santa Claus
Songs
Screenshot | Title | Composers | Original release date |
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Christmastime on the Rails | Annelise Noronha | 22 November 2024 |
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A Christmas Wish | Ava Kay | 29 November 2024 |
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Ho-Ho-Hold on Santa Claus! | Hill Kourkoutis Damhnait Doyle |
6 December 2024 |
Trivia
- This special marks the first of several things:
- The first special in the franchise's history to be themed around Christmas time.
- The first special to feature Percy as a main character and the first time where the original Steam Team appear without Toby since Tale of the Brave.
- The first time a human character other than Sir Topham Hatt speaks in All Engines Go, that being Santa Claus.
- The first special in the franchise's history to open with a song.
- The first special since Blue Mountain Mystery in which Gordon appears, but does not speak.
- The first All Engines Go production written by Rick Suvalle since the first series episode, A Thomas Promise, as well as the first production produced by him since the first series episode The Paint Problem.
- Edward and Winston's first appearances and James, Annie, Clarabel and Harold's first speaking roles in a special since, Big World! Big Adventures!.
- Ashima's first appearance in a special since her debut in The Great Race and her first appearance in an All Engines Go special.
- This special was originally set to premiere on Cartoonito in the United States, but after the show was pulled from the block in December 2023, it premiered exclusively on Netflix instead.[2]
- This movie takes place a year after the events of the second series episode, Christmas Mountain.
- One of the items Percy throws out of his shed berth is the map of the Old Mines from the first series episode, The Biggest Adventure Club.
- This is the final special in the franchise and the final production overall to be released during original series creator Britt Allcroft's lifetime, before she passed away on Christmas Day 2024.
Goofs
- In the first shot of Knapford, Henry's headlamp is missing.
- In the scene after Thomas and Percy collect their rolling stock, their wheels are not turning.
- In the first scene of Kana during the first song, the front coupling of her coach is clipping through her body.
- Boxy is missing from the Maintenance Yard.
- In the shot of Kana approaching Vicarstown station, James' tender is missing.
- When Thomas and Percy arrive at the bakery, Percy blows his whistle, but no steam emulates from it and no sound is heard.
- After Thomas and Percy get covered in gingerbread ingredients, Percy's coal bunker is missing.
- In a close-up of Percy as the smell of gingerbread swirls on a level with his wheels, his buffers and coupling are missing from his front buffer beam.
- The Amazon listing for the DVD release credits Meesha Contreras as Thomas despite him being voiced by Kai Harris.
Merchandise
Ravensburger
Motorized
In Other Languages
Language | Title |
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French | La lettre express de Noël |
Italian | Missione letterina di Natale |
Latin American Spanish | Rescatando la Navidad |
Polish | Świąteczny Express |
Spanish | La carta de Navidad del express |
Turkish | Noel Mektubu |
Trailers
References