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The Thomas Way is a UK, US, Canadian, Croatian, Greek, and Malaysian DVD containing six episodes from the seventeenth series. The Croatian DVD features four seventeenth series episodes.
Description
US
Hop aboard for fun on Sodor as the engines find out that there is always something new to learn! While Thomas and Duck learn how to steam ahead together with a special delivery, Luke and Millie find out what it's like to drive in each other's tracks - literally! Percy steams straight into a lucky encounter with Bill and Ben, Caitlin gets a lesson in how things are done, and Paxton works hard to recover Thomas' lost puff. With so much activity on Sodor, it's always important to steam ahead and remember that the best way is the Thomas Way!
UK
Get ready for fun and frolics on Sodor as the engines find out that there is always something new to learn! While Thomas and Duck learn how to steam ahead together with a special delivery, Luke and Millie find out what it's like to drive in each other's tracks - literally! Percy steams straight into a lucky encounter with Bill and Ben, Caitlin gets a lesson in how things are done and Paxton works hard to recover Thomas' lost puff. With so much activity on Sodor, it's important to remember that the only way is not always the Thomas way!
Episodes
- The Thomas Way *
- The Switch **
- Percy's Lucky Day *
- Calm Down Caitlin *
- The Lost Puff **
- Luke's New Friend (Separate from the main feature on the US release)
(*Followed by a Bonus Feature) (** Followed by a Bonus Feature in the UK and a song in the US)
Croatia
- The Thomas Way
- Henry's Hero
- Luke's New Friend
- The Switch
Malaysia
- Not Now, Charlie!
- The Thomas Way
- The Phantom Express
- Percy's Lucky Day
- Bill or Ben?
Songs (US release only)
- Hey, Hey Thomas!
- Thomas, You're the Leader (CGI Version)
Bonus Features
UK
- Really Useful Engines - Luke and Percy
- Mr. Perkins' Postcard - Blue Mountain Quarry
- The Earl's Quiz - Up, Up and Away! and Not Now, Charlie!
- Mr. Perkins' Storytime - Trucks!
- Calling All Engines! - Who's That Engine? - Thomas
- Really Useful Certificate (DVD-ROM Print Off; Awarded from "The Earl's Quiz" and "Who's That Engine?")
US
- Really Useful Engines - Luke and Percy
- Guess Who? puzzles - Duck, Luke and Paxton (Bonus Features) Rheneas and Cranky (Luke's New Friend)
- Mr. Perkins' Railway - Sounds of the Railway
- Calling All Engines! - Who's That Engine? - Thomas
- Lift and Load Crane game from Splish, Splash, Splosh!
Trivia
- This is the first US DVD of two things:
- The first mainstream US DVD since the DVD release of Rusty to the Rescue not to include the Canadian French narration track as one of the other languages.
- The first US DVD captioned by CaptionMax since Hero of the Rails and Best of James.
- Luke's New Friend is listed as a bonus episode on the US DVD. In addition, it has also been edited to fix an animation error.
- On the UK DVD, when the viewer plays the episodes from the main menu, the credits are shown (only at the beginning and end of all the main features) and the episodes are slightly cropped at the sides. However, when selected from the episode selection menu, the episodes are played separately, however, The Thomas Way is uncropped while the other five episodes remain cropped.
- On the UK DVD, when Play All is selected, a steam effect is shown at the end of The Thomas Way, but not when the aforementioned episode is played separately via the episode selection.
- This is the last episodic Thomas DVD to be cropped in fullscreen 4:3 in the US.
Goofs
- Teresa Gallagher is not given credit in the ending credits.
- Rebecca O'Mara's name is misspelt as "Rebbecca O' Mara" in the credits.
- On the UK bonus features, "The Earl's Quiz" is misspelt as "The Earls' Quiz."
- Halim Jabbour (Producer), Ian McCue (Producer), Marion Edwards (Executive Producer), and Karen Barnes (Executive in Charge of Production) are credited twice in the US ending credits.
