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Trouble on the Tracks is a US and Canadian DVD and digital release featuring five episodes from the eighteenth series. It was released on DVD in Italy with one additional eighteenth series episode, and released on DVD and digitally in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands with two additional eighteenth series episodes.
Description
US/CAN
Cinders and ashes… there's trouble on the tracks for Thomas and his friends! The Troublesome Trucks delight in causing chaos for Thomas, as Annie, Clarabel and Toad encounter unexpected high-speed adventures. Oily Diesel gives Paxton a fright, while Salty's spooky story has the engines running scared. All Aboard for fun and exciting escapades with Thomas & Friends™!
UK
Cinders and ashes… there's trouble on the tracks for Thomas and his friends! The Troublesome Trucks delight in causing chaos for Thomas, as Annie, Clarabel and Toad encounter unexpected high-speed adventures. Oily Diesel gives Paxton a fright, while Salty's spooky story has the engines running scared. James runs into trouble with some slip coaches and Percy ends up frightened and alone in an old mine. All Aboard for fun and exciting escapades with Thomas & Friends™!
AUS
Cinders and ashes... there's trouble on the tracks for Thomas and his friends! The Troublesome Trucks delight in causing chaos for Thomas, as Annie, Clarabel and Toad encounter unexpected high-speed adventures. James runs into trouble with some slip coaches and Percy ends up in an old mine. All aboard for fun and exciting escapades with Thomas & Friends™!
Episodes
- Thomas the Quarry Engine*
- Not So Slow Coaches*
- Flatbeds of Fear*
- Disappearing Diesels*
- Toad's Adventure
- Duck and the Slip Coaches**
- Missing Gator***
- (* Followed by a Bonus Feature in US/CAN/UK/AUS)
- (** Excluded in the US and Canada)
- (*** Excluded in the US, Canada and Italy)
Bonus Features
US/CAN/UK/AUS
- Calling All Engines! - Paxton and Salty
- Who's That Engine? - Henry
- The Earl's Quiz - Percy's New Friends and Slippy Sodor
- Mr. Perkins' Storytime - Pop Goes the Diesel
- Mr. Perkins' Postcards - The Dieselworks
US/CAN
- Guess Who? puzzles - Mavis, Thomas (blue background), James and Toby
UK/AUS
- Mr. Perkins' Storytime - Toby's Tightrope
- Mr. Perkins' Postcards - Ffarquhar Quarry
- Really Useful Certificate (DVD ROM Print Off; Awarded from "The Earl's Quiz" and "Who's That Engine?")
Trivia
- The filedates of the US DVD show that it was finished on February 19, 2014.
- The DVD title shares the same name of a Thomas & Friends PC game released in 2000.
- This was the last US DVD released by Lionsgate.
- Excluding Disappearing Diesels in US/Canada, all the episodes on this release are exclusive in US/Canada.
- The first trailer for the second 2015 special, Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure was featured on the UK and AUS releases during the opening clips of the DVD.
- The Australian release is the first Thomas & Friends DVD to bear the 2015 ABC for Kids logo.
- On the Australian iTunes release, the episodes are shown in production order.
- This is the first time since The Complete Series 8 that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has featured a trailer for a Thomas film on home media.
Goofs
- On the US/Canadian episode selection menu, the ballast running down Gordon's Hill has no track on it.
- David Baas is incorrectly credited for directing the US/Canadian release; all the episodes were directed by David Stoten and Don Spencer.
- In the US/Canadian version of the Guess Who? Puzzles, James is given Gordon's whistle.
DVD Packs
UK
The Netherlands
Reference
Race for the Sodor Cup |