Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, formerly known as Universal Studios Home Entertainment, also known as Universal, began distributing Thomas & Friends videos in North America in September 2014 with Tale of the Brave, after taking over from Lionsgate. Like with Lionsgate, they re-released several Anchor Bay and Fox titles as well as many of Lionsgate titles.
Contents
Releases
Re-releases
- James Learns a Lesson and Other Stories
- The Double Features
- Thomas' Snowy Surprise and Other Adventures
- It's Great to be an Engine
- Calling All Engines!
- Track Stars
- Mud Glorious Mud
- Blue Mountain Mystery
- Railway Mischief
- Animals Aboard!
- Ultimate Christmas
- Up, Up and Away! (DVD)
- Percy's Ghostly Trick and Other Thomas Stories
- Thomas' Halloween Adventures
- Sticky Situations
- Spills and Thrills
- King of the Railway
- Wobbly Wheels and Whistles
- The Lion of Sodor
- Thomas and the Toy Workshop
- Pop Goes Thomas (DVD)
- Misty Island Rescue
- Hero of the Rails
- Merry Christmas, Thomas!
- Santa's Little Engine (DVD)
- Merry Winter Wish
- A Very Thomas Christmas
- Holiday Express
- Rescue on the Rails
- Curious Cargo
- Muddy Matters (DVD)
- The Thomas Way (DVD)
- Go Go Thomas! (DVD)
- Schoolhouse Delivery
- Team Up With Thomas
- Railway Friends
- Engine Friends
New releases
- Engines to the Rescue
- Tale of the Brave
- The Christmas Engines
- Signals Crossed
- Dinos and Discoveries
- The Adventure Begins
- Whale of a Tale and Other Sodor Adventures
- Wild Water Rescue and Other Engine Adventures
- Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure
- Thomas' Christmas Carol
- Tales on the Rails
- Start Your Engines!
- The Great Race
- Tinsel on the Tracks
- Ultimate Friendship Adventures
- Extraordinary Engines
- Journey Beyond Sodor
- Christmas on Sodor
- Big World! Big Adventures!
Blu-ray releases
Box sets
Trivia
- They also released Big Idea's The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: a VeggieTales Movie, which was animated by Arc Productions, now called Jam Filled Toronto. Interestingly, VeggieTales videos were distributed by HiT Entertainment from 2001 to 2002.
- On several of their digital and Blu-ray releases of Thomas DVDs and specials, the audio is at a lower pitch.
- They are the final company to produce physical home media releases of Thomas and Friends.
- On most re-releases of the older Thomas & Friends DVD's, the Web Fun feature was removed due to the drastic changes to the official website in 2015.
