The 2025 annual will be published in the UK on 1st August 2024. [1] It includes the following stories:

Animoca Brands and Mattel launch "Thomas & Friends: Race On!" game". Animoca Brands. 18 December 2015 . Retrieved 14 May 2022. The live action models used in 1984 could not lip sync. HIT's subsidiary HOT Animation introduced the use of CGI in the show about 20 years later, [48] first to add smoke and other effects. In 2009, HIT introduced a fully CGI series. [49] In Series 12, CGI by Nitrogen Studios was used to animate the characters' faces and to make the people and animals move. The 13th Series was the first to be fully animated in CGI. Barbie maker Mattel to buy Thomas the Tank Engine owner". BBC News. BBC. 24 October 2011. Archived from the original on 27 October 2013 . Retrieved 13 February 2014. That's the Way to Do It!" - Thomas saves the children's puppet show after a little tent is blown away by the wind.Bertie Saves the Day - Bertie is looking forward to taking the naturalist society out on a picnic, but is upset when he cannot go anywhere because of engine troubles. Algy fills in for him, but Algy's engine causes problems along the way and breaks down altogether when it is time to go home. Bertie is repaired all ready to take the stranded passengers home. Thomas and the Swans - Percy gets a scare when a pheasant flies out and hits him. Thomas teases him about it and thinks it would not bother him, but he changes his mind when he comes across a swan with a broken wing.

FE Investegate |Gullane Ent. PLC Announcements | Gullane Ent. PLC: Offer by HIT Entertainment". Investegate.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 July 2018 . Retrieved 5 May 2014.Mattel Television Announces "Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go"and Unveils New Creative Approach to Thomas Content". Mattel, Inc. Who Drove Thomas To Success?". sodor-island.net. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010 . Retrieved 17 June 2010.

Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue for iPad App Review | Common Sense Media". www.commonsensemedia.org . Retrieved 14 May 2022. Main articles: Thomas & Friends and Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go Thomas' model in Series 8 (2004) The Strawberry Special - Toby tells Thomas and Percy the time he had to take forty-eight vans of strawberries. Toby was running low on water, so he left the vans at a station and went to refill his tank. a b Roake, Jessica (26 July 2011). "Thomas the Imperialist Tank Engine". Slate . Retrieved 13 July 2021. Points of No Return - James wants a branch line of his own. His wish comes true when he gets switched onto Edward's branch line and the points jam behind him, meaning James has to stay at Wellsworth to do odd jobs until the points are repaired - but he grows increasingly bored as time passes and is relieved upon returning to the Big Shed.Ringo/Thomas Spoof on Spitting Image (1988). 25 January 2011. Archived from the original on 31 October 2021 – via YouTube. Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and later Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!) is a British children's television series that aired across 24 series from 1984 to 2021. Based on The Railway Series books by Rev. W. Awdry and his son Christopher, the series was developed for television by Britt Allcroft. The series follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and many other anthropomorphised locomotives on the North Western Railway, including Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby. They work for Sir Topham Hatt, primarily known as the " Fat Controller".

Former Brookside actor to be Thomas the Tank Engine narrator". The Guardian. 17 May 2013. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022 . Retrieved 26 May 2015. The series in Romania is known as Thomas şi Prietenii Săi, or Locomotiva Thomas şi Prietenii Săi, and is dubbed in Romanian. All of the vehicles in The Railway Series were based on prototypical engines; Thomas's basis is the LB&SCR E2 class. [3] Thomas first appeared in 1946 in the second book in the series, Thomas the Tank Engine, and was the focus of the four short stories contained within. In The Railway Series and early episodes of Thomas & Friends, Thomas's best friends are Percy and Toby, though he is also close friends with Edward. Later episodes of Thomas & Friends have Thomas in a trio with James and Percy, and Percy is known as his best friend. Even Thomas The Tank Engine Was A Digital Fake In Ant-Man". Gizmodo Australia. 6 July 2018 . Retrieved 27 December 2022.This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( April 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The first attempt to adapt Awdry's stories for television came in 1953, when the editor of the Railway Series books, Eric Marriott, was approached by the BBC, who wished to use live-action model trains to re-create two stories from Awdry's first book, The Three Railway Engines. [3] 00 gauge Hornby Dublo models appeared on sets that reflected the style of the original illustrations. The first episode (based on "The Sad Story of Henry") was broadcast live on the evening of Sunday 14 June 1953 from Lime Grove Studios. [3] [4] [5] The live broadcast did not fare well: a failure to switch the points caused the model of Henry to derail and it had to be replaced on the rails by one of the operators. The models moved jerkily, and all effects and music had to be superimposed. [3] [4] [5] A new theme song and new incidental music was composed by Ed Welch and Robert Hartshorne, respectively. The episode runtime was increased to seven minutes. The series was produced using digital video cameras, creating a somewhat different look for the show. Other changes included the additions of CGI educational sequences and transitions between stories. Executive producer Peter Urie also left, while Jocelyn Stevenson remained in her role as executive producer. Sam Barlow became the story executive, while Abi Grant and Paul Larson served as script editors. This series saw the adoption of a centralised cast, including Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby and Emily. After The Railway Series was published, two annuals about Thomas the Tank Engine were printed. They were hard-covered with colour pictures and photos throughout the book. The annuals also featured a number of exclusive characters. The 1979 and 1980 annuals did not contain any new material by the Rev. W. Awdry, but did have articles about real railways and railway terminology. The annuals published between 1984-1993 starting being branded as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends to promote the Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends television series and started including aspects of the television series, like the television versions of Thomas and other characters. But the annuals still kept aspects of The Railway Series, with stories written by Christopher Awdry. Starting in 2003, the stories were adapted from episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, now renamed to Thomas & Friends. Thomas the Tank Engine is an anthropomorphised fictional tank locomotive in the British Railway Series books by Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher, published from 1945. He became the most popular and famous character in the series, and is the titular protagonist in the accompanying television adaptation series Thomas & Friends [2] and its reboot Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go.