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Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - The Gallant Old Engine - Amazon
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List Price: $12.98Now Price: $8.46Studio: Anchor BayRunning time: 35Release date: 2001-07-24Accessories: - Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection (Railway Series)
Formats: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSCLanguages: English (Original Language)
Fish!
2004-12-05
The Gallant Old Engine is a great Thomas video and all the stories are fantastic, but my personal favorite is Fish. It's like The Flying Kipper only with Duck helping Henry. I am a big fan of Henry and this was a great story for the Henry fans. Anyway, I'll tell you about the rest of the stories: In HENRY AND THE ELEPHANT find out what surprise awaits Henry when he takes some workman to clear out a tunnel of a rather mysterious object. In YOU CAN'T WIN see how Stuart and Falcon get to help old Duke when he can't pull his passenger train by himself. In SPECIAL ATTRACTION, Toby is on his way to the carnival as the special attraction. But when he gets there, someone tells him that the carnival doesn't need a special attraction after all. In PASSENGERS AND POLISH, Duncan is mad that he didn't get polished and decides to come to a standstill on the viaduct while pulling passengers. In GALLANT OLD ENGINE, find out how Rheneas saves the railway and welcome him home when he finally comes back from the works. And in FISH, see what happens to Duck when he helps Henry with the Flying Kipper and ends up in a very fishy situation. The music video on this tape is "REALLY USEFUL ENGINE", a cute song about everyone's favorite #1 blue engine, Thomas. I'd recommend this Thomas video, you'll enjoy it. :)
More Thomas Videos
2004-06-22
This Thomas video had Henry pulling the Flying Kipper again but he didn't crash into a caboose like he did in the first one. Duck crashed into the back of the freight cars and got into a right pickle. Also I want to see Thomas Meets The Queen.
Illinois Parents of train crazed kids read this....
2003-11-22
Our son started watching the Thomas series of videos when he was about 2 years old. He still enjoys them at 6 years. Our daughter also enjoys them. They are positive and upbeat. Here's a brief explanation of how a story is told. Each train has a unique name, personality, face, and train style, not all of which appear in every video. These trains talk to each other and go on various adventures through the English countryside. There is Thomas, Gordon, Percy, Henry, Cranky the Crane, the Troublesome Trucks, Annie, Clarable, etc. An episode may feature one train rescuing another in need of assistance, for example. Also these trains resolve conflicts so there are messages behind many of the stories. Also at many toy stores you can find "Thomas" books and wooden toy trains/tracks which our kids love too. The Thomas series started with a series of books written by a Rev Awdry in England (UK). Another good series of kids train videos is "I Love Toy Trains" series which depicts toy electric model trains, mainly the Lionel "O" guage trains. (I had no idea what a Lionel O guage train was before my son started getting into trains either). Both series have upbeat music and are fun to watch and highly recommended and we have not had one bad experience with any of them. Our son has developed a very impressive train vocabulary such as "roundhouse" and "Gondola car". Also as a side note, a real train painted just like Thomas comes once a year to various locations throughout the US...we live in Chicagoland and there Thomas stops by the Illinois Railroad Museum in Union Illinois in the summer....warning it is crowded and sometimes traffic flow is an issue when Thomas comes so arrive early....we also go a few times a year when Thomas is not there just to ride the trains in a more relaxing environment. http://www.irm.org. Also, the DuPage County FairGrounds has a monthly toy train show called the "Great Midwest Train Show". http://www.greatmidwesttrainshow.com. That features 4 pole barn buildings of toy trains for sale, mostly "HO" guage, and is geared to the die hard hobbyist, but includes a few train layouts that the kids love to watch....bring a step stool so your arm doesn't get tired holding up the kid because sometimes the displays are on tables too tall for a kid to see. Also, our kids just love taking a train ride to Chicago and back on the Metra on the weekends...weekend pass costs $5 and kids under a certain age are free. Also if you are bewildered by train guage terminology it goes from largest to smallest: G, O, HO, and Z or N (may have Z and N switched around). G is the Garden trains which can be left outside in the Garden, if you are going to get your kid a toy train, these are best to start with, because they are easier to put on the tracks and more durable if the kid drops the train. O is what Lionel runs on, that's the train your grandpa had when he was a kid. HO is the most popular for the Hobbyist. Z and N are used when the Hobbyist doesn't have a lot of room to build his layout. There are also Lego trains now too believe it or not. There you go, 4 years of train experience in 1,000 words or less!
Welcome home Rhenas
2003-10-17
We all know that Rhenas had gone to the works to be mended and we had seen some little performances by him but we really didn't know him. In this tape he finally comes home. And if any true Thomas fans remember when Henry got stuck in the tunnel (First Tape) then Henry and the Elephant is the right episode for you. Also by Henry another Flying Kipper episode. Both these sequel episodes are good but they don't match the real ones. Alsp a flashback from the time of Stuart and Falcon unearths a little more from the past of Duke. Overall the episodes on this tape are really good and this is a good buy.
The episodes on this video are Henry and the Elephant,You Can't Win, Special Attraction,Passengers and Polish, The Gallant Old Engine, Fish, and the crummy music video Really Useful Engine
The Gallant Old Engine
2003-02-07
This is second my favorite from the set. Watch Henry get sprayed by a elephant, see Duke show Stuart that he is still healthy, watch Bullstrode the Barge get filled with cars, watch Duncan complain that he is over worked, listen to Skarloey as he tells a story about Rheneas, and Duck has an accident with some fish. Hope you enjoy this story!
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