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First Class Trains, Or How I Learnt To Love Thomas

Advantages: Likeable little characters, Simple stories
Disadvantages: Only really appeals to children 6 and under...

...cordial neat, and to watch Thomas the Tank Engine videos. His state-of-the-art tricycle stood ignored on the patio. An imposing mound of Fisher Price plastic rested aimlessly in his playroom. Cars, trucks, and remote-controlled tractors were arranged in unfathomably untouched rows. But those Thomas videos were on almost constant rotation. Consequently, babysitting little Charlie became, for me at least, an exercise in abject tedium. The perpetual ...
...throes of an irreversible, full-blown, Thomas fixation. The real damage, I suspect, was done on his first birthday, when his grandparents gave him a little Ride-on Thomas train. A year later, Ride-on Thomas is routinely kissed and fondled, and at less considerate moments, jammed into the fireplace or deliberately crashed into soft furnishing. I've looked on with a heavy heart as books, bath-toys and a train set were added to a steadily growing Thomas ...

snowbunni 18.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Brave Little Engines (DVD)

Thomas on track?

Advantages: Hours of fun.
Disadvantages: Difficult to watch what you want to!

...Thomas and his friends star in the first of five DVD`s,comprising of 26 episodes all previously shown on T.V but put together for one compilation. Thomas and his friends (introducing Gordon, Henry, Edward, James, Percy and many more) live and work on the island of Sodor, surrounded by sea it boasts a timber yard, flour mill ,coal mine and of course the docks!. Over 2 hours of adventures will have the children entertained (and many adults!). Find ...
...1/ Thomas and Gordon - Thinking he is the most useful engine but undoubtebly being the cheekiest Thomas`s teasing of Gordon comes back to haunt him! 2/ Edward and Gordon - Edward goes out for the day and pulls coaches much to the annoyance of the bigger engines, but Edward proves his worth when he pushes Gordon up the hill. 3/ The Sad story of Henry - Its been raining so as not to spoil his smart green paint he hides in a tunnel and wont come out!. ...

dazmufc 20.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Classic Collection - Series 1 (DVD)

choo choo!

Advantages: keeps them quiet while you make dinner!
Disadvantages: they will want ALL the merchandise!

if this was my 2year old writing the review then it would get an excellent. he loves it. as soon as he comes down in the morning he says choo choo dvd. of course i dont let him watch it first thing in the morning! the dvd has a good selection of episodes though im sure they used to last longer. they almost seem cut short to make more stories out of each episode if you know what i mean. I also found some are on the dvd in the wrong order. for example ...
...sent away you are wondering why Diesel hates Duck. then a few episodes along the line (no pun intended) you find out that Duck played a trick on Diesel and got the trucks to laugh at him. It wouldnt have taken much effort for them to get it in the right order! that wont effect your little ones im sure, but if its a rainy day and you are stuck watching it too it will bug you! each episode lasts 5 mins or so and the music starts to bug you too. but ...

helenwhitaker 26.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - The Very Best Of (DVD)

Chuffin' cheap!

Advantages: Cheap. Keeps the little one amused.
Disadvantages: I can't stand it!

...even think he'd heard of Thomas the Tank engine, but on a rare trip to Morrisons, the boy wonder suddenly became very excited, bellowing "Thomas tank! Thomas tank!" A quick look to where his chubby little paw was pointing showed a display of these DVD's at only £5, so being an indulgent Mummy, we took one home. Immediately we arrived home, I was informed that I should "Do Thomas tank now peeeeeeesssssss mummy. So, on went the DVD and myself and ...
...time I had ever watched Thomas the tank engine, so I didn't really know what to expect. The fogman is the very first of the stories and there are a further 7 stories to follow. The first thing that struck me was just how basic the animation is! The characters mouths don't move when they speak. The most they do is chug along a track and roll their eyes. The people are completely stationary and again don't move their mouths when speaking! (Wooden ...

zakksmum 28.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - The Fogman And Other Stories (DVD)

Good fun!

Advantages: Dialogue, cracking pace, excellent animation
Disadvantages: May not be suitable for children who are old enough to understand innuendo

...for adults as well and Ice Age 3 certainly delivered on that front. I've seen Ice Age2 on TV but not the first film and never in the cinema. On top of that this was a 3D show. The story essentially follows Manny, the mammoth, his heavily pregnant wife, Ellie and Diego, the sabre toothed tiger as they venture under the ice to a land where dinosaurs are not extinct. They do this to try and rescue Sid, who feeling unloved due to the impending arrival ...
...subsequently been carried off with his 'children' by their real mother. In dinosaur world they meet Buck, the weasel with the Sylvester Stallone eyepatch and knife, the British accent (Simon Pegg voices him) and the literary connections to Captain Ahab of Moby Dick (both have been left injured by 'the great white beast', both are unnaturally obsessed and slightly unhinged by it). As a sideline, Scratt is still seeking his acorn but this time there ...

mouche202 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (DVD)