Weekend Special: Hero of the Rails Movie Overview

Air Date: September 8th, 2009

Writer(s): Sharon Miller
Director(s): Greg Tiernan
Producer(s): Nicole Stinn 

 

Summary

It was summer on the Island of Sodor and Thomas was taking on water and a silver engine passed all the others. Then at Knapford Station the engine's wondered who it was. They soon discovered that Spencer was staying for the Summer to help build the Duke and Duchess summer house. For the rest of the day Spencer teased the engine's about what they couldn't do. That night the engine's discussed how bad Spencer was.

The next morning Spencer told Thomas he couldn't pull heavy load's. So Thomas agreed to a race with a heavy load the next morning. Soon it was morning and Edward sent the two engine's of on there race. Thomas had a hard time getting started, but he made it over the hill and his brakes broke. Thomas raced down the hill and crashed in to cars off an old siding and stopped. Then he discovered an old engine named Hero who was the first engine on Sodor. Thomas decided to help restore Hero because his part's never arrived.

The next day Thomas hurried to finish his job's, then he took a old cylinder from the Steam Works for Hero. The next day Thomas was worried, and Percy asked him what was wrong. Then Percy learned about Hero and took Thomas' load for him while he went to see Hero. Once Thomas was finished he discovered that Percy never took the part's because his gear broke, so Thomas took Percy to the Steam Works. The next day Percy was fixed and Sir Topham Hatt came, still cross about the missing mail car's. After that Thomas took Percy to meet Hero for the first time. Then they went home. The next day Thomas and Percy went to look for Percy's mail cars. They started at the quarry. Spencer was there, so Mavis proudly took him under the rock loader, and Spencer was soon covered in dust.

When Thomas and Percy were at the water tower, Spencer came by shunted by Edward and Henry to the Steam Works. His funnel was blocked with rocks and dust from the quarry. Thomas and Percy could now visit Hiro without worrying about Spencer trying to find them. While Spencer was being fixed Thomas and his friends still delivered part's to Hiro. Once Spencer was fixed he tried to find clues to what Thomas and the engine's were up to. Spencer soon found Percy's mail car's on a siding and Thomas, James and Toby chased him back to Knapford station.

Once there Thomas went back to help Hiro, and Spencer followed soon finding Hiro's hiding place. Hiro and Thomas raced away from Spencer, but Hiro soon broke down again. Thomas then found a new hiding place for Hiro. For the next few day's Thomas and Spencer worked on the summer house, and the other engine's took turns guarding Hiro in his new hiding place.

When the summer house was finished, Thomas told Sir Topham Hatt about Hiro and he said Hiro would be fixed at the Steam Work's. A few day's latter the engine's were waiting at the Steam Work's to see Hiro, he was now restored and was the master of the railway once more. Then Hiro and Rockey went to rescue Spencer who had fallen in the bridge. Then all three engine's finished the summer house. The next day Hiro went home to his Island to see his friend's. The End.

Characters Seen in Film

Thomas

Edward

Henry 

Gordon 

James

Percy

Toby 

Emily

Spencer

Hiro

Victor

Mavis Rockey 

Kevin

Sir Topham Hatt

The Duke and Duchess of Boxford 

Disney Planes: Fire & Rescue Review

Warning! Contains Spoillers 

 Summary

Dusty Crophopper was training for his next race with Skipper when something failed. He was brought back to the shed where Dotty informed him that his gear box was broken, and he couldn't race any more. That night there was a party, and everyone was having a good time, but Dusty went out to try and fly again, he crashed in to the tower and started a fire. The Propwash Junction fire engine was old, so after he failed they all pulled down the Water Tower to put out the fire.

In the morning the inspector wasn't happy, he said that they had to cancel the race because there wasn't enough fire safety, so Dusty decided to join the fire team. He meat Blade Ranger and the rest of the fire crew at Piston Peak national Park. Soon after Dusty arrived there was a call for a small fire. It was soon put out, and everyone was back at the base.

After that Dusty started training with Blade Ranger, the chief helicopter. Once done his first round of training, Dusy talks to Chug, Dottie and Skipper about what's happening. They said that they found his gear box, and that it would be mailed soon. Once done talking Dusty went outside to meet the owner of the lodge. Then in the evening they all watched an episode of a series called "Chops", which was about rescue helicopter's in the city.

Once finished there was a small fire, which was quickly taken care of. That night everyone went to the lodge and had a campfire. The next morning Dusty talked to Chug again, and he had bad news, there was no gear box for Dusty anyway. After that there was a big fire announcement, so they all went out. The fire was headed for the lodge, and everyone had to evacuate. Meanwhile Blade Ranger and Dusty were stuck in a mine waiting for the fire to burn over because of Dusty's broken gearbox.
Once the fire burned over, Dusty and Blade Ranger came out of the mine, but Blade Ranger broke down and was taken base to base to be repaired by Maru. Then once Blade Ranger was fixed the rest of the crew went to clear the entrance to the lodge, which was on fire. After that Harvey and Winnie, to camper's, were on a bridge, so Dusty and Blade Ranger saved them.

When they where done Dusty's gear box finally broke, so Windlifter took him back to base where Maru repaired him. A week later Dusty and his gear box was fixed. Once done Dusty was ready for firefighting, and the corn festival was back on. Everyone had a show and then the ending credits rolled.

Characters

Dusty Crophopper

Dipper

Blade Ranger

Windlifter

Smkoejumpers

Harvey & Winnie

The Secretary of the Interior 

Nick "Loopin" Lopez

Cabbie

Cad Spinner

Maru

Pulaski

Ol' Jammer

Ryker

Mayfair

My Own Thoughts

This movie was one of the worst Disney production's I've seen in a long time. The size's of the plane's kept changing from small to big, and the movie was over all not a kid's movie at all. It's really violent for younger children. There was good comedy like any other Disney movie, and I really wouldn't  recommend going to see this one. 

Thomas DVD Guys Rating: 1/5

TWRC: Keekre24 Upload's Big City Rumor

Big City Rumor is the fifth episode in the eleventh series by ThomasWoodenRailway(Keekre24). It's about how Paxton wants to go to the big city, so he asked Sir Topham Hatt and he said yes. Then when he(Paxton) was away, all the other engine's got confused and thought he was sent away for good, and made up some other false stories as well.



After the confusion was sorted out at Tidmouth Shed's by Thomas, Duck and Gordon were puzzled at who the replacement engine was before going back to the shed's to get some sleep.

Tale of the Brave Back Cover and Bonus Features Revealed

The back cover of the Tale of the Brave DVD was revealed on Amazon.com. It shows Thomas and Gator on a bridge.

Since the DVD cover is revealed the bonus feature's for the U.S disc are also revealed, and they are: "Let's Be Brave" Sing-Along Music Video, "Monster's Everywhere"Sing-Along Music Video, and Guess Who? puzzles.

Four new Wooden Railway Book Packs

Jlouvier has posted four new Thomas Wooden Railway book pack's on his Twitter page. They are James Snort's It Out, Logan and the Big Blue Engine, Thomas' Birthday Surprise and Percy & the Little Goat. These may be based off of new season 18 episode title's, but that isn't conformed.

Thanks to Jlouvier for the Alert

New Season 17 DVD, Engines to the Rescue

A new image released on Twitter by Seam Team, show's a WalMart exclusive two pack featuring Tale of the Brave, and Engines to the Rescue. Fan's think that the last few episode's of season 17 will be shown on this DVD, but it isn't confirmed.

This two Pack hit's U.S. DVD Shelves on September 9th, 2014

Thanks to Steam Team for the Alert

Official Thomas Wooden Railway Site Backed Up?

Today I saw the coming soon page for the official website of Thomas Wooden Railway. They made two modification's. First they reversed the position of the sign up button, and they changed "Coming Summer 2014" to "Coming Soon", possibly indicating that the website won't be available until this Fall.

                                                            Old Coming Soon Screen

TWR Website Coming Soon Page