Thomas The Tank Engine : The Fogman and Other Stories

Starring: Michael Angelis, Ringo Starr Director: David Mitton Original UK Premiere: 2002 Dvd Release: 7th October, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Thomas the Tank Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic locomotive featured on the British childrens television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends & its American spinoff Shining Time Station & earlier in books by the Rev. W V Awdry. Thomas is a tank engine who lives at a big station of the Island of Sodor. Hes a cheeky little engine with 6 small wheels, a short stumpy funnel, a short stumpy boiler & a short stumpy dome. -Narrator Ringo Starr from the episode Thomas & Gordon. He is locomotive number 1 on the Sodor Railways. He is the star of the television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Thomas the tank engine first appeared in the 1940s, when stories about him were published in The Railway Series by Reverend W,V. Awdry. Now he is the most well known fictional locomotive in the world. Eddie Glen provided the voice of Thomas in the film Thomas & the Magic Railroad. // Thomas & Gordon was the first episode of the television series & features a cheeky tank engine known as Thomas. He teases Gordon the Big Engine for being too slow & lazy.

This is very popular with my 3 year old. Eight stories which I was pleased to find are all new model animations & good little tales - The Fogman, No sleep for Cranky, Saltys Secret, Harvey to the Rescue, A Bad Day for Harold the helicopter, Elizabeth the Vintage Lorry, Twin Trouble, Gordon takes a Tumble - & a song Winter Wonderland featuring the engines in the snow.

The select a story menu is on two pages & has pictures to make it easy to choose. Or you can play the whole sequence through if you need to leave the room. The eight stories are numbered - good practice for my son Though for some reason on the second menu you have to use the arrow keys on the key pad rather than numbers 5 to 8 to select the story. But it doesnt matter. Extras are a quiz & character profiles - wordy descriptions for older children.

What is especially good about the DVD is that you can choose the story & find it easily. The picture quality is excellent too. Highly recommended.

Richard Starkey, MBE, known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is a popular British musician, best known as drummer for The Beatles. Ringo is known for his reliable, steady drumming & innovative fills. His everyman personality made him an easy fit with the other Beatles. He was the oldest member of the band & the last one to join the now familiar Fab Four lineup. Starr married Maureen Cox in 1965 & they had three children, Zak, Jason & Lee. The couple divorced in 1975 ; & in 1981 Starr married actress Barbara Bach, most famous for her role as Major Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. // Starrs parents split up when he was young; & his mother re-married. He was raised in the working class Dingle area of Liverpool. He went through two serious illnesses as a child & spent a total of three years in hospital, thereby falling considerably behind in school; after his last visit to the hospital, at age 15, he could barely read & write. Like the other Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney & George Harrison, young Ritchie also eventually became caught up in Liverpools Skiffle craze. Posters Of Ringo Starr

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