Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery – The Movie (2008)

Thomas u0026 Friends: The Great Discovery – The Movie: Directed by Steve Asquith. With Pierce Brosnan. Thomas rediscovers the long lost original station which in it’s day was called Great Waterton and he also becomes jealous of a new tank engine called Stanley.

“Oh ho ho ho, before you ask why do you sound like Santa Iu0026#39;m doing that because this special, the second one released, was so damn fun to watch. And this is a special based on a kidu0026#39;s show…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo in this one Thomas finds the long lost town of Great Waterton and everyone tries to restore it to itu0026#39;s former glory. Then Stanley walks into his life and oh dear, Thomas starts thinking everyone likes Stanley more than him. So he runs off at nights but silly Thomas, he ends up falling inside a deep mine and goes missing.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf thereu0026#39;s one word to call this special then right from the get go, that would be…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFUN! u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThereu0026#39;s some really darn good moments here from the bridge collapsing to Thomas ending up in the mine. (You see that, Magic Railroad, ya see that? That is what you should have done instead of giving us a mopey looking Peter Fonda.) The story here is much better than Calling All Engines and BAH DA DA DAAAAAA, for the first and probably only time (unless HIT ever plans something like this again) we got a star narrator, in this case 007 himself Pierce Brosnan who does well with the material.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOh yes and putting the absolutely overblown WELCOME STANLEY! meme aside, Stanley was a fairly interesting character. Crying shame heu0026#39;s hardly seen if you ask me.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat a fun special this was and a perfect sendoff for the models. Sadly though even with the latest CG technology the specials kinda went downhill for a bit as weu0026#39;ll see next with Hero Of The Rails…”