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This DVD forces you to watch boatloads of commercials. It will not allow you to skip or even fast forward through them.
The DVD has a terrible amount of advertising that you're forced to watch before you can see any of the Thomas stories. Other DVDs are programmed so you can jump straight to the menu and skip the advertising. It's advertising other Thomas products, so it's actually interesting the first time through. But you'll be forced to watch the advertising EVERY time you play this. Not this one.Once you run the advertising gauntlet and earn the right to watch videos, they're excellent as always. But given that all the Thomas collections are excellent, you should buy something other than this one.
When the trains are getting prepared to meet the Queen, then the really shine.This video is full of great lessons and very well done graphics. It's just very nice how the engines work together, work out their problems together, and support each other along the way. This is one of the nicest Thomas videos out there, in our opinion. This is actually one of our favorites and it gets watched in our house quite often. It's particularly interesting when they show the breakdown train getting James out of the mud and onto the track again after those bad freight cars shove him off the track. They get taught a lesson in this video and it's quite nice. My little one just loves it. Great video and a great price.
Here is Best of Thomas. I had to give this one 4 stars because of the numurous amount of Thomas stories that could have been on here and weren't. Anyway, this is a great video to buy because it does have some great Thomas moments. Let me start by saying that they didn't put one of the greatest stories of all time on here, Thomas Comes To Breakfast. And that wrapps up my review for Best of Thomas, hope it was helpful for you. That one was a perfect Thomas episode. Now the stories on here are good but there were alot more out there that should've been one this video. A part 2 of Best of Thomas might be needed.
Other ones that should have been on here include Thomas Gets Tricked, Trust Thomas, Thomas and Bertie's Great Race, Thomas Goes Fishing, Double Trouble, Better Late Than Ever, The Runaway, I could go on for ever but I'm sure you get my point. Thomas & Stepney and A New Friend For Thomas should not have been on here because Thomas is not the main character in both of these even though the title might have his name in it. Here are the stories: Thomas Gets Bumped, A New Friend For Thomas, Thomas Percy and the dragon, Thomas Saves The Day, Trouble For Thomas, Thomas & Stepney, A Big Day For Thomas, Thomas Meets The Queen, and the music video "Really Useful Engine". :)
Thomas was barely in both of them. Thomas's first ever episode Thomas gets Tricked wasn't even in it. Let me start of by saying that viewer selected doesn't mean they have to be great. Thomas meets the Queen didn't excalty focus on Thomas. I thought Better Late than Never, Thomas comes to Breakfast, Thomas Breaks the Rules, and Thomas and Bertie's Great Race were far better than some of these like Thomas and Stepney or a New Friend for Thomas. Were they really that good. Are these viewers really stupid becasue these epiodes weren't great. And I really think they shoulda kept the Ringo Starr narrations.
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