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The 24th series was released in September 2020. The series was also the final series animated by Jam Filled Toronto, as well as the final series of the entire original television show. A second live-action animated Thomas & Friends film is in development at Mattel Films with Marc Forster serving as director. [38]
Thomas & Friends (formerly known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) is a children's media franchise created by Britt Allcroft and currently owned by Mattel.The franchise revolves around an ensemble cast of anthropomorphic steam locomotives and other vehicles, including the titular protagonist Thomas the Tank Engine, who work on the Island of Sodor.
The series focuses on the adventures of a younger version of Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends, including Percy, Nia, Kana, and Diesel. Throughout the episodes, they learn many life lessons and solve problems, while going around on their daily lives doing jobs, with help from each other and the other residents and visitors of the Island of Sodor.
Thomas the Tank Engine is an anthropomorphised fictional tank locomotive in the British Railway Series books by Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher, published from 1945.He became the most popular character in the series, and is the titular protagonist in the accompanying television series adaptation Thomas & Friends and its reboot Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go.
This was the only season to feature the mixing of live-action and animation; by the following year, the series had transitioned to full CGI. This was also the last season to utilize the live-action model animation of the show and animated by Nitrogen Studios before switching over to full CGI in 2009, starting with Hero of the Rails.
In Brazil, Thomas meets two wood-burning engines who've never travelled beyond their eucalyptus railway. Thomas agrees to swap jobs with them for the day, but this causes more trouble than he expects. His two new friends find that there is a reason why they are best suited to their short eucalyptus railway, they have a small fuel supply.
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends is a children's television series about the engines and other characters working on the railways of the Island of Sodor, and is based on The Railway Series books written by the Reverend W. Awdry. This article lists and details episodes from the first series of the show, which was originally broadcast in 1984.
Jam Filled Entertainment is a Canadian animation studio based in Ottawa, Ontario (with additional facilities in Toronto and Halifax), and a division of Boat Rocker Media.The company is best known for animating Thomas & Friends (starting with season 17) and Nicktoons (such as The Loud House and its spinoff The Casagrandes).