There are actually people that believe Henry is the victim. You retards

>when normies say this is an example of how thomas the train is evil and fascist without even bothering to read the rest of the story where he gets let out

Nope.

It's based on a real life event.

>Evil and fascist.

Despite the fact that the Fat Controller (yes he was the chairman here but he was quickly a Controller) was called a Controller because he was in charge of the socialised British Rail North-West region.

My first issue with ‘Thomas and the Magic Railroad’ is its name – Sir Topham Hatt’s RailWAY is named as such because of its unavoidable connection to the greater British network of Railways, a fact referenced multiple times in the classic series as well as overtly when the Queen visited. Naming it Railroad immediately strips away an important facet of the property’s identity.
This leads into my broader criticism of the film, that being that they’ve completely Americanised an intrinsically British property – shocking when you consider that the original UK producers were still in creative control of what the finished movie was.
Thomas was, and should be a celebration of life on an English railway from days gone by. The references are everywhere – architecture, SIR Topham Hatt, the locomotives themselves, slang and lingo, Dukes and Duchesses. A film should be that as well, but instead the engines were given American accents, the cast was entirely American, and the plot is based around a US variety show that original viewers in the Commonwealth had absolutely no exposure to, leading to confusion and robbing the franchise of its heart. While Alec Baldwin was a welcome part of the film, the American Conductor he plays would have worked much better as a fish-out-of-water character as opposed to the fully acclimatised magician he was, leading to the next sweeping criticism of this absolute derailment of a film:

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the workings of railroads are completely lost on normies, especially americans
they just see choo choo trains

Magic – what was the precedent for this Britt Alcroft? Yes, despite the obvious oddity of anthropomorphised steam locomotives, there were very few references to magic in the original series, especially in the source material. The beating heart of Thomas was what the engines were – working class (and hardworking) components of Sir Topham Hatt’s (Or should I say The Fat Controller’s) railway. The show was about their mishaps and their work, the engines even went on strike in one episode. Magic completely confuses the tone of the material – surely you could have made a film about diesels taking over (a good premise for your story) without diverging into some magic dust, or whatever THE FUCK was going on there with Matilda and Peter Fonda. Britt, you’re no JK Rowling here.
And that’s the saddest part – Thomas and The Magic Railroad (Again, why?) came out in 2000, only a short time before the very, very British Harry Potter exploded onto the scene and left its cultural mark, that still resonates with Britaboos to this day. I strongly believe that a post ‘Harry Potter’ live action Thomas Movie would have been much prouder of what it is and could have become a much larger hit than the cultural oddity Railroad was, but unfortunately I doubt that will ever happen, least not for a long time.

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Which is ironic because the incident this is drawn from was on an american railway.

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It wasn't until the third book when Awdry decided that every story had to be based off of a real life event. "The Sad Story of Henry" is based off a poem which was put in the beginning of the story.

Britt Allcroft went crazy in the mid-90s and started calling all the trains "magic". That's what led to Magic Railroad.

>FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR

What the fuck was his problem?

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French

I'm pretty sure he only ever crashed the one time.

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He had good reason to hide
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The flying kipper itself is fucking CURSED!

What was wrong with the message that excessive vanity is wrong?

>Season 4
>Tail lamp falls, causing Duck to ram into the back , destroying about 2 vans loaded with fish.
>Season 5
>Slides into the ocean, because of a bad track on his line.

based Poester

"The signal was down sir, said Henry" said Henry.

But he's got an English accent

My mistake

Why even make the trains sentient? They just cause problems and still need a driver to operate them.

God works in mysterious ways.

I can't get enough of this.