Thomas & Friends

British children's television series

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2025 Campbell Bryer directs all episodes of Season 4 of Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go animated series.
2024 Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go won Best Preschool Series at the inaugural Collision Awards, marking a significant recognition for the rebooted animated series.
2024 Season 3 of Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go begins, with all episodes directed by Campbell Bryer.
2024 Thomas and Percy were given bubbles on their paintwork for 'Day Out with Thomas: The Bubble Tour'.
2024 Classic episodes of Thomas & Friends became available on the free streaming channel PBS Retro.
2024 Release of Thomas & Friends: The Christmas Letter Express
November 19 2024 Release of 'The Christmas Letter Express' special DVD.
July 23 2024 Release of DVD 'The Sights of Sodor' with 10 episodes from Season 2.
May 28 2024 Release of DVD 'It All Adds Up' with 10 episodes from Season 2.
February 27 2024 Announcement made that Series 3 would debut on Netflix in the United States.
February 6 2024 Release of DVD 'All Wheels on Track' with 8 episodes from Season 2.
2023 The second season of Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go continued to air, representing a new era for the long-running children's television franchise.
2023 Thomas and Percy were given splats of different paint colors for the 'Day Out with Thomas: Let's Get Colorful! Tour'.
2023 Release of Thomas & Friends: The Great Bubbly Build
2023 Discover Thomas & Friends Exhibition is relocated to the Thomas Land Shop near Winston's Whistle-Stop Tour.
November 14 2023 Release of DVD 'Off the Rails!' with 8 episodes from Season 2.
September 12 2023 Release of DVD 'Brand New Track' with 8 episodes from Season 2.
July 25 2023 Release of DVD 'Back on Track' with 8 episodes from Season 2.
April 29 2023 Thomas and Percy's Submarine Splash water ride is added, based on the All Engines Go episode.
April 4 2023 Release of 'The Mystery of Lookout Mountain' special DVD.
January 31 2023 Release of DVD 'Musical Fun!' with 8 episodes from Season 1.
2022 Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go entered its second season, featuring a new animated series format with reimagined characters and storytelling style.
2022 The additional narrow gauge replica at Edaville Railroad was retired.
2022 Release of Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go - The Mystery of Lookout Mountain
December 2022 Dialogue and visual script for the unreleased 'The Missing Coach' episode leaked on Twitter, along with scripts for three Railway Series stories: Percy's Promise, Gordon Goes Foreign, and Double Header.
October 11 2022 Mattel announces renewal of the series for a third and fourth season, with each season consisting of 26 episodes and a special.
September 6 2022 Release of DVD 'Special Delivery' with 8 episodes from Season 1.
August 2022 A Toby the Tram Engine replica was added to the lineup, modified and repainted from a DD20 diesel locomotive.
May 24 2022 Release of DVD 'Best Friends' with 8 episodes from Season 1.
March 8 2022 Release of 'Race for the Sodor Cup' special DVD.
February 14 2022 Release of 'Race for the Sodor Cup' special on DVD in the United Kingdom.
2021 The Thomas locomotive was repainted in his green L.B.S.C. livery, inspired by the 2015 direct-to-video special Thomas & Friends: The Adventure Begins.
2021 Release of Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go - Race for the Sodor Cup
December 31 2021 Thomas & Friends television series concluded its broadcast run alongside Shining Time Station
December 7 2021 Release of DVD 'Time for Teamwork!' featuring 8 episodes from Season 1.
November 8 2021 The series began airing on Channel 5's Milkshake! pre-school block in the UK, featuring British voice actors.
October 2021 Mattel Television announced pre-sales of the series to multiple international broadcasters, including Nick Jr. (UK pay-TV), TF1 (France), and WarnerMedia (MENA and Latin American regions).
October 29 2021 The series became available for streaming on Netflix in the United States.
September 18 2021 Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go premiered on Treehouse in Canada.
September 17 2021 First hour-long special 'Race for the Sodor Cup' was released theatrically in the UK to introduce the new series and its visual style.
September 13 2021 Premiere of new 2D-animated series Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go on Cartoon Network's Cartoonito preschool block.
August 31 2021 Mill Creek Entertainment and NCircle Entertainment's parent company Alliance Entertainment announced a US and Canadian distribution deal with Mattel for DVD rights to All Engines Go.
February 5 2021 The new Thomas & Friends series is officially announced, with executive producer Christopher Keenan emphasizing its design to appeal to contemporary audiences while maintaining the core brand ethos.
February 5 2021 Cartoon Network and Netflix jointly acquired the broadcast and streaming rights for the new Thomas & Friends series in the United States.
January 2021 Announcement of a new television series called Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, serving as a complete reboot of the original series that ran from 1984 to 2021, with an entirely new approach to content and animation style.
2020 A replica of Bulgy the double-decker bus was introduced, running alongside the existing Bertie bus replica.
2020 During the 75th anniversary press release, Mattel announced plans to develop more Thomas & Friends mobile apps.
2020 Streaming rights for Thomas & Friends were sold to Netflix.
2020 Series 24 commemorated the 75th anniversary of the original Thomas & Friends books with the special episode 'Thomas and the Royal Engine'.
2020 Three special episodes were produced: 'A New Arrival', 'World of Tomorrow', and 'Thomas and the Royal Engine', with the first two forming a movie called 'Marvelous Machinery'.

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