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	Thomas and the Magic Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas and the Magic Railroad was a movie made in 2000 based on the well known TV Series and its American spinoff.
		Among the criticisms were complaints of poor acting, bad direction and an incoherent plot, as well as complaints from fans of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends that the film was not true to the original stories and, despite the title, featured relatively little of Thomas.
		The Strasburg Railroad was used for shots of the full-sized Indian Valley railroad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_and_the_Magic_Railroad (1399 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Thomas and the Magic Railroad
		When a "Thomas, the Tank Engine" video is in the VCR, Christopher sits before the television entranced, gazing in rapt wonder at his hero, a plucky little train living in a candy-colored world.
		Thomas and his friends can be seen daily on Nickelodeon as part of the long-running show, "Shining Time Station," but Christopher prefers watching the "Thomas" videos; compilations of the train's five minute adventures from the TV series.
		For this adult, "Thomas and the Magic Railroad" was needlessly muddy and most of the human cast seemed superfluous.
	all-reviews.com /videos/thomas-and-magic.htm (930 words)

	Thomas and the Magic Railroad: Well Rounded Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thomas and the Magic Railroad has something to do with the search for a lost locomotive named Lady, and an evil diesel engine bent on her destruction.
		Lady is vital to holding the magical world of Sodor, inhabited by Thomas and his chatty train car friends, and the town of Shining Time together.
		Thomas and his friends are colorful and bright, and zoom about merrily.
	www.well-rounded.com /movies/reviews/thomas.html (537 words)

	'Thomas and the Magic Railroad': Little Trains That Could, and the Little Conductor
		Conductor in "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," which moves the PBS children's show "Shining Time Station" to the big screen.
		Thomas and his steam engine friends, who were introduced in "The Railway" series of books by the Rev. Wilber Vere Awdry, have to race against a mean diesel engine and his dumb cronies to prevent them from destroying the magical land in which they live.
		I suppose you could make a case for "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," that it is functioning as a metaphor for maintaining the innocence of childhood, which is just the thing parents will have the time to do during this extremely poky movie.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/072600magic-film-review.html (597 words)

	`Thomas and the Magic Railroad' Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles
		Very early in "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," Thomas the Tank Engine and another locomotive are having a conversation.
		Thomas and his fellow trains, even Evil Diesel, have kind of a jolly energy, and I like the landscapes and trees and hamlets.
		That "Thomas and the Magic Railroad" made it into theaters at all is something of a mystery.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20000726/ai_n13874842 (580 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Thomas and the Magic Railroad \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		Unfortunately for the makers of "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," that time is not now.
		It seems he's lost his "sparkle," the magical ability to travel between the Island of Sodor, the tiny toy world inhabited by Thomas and the other trains, and the scenic town of Shining Time, which he calls home.
		"Thomas and the Magic Railroad" is rated G, though it does feature scenes of mild violence and menace.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,130000055,00.html (464 words)

	Thomas and the Magic Railroad Page 2 - Movie Tome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We learn that Lady's face appears when she is approaching the Island of Sodor on the Magic Railroad.
		When Junior and Lily travel on the magic railroad, Junior spots a coal car off on a sidetrack...however during wide shots, there is only one track.
		When Thomas and Lily are on Muffle mountain, Lily runs away to find her grandpa, But when Thomas starts falling down the Mountain, look at his funnel and it looks like that he' s got a bit of fire above his funnel, It can only be seen for a second, Look closely!
	www.movietome.com /movietome/servlet/MoviePage2/movieid-14661/Thomas_and_the_Magic_Railroad (1444 words)

	Thomas and the Magic Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thomas the Tank Engine has always been magical for the preschool set: talking engines chugging along with expressions of contentment, amazement or anger frozen on their faces while a miniature Mr.
		The film goes beyond a little guy telling a tale to encompass a legendary lost steam engine, a devious diesel with designs to find and eliminate her and her powers, and the portals between the two lands.
		Overall, Thomas and the Magic Railroad is a pleasant way to spend the afternoon enjoying family time together.
	www.rambles.net /thomas_magicRR.html (542 words)

	THOMAS & THE MAGIC RAILROAD
		Thomas is the kind of film that they should show kids who have been really bad - mandatory Friday night viewing at juvie.
		Thomas is about a group of animated steam engine trains that find themselves under siege by a menacing diesel engine named Diesel 10.
		Thomas’ awful plot, Diesel 10 is searching for a special steamer named Lady that he plans to destroy in an attempt to end the magic and good times in a place called the Island of Sodor (it’s not even an island — please don’t ask).
	www.sick-boy.com /thomas.htm (597 words)

	Thomas And The Magic Railroad - Movie Review
		Conductor, a toy-sized train station attendant who zips between idyllic Shining Time Station in the real world and the magical Island of Sodor, where young Thomas the Tank Engine aspires to be "a really useful engine" when he's not being bullied by a mean, modern diesel with a snarling, gnashing clamp mounted on its top.
		Peter Fonda plays a glum grandpa and former railroad enthusiast who lost his spark for no adequately explored reason, and Mara Wilson ("Matilda") plays his granddaughter, who finds her way to the magic island of talking trains and helps save the day.
		Thomas and the Magic Railroad is fun, exciting, magical and has all the well
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/thomas (747 words)

	Thomas and the Magic Railroad
		Thomas and the Magic Railroad is not one of those movies.
		Thomas and the Magic Railroad randomly bursts into song a couple times, but the music is not memorable.
		Thomas and the Magic Railroad should only occupy the minds of the youngest children, causing groans with every other age group.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/thomas_and_the_magic_railroad.html (547 words)

	Thomas And The Magic Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thomas was due to be played by John Bellis, who was discovered by Allcroft and her team whilst on a location scouting on the Isle of Man. Ironically, Bellis works as a Fireman on the Isle of Man Steam Railway.
		Thomas takes her back to Muffle Mountain, where she speaks to her grandfather, and using special coal from Sodor, they manage to get Lady steaming again.
		Lady is the lost engine who runs on the Conductor's magic railroad, lost for many years following an incident with Diesel 10, where she ran out of coal and consequently, out of power to run on the Railway.
	melgarvewarrior.tripod.com /sodorisland/thomasandthemagicrr.html (3623 words)

	Amazon.ca: Thomas and the Magic Railroad (Full Screen): DVD: Alec Baldwin,Linda Ballantyne,Robert Black,Laura ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thomas, as anyone familiar with the eponymous, wildly popular TV series knows, is a very useful engine, and never more so than in his first theatrical release, which was a modest box-office success.
		The conductor's stash of magic gold dust has run out, leaving him stranded on the Island of Sodor with Junior, his flaky cousin, and Lily, a little girl enlisted to lift her grandfather out of a funk on nearby Muffle Mountain.
		Thomas fans 5 and under, meanwhile, will wish the actors wouldn't blow so much hot air; they'll want to see their hero a bigger part in steaming up the story line.
	www.amazon.ca /Thomas-Magic-Railroad-Full-Screen/dp/B00004XPPF (1712 words)

	SCREEN IT! ARTISTIC REVIEW: THOMAS AND THE MAGIC RAILROAD
		Perhaps it's because as viewers they're so small and the object of their attention is so big, or maybe it's some sort of Jungian collective unconsciousness engrained from the days when such machines were the only means of mass public transportation, but many kids have a steadfast fascination with trains.
		Now, Thomas and his friends are ready for the big time as they're headed to the big screen in "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," a full-length film that combines live action with miniature, model-based animation.
		With this film, Thomas and company get the big star treatment with the inclusion of notable actors Alec Baldwin and Peter Fonda, as well as a longer running time and a more complex and ultimately complicated story than was possible on the TV series.
	www.screenit.com /ourtake/2000/thomas_and_the_magic_railroad.html (1838 words)

	"Thomas and the Magic Railroad" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Magic exists as gold dust and reflections of light on wet streets.
		It also is centred around "magic" and "powers" which although I don't have a problem exposing my daughter to "pretend" magic and using our imaginations, the kind of magic in this film left me with an uneasy feeling in my stomach.
		"Thomas and the Magic Railroad" tries to replicate the charm of the original stories (and animated films) and succeeds at times, but overall, the story is weak and except for Alec Baldwin and the woman who plays Stacy Jones, the acting is awful (especially Peter Fonda's).
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2000/thomasandthemagicrailroad.html (963 words)

	Mara Wilson .net - Thomas and the Magic Railroad - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From July 26th, 2000 Thomas and the Magic Railroad was in theatres.
		Thomas and the Magic Railroad is a romantic comedy action adventure packed with thrills, spills, whistles and steam.
		Filming for Thomas and the Magic Railroad was definitly finished on around the 12th of April.
	www.marawilson.com /thomas.html (328 words)

	CNN.com - Britt Allcroft engineers magic in 'Thomas and the Magic Railroad' - July 28, 2000
		Magic means a lot to her, maybe nearly everything.
		She even put the word in the title of "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," a new film she wrote and directed.
		Thomas and his railway friends have always traveled in full motion on their scale-model tracks.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/28/thomas.train.ap (762 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Thomas and the Magic Railroad
		It's equally sad to see "Thomas the Tank's" creator, the late Reverend W Awdry, excised from the credits so that writer-producer-director Britt Allcroft, who can certainly be credited with bringing "Thomas" to television, hogs centre-screen.
		Completely lacking the intriguing characterisation, wonder and zip of a good animated film, "Thomas and the Magic Railroad" spells out its simple plot ad nauseam and is so stretched that even averagely bright kids will be offended by the repetition.
		In his attempts to squash the nasty diesel engine who is devoutly anti-steam, Mr Conductor is joined by his cousin (Michael E Rodgers), a jolly young lady (Mara Wilson) and her grandfather (Peter Fonda).
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/07/13/thomas_magic_railroad_review.shtml (529 words)

	'Thomas and the Magic Railroad'
		As soon as my 4-year-old saw the trailer for Thomas the Tank Engine's new movie, "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," there was to be no peace in the Hammonds household until he had a front-row seat for the opening.
		The plot involves Thomas and his friends on the Island of Sodor, the land of talking trains, being threatened by awful Diesel 10, a snappish, wise-cracking diesel engine who is bent on finding Lady, the secret train hidden away in Muffle Mountain.
		I thought that was an accomplishment for the movie makers, because Brent isn't a big fan of Thomas and had to be persuaded into seeing it at all.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20000726train.asp (461 words)

	Thomas and the Magic Railroad \| ajc.com
		For anyone over 6 or unindoctrinated in the immensely successful British TV series created by filmmaker Britt Allcroft in the early '80s, Thomas, the tale of a plucky Tank Engine who talks and rolls his eyes, will come off as, well, The Little Engine That Couldn't.
		Things start to go wrong when Thomas and his loquacious locomotive pals are threatened by a bully known as Diesel 10.
		Thomas and the Magic Railroad isn't a wreck, but you really don't want to be railroaded into seeing it, either, unless you've got no choice.
	www.ajc.com /movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/T/thomasandthemagicrailroad.html (443 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: THOMAS AND THE MAGIC RAILROAD
		THOMAS is a small steam engine who shows courage in helping the others.
		Thomas barely makes it across and Diesel 10 tries to stop, but then falls off the bridge (and lands in a barge traveling below him).
		That real railroad trains aren't toys or "friendly," and can be dangerous if approached on their tracks.
	www.screenit.com /movies/2000/thomas_and_the_magic_railroad.html (1116 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Thomas And The Magic Railroad (Alternate Opinion)
		Our review of Thomas And The Magic Railroad, published November 17th, 2000, is also available.
		The enchanting Island of Sodor is bustling with activity as Thomas and his friends steam to and fro, completing their tasks.
		The titular magic railroad (think of it as a kid-friendly wormhole) that connects the two worlds is losing energy.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/thomasandmagicrailroad.php (1749 words)

	Thomas and the Magic Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Plus, the magic seems to be fading on Sodor because a mysterious train has been lost for years.
		Positive Elements: Thomas is indeed "a very useful engine." He encourages other engines to be their best, even though heâs sometimes picked on because of his size.
		Magic holds together Shining Time and the Island of Sodor in the Conductorâs "special universe." The Conductor can talk with animals and has magic powers because of his gold dust.
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0000235.cfm (754 words)

	Thomas and the Magic Railroad - Hummie Mann
		W Awdry's much loved (even by me, in my yoof) books about trains really shouldn't be popular, but in the Uk are a perennial favourite with the pre-teen crowd.
		The Fat Controller evidently deemed not PC enough to be included is duly replaced by Mr Conductor (Alec Baldwin's film career perhaps not pitching as high as it might) who has lots of sparkling dust that makes trains go.
		Oh, and change it to Thomas and the Magic Railway or something - railroad not being perhaps a typically British phrase.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/thomasandthemagicrailroad.htm (647 words)

	Thomas and the Magic Railroad
		Unforscene is proud to release the soundtrack to Thomas and the Magic Railroad featuring the music and songs of Montréal-born, two-time Emmy Award winning composer Hummie Mann, who has worked on such prestigious films as Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Sleepless in Seattle, Sister Act, Jetsons: The Movie, and The Addams Family.
		Share with your child the memory that is evoked in "Through the Magic Buffers" or relive the unforgettable climax to Thomas' new story in "The Chase, The Clue & the Happy Ending".
		Thomas and the Magic Railroad promises to forge a new track for the cheeky little tank engine that has captured so many children's imaginations.
	www.unforscene.com /Tho.html (410 words)

	Mara Wilson .net - Thomas and the Magic Railroad - Review! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		All the reviews you are likely to read about Thomas and the Magic Railroad are very negative.
		A really horrible mistake was when Thomas went up the single tracks of the magic railroad, missed the coal truck and then reversed back to find it on the same track.
		When I see a model railroad and all the trains are going this way and that - it has huge magical appeal.
	www.marawilson.com /thomas_review.html (1117 words)

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