Revealing mistake: In a close up of Stepney at the beginning, his lamp iron has a burn mark.
EllenEncore
28th Oct 2024
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
28th Oct 2024
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Visible crew/equipment: The reflection of a crew member's face is visible in the window of Edward's cab when his driver cheers him on.
Suggested correction: That's not a reflection of a crew member's face at all. It's just the reflection of the perpendicular wall.
28th Oct 2024
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Wrong Road - S2-E22
Revealing mistake: Wires to power the lamps are very visible on Gordon's and Edward's buffers, and bulbs are also sticking out from both their lamps.
27th Oct 2024
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Trivia: The map of Duke's Railway is actually a map of railways on the Isle of Wight, flipped upside down. The line in particular which the Portly Man points out, is the Isle of Wight Central Railway.
23rd Oct 2024
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Revealing mistake: Duck's footplate clips through the platform at Knapford at the beginning.
22nd Oct 2024
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Other mistake: In the distant shot of Vicarstown, the station is missing its letters.
21st Oct 2024
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Visible crew/equipment: A crew member is visible on the left side of the screen when Skarloey notices the hot air balloon is about to crash.
5th Mar 2021
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Saved You! - S12-E10
Continuity mistake: After he is rescued by Thomas, Toby's face changes size between shots.
22nd Oct 2024
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Revealing mistake: Before James collides with the tar tankers, he is already covered in tar before he actually hits them.
22nd Oct 2024
The Bad Guys
Other mistake: The Serpent and the Beast: In the first panel of page 55, Delores's eyepatch is left uncoloured.
14th Dec 2015
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Thomas and the Billboard - S12-E1
Visible crew/equipment: At the very start of the episode, a stage light is reflected off Gordon's coaches.
20th Oct 2024
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Snow Engine - S7-E14
Other mistake: Before Oliver crashes, no-one appears to be inside his cab in a shot of him passing a crossing.
14th Dec 2015
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Deliberate mistake: When Thomas goes by the level crossing, a close up of Thomas is shown but it's the same footage from season 1, only flipped. Because of this, Thomas' number is mirrored.
14th Dec 2015
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Visible crew/equipment: When the banner hits Gordon, in the next shot, a scaffold is very visible in the trees on the right. (Visible in Wide screen version only).
5th Aug 2024
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Thomas and the Runaway Car - S11-E17
Visible crew/equipment: When the flatbed rolls away from Thomas, you can see a finger of a crew member in the bottom corner.
18th Jul 2024
Sing 2 (2021)
Continuity mistake: Towards the end, before his arrest, Mr. Crystal's fur is messy; it goes back to being clean less than 2 minutes later when he steps on stage.
30th Apr 2021
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Santa's Little Engine - S17-E18
Revealing mistake: At one point, the shading effect on Thomas' whistle is not rendered properly, so it appears silver instead of gold.
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