![]() ![]() Thomas meets a jet plane named Jeremy and gets jealous about what he does. ( Note: ² means that an episode was only released on HiT Favorites in the US). ( Note: ¹ means that Michael Brandon's narration of an episode has yet to be released on home media). Some of the buildings included Neptune Refreshments, the Antiques and Newsagents shop, a cottage, Cyril's Cottage and Dryaw Goods Station from the third series. Some buildings that were built in the fourth series were remade during production of this series. It was used for the long shots alongside Thomas' gauge 1 model because the large scale Skarloey model would have been severely out of scale. In the episode Thomas and Skarloey's Big Day Out, Skarloey's small scale model was used again for the first time since the fifth series (excluding stock footage appearances in the seventh series). This series also marks the final appearances of Edward and James' plastic models, which were both retired completely after the episode, James the Second Best. However, James' original plastic tender was not repainted, oddly enough, it was the new brass tender. In one particular episode, The Green Controller, James' original plastic model was repainted into the black and yellow bee livery, likely because the production team did not want to ruin the new brass model after it had just been built. The way the crash in that episode unfolded could have caused the old repair to fail. This may be due to the plastic model having a previously loose middle left drive wheel which is visible in promotional photographs and some scenes of the episode Henry and the Wishing Tree. From this point onwards the plastic models would only appear in scenes that would damage the brass models, with the exception of the episode, Big Strong Henry, where one of Henry's brass models was used for the crash instead of his plastic model. The new models were made out of brass and equipped with CNC machined aluminium chassis powered by DC motors. This was due to their original plastic models being twenty-two years old at this point and tight filming schedules meant there was very little room for emergency repairs. Edward, Henry, Gordon, James and Percy had fully brass replicas made during this series' production. ![]()
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