The other five episodes that were not broadcast for TV are The Refreshment Lady's Tea Shop, Bad Day at Castle Loch, Snow Engine, The Runaway Elephant and The Grand Opening, as they are the only episodes of the series to not have a known UK version with the new music.Ĭonversely, there are only seven episodes of the series known to have a US version with the original music. However, they have all been released on home video in the US. This continued in late 2005 with the ninth series, but this time, only six episodes from the sixth series were used for the airings, thus six episodes from the seventh series were not, one of which was "Rheneas and the Roller Coaster". Additionally, the UK version of Rheneas and the Roller Coaster with the new music was released on Bumper Party Collection! in May 2005. As there were thirteen of these airings, thirteen episodes of the seventh series were recomposed by Robert Hartshorne for these airings. in the UK and PBS Kids in the US, a seventh series episode that is thematically similar to the two eighth series episodes in the airing would be shown between them. When the eighth series first aired in 2004 on Nick Jr. Both of them were joined by Robert Gauld-Galliers, who shared the same interest.
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Peter Sam felt out of character, and the story just didn't suit him at all. Having gone over this episode, I can say that I don't like it that much. And how would believing in magic help you go far? I'm reminded of a quote from Zootopia by Chief Bogo - " Life isn’t some cartoon musical where you sing a little song and your insipid dreams magically come true. I'm surprised that nobody brings that up. Like Thomas and Skarloey's Big Day Out, we got a season four model making an appearance - it's Peter Sam's old model when we see him and Harold in the same shot. Of course, like Thomas and the Birthday Picnic above, it does have the three-strikes formula in play here. Surprisingly, Skarloey is close to his true persona here. Why would Peter Sam scoff at a story? Isn't he supposed to be optimistic? Getting back to my previous point, Sir Handel would've fit that role better since he's a more cynical character. Considering they used Rheneas' model for Smudger in Granpuff (and the fact that they both appeared in same episode, not in the same scene, obviously), why couldn't they have done the same for both Sir Handel and Proteus?Īnd that's where my mixed feelings for this episode continue. He appeared for about five seconds and (other than the form of a statue in season 12) that was it. Yes, he is Sir Handel in a yellow coat of paint and with a different face. I'll take a look at what's going on and go from there.įirst, there's Proteus.