I think the TV adaptations were a bit too soft if you ask me. I think Oliver being severely reprimanded at the end of Resource and Sagacity, and Scruffy being scrapped in The RWS could really teach kids that your actions have consequences.
But in Break Van Dominic wasn't rebuilt after Douglas accidentally broke him. In the Flying Kipper Henry wasn't reprimanded by Sir Topham Hatt. Likewise James wasn't punished after his accident with the tar tankers in Dirty Objects - the Fat Controller found the incident amusing. It was also the trucks' fault Oliver crashed technically, right?
One little recently surfaced fact about Bulgy in the RWS...if you watch this one Japanese DVD that has a narration of the RWS story, you'll notice, due to the higher quality scan of the illustrations, Bulgy actually has a beard
I've especially wanted to mention that I personally had seen the episodes of Thomas and Friends that were obviously based on the stories from the book about a GWR 14xx 0-4-2 tank engine named Oliver on my fire stick! In fact, it's completely obviously clear that basically 1 of those exact same episodes is remarkably on my movie titled Thomas Gets Bumped that shows mostly season 3 episodes!
it probably would have been too expensive to produce but I would have loved to see the deluge of ballast and Oliver knock the turntable out of shape in the TV adaptation.
Wouldn’t it have made more sense to call this book “The little western”? Because after all only the 2nd and 3rd stories are about Oliver himself. He doesn’t even appear in the first story, and does appear in the last story but wasn’t really the main character.
The Rev. W. Awdry wanted to name this book Little Western Engines but the publishers insisted on having an engine's name in the title. In the foreword to his wife, Awdry joked that if Oliver started to get conceited, he would set the publishers onto him.
In the story Resource and Sagacity, the trucks did not keep changing order and the direction they faced as they pushed Oliver. These are two mistakes made in the adaptation. In the story version of Toad Stands By the engines tell the trucks to shut up. In the episode they just order them to be quiet which makes no sense, for in other Thomas episodes including Dirty Work and Edward's Exploit Duck had told the trucks and big engines to shut up.
Another difference is that before the ending Bulgy had to stay under the bridge until it was repaired, and he still continued to tell lies until passengers no longer wanted to travel in him which doesn't happen in the tv series.
Might be hard to do because, as TrainLover2009 has said, only two stories were adapted. I'm kind of hoping he will make one video that combines *Really Useful Engines* and *Toby, Trucks, and Trouble.* Two of the stories in the latter were combined to make the episode _Special Attraction._
@@gregkiteos1936 makes sense. I can see that happening. Imagine what it would be like if stop theif!, triple header, Mavis and the lorry, and Toby takes the road were adapted.
I'm great western, and- QUACK. QUACK. QUACK. What? Ye heard. QUACK, QUACK ye go. Syne ye an egg laid. Now wheest, and let an engine sleep. QUACK YOURSELF! >:/
@@evanclarke5561 That is a great point. It's very poetic that the only two brakevan characters (well, standard gauge ones) are connected to Douglas in some way, with the spiteful one causing so much trouble for him, and Toad becoming his trustworthy partner. Especially since Douglas' arc starts by him... killing a brakevan, and ends with him saving a brakevan's life. Douglas and Toad are a great duo.
@jacob cook that's what they did and you can tell Scruffey is just a repainted Series one truck since he looks just like the truck with the scratched eye in Oliver Owns Up
At least in the TV show, the twins remain black which suits them best to be different from the usual NWR colours and added and personally we like it that way so I agree.
@@sirwelcome Thankfully different colours are allowed on the NWR besides blue, green and red like brown, white and black overtime in the TV show with Toby, Harold, Donald and Douglas.
6:21, I would argue that, despite being Oliver’s brakevan, he allows other engines to use Toad when he is taking passengers or is away.
"or it could be that the windows of the sheds were painted blue"
"James didn't like that at all"
Had me laughing so hard xD
I love how, in the adaptation, the Fat Controller is all "there, there". Whereas in the source material, he just shouts at Oliver.
I love SC Ruffy’s face when that claw is about to grab his face XD
Same
Scruffy: HELP ME PLEAASEEEEEEE!!!
Everyone else: no
@@Zacman1123 same
Compared to the Television Series,he was not scrapped at all!
If the auto-coaches were introduced in the show, Isabel and Dulcie would probably be maroon to distinguish them from Alice and Mirabel.
Same colour as The Slip Coaches I bet.
Cursive names, too?
I would go with GWR chocolate & cream for Alice and Mirabel and have Isabelle and Dulcie be in BR blood and custard
@@NewController01 Aren't the red express coaches blood and custard?
@@ReeceWilliams-vu8sn in season 3, yes
“James didn’t like that at all”
I cannot stop laughing 😂😂
Maybe Toad makes occasional trains with Douglas sometimes on TV with Oliver’s permission
I think the TV adaptations were a bit too soft if you ask me. I think Oliver being severely reprimanded at the end of Resource and Sagacity, and Scruffy being scrapped in The RWS could really teach kids that your actions have consequences.
I'm also confused as to why Oliver's coaches weren't adapted for TV.
But in Break Van Dominic wasn't rebuilt after Douglas accidentally broke him. In the Flying Kipper Henry wasn't reprimanded by Sir Topham Hatt. Likewise James wasn't punished after his accident with the tar tankers in Dirty Objects - the Fat Controller found the incident amusing. It was also the trucks' fault Oliver crashed technically, right?
@@supermariof0521 Probably too expensive
@@evanclarke5561 Technically yes it was the trucks fault, but Oliver didn't help matters because he was conceited.
@@supermariof0521 yeah but who was he rude to
One little recently surfaced fact about Bulgy in the RWS...if you watch this one Japanese DVD that has a narration of the RWS story, you'll notice, due to the higher quality scan of the illustrations, Bulgy actually has a beard
I've especially wanted to mention that I personally had seen the episodes of Thomas and Friends that were obviously based on the stories from the book about a GWR 14xx 0-4-2 tank engine named Oliver on my fire stick! In fact, it's completely obviously clear that basically 1 of those exact same episodes is remarkably on my movie titled Thomas Gets Bumped that shows mostly season 3 episodes!
it probably would have been too expensive to produce but I would have loved to see the deluge of ballast and Oliver knock the turntable out of shape in the TV adaptation.
Except that the miniature gauge engines are too expensive to be made in model so CGI did it perfectly.
When I was a kid Bulgy pleading and groaning in pain as Duck crosses the bridge he was stuck underneath scared me...
Holy crap! I remember this channel! Took me forever to find, but your doing a good job!
Also, in _Toad Stands By_ Douglas takes Toad to Oliver.
IMPRESSIVE!!!!
I prefer Angelis' cover of "Pop Goes Old Ollie."
I agree!
Angelis
@@sirwelcome Wait, that's how you spell his name? Oh geez.
Both Angelis and Carlin
@@joelharris1335 No
Wouldn’t it have made more sense to call this book “The little western”? Because after all only the 2nd and 3rd stories are about Oliver himself. He doesn’t even appear in the first story, and does appear in the last story but wasn’t really the main character.
The Rev. W. Awdry wanted to name this book Little Western Engines but the publishers insisted on having an engine's name in the title. In the foreword to his wife, Awdry joked that if Oliver started to get conceited, he would set the publishers onto him.
24th book? I didn’t know that!
Does that mean The Scottish Twins told the Troublesome Trucks to shut up?!
Pop goes old Ollie
In the story Resource and Sagacity, the trucks did not keep changing order and the direction they faced as they pushed Oliver. These are two mistakes made in the adaptation.
In the story version of Toad Stands By the engines tell the trucks to shut up. In the episode they just order them to be quiet which makes no sense, for in other Thomas episodes including Dirty Work and Edward's Exploit Duck had told the trucks and big engines to shut up.
I think they stopped using the term "shut up!" after S3 because they thought it's too rude for children.
Another difference is that before the ending Bulgy had to stay under the bridge until it was repaired, and he still continued to tell lies until passengers no longer wanted to travel in him which doesn't happen in the tv series.
I wonder how Really Useful Engines would be like
What do you mean?
@@tre-engines I want to see how he'll do book #27
I mean there's fish and mind that bike to compare.
Might be hard to do because, as TrainLover2009 has said, only two stories were adapted. I'm kind of hoping he will make one video that combines *Really Useful Engines* and *Toby, Trucks, and Trouble.* Two of the stories in the latter were combined to make the episode _Special Attraction._
@@gregkiteos1936 makes sense. I can see that happening. Imagine what it would be like if stop theif!, triple header, Mavis and the lorry, and Toby takes the road were adapted.
7:30 I see Diesel 10’s claw, Pinchy.
😳
Good eye.
I'm great western, and-
QUACK. QUACK. QUACK.
What?
Ye heard. QUACK, QUACK ye go. Syne ye an egg laid. Now wheest, and let an engine sleep.
QUACK YOURSELF! >:/
when he orders us about with the greatest fallew we just push him down the whel pop goes old ollie
2:09 Also nae doot whose in yur behind
2:16 His other eye was sneezy
2:27 or a signalbox
- MagicLampStudios
olivers no use at all thinks hes very clever says that he can manage us thats the best joke ever
1:11 actually the thing on screen is a shed. On the far right the said station is already seen built
Story said "station" though.
@@Zacman1123 yea must have been a error
Error
TFC, who's your favorite UK narrator? Gotta say mine's Angelis, with my favorite from the RWS being Willie Rushton.
Scruffy is fixed in the tvs but in the rws he is scraped
Why would Toad want to become Douglas’s brake van?
A good question
Why not? He saved his life.
Douglas wanted a kind brakevan after smashing Dominic by accident in Break Van
@@evanclarke5561 That is a great point. It's very poetic that the only two brakevan characters (well, standard gauge ones) are connected to Douglas in some way, with the spiteful one causing so much trouble for him, and Toad becoming his trustworthy partner. Especially since Douglas' arc starts by him... killing a brakevan, and ends with him saving a brakevan's life.
Douglas and Toad are a great duo.
As for on TV, it feels like Oliver sometimes shares Toad with Duck and the Scottish-twins for some occasions.
Oliva
I think toad stands by was delayed to season 4 as the s.c ruffey was to hard and expensive to make.
Still by that logic they could've pushed all Oliver's first appearance episodes to Season 4.
@@evanclarke5561 You think?
@@DavidBContentExtravaganza3967 for sure
@jacob cook that's what they did and you can tell Scruffey is just a repainted Series one truck since he looks just like the truck with the scratched eye in Oliver Owns Up
I don’t know why Britt Allcroft chose to omit Isabel and Dulcie.
Presumably because they were irrelevant characters.
@@darkknight5541 most likely due to budgetary constraints
Toad pretty much fills the role they had and they would’ve been another Annie and Clarabel.
Little western engines
7:14 🤣
James didn't like that at all.
Do Duke The Lost Engine next
Lol
Where’s Duke The Lost Engine?!
Duke is the next book, just be patient…
@@red5_skywalker okay
Some of my favorite episodes from the show. Also, I still don't get why Awdry changed Donald and Douglas to blue. It's not a good color on them.
Because the primary colour on the NWR is blue. And it was to remind them of when they were painted Caledonian blue
@@sirwelcome meh
At least in the TV show, the twins remain black which suits them best to be different from the usual NWR colours and added and personally we like it that way so I agree.
@@sirwelcome Thankfully different colours are allowed on the NWR besides blue, green and red like brown, white and black overtime in the TV show with Toby, Harold, Donald and Douglas.
@@DavidBContentExtravaganza3967 I don’t care