1 | * ActorAllusion: [[Creator/MaraWilson Lily]] mentions that she has an aunt named {{Film/Matilda}}. |
2 | * CreatorsFavorite: [=ToonGuy=] states in his [=FAQ=] that his favorite characters to write are Gordon and James. |
3 | * ScheduleSlip: TUGS Abridged hasn't been updated since 2016. [=ToonGuy=] has said this is due to the series being harder to write than Thomas Abridged. |
4 | ** No episodes have been released since 2019, the most recent being “Percy’s Big Mistake”, leaving Season 8 unfinished. |
5 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: Thomas and the Magic Railroad had quite a few ideas dropped. |
6 | ** Originally Inspector Norris was going to die instead of [[spoiler: Percy’ Driver (Alec Baldwin)]] however due to the introduction of the Norris Clan, [=ToonGuy=] felt the death wouldn't be meaningful. |
7 | *** Had this happened, Carlin would have stayed at Shining Time Station, except possibly coming back around Season 12 to die [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim as that was around the time the real George Carlin died]]. |
8 | ** ‘Arry and Bert were originally going to get hit in the head by Boulder giving them a personality change like Percy. However [=ToonGuy=] felt this punishment wasn’t good enough. |
9 | ** Another idea was for Splatter and Dodge to go under a witness protection program and become ‘Arry and Bert however that also fell through due to being to confusing. |
10 | ** Originally Duck was going to show the engines a video of his briefing instead of having a flashback. |
11 | ** Originally D199 was going to be a recurring villain in seasons 4 and 5. |
12 | ** Ivo Hugh was going to have a bigger role in Season 5, however that went out the window when [=ToonGuy=] realized there were only a few episodes with the narrow gauge engines. |
13 | ** Donald, Douglas,and Butch's battle against Arry, Bert, and George wasn't going to happen, it was originally going to end with Douglas' line about getting Duck down. However [=ToonGuy=] decided he wanted to give the twins something to do before the big battle, Arry and Bert a moment in the sun, and expand on George and Butch's rivalry. |
14 | ** Truro’s reason for not having a face was originally different; |
15 | *** Originally the issue wasn’t going to be talked about at all. |
16 | *** However, [=ToonGuy=] then toyed with the idea of making it a disease, which would also explain why Butch didn't have a face in Horrid Lorry, but that also fell through. |
17 | ** The bit with Daisy at the end of Part 5 was almost cut. |
18 | ** A plot point [=ToonGuy=] thought about having was the original kids from Shining Time Station being kidnapped, but it was cut. |
19 | ** Early on [=ToonGuy=] considered making the movie a musical and would’ve adapted a few tracks from [[Music/JeffWaynesMusicalVersionofTheWaroftheWorlds Jeff Wayne’s “War of The Worlds”.]] |
20 | ** Edward was originally going to kill [[spoiler:'Arry]] instead of Bill and Ben. |
21 | ** [=ToonGuy=] was originally going to kill off [[spoiler:Ivo Hugh]]/Stunt Double during the battle of Sodor, however [=ToonGuy=] felt his death wouldn't be as emotionally effective due to the lack of character building [=ToonGuy=] had done with him. |
22 | ** Spiteful Brakevan and company were originally going to die early on in Thomas and The Magic Railroad, however [=ToonGuy=] felt having them go out in a semi-blaze of glory was cooler. |
23 | ** Had TUGS Abridged been finished by the time Thomas and Magic Railroad Abridged was written, there would have been a huge tie-in between the two explaining what happened to the Star Tugs and Z-Stacks and how Captain Zero survived to the present day. The Two Green Eyed Tugs in Magic Railroad Part 4 are remnants of this idea. |
24 | *** As of season 7 this idea has been revisited, albeit from Zero's perspective. |
25 | ** Smudger was originally going to be revealed to be the stunt double, this was cut as [=ToonGuy=] wanted Smudger to play a bigger role. |
26 | ** [[spoiler:Smudger's]] reveal as [[spoiler:Bertram]] was originally going to happen in Mind That Bike, but [=ToonGuy=] felt the episode was long enough already. |
27 | ** Originally The Fat Director was going to be revealed to be [[spoiler:Lowham Hatt]] in Season 13, however [=ToonGuy=] decided to do the reveal earlier to avoid making the mystery boring or not seem worth it in the end. |
28 | ** Had [=ToonGuy=] not used time travel in Paint Pots and Queens, amnesia would have been used instead. |
29 | ** A minor one, but originally It's Only Snow was going to be set around Christmas time so [=ToonGuy=] could move the series to 2003 to avoid continuity problems. Then [=ToonGuy=] discovered there were two more winter episodes in season 6 and the idea was scrapped. |
30 | ** Originally the ''Series/{{Top Gear|UK}}'' subplot in the Pack spin-off wasn't going to happen, however [=ToonGuy=] felt the Pack episodes were too weak on their own. |
31 | ** Originally there was only supposed to be one Juggernaut, that being [[spoiler:Albert/98462]], with [[spoiler:Cecil/87546]] being introduced later. However [=ToonGuy=] realized he had written the Juggernaut differently in two different stories so he decided to have it be that there were two Juggernauts instead of only one. |
32 | ** Originally the Fat Director was going to be the main villain after Thomas And The Magic Railroad, however [=ToonGuy=] felt that this would drag out the Fat Director's character too much so he switched it over to Captain Zero. |
33 | ** "In Which A Dinner Party Is Held" was originally going to be about "Comedy Night with Billy and Charlie" but it got scrapped due to [=ToonGuy=] being unable to come up with a satisfying ending for it. |
34 | * WordOfGod: [=ToonGuy=] has confirmed Thumper died in Thomas and The Magic Railroad, he just forgot to write that in. |
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