Thomas & Friends

A famous artist comes to the island to paint a picture called “The Spirit of Sodor”. The Fat Controller gives Percy the job of showing the Artist something special enough to paint.

Thomas becomes transfixed on finding the end of the rainbow after Edward tells him something magical will be there. He chases the rainbow across the island and is so distracted that he hits a telegraph pole and comes off the tracks! Luckily Percy puffs off to find help and Thomas finds that there was something magical at the end after all – his friends!

It’s the day of the Sodor Summer Party, Thomas is sent to collect milk and butter. On his return, Thomas goes too fast and turns the milk half-way to butter. Thomas puffs back to the dairy to collect more milk, this time very slowly. By now, Thomas is late for his second job, but has an idea... by puffing fast with the half-churned butter, he makes enough butter for all the cakes!

A new engine arrives on the island - an engine with two boilers! Mr. Percival assigns Mighty Mac the special job of taking holidaymakers up to a mountain campground. Mighty and Mac squabble about which way to go, until they become confused and accidentally crash into the rocks, causing a rockslide. Blocked in, they discover the way out by working together.

Molly is a new engine on the island. She feels useless when she is given the job of taking empty trucks back to the coaling plant. She wants to takes full trucks like a Really Useful Engine. But there are engines waiting to start work - with no trucks! Thomas must find Molly urgently! Molly and the other engines learn that sometimes empty trucks can be important too.

Gordon decides that the other engines need to show him some respect. When Emily refuses to give him a "toot toot", Gordon is so cross that he misses a stop signal and ploughs into a goods train of sticky jam! With Gordon at the fitters yard, the other engines have to do Gordon's work. They find this is a lot harder than they thought and realise that they miss Gordon after all!