Thomas (AEG)

"Here comes Thomas!"

- Thomas' catchphrase Thomas is a blue tank engine who lives and works on the Island of Sodor.

Biography
Thomas is a blue tank engine that lives on Sodor with his friends. His best friends are Percy, Diesel, Nia and Kana; the five share a roundhouse together called Tidmouth Sheds. He also seems to view Gordon as a father figure.

Personality
Thomas is a cheeky but hard-working engine who is always there to help his friends. He's always willing to upkeep a “Thomas Promise” and works hard to make up for any mistakes he's made. He simply wants to be the best little #1 tank engine he can be.

Basis
Thomas is an 0-6-0 tank engine. He is loosely based on a London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) Class E2 0-6-0T with extended side tanks - his basis in the original series - albeit heavily abstracted.

Livery
Thomas is painted blue with red lining on his tanks and boiler and yellow lining around his windows. His number (1) is painted on his side tanks in yellow with a red outline. His running board, bufferbeams and valences are all red.

The book Meet the Engines also states that Thomas was green when he first arrives, however it is likely this is a holdover from the original book, which was based on the original television series.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go

 * Series 1 - A Thomas Promise, Thomas Blasts Off, License to Deliver, Rules of the Game, A Quiet Delivery, Kana Goes Slow, Dragon Run, The Biggest Adventure Club, Percy's Lucky Bell, Sandy's Sandy Shipment, A Wide Delivery, Counting Cows, Music is Everywhere, Backwards Day, Chasing Rainbows, Nia's Balloon Blunder, Capture the Flag, Mystery Boxcars, Super Screen Cleaners, Overnight Stop, The Joke is on Thomas, Lost and Found, Thomas' Day Off, The Real Number One, Roller Coasting, No Power, No Problem!, The Tiger Train, The Can-Do Submarine Crew!, Thomas and Percy's Eggsellent Adventure, Calliope Crack-Up, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks, The Super-Long Shortcut, A Light Delivery, The Paint Problem, A Wonderful World, Whistle Woes, Letting Off Steam, Nia's Perfect Plan, Something to Remember, Sandy Versus the Storm, An UnbeLEAFable Day, Ghost Train, A Rusty Rescue, Hide and Surprise!, Pop a Wheelie, Goodbye, Ghost-Scaring Machine, More Cowbell, Sir Topham Hatt's Hat, Nia's Surprising Surprise, A New View for Thomas, Skiff Sails Sodor and Song of Sodor
 * Series 2 - Percy Disappears, Shake, Rattle and Bruno, Fast Friends, Ashima's Amazing Arrival, Tri-and-a-Half-a Lon, Carly's Magnificent Magnet, New Mail Engine in Town, Hot Air Percy, Carly's Screechy Squeak, Blackout!, Brand New Track, Stink Monster, Whiteout!, Christmas Mountain, Good as New, More Than a Pretty Engine, Snowplow Struttin', Thomas in Charge, Kana Recharges, The Big Skunk Funk, Off the Rails, Diesel's Dilemma, A Very Percy Valentine's Day, Valentine's Hearts, Bring it on Beresford, What's in a Name?, Sheep Shenanigans, Tunnel Troubles, The Case of the Missing Crane, Not-So-Secret Mission, Speedster Sandy, For All the Marble, Salty's Sea Shanty, Retrieve the Kraken, Rocket's Fall and Untitled Nia and Bruno Episode
 * Series 3 - Untitled Bakery-Café Episode and Untitled Bruno Episode
 * Series 4 - TBA
 * Short Story Adventures - Diesel's Rules, Nia and the Ducks , Muddy Thomas, Kana and the Butterflies , Percy's Perfect Place, Crystal Cavern, James and the Dragon, Diesel's Seagull , Thomas and the Troublesome Trucks, Surprise! , Too Loud Nia , Lighthouse Disco, Horrible Hiccups, The Big Balloon Breakout, Sandy Tidies Up , Carly and Cranky's Big Lift Off , Hay, Now!, Red Light, Green Light, Confetti Car Kerfuffle and Skiff Upon the Sea
 * Other - All Engines Go Test Animation

Specials

 * 2021 - Race for the Sodor Cup
 * 2022 - The Mystery of Lookout Mountain
 * 2024 - Untitled Third All Engines Go Movie
 * 2025 - Untitled Fourth All Engines Go Movie

Songs

 * Series 1 - I'm Gonna Chug, Secret Agents, Chugga-Chugga Snooze Snooze, Knights of the Turntable, I Sure Am Feeling Lucky, A Partner on the Rails, Music is Everywhere, Chasing Rainbows, The Mail Delivery Song, If I Was a Super Train, Get on the Laugh Track, On My Own, Everyone is Afraid a Little, What Brave Engines Do, Between You and Me, Feet, Tailbone, Ribs, and Claws, The Number One Engine, What's Awesome About This Place, Blowing Off Steam, A Gift to Remember, Fall Fun, My Rusty Can, Together We Can, He Should Have Given You Back, Celebrate, and Song of Sodor
 * Race for the Sodor Cup - When I Go Fast, The Training Song, and Look It's Us
 * Series 2 - You Can't Stop Me!, Fast to Go Slow , Welcome to Sodor, A Mistake is What it Takes, This Was Unexpected , Stuck in the Mud at Night, Good as New, Plow to Have Fun on the Job, Feel the Hush, What's Really Real , What I Can Do and What I Can't, Peep Peep, We're Counting Sheep, and The Sodor Shanty
 * The Mystery of Lookout Mountain- Warning: Biggest Adventure Ahead, A Whole New Place, and Job to Do
 * Other - All Engines Go Theme Song and Train School Song

Videos
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 * Let's Race - The Egg Race, The Bell Race, The Flag Race, and The Obstacle Race
 * Train School - Under the Meadow, The Magic of Patience, The Height of Courage, The Run Down, The Team-up Cleanup, and The Art of Sharing
 * All Aboard! - Detective Bruno and The New Platform
 * Sodor Mystery - Thomas and the Mysterious Delivery and Percy's A-Maze-Ing Mystery
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Annual Stories

 * 2023 - A Thomas Promise, Thomas Blasts Off and Chasing Rainbows
 * 2024 - TBA

Magazine Stories

 * 2022 - Nia's Balloon Blunder, Shake, Rattle and Bruno!, Roller Coasting and Thomas' Day Off
 * 2023 - License to Deliver, A Quiet Delivery, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks and Kana Goes Slow

Books

 * 2021 - All Engines Go
 * 2022 - The Promise Problem, Thomas and the Rocket, Imagine Ink, All About Thomas, Speedy Sticker Scenes, Puzzle Pals, The Lost Sheep, Winter Activity Book, Meet the Engines, and Thomas the Tank Engine Character Encyclopedia
 * 2023 - Let's Go, Team!, Thomas and Bruno, Chasing Rainbows, The Mystery of Lookout Mountain: Colour & Activity Book, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks, The Twelve Engines of Christmas, and Thomas and the Christmas Mountain
 * 2024 - Feelings

Video Games

 * 2022 - Magical Tracks, Rail Muddle, and Musical Tracks

Live Shows
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 * 2022 - The Bravest Engine on Sodor

Whistles
In the leaked teaser, Thomas uses a higher-pitched whistle from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey!_Pikmin Hey! Pikmin].

In the first series episode A Quiet Delivery, Thomas imitates the sound of a tugboat's whistle. The sound effect used for this is Sir Handel's tenth series-onwards whistle from the original television series.

During a musical number in the first series episode A Light Delivery, Thomas is portrayed with a stock whistle sound effect.

In the first series episode Whistle Woes, Thomas has a broken whistle.

Trivia

 * Earlier promotional images for All Engines Go feature a slightly different design for Thomas' whistle, with the two valves being closer together like in the original television series.
 * Thomas is the only one of a few things:
 * The only member of the Biggest Adventure Club who was featured in the original television series to keep his original whistle sound.
 * As the title character, he is the only character to appear in every main episode of the series.
 * Additionally he was originally announced as being the lead character of every episode, but since Nia's Perfect Plan, he has occasionally been put into a supporting role, allowing other characters to take the lead on their own.
 * As seen in the storyboards for the test pilot, Thomas is allergic to hay, making him the first engine shown to have an allergy.
 * In an early version of the script for A Thomas Promise used for auditions in January 2020:
 * Thomas is renamed Riley, in order to keep the series a secret.
 * It is revealed that within the series, Thomas is eight years old.
 * Most merchandise erroneously depicts Thomas' bunker as being narrower than his cab, likely due to it being a different colour to the rest of him on his 2D vectors.
 * Unlike all past iterations, Thomas likes wearing his snowplough.