Product: Thomas & Friends: 10 Years of Thomas & Friends (2008)
Rating: 3.0
Not just Thomas stories
There are ten Thomas & Friends episodes on this 60-minute DVD. These are not just Thomas stories, but a mixture of episodes supposedly picked by children who went to the A Day With Thomas event in Penn. at some point. Preceding each story is a 40-second or so clip from the event, with parents and children commenting on the TV series. You cannot skip these with the skip button; you can fast-forward, but that's a hassle, isn't it? This is why some customers are understandably upset.But my two-year-old actually likes the footage from the event -- set to his favorite T&F; songs -- more than the stories themselves. Most of his favorite episodes are not here, so he ends up only watching the event footage and clapping every time he sees the mock-up Thomas train with all the happy children onboard.If you own few other Thomas videos, I think this is a decent value, with ten episodes that more or less represent the T&F; series. That is, pretty much every episode finds the engines "cross" -- I'm starting to get real sick of that word!