Thomas and Tillie

Thomas and Tillie, also known as Thomas 2 or Thomas and The Little Engine That Could is the 2004 sequel to Thomas the Great Discovery.

## Plot

Thomas is living with his brothers, Percy, James, Gordon and Henry with their newly adoptive father, Sir Topham Hatt. they find an invitation to a royal ball with Sir Topham Hatt's parents to celebrate their marriage, an event that Thomas is reluctant to participate in. They travel to the island of Sodor to meet them. Sir Topham Hatt's father, Don makes no effort to get along with Thomas and the others. Thomas feels sad and wonders if Sir Topham Hatt feels happy living with him. He suddnely developes a crush on Tillie, The Little Engine That Could and wants to live happy with her and Sir Topham Hatt. As everyone goes their separate ways, Don is accosted by the Fairy Gothelmother (Jennifer Saunders) and Charming, who is her son. The two retell the prince's adventures and how he overcame many obstacles to become Sir Topham Hatt's son, but in vain. They reprimand Don for breaking an old promise that Charming would be able to be adopted by Sir Topham Hatt, and demand that he find a way to get rid of Thomas. Harold arranges for Thomas and the others to join him in the woods only to strand them there. The trio sneak into the Fairy Gothelmother's potion factory and steal a Happily Ever After potion that Thomas believes will raise Tillie's love for him.

Thomas and Percy both drink the potion then they and Tillie fall into a deep sleep, awakening the next morning to discover its effects: Thomas is now a handsome human, he doesn't know it but he sees three women in front of him, then as he gets up and says his heads killing him. One of the woman gives him a pail full of water and then when he reaches it he finds he has human hands then he grabs the water pail from the girl and sees his reflection and sees he's now a human.

So now Percy is no longer an engine he now turned into a stallion. In order to make the change permanent, Thomas must kiss Tillie by midnight. When he says look out princess here comes the "new me" his pants fall to his ankles Percy tells him that they have to get him out of his clothes and into something new. He, Donkey, and Puss see a carrage coming nearby and then Percy pretends that he got injured by the carrage. Once a man wearing a red shirt with yellow sleeves, a white powdered wig and olive green shorts hears it he orders the driver to stop. He jumps out and then Percy tells a false statement to him saying he's blind, The man asks Percy if there's anything he could do for him, James jumps on Percy and orders the man to take off his wig. Thomas rushes in the castle to see Sir Topham Hatt. However, the Fairy Gothelmother, having learned of the potion's theft, intercepts Thomas and sends Prince Charming to pose as Thomas, deceive Tillie, and win Sir Topham Hatt. Then Don and Audrey see him and Tillie and then Thomas to the other window sees them. He keeps yelling her name but the Fairy Gothelmother says to him "I don't think they can hear us **pigeon**." At the Fairy Gothelmother's manipulative urging, Shrek leaves the castle, believing that the best way to make Tillie and Sir Topham Hatt happy is to let them go. To ensure that Tillie falls in love with Charming, the Fairy Gothelmother gives Don a love potion to put into Tillie's tea which will make her fall in love with next man that kisses her. But Don replies that it is not possible to make someone fall in love in this manner. This exchange is overheard by Thomas, Percy, James, Gordon and Henry, who are soon arrested by the royal guards and thrown into a dungeon.

They create a monster. He breaks through the castle's defenses so Thomas can prevent Charming from kissing Fiona, but is immediately defeated and killed off when guards keep firing milk at him and the monster falls into the river, Unfortunately, Thomas is too late to stop Charming; however, instead of falling in love with Charming, Tillie does a Karate yell and knocks him out with a headbutt. Don reveals that he never gave Tillie the love potion, whereupon the Fairy Gothelmother attacks Thomas. In the ensuing melee, a spell from her wand, presumably to kill Thomas, Don jumps in front of Thomas and, then the magic rebounds off Don's armor. Then it bounces to Fairy Gothelmother and then it hits her causing her to flip, Then she is glad to see she's not injured but when she tries again, her whole body but her glasses and wand turn into bubbles then oace the glasses and wand hit the ground the star on top faces to black.

The spell returns Don to his true form of a frog. He had used the Happily Ever After potion years ago to marry Audrey, but she tells him that she loves him no matter what he looks like.

As the clock strikes midnight, Thomas and Tillie let the potion's effects wear off and they return to their engine selves, while Percy changes back as well (but is sad to see his stallion self gone). Don gives his blessing to the marriage and apologizes for his earlier behavior, and the party resumes as the credits begin. However, they're interrupted by a brief after-party scene in which Henry's Giant pet hamster, arrives and reveals that they now have six hamster babies.

and then it cuts to black and then Henry says "I got a new job." Then the other credits appear.

## Cast

* Ramahfool as Thomas, Percy, James, Gordon, Henry, Sir Topham Hatt and Tillie
* David Ogden Stiers as Don Hatt
* Nicole Oliver as Audrey Hatt
* Jenifer Sanders as Fairy Gothelmother
* Frank Welker as Animal Vocalizations

## Songs

* Accidentally in Love performed by the Counting Crows
* Holding Out for a Hero performed by Frou Frou
* Changes performed by Butterfly Boucher & David Bowie
* As Lovers Go performed by Dashboard Confessional
* Never Had a Dream Come True preformed by The S Club 7
* Baba O Riley performed by The Who
* I Need Some Sleep performed by Eels
* That's the Way I Like It performed by KC and the Sunshine Band
* Footloose performed by Ben Ambrosini

## Trivia

* During the fantasy of being with Tillie, Thomas is accidentally kissed a mermaid resembling Belle as a mermaid from the Disney 1991 animated feature *Beauty and the Beast.*
* The Original working title for the film was Thomas in Love.
* The scene when the Fairy Gothelmother disintegrates, is similar to the scene of Voldemort's Last Stand in the *Harry Potter* saga. Voldemort disintegrates upon death in the film adaptation.
* Prince Charming started the Storybook Opening.

## Goofs

* When Percy, James and Henry take Thomas to the nurse, Percy is in front James is in the middle and Henry is in the back, but in the next shot, Henry is in the middle and James is in the back.
* How was the royal messenger and his band able to find where Thomas and others lived at the start?