Standing For Sodor

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**Standing For Sodor** is a planned movie by Leland Nitzel. It will be filmed and released in 4K and will release in the 2020's.

## Movie Overview

### Writer(s)

* Leland Nitzel
* Zach Johnson

### Director(s)

* Leland Nitzel
* Zach Johnson

### Composer(s)

* Leland Nitzel
* Mike O' Donnell
* Junior Campbell
* Robert Hartshrone
* Jeff Williams
* Masato Nakamura

## Release Guide

### Previous

* Season 3
* The Complete Third Season

### Next

* Season 4
* The Complete Fourth Season

## Plot

Stanley arrives on the Island Of Sodor, with only good intentions. But when Thomas starts to belittle him and Stanley thus seeks help from the Diesels, the diesels take him under their wing. The diesels hatch a plan to reform Stanley into one of them, and soon enough, it happens. With Stanley causing chaos across Sodor and painting a bad image for Thomas and his railway home, it's up to him and Gordon to save Sodor, Stanley and bring the diesels to justice.

## Characters

* Thomas
* Edward
* Henry
* Gordon
* James
* Percy
* Toby
* Bertie
* Sir Topham Hatt
* Lady Hatt
* Duck
* Diesel
* Bill and Ben
* Oliver
* Toad
* Flying Scotsman
* Andy
* Stepney
* Skarloey
* Rheneas
* Sir Handel
* Peter Sam
* Rusty
* Duncan
* Duke
* Arry and Bert
* Emily
* Spencer
* Molly
* Neville
* Stanley
* Sir Lowham Hatt
* Team RWBY
	+ Ruby Rose
* Team CFVY
	+ Velvet Scarlatina *(Does Not Speak)*

### Characters Introduced

* Diesel 10
* Dart
* Team RWBY
	+ Weiss Schnee *(Does Not Speak)*
	+ Blake Belladonna
	+ Yang Xiao Long
* Team JNR
	+ Nora Valkyrie *(Does Not Speak)*
* Emerald Sustrai *(Does Not Speak)*

## Locations

* Tidmouth Sheds
* Knapford
* Dryaw
* Brendam Docks
* Maithwaite
* Great Waterton
	+ Great Waterton Sheds
	+ Stanley's Shed
* Skarloey Railway
	+ Crovan's Gate Sheds
	+ The Transfer Yards
* Sodor Suspension Bridge
* Vicarstown
	+ Vicarstown Station
	+ Diesel Sheds/Dieselworks
* The Mainland
	+ St. Pancras

## Songs

* 3 Original Songs
* Accidents Will Happen! *(Season 4 Song, DVD Extra)*
* Time To Say Goodbye *(Acoustic)*
* Trust Love *(Promo Album Only)*
* Wings
* Caffeine *(Promo Album Only)*

## Bonus Features

* Sodor Superstars Hall Of Fame
* Deleted, Extended and Extra Scenes
* Interviews With Director, Writers, and Voice Actors.
* Link To The Official Website

## Known Information

The only currently known information about the movie is that it will be filmed and released in 4K and that will feature voice actors, with Zach Johnson having already posted his auditions. In the official Notes and Ideas Document, Leland and Zach write down and suggest voice actors/actresses for the characters in the film. This document also has all the information on the film that has been decided on.

## Trivia

* This will be the longest Tales From The Tracks production to date.
* This movie marks the first occurrence of several things:
	+ The first Tales From The Tracks production to use voice actors and the first production to do so since the final episode of the *ERTL Stories series* in 2018.
	+ The first time an explosion has been seen in the series.
	+ The first time an engine has been set on fire in the series. A tanker was set on fire in The Twins' Mistake and a 7 Plank Truck was set on fire in a joke video parodying the *Thomas & Friends* episode "*The Green Controller*".
	+ The first time that *RWBY* has been directly referenced in the series, as Gordon's speech to Thomas was based on the meaning behind the lyrics to Time To Say Goodbye.
	+ The first appearances of Weiss, Blake, Yang, Nora, and Emerald. All of them are represented by custom HO/OO Scale figures, and Blake and Yang are also represented by their Nendoroid figures in close up shots.
	+ The first production to have HO/OO Scale figures of real people as easter eggs.
	+ The first time that engines have had alternate faces in any shot other than a close up, as seen with Thomas, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby, Diesel, Andy and Stanley through out the movie.
	+ The first production to have a significantly darker tone.
	+ The first production to have a Mad Bomber reference since the *ERTL Stories series*, not counting Andy's name.
	+ The first production since *TWR Shorts* to have original songs written and composed by Leland Nitzel.
	+ The first production to feature *The Super Mario Bros. Movie* posters at Knapford.
* This movie marks the last occurrence of several things:
	+ The last production to have *Sonic The Hedgehog 2* posters at Knapford.
* This movie marks the only occurrence of several things:
	+ The only production to include songs and remixes of songs and background music from other shows, with the usage of *RWBY* songs and remixes of *RWBY* music.
	+ The only production to have multilingual subtitles, the languages being English, Spanish, French, Japanese and Korean
	+ The only production to be dubbed in multiple languages, being English, Spanish and Japanese. The only reason this was done was because Leland's content found a somewhat bigger Japanese audience due to his constant tagging of CoolProps' English PR Twitter in posts about his Gauge 1 projects.