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Thomas and the Magic Railroad Print Studio is a PC CD-ROM game based on the movie Thomas and the Magic Railroad. It was released by Hasbro Interactive in the UK only and features narration by Michael Angelis.
Description
Thomas & Friends, from the popular TV program and movie, are now featuring in the Magic Railroad Print Studio. This is where imaginative and creative kids can try out many practical but fun projects. They'll find it's very easy to design and colour in their own creations, especially with help from Michael Angelis as Sir Topham Hatt.
Characters
Activities
- Greeting Cards with Thomas
- Posters with Percy
- Jigsaws with Diesel 10
- Growth Charts with James
- Big Maps with Splatter
- Cut Out and Build with Lady
- Colouring with Dodge
Trivia
- This PC Game is known for a couple of things:
- The first Thomas PC game to be based on a special.
- One of the few Thomas PC games to have a demo.
- The only Thomas PC Game to be released exclusively in the UK by a US company.
- Despite the movie involving American and Canadian actors and being based on the American spin-off series, Shining Time Station, this game was released exclusively in the UK, Australia and Germany. It is unknown why it was never released anywhere else besides those countries.
- Due to its limited release after the movie was shown in cinemas, this game is considerably hard to find out of all the CD-ROM games released in the UK.
- This was due to Hasbro Interactive's closure on 6 December 2000, with Infogrames purchasing them the following day.
- Amazon's UK website lists the game as being released on 19 October 2000, a month after the game was finalised according to the files on the disc.
- Due to compatibility issues, the game only works on Windows 98.
- In the game's files, Billy Twofeathers and Burnett Stone's sprites are named "Indian" and "Peter" respectively. Billy's sprite is probably named "Indian" due to his character's nationality, while Burnett's was most likely named Peter as he was portrayed by Peter Fonda in the film.
- Thomas, James and Percy have their first series themes, Lady has Annie and Clarabel's theme, Diesel 10 has Trevor's theme, Splatter has Sir Topham Hatt's theme and Dodge uses a recreated version of Toby's theme.
- Edward, Mavis, Terence, Caroline and Bulstrode are included in the game despite not appearing in the actual film itself.