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Santa's Little Engine is a US, UK, AUS, Canadian, Thai, Malaysian, Greek and Croatian DVD featuring four episodes from the seventeenth series. The US, Canadian, Thai and Malaysian DVDs feature one additional episode from the thirteenth series, while the UK and AUS DVDs feature three additional seventeenth series episodes.

Description

Ho Ho Ho! Thomas is full steam ahead as a Really Useful Reindeer, saving the day by guiding Santa's sleigh straight to the Sodor Christmas celebration! When snowfall transforms the Island of Sodor into a winter wonderland, Thomas discovers that being safe is the best route to Christmas fun. Percy makes everyone's Christmas wishes come true and Gordon discovers his friends' special skills are the gifts that keep on giving, all year long! Thomas delivers the true spirit of the season/Christmas as Santa's Little Engine!

Episodes

Bonus Features

US/Canada

(*Followed by an episode)

UK/Australia

(*Followed by an episode)

Malaysia

Trivia

  • This is the second Australian DVD to feature Mr. Perkins. The first was Tale of the Brave.
  • This is the first UK/Australian DVD to have bonus episodes since Engines to the Rescue.
  • This is the only US DVD release to have the Mark Moraghan redub of Snow Tracks and the seventeenth series Christmas episodes.
  • The music heard in the main menu of the US release is an instrumental arrangement of We Wish You a Merry Christmas from the extended US version of Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure.
  • In a Mr. Perkins segment, the illustrations of The Flying Kipper from the Railway Series book Henry the Green Engine are used.
  • Snow Tracks was re-narrated by Mark Moraghan for the US DVD. The Malaysian DVD features the original UK narration of Snow Tracks.
  • The iTunes UK release does not include the bonus episodes.
  • This is the last US DVD release of two things:
    • The last US DVD release that has reused episodes from previous releases.
    • The last US DVD release captioned by Caption Technologies Inc.

Goofs

  • In the end credits of the US version, Sharon Miller is not given credit as one of the head writers, Christopher Skala is not credited as one of the executive producers and Keith Wickham is not credited for voicing Norman.
  • On the UK DVD back cover and the US/UK/AUS/Malaysian episode selection menus, "The Frozen Turntable" is misnamed "Frozen Turntable".
  • On the UK DVD back cover and bonus episodes selection menu, "Too Many Fire Engines" is misnamed "Two Many Fire Engines". For the Australian release, the error was fixed on the back cover, but not in the bonus episodes selection menu.
  • On the UK/AUS main menu, the space next to the tree and the left side of the castle are not snowy.
  • Snow Tracks is not part of the UK/AUS release, but the back cover and title card still show an edited picture of Gordon from the aforementioned episode, and the back cover also has a small description of it.
  • In the Earl's Quiz segment, the Earl says that Toby will have to use his bell to move the cows, but at this moment, he has to have a whistle whilst his bell is away for repairs.
  • The US Netflix version of the DVD does not credit Alan Hescott for writing Snow Tracks or Nitrogen Studios for producing the episode.
  • On the Malaysian DVD, Snow Tracks is cropped to 4:3 and subsequently stretched to 16:9.
  • The Malaysian Episode Selection menu is missing an 's' at the end of The Missing Christmas Decorations.

DVD Packs

UK


* VHS only
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