The Official Website

www.ThomasAndFriends.com, www.ThomasTheTankEngine.com, or www.ThomasTheTankEngineAndFriends.com, is the official website of Thomas and Friends. The English website was launched in 1996 by The Britt Allcroft Company.

The first version of the site was created by NetSite Productions Limited.

HiT Entertainment has also launched official Thomas and Friends websites in other languages.

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According to HiT Entertainment, the site has circa 23 million hits and 1.7 million visitors every month.
For an unknown reason, the official French, Chinese, and Korean websites are never shown on the flags page.
Each official website is different.
The UK, USA, and AUS sites featured special homepages for Thomas and the Magic Railroad, The Great Discovery, Hero of the Rails, Misty Island Rescue, Day of the Diesels, Blue Mountain Mystery, King of the Railway, and Tale of the Brave.
Some of the sites have not been updated for a long time.
The Japanese site has a blog, which is updated every week.
Railway Series characters, including Wilbert, Mike, Culdee, and Flying Scotsman were also given their own pages, but now are no longer accessible.
Sir Robert Norramby is titled Earl Robert.
For a short time, Smudger's Picture was Stuart but was recently back changed to a picture of him.
The Chinese Dragon is listed under characters, despite not being one.
On the Dutch website, Colin, Flora and Hank are listed in the Engine Depot. But because Season 12 never broadcasted in the Netherlands, the Dutch would not know about them.

Goofs

Most recently, when you move the mouse over the "Home" icon on the UK website, the Fat Controller speaks with his US voice. Interestingly, on the US site, the Fat Controller speaks with his UK voice, but on some options he speaks with his US voice.
On the UK website, when the "Meet the Earl" video clip was released on King of the Railway minisite, the US version was shown, the same error recently occurred on the video clips on the UK Spills and Thrills site.
Mavis uses the term "cars" on the UK website.
The current "What's New" UK page shows a Thomas & Friends Live advert for Singapore, although Singapore is not part of the UK.
Characters such as Terence, BoCo, George and Max and Monty are not included in the Engine Depot.
For some reason, Stephen does not appear in the Engine Depot, but all the other characters from King of the Railway do.
Even though they are in CGI, Lady Hatt, Duck, Bill and Ben, Harvey, Oliver, Toad, Duncan, Troublesome Trucks and Jack's pages have not been updated in their recent forms. Mavis' icon page also still has her model.
Several characters are missing from the Japanese site, such as Bash, Luke, Winston, Owen, and Merrick.
The Spanish, Latin American, and French websites still list characters such as Hiro, Victor, and Kevin as "new" in the engine depot.
On the Dutch Tale of the Brave minisite, in the activity to find Timothy, it tells you to remove the "auto's" (the trucks) to see which engine is hiding. However, "auto" is Dutch for "automobile".
The site title of the UK News page is incorrectly titled Thomas de Stoomlocomotief: Nieuw.
Henrietta's icon still has her faceless form despite her having her own promo and still shows her with Toby in a still from Toby's New Whistle.
Currently, when you are on the Taiwanese website and you go over the steamcloud with THOMAS & FRIENDS above with your mouse, it does not say 'home', but 'apps'.
On the US website's front page, the Tale of the Brave clip of Percy rescuing James from the landslide is from the UK dub, as James has his UK voice.

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