In the scene where Thomas goes through the Mainland Junction, Toby and Belle can be seen representing engines from the Mainland, along with Hiro and Flying Scotsman, albeit slightly obscured so as to appear to be unrecognisable. Of these engines, only Flying Scotsman actually lives on the mainland. Entertainment to Grow Up With* | Two Thomas Adventures* | Thomas' Sodor Stories* | Fun with Thomas | Thomas' Trainyard Adventures* | Starting This Fall on PBS* | Thomas to the Rescue | Quarry Adventures on Sodor | The Story of Thomas and the Jet Engine | Thomas Tries His Best | Thomas' Birthday Sampler | Thomas & Friends 2008 Sampler DVD | Go, Go Thomas! | Thomas' Railway Adventures! | Disappearing Diesels Merlin and Beresford are the only characters introduced in this film to make appearances outside of the special.

In the close-up shot of Hiro's wheels, his eccentric rods are disconnected from his connecting rods.Thomas is rather cheeky, but is good at heart and generally behaves well, except when he is getting into mishap. He loves teasing the others and, on occasion, brags about his superiority, but is always brought down to earth in due course. If Thomas has one major character flaw, it is that he is forgetful, and slightly impatient. However, he is also optimistic and idealistic.

Gordon Takes a Tumble | Henry and the Elephant | Percy Takes a Plunge | Thomas and the Special Letter | James and the Trouble with Trees | Spic and Span | Diesel from Thomas to the Rescue | Emily's Adventure When Henry and Hector see the eggs, they gasp. The eggs are giant and covered in shiny gold paper with a pink bow. Hector is not very happy; he will feel embarrassed carrying the eggs, but Henry tells him it is an enormous honour. Music Videos: Who's Thomas?, The Hottest Place in Town, We Can't Do Anything and The Most Important Thing is Being FriendsThe events of this special are mentioned by James in Big World! Big Adventures! during the song, Where in the World is Thomas?

The first special in which vehicular characters are able to move their bodies, in that they perform when they speak or look in different directions, which while debuting in the preceding CGI series, was made more prominent as of this special, as well as the new comedic devices.Thomas and the U.K. Trip | Hello Thomas and James | Thomas and Connie's Wonderful American Journey | Thomas the Tank Engine Movie - All Star Parade On Thomas' branchline, James grows impatient with some sheep who have stopped on the rails. Annie and Clarabel advise him to wait for the farmer to shoo them away, which James does not want to do and proposes to blow his whistle. Just as he is about to do so, Farmer McColl arrives and shoos the sheep away from the rails. The first special in where Ashima, Axel, Raul, Frieda, Shane, Gina, Ivan and Etienne do not appear since their introductions in The Great Race. The only special to be seventy-three minutes long, over thirteen minutes longer than the usual length.

James' American accent is heard when Frankie and Hurricane chase him into the steelworks in the UK dub. It is Easter morning and all of the engines are very excited; they have been promised an Easter party at Tidmouth. Henry has been given the special job of collecting Easter eggs from the Mainland for the party. All of the engines are rather jealous of Henry's important job. Henry couples up to Hector and puffs off to the Mainland.In the first shot of James passing Thomas with the band, his mouth is not animated to show him humming. Also, in the US dub, James hums with his British accent instead of his American accent.