Adaptational Location Change: Zig-Zagged.Though Thomas debuts in the same story as in The Railway Series ("Thomas and Gordon"/"Thomas Gets Tricked"), it is aired before those of "Three Railway Engines" (which he now also cameos in) so the first episode revolves around the title character. Adaptational Early Appearance: Played with a bit.Adaptation Title Change: The series goes by Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (later shortened to Thomas & Friends) as opposed to the title of the original novels that its based on, The Railway Series.Wiser supporting characters such as Edward and Toby also became more flawed and childlike to enable more spotlight episodes, while Henry, Gordon and James underwent a more thorough Divergent Character Evolution.
While early seasons kept to this depiction, he quickly became more altruistic and kind as the show branched away from the novels, as well as becoming something of a Cloud Cuckoo Lander come the CGI transition.
Thomas in particular is a more rude and pretentious character in most of the novels (only warming in the very later books). Adaptation Personality Change: Many characters of The Railway Series have ended up altered in the television series due to Flanderization coming into play during the show's long run.
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Adaptation Name Change: More of a number change, but in the TV series Class 40 goes from having the number D4711 to having the number D261. Both series in question are also from HIT Entertainment. Her previous voice acting role also involved voicing a notable main character of said series. Rachael Louise Miller voices Rebecca, a new member of the main cast. Katsuji Mori, James' Japanese voice, played a character before who is energetic and likes racing. In Japan, he shares the same actor as Giovanni from Pokémon (they resemble each other). Bently (both characters who obey by rules). He is voiced by Rob Rackstraw, who also played Mr. Fergus Duncan in both English and Japanese. Keith Wickham voices a character named Willie who says "Crumbs!", similar to another character who he voiced in Angelina Ballerina, who is named William. Lady is voiced by Britt herself and also shares the same color scheme as the Queen of Night from Magic Adventures of Mumfie, another show Allcroft worked on before. Scruff refuses to do work at the wastedump after getting a repaint in "Scruff's Makeover". Oliver experiences this after positive remarks about escaping from scrap from Gordon, James, and Henry. Percy became cocky about overcoming the rainy weather from "Percy's Promise". Thomas becomes a bit stuck-up after he gets his branch line in season 1. Acquired Situational Narcissism: This happens to many engines who were given important jobs, rewards, or are praised for their feats. Achilles in His Tent: The Sad Story of Henry, where Henry stays in a tunnel because he doesn't want the rain to spoil his paintwork. 
Achievements in Ignorance: In season 15, "Fiery Flynn". This causes Gordon to form a rivalry with him. Spencer is a streamlined silver engine that is strong, fast, and is owned by the Duke and Duchess of Boxford. Thomas' inferiority complex causes him to develop a hatred for Stanley. He's also polite, hard-working, and everyone on Sodor likes him. Stanley is bigger, stronger, shinier, and newer than Thomas. A railway is no place for animals, much less a deer, but Luke befriending the deer works for his character development. Acceptable Breaks from Reality: The post-Miller episodes still occasionally forgo railway realism for the sake of telling a story. The station is never revisited or mentioned since. Aborted Arc: Season 5's "Oliver's Find" ends with Oliver discovering an abandoned railway station and shed, along with a house and workshop, and the Fat Controller talks about having them restored. In the US, the stories were originally encapsulated into the live-action PBS show Shining Time Station later series were aired as a Three Shorts format program with short interstitials or songs in between each story. The first four series followed the books, but since Series 5 the show has gone in a completely different direction, so much so that the show and books are almost unrecognizable to each other. The books were adapted for British television by Britt Allcroft in 1984. There is also a widely-available series of books based on TV episodes. The books were originally written by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry his son Christopher later took on the job. It began life as The Railway Series, a series of books about a group of talking steam engines living on the Island of Sodor and the adventures they have under the guardianship of the Fat Controller (Sir Topham Hatt). Thomas & Friends, formerly known as Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, is a British series first broadcast in 1984.
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