The Adventure Begins

The Adventure Begins is a 2015 animated film based on Thomas & Friends, based on the first two Railway Series books and their season 1 adaptions.

Gordon: A goods train, a goods train, the shame of it, the shame of it!

Edward: Oh, Gordon, it can't be so bad.

Gordon: Listen Edward, I’m a very important engine, but thankfully, i won't have to pull goods trains for long, not long until after the new tank engine arrives on Sir Topham Hatt’s North Western Railway.

Edward: Don’t worry, Gordon, the new tank engine is coming to Sir Topham Hatt’s North Western Railway.

Gordon: Listen Edward, Sir Topham Hatt is getting another small tank engine, tue last one that he has with the wooden brake blocks is much too small to feel like a really useful engine.

[Edward takes a first glimpse at Thomas]

Thomas: Hello. What's the matter? Do I have soot on my face?

Edward: But no, you're not a big engine who wants to work at the railway to help a small engine.

Thomas: Yes, I am.

James: [laughs] No, you're not.

Thomas: Don’t worry, engines, i’m big enough to do my work here on the railway.

Gordon: Huh? [Growls] Oh! I Give Up!

[after Gordon stops on the hill]

Driver: What's he up to now? [walks to up Gordon] Come on, Gordon. You're not even trying!

Gordon: [scoffs] I can't do it! Those noisy cars hold an engine back! If they were coaches, now that would be different.

Signalman: Hello Thomas, listen to me, what are you looking at?

Thomas: I'm pulling my very special first passenger coaches, you just need to look at them now.

Signalman: Seriously, Thomas? Where are the passenger coaches?

Thomas: [looks back; gasps] Oh, no!

Sir Topham Hatt: Hello Thomas, listen to me, why are you going so fast?

Thomas: Hello Sir Topham Hatt, i brought Edward's freight cars here to Maron station.

Sir Topham Hatt: Listen Thomas, you were causing confusion and delay, you need to have a good lesson to learn about freight cars, but this is why i asked Edward to bring the freight cars, and not you. If you're not prepared to be patient and learn how to do things properly, i need to keep you at the sheds where you need to have a timeout.

James: [races through the yard with some trucks, out of control] Help! Help!!! They're pushing me, they're pushing me!!!!!

Troublesome Trucks: On, on, on! [laugh]

Thomas: James! [races off to rescue him]

Edward: Thomas! Thomas! Come back! Oh! [Thomas ignores what Edward said and bravely chases on after James. Cut to James racing towards a deer]

James: [screams] Oh, deer! [the deer runs across and escapes] Help! HEELLLPP! HEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!!

Troublesome Trucks: On!! On! Faster!!! Faster! [laugh]

James: I don't want to go any faster! [his wooden brake-blocks catch on fire] My brakes! No! Stop! I want to stop!

[Thomas follows up behind as fast as he can, gaining alongside until he's leveled with James]

Troublesome Trucks: Faster! Faster!

James: Ah! Thomas!

Thomas: Use your brakes! Use your brakes!!!

James: I can't! My brake-blocks are on fire! They're made of wood! [a cloud of sparks blows out onto Thomas's face]

Thomas: [gasps] I'm going to try to couple up behind you, James! I'm going to try to slow you down! [slows down to get behind the back of James's train]

James: Whoa! Hurry, Thomas!

Troublesome Trucks: [mocking] Hurry, hurry, hurry! [laughs]

Thomas: [switches onto James’s line, and yells to James’s guard/conductor] Couple me up, couple me up! I need to slow James down!

Guard: Uh, right.

Thomas: [catches up to behind the brake-van/caboose, and the guard uses his pole to try and couple Thomas's front hole to the train, but fails] Oh, no! Try again, try again!

Guard: Alright! [tries again]

Thomas: We mustn't give up, we have to try! [suddenly runs into a branch that somehow appeared on the track] Ah!

Guard: Faster, faster!

James: [wails, as Thomas pants to catch up and the guard tries again and again to couple him up. Suddenly, James screams as they near a cow field ahead. Thomas gasps, and James tilts] Oh!!! I'm coming off the rails!!!!! [crashes off the line, onto the ground, and so does his whole train! Thomas brakes to a stop and gasps in horror]

[Thomas happens upon the original #1 engine]

Glynn: Oh! You must be the new #1!

Thomas: I'm Thomas.

Glynn: Well, look after the branch line, Thomas, and wear that number with pride!

Thomas: Don't worry, Mr. Coffee Pot. I will! You can count on me!

Glynn: But I'm not Mr. Coffee Pot. My name is Glynn. [chortles]

Narrator: A few days later, Thomas and Edward saw an engine who arrived at the yard, the engine must be James the Red Engine. [James arrives at the yard with new brakes and a fresh coat of red paint]

[James clears his throat]

Thomas: [Gasps in amazement] Good morning James the Red Engine, do you have your new red color?

James: Of course it is! How do you like my new paintwork?

Thomas Well done, James, you’re a really splendid red engine.

James: I know, i'm ready for my coaches!

Annie: [Annie and Clarabel are coupled up behind Thomas] Hello James, we’re now Thomas's passenger coaches.

Clarabel: [As Thomas puffs away] That's right, Thomas has his very own branch line now.

Edward: Off to see the world now, Thomas?

Thomas: Yes, i am, James [Upon leaving for his branch line, he whistles loudly beside Gordon sleeping one last time] Hello Gordon, listen to me, i’m a really useful engine who now lives here on the railway.

Gordon: Oh, the indignity!!

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