Customer Reviews

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends - Christmas Party & Other Favorite Stories [VHS]

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This was the first ever Holiday release and it features 2 Holiday episodes; Thomas' Christmas party and Thomas and the Missing Christmas tree. These stories are good but you can now find them on the other 2 Christmas videos which are Thomas' Christmas Wonderland and Thomas' Snowy Surprise. The rest of this video is filled with other Thomas episodes that were on previous volumes. I wouldn't recommend this Thomas video since you can find these stories on other Thomas videos now and the best holiday release was Snowy Surprise since it features all Christmas stories including 3 new ones.

My three year old daughter LOVES Thomas the Tank Engine and LOVES Christmas too so this was a wonderful video for her. It's basically like all the other Thomas videos -- a bunch of short episodes focusing on one theme or another. This is good for short attention spans. As a parent you'll get sick of it because the kids will want to watch it over and over -- but then again that's often the sign of an engaging product.

I thought this tape was great but after the Christmas episodes ended I got really bored and sometimes I would turn it off. The two Christmas episodes show Mrs. Kindley and how she helped Thomas and Toby and how they repayed her by giving her a party. The other one shows how Thomas got stuck on his way back from getting their Christmas tree. The other episodes on this one include Terence the Tractor and a few other ones with nothing to do with Christmas. I really thought that this one should've had a full tape of Christmas episodes. If you want it you'll have to find a used copy of it but you can find all the episodes on other tapes.