Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery was a big shock for the fact that this is actually the first good Thomas & Friends movie. The story of Thomas & Friends: the Great Discovery is that Thomas has a job on taking wood from the hills down to the warf, however on his journey there Duncan tells Thomas to take the rolling river bridge track. Thomas takes the track and ends up at the bridge but the bridge then collapse so Thomas then heads back the way he came and find another track so he decides to take the other track thinking it will lead to the warf, however the track he takes is all old and over grown and it hasn't been used for years. Thomas continues along the track until he reaches an old and abandoned town. Then Thomas leaves the town and starts to tell everyone and once the Fat Controller hears about this he asks Thomas to take him there and so when Thomas and the Fat Controller arrive the Fat Controller tells Thomas that the town he had found was the town of Great Watertom that was the main town of the island of Sodor when steam engines first came. The Fat Controller then decides that the town must be rebuilt and he also tells Thomas that he will be in charge of all the work and so they must get the town rebuilt in time for Sodor day. The Fat Controller also hires an engine from the main land to do his usual jobs and that engine is Stanley. However Thomas starts getting jealous of Stanley doing so many of his jobs. The story of Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery is great. It's executed great because the movie's passing is quick and the story is actually interesting because you can understand everything happening and it's actually entertaining. There are some scenes in this movie that don't really add anything to the story and they could have very easily been removed but at least there's no learning segments. The characters is this movie are amazing. All the characters feel like there in character. Thomas's character arc he has in this movie is really nice as well because he learns that he should be mean to engines that are just trying to help. Although they probably could have added a bit more to this character arc because here's the thing Thomas character arc in this movie is very similar to Woody's character arc from Toy Story. In Ot Story Woody got jealous of Buzz being Andy's new favourite toy where as Thomas just got cross of his doing all his job's and also because he took his birth one night. That's the only problem with Thomas in this movie they probably could have done better and more with this. Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby and Emily are all perfectly in character and every scene with them in this movie is amazing they all feel like there in character and that's about it for them because there mainly background characters. Stanley was fine. He didn't have a lot to him as a character mainly because he was just a plot device and that's about it. The only things about him is that he's nice, kind, he's bigger and stronger than Thomas so yeah he's fine. The model sets finally look like something you would see for a movie because there's a lot of good looking sets like, Rolling River Bridge, Great Waterton, the old mine and the mountains. The music for this movie is great. The songs Thomas & James are Racing and Jobs a Plenty are good. Where oh Where is Thomas and The Engine Roll Call are fine. The best song in this movie is Thomas You're the Leader it's one of the best Thomas songs ever made and guess what it's sung by a professional rapper instead of being sung by the children. The narration form Pierce Brosnam is pretty good he's not the best Thomas narrator but he's pretty good in this. Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery 8/10.
