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DON'T TRAIN ON MY PARADE
Sam Bissonnette
Directed by
Campbell Bryer
Produced by
Suzie Gallo
Air Date
4/02/25 - UK
Plot
When Sir Topham Hatt's springtime parade floral float is destroyed before delivery, Thomas and the engines find the spring in Sodor to save the parade.
While the episode has some usual things from this show, like Thomas doing something that results in an accident, at least it works plot wise despite the show lacking character development. Thomas' accident by taking a short cut and not paying attention to things just works to help destroy the float and to make it anew. Whereas Diesel's one in 'Quacking Quandary' could just work with Diesel trying his best to be brave and fight against his fear instead of being scared and lie to everyone that he wasn't which we've seen plenty of times before. While I don't think this episode is my favourite this season it was at least decent enough to be good unlike the last few episodes.
Yes there is the typical rinse and repeat of characters messing things up and finding an alternative but that had purpose for the episode's message about starting up again. I'm never that much of a fan of the songs as I feel they're pretty unnecessary. They don't need to state the moral and the episode could still work without them. I could at least see the song sequence working just a montage instead but I know the songs have to be there because Mattel needs them for mandated digital albums, though so far we haven't got any announcement about it. Though when is Mattel ever good at telling people anything new about All Engines Go? As I was writing this post back on Feb 5th 2025, the official Thomas Instagram page hadn't posted anything since November 2024. As I said before, for a new marketing team that was brought in to help Thomas get better at toy sales they are doing a really poor job at doing it. That and Mattel's very bad distribution.
It's good that we got another decent episode though by all means it wasn't that great, I still think the first episode of this season was the more decent one.
Series Rating (So far):
Sheep Stampede - 6/10
The Berry Best - 3/10
Creepy Crawly Courage - 3/10
Windmill Woes - 2/10
Quacking Quandary - 1/10
The Stinking Delivery - 3/10
Don't Train on My Parade - 4/10
Overall Rating (So far):
22/70
