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* CreatorsFavorite: Mara Wilson, who portrayed Lily in the film, has [[https://twitter.com/MaraWilson/status/775763689685286913 stated on Twitter]] that James is her favorite engine.

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Wilson, who portrayed Lily in the film, has [[https://twitter.com/MaraWilson/status/775763689685286913 stated on Twitter]] that James is her favorite engine.
**Didi Conn, who played Stacy Jones, says that Thomas is her favorite
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* CreatorBacklash: In an interview for the 20th anniversary Blu-ray, Mara Wilson recalled that she was disappointed by the changes between the script and the finished film, particularly how most of the scenes intended to develop Lily and Burnett's relationship were cut from the movie. That being said, she still considers the film to be one of her favorites that she has ever worked on.

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* CreatorBacklash: In an interview for the 20th anniversary Blu-ray, Mara Wilson recalled that she was disappointed by the changes between the script and the finished film, particularly how most of the scenes intended to develop Lily and Burnett's relationship were cut from the movie. [[DownplayedTrope That being said, she still considers the film to be one of her favorites that she has ever worked on.on]].
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* CreatorBacklash: In an interview for the 20th anniversary Blu-ray, Mara Wilson revealed that she was disappointed by the changes between the script and the finished film, particularly how most of the scenes intended to develop Lily and Burnett's relationship were cut from the movie.

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* CreatorBacklash: In an interview for the 20th anniversary Blu-ray, Mara Wilson revealed recalled that she was disappointed by the changes between the script and the finished film, particularly how most of the scenes intended to develop Lily and Burnett's relationship were cut from the movie.movie. That being said, she still considers the film to be one of her favorites that she has ever worked on.
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* CreatorBacklash: In an interview for the 20th anniversary Blu-ray, Mara Wilson revealed that she was disappointed by the changes between the script and the finished film, particularly how most of the scenes intended to develop Lily and Burnett's relationship were cut from the movie.
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* CreatorsFavorite: Mara Wilson, who portrayed Lily in the film, has [[https://twitter.com/MaraWilson/status/775763689685286913 stated on Twitter]] that James is her favorite engine.
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** Kevin Frank voices Henry, Dodge, Bertie and Harold. He also voiced Sir Topham Hatt, but was [[UncreditedRole not credited in that role]].

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** Kevin Frank voices Henry, Dodge, Bertie and Harold. He also voiced Sir Topham Hatt, Hatt[[note]]voice only; character was not physically seen[[/note]], but was [[UncreditedRole not credited in that role]].

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** Kevin Frank voices Henry, Dodge, Bertie and Harold.

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** Kevin Frank voices Henry, Dodge, Bertie and Harold. He also voiced Sir Topham Hatt, but was [[UncreditedRole not credited in that role]].


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* UncreditedRole: Kevin Frank is not credited for his voice role as Sir Topham Hatt.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: The film made $19.7 million worldwide on a $19 million budget, with its failure forcing Britt Allcroft to step down as head of her own company and set the disaster dominoes that lead to Creator/HITEntertainment's purchase of the franchise.
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* FranchiseKiller: A downplayed example, since the franchise is still going today. The film led the franchise to see bigger exposure and toy sales than ever before, true—but also led to a massive decline in the general public’s opinion of the show, from which it has never recovered. It did so badly at the box office that it destroyed Britt Allcroft’s career and forced her to ''sell the entire franchise'', leading to what many consider to be a dumbing-down of the series under its new owners. Then ''those'' owners were bought out by toy conglomerate Mattel, who spent a decade trying to come up with a new direction for the series before ultimately giving up and going for a ContinuityReboot.
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* FranchiseKiller: A downplayed example, since the franchise is still going today. The film led the franchise to see bigger exposure and toy sales than ever before, true—but also led to a massive decline in the general public’s opinion of the show, from which it has never recovered. It did so badly at the box office that it destroyed Britt Allcroft’s career and forced her to ''sell the entire franchise'', leading to what many consider to be a dumbing-down of the series under its new owners. Then ''those'' owners were bought out by toy conglomerate Mattel, who spent a decade trying to come up with a new direction for the series before ultimately giving up and going for a ContinuityReboot.
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** Percy and James were respectively voiced by Creator/LindaBallantyne and Creator/SusanRoman. This came about fairly late in the movie's production -- both were originally voiced by Creator/MichaelAngelis (then the narrator of the ''Thomas the Tank Engine'' series in the UK), but test audiences thought he sounded too mature for either character. It is often agreed that this change created the issue of [[VocalDissonance making them sound too feminine]].

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** Percy and James were respectively voiced by Creator/LindaBallantyne and Creator/SusanRoman. This came about fairly late in the movie's production -- both were originally voiced by Creator/MichaelAngelis (then the narrator of the ''Thomas the Tank Engine'' series ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' in the UK), but test audiences thought he sounded too mature for either character. It is often agreed that this change created the issue of [[VocalDissonance making them sound too feminine]].

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