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This too would fall in the hands when the audiences made the wild claim that it would somehow be "offensive" and Crone revised his voice to a New Jersey accent.īritt Allcroft revealed that the original voice intended for James and Percy was Michael Angelis, narrator for the UK series from 1991-2012. Canadian actor Neil Crone was then brought in to do the voice of Diesel 10, where he gave him a Russian accent.
But this voice was deemed too frightening by the American test audiences. Sodor Island Forums ended up digging up the information that Diesel 10 was originally voiced by Australian voice actor Keith Scott. The same trailers depicted Diesel 10 with a gruff English upper class accent, as opposed to the New Jersey accent he had in the theatrical release.
Bellis was apparently disappointed by this, and to the point where he refuses to really discuss the matter with fans who have contacted him to ask him about it. Thomas' voice was performed in the final cut by Canadian voice actor Eddie Glenn. ĭespite being flown out to Toronto record all of Thomas' dialogue, American test audiences however thought Bellis' voice made Thomas sound too old and thus John Bellis was canned. The man is exactly how Thomas would sound!" A few days later, she offered John the role, and he accepted. Having only heard him utter a meager few words, Britt knew that John was the right man to voice Thomas himself, turning to tell her colleagues "I have just heard the voice of Thomas.
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During Production, it was widely publicized online that an Isle of Mann cab driver and Volunteer Firefighter named John Bellis was to be the voice of Thomas. Various theatrical and home media trailers of the movie had depicted characters with voices largely differing from their voices in the original cuts. VHS trailer for the film, containing original voices. Thomas and the Magic Railroad - Original UK Trailer (1999) In addition, the test audience made the response that Means' role was hard to understand, Britt Allcroft found this shocking as he hardly was, and he " spoke with the voice of his history". The movie scenes with these cuts were either edited out or altered.
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Boomer is also visible on the back of Diesel 10's cab during the chase scene toward the end ( the original ending had Boomer land on the back of Diesel 10 through the magic buffers).īecause of the cuts, many key scenes that gave Britt Allcroft's original story substance and were filmed with Peter Fonda as Burnett Stone and Russell Means as Billy Twofeathers plus Cody McMains as Patch, were not in the released version because of the references to P.T. The biker clad in an overcoat presents a dark contrast and appears somewhat menacing. Audibly the scene is re-dubbed so that Burnett is giving directions to a lost biker. Coloring books contained references to him by name as well.īoomer was seen in the movie in the form of two cameos, part of his confrontation with Burnett is seen by a distance as Stacy and Lily arrive in their car. This cut was so close to the release, that one of the previews even contained Boomer briefly, falling off the viaduct along with Diesel 10. When audiences complained about him being "too scary" (a weird claim when the secondary villain is literally a Diesel with a giant mechanical claw) he was cut out at the last minute, explaining the laziness of the movie's final cut and Diesel 10 was rewritten as the main villain. He returns now a good forty years later a bitter and dark character, hell-bent on completing his revenge by finding and destroying Lady for good. After the accident, Boomer fled Indian Valley and Burnett spent years trying to restore her but, to no success. Jealous of the relationship that Burnett had with Tasha ( Lily's grandmother), Boomer bullied Burnett into allowing him to take Lady for a run and crashing her as a form of revenge. Boomer is described in the original cut of the script as being "a drifter through choice" and was intended to be Burnett Stone's adversary, the real culprit responsible for why Lady went too fast and crashed, instead of Diesel 10 as altered in the final theatrical version. Boomer's absence from the final film, the plot elements that had been driven by him went unexplained. A major character, P.T Boomer, portrayed by Canadian actor Doug Lennox was originally portrayed as the main villain, but Boomer was deemed too frightening for younger children and therefore was entirely cut out from the film before its release.