Holiday Express is a US and Canadian DVD release featuring one restored third series episode narrated by George Carlin and one seventh series episode, two eighth series episodes, one tenth series episode and one eleventh series episode narrated by Michael Brandon.
It was released in the UK under the title Christmas Express containing two eighth and ninth series episodes and one tenth and eleventh series episodes. The Malaysian and Indonesian releases contain the same episodes, though they both use the US title.
It was released in Taiwan containing one first series episode, one second series episode, one third series episode, one fifth series episode, one sixth series episode, and one seventh series episode.
It was released in Hong Kong containing five episodes from the eighth series, three from the ninth series, and one from the eleventh series.
It was released in Thailand containing two episodes from the eighth series, two from the ninth series, and two from the tenth series narrated by Michael Angelis.
The Portuguese release contains six episodes from the fourteenth series.
Description
US/Malaysia
All aboard for snowmen, Christmas trees and festive train rides! When you ride the rails with your jolly friends, you never know what to expect. Enjoy exciting adventures filled with lucky trucks, Christmas puddings, surprise parties and much, much more. Join Henry, Emily, Percy, and Thomas for trainloads of fun in the Holiday Express!
UK
All aboard for snowmen, Christmas trees, and festive train rides! When you ride the rails with your jolly friends, you never know what to expect. Enjoy exciting adventures filled with lucky trucks, Christmas puddings, surprise parties and much, much more. Join Henry, Emily, Percy, and Thomas for trainloads of fun in the Christmas Express!
Episodes
US/CAN
- Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure
- Snow Engine
- Henry's Lucky Day
- Don't Tell Thomas
- Thomas, Emily and the Snowplough
- Thomas' Frosty Friend
UK/Malaysia/Indonesia
- Thomas, Emily and the Snowplough
- Don't Tell Thomas
- Keeping Up with James
- Skarloey the Brave
- Thomas' Frosty Friend
- Henry's Lucky Day
Taiwan
- Thomas' Christmas Party
- Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree
- Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure
- Snow
- Jack Frost
- Snow Engine
China
- Emily's Adventure
- Thomas, Emily and the Snowplough
- Percy and the Magic Carpet
- Don't Tell Thomas
- The Magic Lamp
- Keeping Up with James
- Skarloey the Brave
- Henry's Lucky Day
Thailand
- Thomas, Emily and the Snowplough
- Don't Tell Thomas
- Keeping Up with James
- Skarloey the Brave
- Thomas' Tricky Tree
- Duncan's Bluff
Portugal
- Henry's Magic Box
- James is Left in the Dark
- Diesel's Special Delivery
- A Winter Wish
- The Snowman Party
- The Christmas Party at Misty Island
Song
US Bonus Features
- Game: Sodor Sounds from Steamies vs. Diesels
- Game: Cargo Challenge from It's Great to Be an Engine!
Trivia
- The filedates of the US DVD show that it was finished on August 22, 2009.
- The Universal reprint was also finished on August 14, 2014.
- The DVD description mentions "Christmas puddings." This may mean that Not So Hasty Puddings was intended to be on the DVD, but was removed.
- The UK title is used for Thomas and Percy's Mountain Adventure.
- This is the first release to feature the restored version of Thomas and Percy's Mountain Adventure where the footage is cut to sync up with the narration.
- Henry's Lucky Day uses the eighth to tenth series intro and end credits in the US DVD.
- Oliver's face is edited in the US chapter selection menu.
- The UK DVD was originally scheduled to be released on 29 November 2010, but the DVD's release date was brought forward to 8 November. However, Amazon currently states 29 November as the release date.
- If watching with the French audio track, Snow Engine features the original Mike and Junior score.
- If watching with the Spanish or French audio track, the instrumental track for Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure plays like the one on the echo version of the Percy's Ghostly Trick VHS.
- This is the last DVD of the 2000's in the US.
- This is the only US DVD to feature Henry's Lucky Day.
- The Portuguese cover has a CGI Thomas edited over the model Thomas, this is most likely because all the episodes featured on the DVD are from the fourteenth series.
- This is the last Christmas DVD with model series episodes to be released in the US. It's also the only one not to be distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Goofs
- On the Malaysian VCD back cover, Thomas is duplicated, but the half of it.
- The music in the eighth to eleventh series ending credits are low pitched similar to Railway Friends, High Speed Adventures and Team Up With Thomas on the US DVD.
