Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery

Blue Mountain Mystery is a Thomas & Friends special released on DVD and Blu-ray in September 2012.

Plot
At the Blue Mountain Quarry, Thomas tries to help his new friend, a small engine named Luke, who was hiding in the tunnels of the Blue Mountain Quarry with a big secret.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It is a massive improvement over the previous two specials, and we finally got to have a very original story, as it stayed away from many stupid, and unoriginal ideas.
 * 2) The best part is: They finally bring back the narrow engines after the twelfth season, Skaroley, Rheneas, Rusty, Peter Sam, and Sir Handel (who have had their original personalities restored in this film), which is satisfied many fans who loved the Narrow Gauge engines.
 * 3) It has very memorable quotes, such as "Next stop, right to the bottom!".
 * 4) The idea of a special about the Blue Mountain Quarry, with standard, and narrow gauges is a pretty good idea for a special. In addition, the idea about a nervous narrow gauges engine that has a bad past about the incident is also a good idea.
 * 5) We are introduced to the new great engines in this special that it uses after the special, but not limited to:
 * 6) *Luke is a nervous green Irish narrow gauge saddle tank engine who works primarily at the Blue Mountain Quarry, on the Skarloey Railway. He arrived on Sodor alongside Victor, who at the time was painted yellow and did not speak English. When the ship docked, Luke accidentally bumped into Victor, knocking him off the ship and into the sea. He later gets the amount of character development throughout the movie.
 * 7) *Winston is Sir Topham Hatt's red track inspection car and his private mode of transportation on the North Western Railway. He is willing, helpful and very patient with Sir Topham Hatt's, frankly, terrible driving skills, often reminding him that it is still "early days" whenever something goes wrong.
 * 8) *Merrick is a sleepy, snoring gantry crane, who is stationed at the Blue Mountain Quarry.
 * 9) *Owen is an enthusiastic incline engine, based on a vertical traction boiler, housed at the top of the incline at the Blue Mountain Quarry. From high up above the quarry floor, he gamely takes great pride in his job and never tires in the overseeing of empty slate trucks up the incline, while sending loaded ones down, often announcing the transportation of cargo as he moves it between terraces.
 * 10) Paxton in this special is a likable, young, kind, and gentle diesel that he often brings slate down from the Blue Mountain Quarry to other parts of Sodor, or is sometimes found working at Knapford Yards, and he did learn what really happened to Luke's backstory like Thomas.
 * 11) The way he reacts to being damaged from the collapsing bridge is priceless!
 * 12) Thomas's character is a slight improvement from the previous two specials, and he is slightly likable in this movie.
 * 13) The scene where Thomas and his friends in Tidmouth Sheds at night, where Thomas asks about the worst things an engine could do is, where the engines remember that their flashbacks from the previous early seasons, like A Scarf for Percy, The Sad Story of Henry, Down the Mine and even Diesel's flashback from special Misty Island Rescue, is incredibly memorable.
 * 14) The special's soundtrack, like the previous specials, is still pretty good. Even the song, Working Together, about Thomas and his friends, Narrow Gauges working together at the Blue Mountain Quarry is incredibly memorable and catchy to listen to.
 * 15) Like the first three specials, and as well of its CGI seasons, the CGI animation is still pretty great, even in 2012 standards.
 * 16) We finally get to learn more about Victor's past, Sodor about this huge accident by Luke at the docks.
 * 17) The ending: Sir Topham Hatt, and Mr. Percival welcomes Luke to his railway, and the Fat Controller tells Thomas he is proud of him, and will forgive him for not working on his branch line. Luke is happy for the first time in a long time, and he tells both controllers that Thomas is his hero and his friend. He eventually fixed up and he goes to Luke with Victor who jokes that he has found a yellow engine Rheneas then puffs out of the Steamworks smiling.
 * 18) Excellent narration by the late Michael Angelis and Michael Brandon as usual
 * 19) *In fact, this was the last movie narrated by the late Angelis and Brandon, so they concluded their job as narrator on the Thomas & Friends movies on a high note.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) During the flashback scene where Henry refuses to get out of the tunnel because he was "afraid" of the rain, he was seen in his new shape instead of the old one. This mistake happens in "The Adventure Begins", which makes nothing different.
 * 2) Duncan is the only one of the Skarloey Engines that didn't return in this film since his real life basis, Douglas, was having an overhaul in 2012, which prevented the crew from measuring him alongside the other Talyllyn Railway engines.
 * 3) Thomas, though he is slightly likable in this movie, can be a bit stupid with his own decisions. He wasn't really as bad as he was in "Misty Island Rescue", "Calling All Engines!" or "Day of the Diesels", but he's still not perfect in his role of the movie there. He doesn't go back to his branch line because he was still thinking about Luke, and he stupidly tells the Narrow Gauges wonderful news about the whole story, which make them mad at Thomas for talking about Luke's story, though he was later forgiven by Sir Topham Hatt and the Narrow Gauges, after he found out about the nervous engine.
 * 4) Similar to the case with Hiro in "Hero of the Rails", the idea of Luke hiding is unrealistic in a railway setting...
 * 5) *It's unlikely that none of the drivers, firemen, or quarry workers had told Sir Topham Hatt, or Mr. Percival about Luke.
 * 6) *In addition to the chain, Victor should have had chocks against his wheels while on the ship, which would have prevented him from being knocked overboard.
 * 7) *Surely Luke's driver or a quarry worker could have checked up on Victor and assure he is okay.
 * 8) In the prologue...
 * 9) * The workers were trying to get Rheneas to stop before reaching the collapsing bridge, though they could have just as easily switched him to another line before he got too close.
 * 10) *A worker yells at Rheneas to stop, while waving a green flag!
 * 11) *Peter Sam was closer to the bridge, so he should have been the one to get hit rather than Paxton, who was further away.
 * 12) As typical for the CGI era, the climax involves Thomas doing a dangerous feat that the drivers should not have allowed. In this case, they should not have let Rocky place Thomas on the narrow gauge unloading platform for any reason.  Furthermore...
 * 13) *Owen may be strong, but it's unlikely that he could have lifted Thomas to the upper terrace without any weight on the descending platform to offset that of Thomas.
 * 14) *Once at the top, Thomas rolls to the edge of a cliff, where he hangs halfway off, and Luke comes to rescue him. Considering how much smaller Luke is compared to Thomas, it is unlikely that he would have been able to pull Thomas back all by himself.  It would make more sense if the other narrow gauge engines were to help him.

The Full Movie
>https://youtu.be/L8rNzegAFa8