ThomasNATION Reviews - Blackout!
April 19, 2025
Lots of the engines on the Island of Sodor are steam engines, they run on coal and water. They collect their coal from the coal hopper and they get water from the water tower. But steam engines aren't the only types of engines that ride the rails of the Island Of Sodor since diesel engines get their power to make them go from running on diesel fuel and are driven by turning a lever in the cab. But there's also another type of power that engines can use since there are also modern electric trains who get their power from special cables high up above the tracks from a big arm on the roof of the engine called a pantograph that slides along the cable and collects the electricity. Trains like these are very long and very fast, they can carry a lot of passengers over very long distances...three different trains and three different types of power to make them go. But no matter which type of engine that you prefer rather if it's steam or diesel or electric and even if the engines of the Island Of Sodor aren't always able to get along due to their differences in power, each of them have one goal in common: to be really useful for the North Western Railway. But whenever there's a power shortage, it's always good to know that the engines have each other's backs and are willing to help out however they can...and it would seem that the power has been cut out across all of The Island Of Sodor yet again after a huge storm. Man, the island must have really bad electricians or something...but how will the engines cope with this?
Despite the fact that the moral is something that Thomas has had to learn over and over again during the original television series, I love how this is reinforced by the way that the engines and even their non-rail friends like Harold The Helicopter all find ways to help get the generator to Knapford during the outage without using electricity. We could be in for a shock if you know what I mean...and even if 'Blackout' is pretty much 'No Power, No Problem Part 2', it still managed to shine somewhat brightly with the materials given and that is why I'm giving it a rating of a 2.5/5.
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