Thomas & Friends: Track Stars (PlayStation 2)

Track Stars is a video game developed and published for the PlayStation 2 in 2006. Players can pick between six engines to play with: Thomas, Edward, James, Percy, Toby and Emily. They can also color in the engines and give the engineer a name. The color of the engineer in the coloring in effects the color of his sprite in-game. It has three different skill levels for three levels; Game, Race and Explore. The game is narrated by a female announcer. Please do not edit without permission from User:Paul Young.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * James
 * Percy
 * Toby
 * Emily
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Henry (non-playable)
 * Gordon (non-playable)
 * Annie and Clarabel (do not speak)
 * Henrietta (does not speak)
 * Troublesome Trucks (do not speak)

Music
The Thomas & Friends Season 8 theme is played at the title screen. Various sound effects include whistles, puffing, braking, different tones of a selection (e.g. starting a race) 'ding' and a 'fill' effect while colouring the engines.

Starting the Game
The player must pick an engine from Thomas, Edward, James, Percy, Toby or Emily. The player can color-in any engine. In the coloring-in, they can choose what color their engineer's clothes are by coloring them in on the picture.

There is an opportunity to name the engineer after the player's own name.

You must also select a skill level of easy, medium or hard.

Game
To do the various jobs Sir Topham Hatt has asked you to do. Once the job is finished, Sir Topham Hatt will make a comment on speed, and a score will be tallied.

Jobs include Collecting Passengers, Delivering Mail, Finding Freight Cars, Cargo Delivering, Finding Troublesome Trucks and Delivering Coal.

Race
Race to the finish line before the other engine reaches it, the player must keep up with his or her skills and speed (For example, avoid the mud, other engines and balloons that are the color of their opponent's engines and hit the balloons that are the color of their engine).

The first race is against Toby, the second race is against Percy, the third race is against Thomas, the fourth race is against Edward, the fifth race is against James, and the sixth and final race is against Emily. (The characters often switch around depending on the engine the player chooses at the start)

The player's marker is the color of their engine, and the same goes to their opponents.

Winning against three engines will give the player a silver medal and winning against all six will give the player a gold medal and end the game.

Explore
The chance to explore the maps from 'Game' and 'Race' without a timer and points. Players can pick up coaches or freight cars and take them anywhere.

Trivia

 * The gameplay is similar to the Sega Genesis game.
 * The picture for the Game mode is a scene of Thomas at Maron from the eighth season episode, Thomas Gets it Right, the picture for Race is a deleted scene of James passing by Emily while she is rolling her eyes from the movie, Calling All Engines, and the picture for Explore is a deleted scene of Percy passing the windmill, from the eighth season episode, Percy and the Magic Carpet.
 * A few instrumental tracks of songs have been used:
 * During the example of the Game mode, an instrumental of A World Around You is played.
 * During the Game and Explore modes, an instrumental of Emily (song) is played.
 * During the example of the Race mode, an instrumental of Surprises is played.
 * During the Race mode, an instrumental of Ode to Gordon is played.
 * Emily is voiced by a female announcer respectively, while the other characters are voiced by Michael Brandon.

Goofs

 * Barrow is depicted as the station on the North Western Railway, yet it is not part of the Island.
 * Elsbridge is inaccurately called the Airfield Station.
 * Dryaw and Elsbridge stations look inaccurate to their true appearances in the TV series.
 * Edward has Gordon's whistle sound.
 * Emily has Henry's whistle sound.
 * James' wheels are grey when they should be black.
 * Toby's in-game sprite is missing his number.
 * When Emily is going down around bends, the side of her running board changes from chocolate to red.
 * When Annie is facing right and Clarabel left, their sprites are mirrored, meaning both of their names are mirrored as well.