If you've met CJ, you know that he loves Thomas the Tank Engine. He has several types of trains (battery-powered, take alongs and lead alongs), books, CDs, DVDs, and clothing. CJ prefers Thomas episodes over any other show. I don't mind because the episodes are short, they are easy to follow, and they always have life lessons. When I need CJ to behave, I tell him that I need him to be a "really useful big boy" and that almost always works. :-)We have an Apple TV, which lets us surf YouTube on our large screen TV. For fun one day, we searched for Thomas and boy were we surprised to find thousands (yes, thousands) of Thomas movies. People rip episodes and put them online. I'm surprised they stay up coz some of them are really good quality and are clearly illegal uploads. Here's Percy's Seaside Trip.
Other people take the original shows and dub them with their own voices, or use their own trains but use the original narrator. There are even episodes created using Microsoft train simulator - here's Thomas visits the Main Line.
Yet other people create their own original Thomas episodes. And some of them are really good! Here's a cute original - Thomas wants to pull the Christmas tree. This kid obviously has a large collection and room to setup the tracks!
What all this means is an endless supply of Thomas episodes for CJ. He knows how to use the remote to get on AppleTV and navigate around. He even knows how to spell Thomas and can do his own searches -- I was stunned when he did this for the first time a couple of months ago. Just shows to show you what a kid is capable of when motivated.
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