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Come Along For Some Wild Rides On The Rails In The All-New DVD THOMAS & FRIENDS®: ANIMALS ABOARD Available On DVD Exclusively At Target September 10, 2013

Available on Digital Download And Video on Demand October 8, 2013 From Lionsgate And HIT Entertainment

Street Date: 9/10/13 DVD SRP: $14.98

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Hop aboard for animal-filled adventures with everyone’s favorite engine Thomas and all his railway friends in Thomas & Friends®: Animals Aboard, arriving on DVD September 10, 2013 from Lionsgate and HIT Entertainment. Thomas & Friends®: Animals Aboard will also be available on Digital Download and Video on Demand on October 8. Featuring five wild, buzzing and furry adventures and timed to the release of the Fisher Price animal-themed toy line, this DVD will be available exclusively at Target for a limited time for a suggested retail price of $14.98. It’s full steam ahead for Thomas, Percy, Henry and the engines as they learn lessons about being kind to animals, doing good deeds and helping friends of all shapes and sizes! SYNOPSIS All aboard as Thomas and his engine friends embark on exciting adventures with some new furry friends! Percy learns to be gentle when meeting some small forest friends and Thomas goes hog-wild trying to be Really Useful for Farmer Trotter. Henry performs a sweet deed in returning Sodor’s special songbird and Thomas must fulfill a tall order when he is asked to deliver the newest animal to Sodor’s Wildlife Center. The engines are busy as bees being Really Useful and helping animals big and small.

Episodes: “Percy's New Friends” “Thomas and the Pigs” “Henry's Good Deeds” “Thomas' Tall Friend” “Buzzy Bees”

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES “Hear the Engines Coming” Karaoke Music Video “Determination Song” Karaoke Music Video

ABOUT THOMAS & FRIENDS Thomas the Tank Engine™ was created by a father for his son nearly 70 years ago and today is enjoyed by families in more than 185 territories and in 30 languages. The #1 blue engine and his friends invite children to enter a world of imagination through the tracks of a train and the words of a story. Children embark on adventures with their engine friends while experiencing timeless life lessons of discovery, friendship and cooperation.

Thomas & Friends is the number one preschool toy license in the US and has been the number one preschool entertainment brand in the US since 20091. The unrivaled popularity of the global brand continues with Thomas also being the number one preschool toy license in Germany and Australia, as well as the number one foreign preschool brand in China, Japan and Korea.

PROGRAM INFORMATION Title Copyright: © 2013 HIT Entertainment Limited. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends™ Based on The Railway Series by The Reverend W Awdry. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and Thomas & Friends are trademarks of Gullane (Thomas) Limited. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and Design is Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. Type: TV on DVD Rating: Not Rated Genre: Children/Family/Ages 2-5 DVD Closed Captioned: English Feature Run Time: 55 minutes DVD Format: 4x3 Full Screen (1.33:1)

1 Source: Nielsen DVD Audio Status: English, Spanish and French 2.0 Dolby Digital Website: www.thomasandfriends.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thomasandfriends Twitter: @TrueBlueEngine

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