The stop motion and sets are beautiful, but the stories are pretty negative and the engines are cranky with sad and angry faces most of the time. I'm sticking to the new CGI versions from now on. But I'm not sure what year that transitioned exactly.Also the time length of videos is very deceiving. I had to fast-forward through a lot of ads and "propaganda" if you will, before getting to the actually videos themselves. There is a lot of useless footage of people/kids talking about how they love Thomas. We get it already! That why we bought the videos!