Paul Thomas Backes

The Flying Kipper - S1-E19

Visible crew/equipment: As Henry approaches the green signal, the edge of the set is seen in the distance.

Paul Thomas Backes

James and the Trouble with Trees - S5-E5

Revealing mistake: In the end of the episode, you can see James doesn't have his face fitted on correctly, as the gap between it and his eyes appears to be exposed.

Paul Thomas Backes

Revealing mistake: In the scene where Luigi offers his service to Van and Minny, Guido is juggling wheels. But when Guido finishes, you can see over his right lift that his one of his wheels is not rendered correctly, as it seems to overstep his bodywork.

Paul Thomas Backes

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Mater and Lightning enter Buckingham Palace, you can see a mountain as you look in the background. But when Finn and Holley enter while Lightning and Mater are moving closer to the Queen, the mountain has now become a tall building.

Paul Thomas Backes

Continuity mistake: When McQueen rides on the wall to pass Rusty Cornfuel and Floyd Mulvihill, he passes Winford Bradford Rutherford and Sage VanDerSpin and goes straight to Slider Petrolski. However, past him are Todd Marcus, Ernie Gearson, and Winford Bradford Rutherford again, making it look as if there were two RPM cars with the same exact body, but there aren't.

Paul Thomas Backes

Cranky Bugs - S5-E1

Plot hole: When Cranky drops his load by Thomas' flatbeds, all four tracks end in the shed behind him, so it should've be impossible for Thomas to first approach Cranky from that direction as it is shown on the screen.

Paul Thomas Backes

Horrid Lorry - S5-E2

Continuity mistake: When Lorry 1 returns after falling into the sea, he is covered in algae and seaweed even though he wasn't submerged. He gains some more of it when Thomas sees him.

Paul Thomas Backes

Lady Hatt's Birthday Party - S5-E4

Continuity mistake: When George crashes, the Fat Controller falls into the ditch head first, but in the following shot he is sinking feet first.

Paul Thomas Backes

Revealing mistake: In the overhead shot of Gordon waiting for Spencer at Knapford Station, you can see that the bushes on the far left track aren't rendered properly, as they appear to overlap the rails.

Paul Thomas Backes

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Percy is talking to Stephen, Thomas reverses down the track he has arrived on and stops. But when Percy leaves, Thomas has mysteriously disappeared. Also, the track Thomas was on ends at some buffers behind him and leads to the turntable in front of him, but that was set to Percy's line.

Paul Thomas Backes

Continuity mistake: In the close-up of "Petrol" Pulaski giving Winford Bradford Rutherford some oil, the RPM crew chief is white. But in the scene showing all of the pit crews, he is yellow.

Paul Thomas Backes

Continuity mistake: Tony Trihull appears when Finn McMissile begins chasing Professor Z. It also shows when Tony uses his magnet. When it is used, Finn's equipment are pulled by the magnet, which includes his bullets. Those bullets are black when all of them were going out. However, when they are pulled onto the magnet they are grey.

Paul Thomas Backes

Toby and the Flood - S5-E10

Factual error: The dam was built concaved from the water it holds back, but it would have been built convex in order to do so.

Paul Thomas Backes

Other mistake: In London, the red telephone boxes seen are human-sized, so it is impossible for them to be big enough for the cars to even get into.

Paul Thomas Backes