Opening/Closing to TUGS - Sunshine/Pirate 1997 Sony Wonder VHS

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen! It's time for another round of TUGS Home Media in the US. For these videos, we're going back to 1997, starting with Sunshine/Pirate. This tape is basically the US version of its UK counterpart from Castle Vision in 1988.

For an alternative backstory for these tapes, Sony Wonder, after releasing their three Series 3 tapes of Thomas the Tank Engine in 1996, discovered Thomas' sister show TUGS, when they were paid a visit from another young adult from the UK, this time an owner of a TUGS video collection. Turns out that the visitor showed them the same tape as it is featured above, along with the next two tapes. Sony Wonder, after watching all three TUGS tapes, also heard from another visiting TUGS fan three weeks later, that Warner Home Video had also brought TUGS to America back in 1991 and 1992, as she showed them from one of her TUGS videos: Regatta/Warrior.    • Opening/Closing to TUGS - Regatta/Warrior ...   At this, the Sony Wonder crew felt that if Warner Home Video could release TUGS in America, surely they could too. What they did was bring the UK counterparts of the five TUGS tapes from Castle Vision in their hands. This would take another two years, especially with TUGS' 2D animated companion "Salty's Lighthouse" was undergoing construction at the time.

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