Have you heard of the Thomas and Friends YouTube video, Carly and Cranky’s Big Lift Off? Check it out if you haven’t. But there is this story that I have to tell.
One day, I was looking up YouTube to watch the video, when I found this one called “Carly and Cranky’s Big Lift Off (Alternate Version)”. I thought “Is this official or is this just a YTP?”, so I decided to click on it a and it began.
Before I get onto the video, let me talk about the thumbnail first. Instead of showing Cranky smiling in a nasty way, it showed Duncan with Gordon’s mutation from Sodor Fallout (and with pieces of a truck on his front, like Henry from the same AU, for some odd reason). Anyway, back to the video.
The video didn’t start with Thomas opening the doors of his shed and saying "Here comes Thomas!". It instead started with Bulgy screaming with his eyes on fire and smoke coming out of his mouth. Despite this, the video started the same as the original, but near the end, when Cranky lifted Carly, a distorted version of the late Michael Angelis (who sadly passed away in 2020) saying “Then there was trouble, Cranky creaked louder than ever. His crane arm stuttered and jutted, it creaked and it croaked. Then it cracked!” from his narration of Creaky Cranky was heard in the background. Cranky’s arm broke and Carly fell to the ground screaming, causing Sandy to yell “MOMMY!” (Implying Carly is Sandy’s mother).
After that, it cut to black and then showed text saying “It was confirmed Carly died from her injuries.”. It then showed Sandy acting like Toby in Sodor Fallout when he had Fireface, going back and forth like a person going in circles in thought. Thomas, Percy, Nia, Kana and Diesel then watched in shock as Sandy reversed and slammed herself into the arm of the breakdown crane, killing herself instantly. The 5 friends then began sobbing for Sandy.
It then cut to black once again, then a distorted version of the opening theme from No Sleep for Cranky began playing. It also showed several of the engines dying in either Sodor Fallout or Shed 17 ways. Here is the list;
Preston (a character from Thomas: The Trainz Adventures by Ilovetrains323) had Skarloey’s face from Sodor Fallout.
Emily had Percy’s face from Shed 17 after it fell off due to his failed bio-fusion progress.
Luke had Duck’s face from Sodor Fallout after he was killed by Oliver.
Flynn had his eyes bleeding and he was on fire, kinda like Gordon in Shed 17 when his boiler exploded. His image was also a edited version of this screenshot from Too Many Fire Engines.
The video then ended with a black screen for 3 seconds before showing Smudger’s jumpscare from Five Nights at Smudger’s 3 by bigtrevvy.
After watching the video, I was traumatised and thought to myself, “What happened to the Maintenance Yard after Carly and Sandy died? Was it closed or something?” I’ll never know.