The Great Race stuff

I am curious, does one have to manually load Thomas at the top of the jump every time or will he climb to the top by himself? If you have to set him manually then...Whaaat......

Taking a look at what we've seen of this set so far closer, my guess is that the yellow platform at the end of the track will stop Thomas and lift him up, then release him at the top.
Although, looking again, it's still very possible that the set is either still going through prototypes or I'm completely wrong, as it looks like the yellow platform isn't in the set shown in the video on Twitter.