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Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go

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Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go is an American-Canadian animated children's television series developed by Rick Suvalle that premiered on Cartoon Network's Cartoonito block in the United States on 13th September 2021, on Treehouse TV in Canada on 18th September 2021, and on Milkshake! in the United Kingdom on 8th November 2021.

The series serves as a reboot of the original Thomas & Friends series that ran from 1984 to 2021. It was originally set to be a continuation of the original series (with the two seasons labeled as Seasons 25 and 26 respectively), but Mattel Television later confirmed it to be a separate series. It introduces "an entirely new approach to Thomas & Friends content," with a new animation style and story structure.

Unlike the original series, All Engines Go was developed in North America rather than Europe.

Production

In 2020, Mattel Television announced a new co-production partnership with Corus Entertainment's Nelvana Studio. 104 11-minute episodes and two 60-minute specials were greenlit for the "Thomas & Friends" television series over two seasons. The new format will feature "a new look and story structure", original songs and Thomas as the lead character of every episode.

The series is 2D-animated, allowing the crew to cater to contemporary audiences and introduce more physicality and expressiveness in the characters.

In January 2021, a sizzler trailer was accidently leaked online, revealing the show's official title, All Engines Go.

Due to the massive success of the first season, Mattel announced during their August 2022 press conference that two additional seasons containing 26 11-minute episodes had been greenlit and would carry the franchise through 2025.

Seasons

Movies

Specials

Episodes

(refer to List of Episodes)

Mini-Series

Music Videos

(refer to Music Videos)

Characters

Returning Characters

Characters Introduced

Trivia

  • This series was originally announced as a twenty-fifth season to Thomas & Friends, but is now referred to as a new show. Despite this, this series was never meant to be canon to the original series, as according to Rick Suvalle, Season 25 was simply the title this season was referred to before the name All Engines Go was decided on in mid 2020.
  • The title Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go was trademarked in July of 2020, implying the title was decided upon sometime then.
  • This series marks the first of several things:
    • The first series to have no narration, though like the Big World! Big Adventures! episodes, Thomas still reads the title cards.
    • The first series in which drivers and firemen are not present.
    • The first series animated exclusively in 2D by Nelvana Studio.
    • The first series in which vehicular characters have colored irises.
    • The first appearance of Kirk Ronan and Norramby Beach since the fifth and tenth season of the original show.
    • The first series since the twenty-second season of the original series to feature Whiff in some form.
    • The first series where Sir Topham Hatt is not referred to as "The Fat Controller" in the UK dub.
  • According to Rick Suvalle in a pre-release interview with SiF, All Engines Go was not meant to have the engine characters use their wheels as hands, a creative decision that ultimately didn't pass along with other typical cartoon clichés. It also stated that Thomas would be the main focus character, though in multiple episodes, Thomas has shared the position of the episode's focus with several other characters and in a vast majority of the YouTube shorts doesn't even appear.
  • Nia's Perfect Plan would be the very first episode in All Engines Go to strictly limit Thomas' role to a secondary position, rather than having him co-lead with other characters.
  • Suvalle stated that the episodes of the reboot were meant to air back-to-back in half-hour long broadcast pairings, much like the original series while it was still airing in the US. However, the episodes ended up airing individually in 10-minute timeslots. As a result, the series only features a musical number every 2 episodes.
  • In January 2021, a sizzler trailer for All Engines Go was accidently posted online. This trailer featured some footage that would go unused in the actual show. Some of the footage that went unused includes:
    • An alternate scene from A Thomas Promise that includes Gordon racing to rescue Thomas before he falls into the mud. In the finalized episode, Gordon does not appear in this scene.
    • A shot showing the main cast in the same position they are in for the "Down the hills and round the- woah!" part of the All Engines Go Theme Song, but beside hills instead of at the docks.
    • An alternate scene from A Quiet Delivery when Thomas was making silly faces and noises at the start, except Emily is next to him watching and laughing.
    • Unknown shots of Percy at Knapford, Nia at the farm, Kana by some trees and Diesel running down a hill.
    • Footage of Carly and Sandy building a loop and later Thomas going through it, with all of his friends watching him.
    • Oddly enough, in this trailer, all the engines have different horns and whistles.
    • A scene where Thomas goes crazy while delivering trucks similar to a scene from I'm Gonna Chug.
  • During the second half of the first season, voice actors voicing characters in both the American and British dubs were replaced in the UK.
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