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Bob the Builder (2015)
Bob the Builder, Can we fix it, Mmmm, maybe not (cause Mattel likes ruining franchises)
I did a review on this on my YouTube channel. But Mattel decides to be idiots ruining my other favorite show alongside Thomas & Friends, making it realistic, detailed and creepy looking.
This reboot has TONS of problems, with it being, well, realistic and detailed and it went on for bad episodes, There are some characters (mostly the Can-Do-It Crew except Dizzy) who were flanderized horribly.
Scoop went from a trustworthy and a sensible leader into an unreliable, overexcited, mistake making goofball with a high pitched annoying voice.
Muck went from a silly, yet reliable benefactor into an even stupider idiot who equally screws up everything just like Scoop.
Lofty went from a shy coward, yet friendly at the same time into being, sarcastic, cynical and intelligent and is no longer even scared of anything that much anymore.
Roley has gone from being a chilled-out music lover into an extremely fussy perfectionist making sure everything is smooth and flat.
Mr. Bentley has been reduced into being a bumbling buffoon and is no longer a building inspector anymore, instead, he is Mayor Madison's assistant.
The voice acting for the most part is not very good and they don't capture the same charm as the voices in the original show, they sometimes range from average, to annoying and unfitting for the characters.
Scoop's voice is very annoying to listen to because he sounds way too high pitched and younger, as he sounds like Norman Price from season 6 of Fireman Sam but without a Welsh accent. He even has the exact same voice given for the US dub, rather than a different voice actor.
Muck's new voice is pretty annoying and it makes him sound a lot dumber than he was originally, similar to the new voice that was given to Elvis Cridlington in Season 6 of Fireman Sam.
Roley's new voice sounds way too high pitched to the point it sounds like he sucked out some helium from a balloon inflator.
Lofty seems to have a Cornish accent in the UK dub for some reason.
Dizzy's US voice sounds far too high pitched and comes off as just grating.
The CGI in Seasons 1-2 were alright (minus the realistic tone before it got even worse in Season 3 when DHX Media took over
The characters redesigns look weird, unappealing and creepy looking
Bob's redesign is terrible and it looks absolutely nothing like his character design in the original show, as he seems to be way younger than he was before and he clearly looks like a teenager cosplaying as Bob the Builder.
Wendy's redesign is also bad too, because much like Bob, she looks way younger than her original counterpart and she looks absolutely nothing like her design in the original show.
The designs for the machines in particular look very lazy and generic compared to their designs in the original series, and they feel a lot more emotionless and are very creepy to look at unlike their original designs.
Continuing on with the designs of the machines, they feel like they are trying way too hard to make the machines have similar character designs as the ones in Thomas & Friends, but it doesn't work at all because even though the designs in Thomas & Friends work because that show was initially meant to be taken as realistically as possible, the designs for the machines in this reboot do not fit with the realistic character designs as they were never supposed to look realistic in the original show.
Pilchard's redesign doesn't really work well due to her out-of-place blue colour, even though she was blue in the original show, her blue colour in the reboot looks out of place due to the realistic approach the reboot tries to take.
The reboot misunderstands everything that made the original TV series a classic and its grasp on the original source material is pretty much non-existence and it has absolutely nothing in common with the original show; Bob, Wendy and the machines no longer live in a little quiet town like Bobsville anymore, and instead now live in a giant busy city named Spring City, Bob, Scoop and Wendy all seem to be a lot younger than they were in the original show, nearly all of the characters bare little-to-no resemblance to how they looked in the original show and many of the past characters from the original series like Spud (the fan favorite), Travis, Scrambler, Benny, Scratch, Gripper and Grabber, Scruffty and plenty of other characters were either replaced or just removed entirely for no reason whatsoever.
The reboot also never tries to bring back any of the aforementioned characters, the only character that comes close to being brought back was Farmer Pickles in "Barn Building Bedlam" (but even then, he only gets a small cameo and he isn't even voiced by his original voice actor, despite Rob Rackstraw coming back to the cast to voice him).
The new characters appear out of nowhere with no explanation to where they all came from, and no introductory episode whatsoever. Not to mention a good majority of the new characters introduced in this reboot are just clones of characters from the older series.
"Two-Tonne is Packer and Tumbler".
"Tread is Scrambler".
"Shifter is Trix".
"Thud is Rubble".
"Rocky is Scratch and Benny".
"Picksy is Flex".
"Stretch is Gripper/Grabber".
Roley and Dizzy are now moved as side characters without any reason in placement of Leo and Two-Tonne, two characters that are already pointless to the series. While it's great that Dizzy and Roley weren't forgotten entirely by HiT Entertainment or Mattel (unlike Spud), it's still not the same.
It is quite similar to how Edward and Henry from Thomas & Friends were moved as side characters during the Big World! Big Adventures! Era, which wasn't the best decision just because both engines moved out of Tidmouth Sheds for the sake of Nia and Rebecca living over, but at least they had their reasons why they moved out of Tidmouth Sheds (mainly Edward's case), and at least both characters appeared sporadically. With Roley and Dizzy, however, it's mostly likely that both Mattel and HiT Entertainment had little to no care for them.
Each plot for the episodes are very generic and predictable, to the point where it you know exactly what is going to happen in every episode; It starts off with the team being set out on a job, then they start to build, the focus character of the episode comes with an idea that screws everything up and the project collapses, the character responsible for the mistake apologizes, and then they rebuild it all over again. Most of the time, it gets extremely repetitive and makes the episodes feel like the same exact thing. Even if they are not using the same formula over and over again, either make the episode have no story whatsoever, make the episode use the infamous three-strike formula that was already repetitive in other shows (mainly in Seasons 12-16 of Thomas & Friends), or they rehash an episode from the original series, as mentioned earlier.
The reboot has a share load of bad episodes, such as:
"Sky-High Scoop" (which started the series on a sour note)
"Milkshake Mix-Up"
"Kitchen Whizz"
"Where's Pilchard?"
"Bob's Band"
"Bob's First Build"
"Grid Block"
"Lofty Lets Loose"
"Scoop's Big Break"
"Winter in Spring"
"Muck on Ice"
"Cats & Dogs"
"Dino Park"
"Lights! Camera! Leo!"
"Ballroom Blitz"
"The Big Bang"
"Wendy's Big Surprise"
"Crane Pain"
"Dino Coaster"
"Roley's Speech"
"End of the Line"
"Car Wash"
"Fly Away Ghost" (which ended Season 1 on a sour note)
"Drive Thru Disaster"
"Super Scoop"
"Apples Everywhere"
"TV or Not TV"
"Shifter's New Garage"
"Bobcat Bridge"
"Speedway Scoop"
"Lofty's Playground Problem"
"Dog Disaster"
"Scoop's Big Oops"
"Canal Chaos"
"Bridge Over Trouble"
"What's Opera, Muck?" (which is the most infamous episode and is considered to be the worst of the third season)
Muck is now male in US dub of the show, even though this can be considered a good quality because Muck was originally male in the UK dub, which meant that Mattel finally corrected his gender for viewers in the US. However, the main problem with this is that Muck was female in the US dub of the original show. Because of this, it will probably confuse fans (like me since I'm from the US) who grew with the US dub of the original show who remember Muck for being a female character.
So what's good about this god-awful reboot series.
Despite the realistic approach it tries to take, the reboot at least still focuses on its main premise about construction and building, which is notable by the fact that the building montages are still present in the reboot, unlike Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!, which tried to be as different as possible from its original premise.
The theme song remix (while not as good as the original theme song) is kind of catchy.
Wendy, Dizzy and Bob himself, despite their terrible redesigns, are still likable characters.
On that topic, the flanderized characters (Scoop, Muck, Lofty, Roley, and Mr. Bentley) can still be tolerable sometimes.
While most of the voice acting is poor, some of it can come off as decent or tolerable, such as the voices for Bob, Wendy, Dizzy, and a few other characters.
On top of that, Scoop and Muck at least look closer to their original designs than the rest of the machines do.
Some episodes can be considered decent or even good, such as:
"New Years Spectacular" (which ended the reboot on a high note, as another new Bob the Builder reboot with the return of the original designs from 1998 is yet to be announced and could save the franchise)
"Can't Runaway Runway"
"Fitness Frenzy" (depending on your view)
Overall, This New Bob The Builder CGI 2015 Reboot was terrible, at least they cancelled it with Season 3
Score: 0.5/10 (even though IMDb makes me give it a 1/10)
Bob the Builder (1997)
This show is great, It's better then the reboot
I wish this original show was on, It's filled with cute and likeable characters
Scoop is a trustworthy and a sensible leader
Muck is a silly, yet reliable benefactor
Dizzy is, energetic, know-it-all cement mixer
Lofty is a shy coward, yet friendly at the same time
Roley is a chilled out music lover
The stop motion animation is much beautiful, great detail, great everything
Original show, 9/10
Project, Build it 10/10,
Ready, Steady, Build (which the CGI animation, while good, it can look a bit stiff and robotic at times. I don't like how they talk using their grill mouths in R,S,B 7.5/10 possibly.
Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor (2017)
0 real story
Not a fan of this pointless movie, and I think this movie was weird was because of the bankruptcy of Arc Productions, HiT has turned themselves into Mattel, and has now done a lot worse with the franchise, and this movie was overrated, Beresford is one of the most ridiculous characters in history, they could've cut his appearances here and in Thomas and the Royal Engine, Merling is the Best experimental engine, Theo is shy and moves like he's having a breakdown, Lexi is unbelievably annoying, and Hurricane and Frankie and not great villains, the pacing was bad
6.5/10.
Thomas & Friends: The Great Race (2016)
I'm not really impressed with this movie
This movie is overrated and unimpressing, after I loved the 2015 specials, it all falls flat, this movie is a mixed bad, mediocre and weird pacing, and that's about it
4.2/10.
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure (2015)
I have no words, this was another amazing movie
I loved this movie, I loved the characters, Marion, Oliver, Toad, Jack, Alfie, Oliver the Excavator, Max and Monty, and others along with the Small Railway engines and everything about it is pretty good
10/10.
Thomas & Friends: The Adventure Begins (2015)
This movie is the best movie of the entire Thomas and Friends franchise
Reverend Wilbert Awdry will be very proud of you Andrew Brenner, What a movie, easily on my Top 10 favorite movies, the characters visuals are very amazing, and the animation, look at it, it's beautiful, it's look like a Pixar movie, and I'm very pleased with Andrew Brenner work, only one slight problem is that they couldn't make an old shape Henry, instead they kept the new shape Henry and put it in the Adventure Begins for some reason, and that's all
100/10. Worth watching at the highest level.
Thomas & Friends: Tale of the Brave (2014)
Another good movie
This movie was pretty good, same with the new characters, they brought Bill and Ben back, nearly everything is good
the new character are likable like I said
Good pacing quality
and everything
8.2/10.
Thomas & Friends: King of the Railway (2013)
I liked it surprisingly
I was expecting it to be even worse since the animation is not so good as the animation in season 13-16, but i acting quite liked it, the pacing is good, same with the characters
8/10.
Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery (2012)
HiT Redemmed
This movie is a huge improvement to the HiT era, they finally knew what there were doing (especially after the controversy with Misty Island Rescue and Day of the Diesels, they finally fixed the narrow gauge engines, (however in my review, I incorrectly said that they matured Skarloey's voice too much), I actually think Skarloey in BMM was portrayed very well in the movie, Nice job HiT
10/10.
Thomas & Friends: Day of the Diesels (2011)
Another Garbage Movie
This movie is another mediocre garbage movie, I can't believe how much HiT/Mattel continued to be bad at the writing, that's it, not much to say
1.5/10.
Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2009)
It's pretty good
This movie is more cinematic, and the animation is fine, but the lighting is pretty dull and kinda weird, and it introduces an unforgettable new character called Hiro
7.6/10.
Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery - The Movie (2008)
Very decent and improved
I like this movie, I wanna review it on my YouTube Channel soon, but this movie is much better than Calling All Engines, the songs are improved, and it doesn't have the boring learning segments, HiT/Mattel honestly wanted bad eras to end on a decent note, I like the Great Waterton set, and the pacing is pretty good
7.5/10.
Thomas & Friends: Calling All Engines! (2005)
Calling All Boredom
It's not so good, even though it's called Calling All Engines, they don't have all engines like Boco, Bill and Ben or others, and the learning segments make it boring
3.2/10.
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)
I'm not sure what to think
Was it Bad, cause I know it didn't do well at a box office, at least it's not canon to Thomas (cause of everything being too American, and magic, and the live action humans), the film has poor voice acting (mostly for the engines).... and that's it, sorry for such a short review
Honestly I had no idea how low I would rank Thomas and the tragic Failroad, I was thinking maybe a 0.5 or a 1/10, but since I can't decide, I'll just give it a 0.75/10.
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Classic Thomas and the Brenner Era is pretty good
Classic Thomas (seasons 1-6) is a good era, the characters are likeable and charming, they portrayed them very well, 9.9/10
HiT Era (seasons 7-12) is a pretty bland era, it's poorly executed, and same with writing 5.5/10
Miller Era (seasons 13-16 is another bland era, same problem with the HiT era, HiT didn't know what they were doing, 3 or 4/10
Brenner Era (season 17-21) is my second favorite era, it brings back the charm of Thomas and friends, and that's about it 9/10
BWBA Era (season 22-24) is an embarrassing and disappointing era, Edward, Henry, and Toby are removed from the steam team and are replaced by Nia and Rebecca, which is such lazy writing, 2.4/10
I did a review on all 5 of those eras on my Youtube channel, so I guess the Thomas franchise is an 8.2/10-ish.
Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! (2018)
100% Stupid
Mattel, has seriously crossed the line, changing the show into BWBA and then All Engines Go! Makes zero sense, Nia is very unlikable, she replaces Edward, and I have zero pity for her, Rebecca from Season 22 to 24 is unlikable too, and replaced Henry, and I have zero pity for her too
this movie is like a 3.2/10 and Seasons 22-24 get a 2.4/10, very dumb.
Thomas & Friends: Race for the Sodor Cup (2021)
A Stupid Movie
This movie is not good, it is literally a rehash of the great race, this most overrated movie in existence, the characters are horrible, and the new electric twin diesels and forgettable and bland
0/10, Don't watch this at all costs, or better yet, stop watching All Engines Go!
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go (2021)
THIS REBOOT IS HORRIBLE
I did a review/rant about this on my YouTube Channel, but MATTEL IS EVIL, this was not what I was expecting, I thought they would bring back the brenner era, but nope, they didn't, AND PEOPLE..... NEED....... TO....... STOP........ DEFENDING.........THIS.........REBOOT, it sucks, here's why
1. Thomas, Percy, Nia, and Diesel are now butchered as babies
2. Gordon is now portrayed as a father figure
3. They ruined Carly as a crane engine, they put her crane head is a running/chassis/wheels
4. Kana and Sandy and very unlikeable, Kana/Koko 2.0 is a purple dildo who is a ripoff of Koko from Chuggington, Sandy is Carly's bouncy hyper baby
5. Edward and Henry are now called those trains and have 0 speaking roles, same with Emily
More bad stuff
This reboot is an automatic 0/10 don't watch this at all, it's a complete waste of time, and let's hope it gets cancelled soon.