Chuggington
| Chuggington | |
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| Voices of |
Morgan Overton (Series 1-3) Edward Sharpe (Series 4-present) Charlie George (Series 1-3) Toby Davies (Series 4-present) Imogen Bailey Jadie-Rose Hobson Arthur Lee Pax Baldwin Sacha Dhawan David Gyasi Elëna Gyasi Maria Darling Nicole Davis Colin McFarlane Lorelei King Jordan Clarke Angelo Cola Andy Nyman Paul Panting Jill Shilling Steve Devereaux James Naylor |
| Narrated by | Sacha Dhawan |
| Theme music composer | Chris McHale |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 162 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 10 min/4 min |
| Production company(s) | Ludorum plc |
| Distributor | BBC |
| Release | |
| Original network |
CBeebies (UK) Disney Junior (US) |
| Picture format | 16:9 (HDTV/SDTV unknown) |
| Original release | 22 September 2008 – 29 May 2015 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Chuggington: Badge Quest |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Production website | |
Chuggington is a British children's computer-animated television series produced by Ludorum plc. It is broadcast on the BBC children's channel CBeebies and other channels internationally, including in the United States on the Disney Channel and Disney Junior.
In the fictional town of Chuggington are young novice railway anthropomorphic locomotives ('trainees') Koko, Wilson, Brewster, Hoot, Toot and Piper. The trainees learn the value of loyal friendship, telling the truth, listening carefully, persisting under adversity, completing tasks, resolving conflict without violence, and similar values. The locomotives, called "Chuggers", are intelligent, empathetic, independent and somewhat self-directed. They have mobile facial and body features. Chuggers have no crews (yet some have opening crew doors). Chuggers regularly interact with other humans such as passengers and maintenance crews.
The town of Chuggington has a central area of large modern buildings. Side-by-side railway tunnels coloured red, blue, yellow, green under the town centre lead to the outside world. Countryside settings include a farm, a safari park, and a quarry. A ‘Chugston Hotel’ is mentioned. "Old Chuggington", an abandoned old town overgrown with wild vegetation, is visited. The background and scenery are also computer-generated. There are turning-camera and moving-camera shots.
The creative core behind Chuggington is Sarah Ball, a producer and director who worked on Bob the Builder, and Don Toht, who designed the characters and sets. Substantial parts of the animation are done in Shanghai, China by Motion Magic.
The computer animation is made with Autodesk Maya software.
As well as the regular ten-minute episodes, Chuggington: Badge Quest, there are four-minute shows, focusing on the trainees efforts to earn reward badges for their "Chugger" training.
Three Chuggington specials were commissioned for release on DVD from 2013 onwards.
The first series of 52 episodes was sold to broadcasters including the BBC, ABC (Australia), TF1 (France) and Super RTL (Germany) in a deal announced in February 2008. A second series of 26 episodes was purchased by the BBC and many other broadcasters throughout the world. Aimed at children between the ages of 3 and 6, Chuggington made its UK debut as a "soft launch" on BBC Two on 22 September 2008.
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