…all you had to do was look up who the actress was and look at pictures of her, you researched everything except that extremely important thing yet were quick to jump to racism claims
Wonderful video Adam! Was so "lucky" to experience this whole journey watching and editing this show with you. I won't forgive you for making me watch Space Place though, that's 30 minutes of my life I'm never getting back 🐦
The concept of The Transporters portraying emotions isn't a bad thing, it does have a potential to help autistic children understand how people are feeling irl, but using real people to play the faces of the vehicles really didn't work.
It practically makes Series 12 of Thomas look like Vincent Van Gogh compared to this. As an autistic person myself this did NOT do the objective that it was looking for. The objective and aim is there but it was executed poorly. I live in Australia though so my mother had to order this DVD online.
A TTTE knock-off made by Borat's cousin and narrated by General Melchett? You really, REALLY can't make this stuff up. Congratulations on 25,000 subs. Well deserved.
"Dude, Underground Ernie and Jay Jay the Jet Plane are so creepy! I can't imagine a show creepier than the-" Cable Car: "Sorry am I late to the party?"
The only thing I can think of when seeing the animation and the faces is "Face Raiders" from the Nintendo 3DS which also put faces on 3D models in a similar way.
I remember my mum showing me the transporters to help me understand emotions. We were both horrified by the animation. Let’s just say she doesn’t call the Thomas faces creepy anymore.
funnily enough, my dad considered the Transporters as a family dollar version of Thomas the Tank Engine and Chuggington combined and more creepy also I feel like the premise of the Transporters could inspire one of the theories from a certain infamous video
What do you get when you take the animation from Underground Ernie, cut the budget in half, and then ask your buddies to help you play around with a green screen? Oh, and did I forget to mention you were hammered and stoned all at once while making it? You get this
I admit; ignoring the faces, I love the models of the characters. If they had TTTE faces and were real machines instead of models, then they would be pretty neat additions to Sodor. The funicular carriage Oliver could be a member of the funicular railway at Skarloey Station. Those sky trams could run along the coastline near the little western with the boat being stationed at Skarloey Lake. The electric trams could run the tramway in Vicarstown, with the old tractor and modern bus also in that general area.
As a kid who got given this, I didn't think much of it, and went back to my Thomas addiction, which thankfully my parents understood and were fine with. Now as an adult though, this is the perfect example of: Tell us you don't have lived experience, without telling us you don't have lived experience. Honestly, even if Awdry wasn't autistic, maybe we should say he is, just so maybe autistic products can be made by people with lived experience, because the 'alternative' never seems to work
The design of these trains look like a Thomas Creepypasta. No seriously, I can practically FEEL them sprouting skeletal arms and crawling around any second now
As an Autistic person myself, thank GOD I got my Autism diagnosis in 2008. If I had it just a few years earlier, *I would've had to suffer with this....*
It was my living on another continent that saved me since I was a 2003 diagnosis. Thomas was all I needed, and if my burning childhood hatred of Jay-Jay the Jet Plane proves anything, I probably would’ve smashed the Transporters disc and buried it in the yard.
I can always tell the difference between content made for autistic kids by autistic/neurodivergent adults and content made for autistic kids by non-autistic/neurotypical adults, and Thomas was of the former while this just screams of the latter in a way that feels incredibly patronising and out of touch.
@@Wojti2000ZapasoweI don’t think so either personally. Loving railways doesn’t automatically make you autistic. But it should be noted that autism awareness was basically non-existent before the 80s.
@@mrviking2mcall212 I agree, I am especially sceptical towards this, because liking railways doesn't make you autistic' there's a whole community of train enthusiasts and I bet half of them are just passionate non-autistic people that just love trains, their history and all that stuff. For me it's just a regular hobby, like liking cars or airplanes or ships. Half of my scepticism towards the idea of Awdry being autistic is also the fact that since 2020 or, so people have ben really equating pretty much any passions and hobbies with "having autism". I even saw people saying that 19th century people which categorized insect species in biology books were autistic so... yeah. Im not denying autism exists, of course i don't, i interact with autistic people every day, it's just that diagnosing everyone with autism because they have a hobby is uncool. Autism is a very complicated thing, and having a passionate hobby does not an autist make.
If this was supposed to teach emotions to the autistic, then it worked, because I have a ton of emotions for watching this travesty; disgust, confusion, annoyance, unease...
Sees title: (Laughs in Mighty Express) FYI Adam, that bet for the Mighty Express review of yours for me to make the Underground Ernie review for Season 3 of Wak’s World is still on
I do like the concept of the Transporters and what it was trying to do. Also I think Stephen Fry as the narrator is probably my favourite part of this. But where this series falls flat is the faces themselves. Had they been animated instead of placing live actors' faces on I think the creepy factor would be a lot lower. I will say Jamie has probably the best layout ever.
Exactly. Like I get the intention and what not. But did they not ask a single autistic person? Or FUCK, anyone?! Autism doesn't negate your ability to sense the Uncanny Valley.
@@thekeybladeninjaturtle7380 I remember hearing about that from Red Raptor Writes in his March of the Dinosaurs review (which was also narrated by Stephen Fry).
If The Transporters was remade with the same CGI facial animations as in The Space Place, then the series would've been seen as a cult classic by many people instead of a laughing stock where everyone only remembers the creepy faces and nothing else from the show.
26:52 You cannot convince me he didn’t just add a tiny British Accent to his ‘Transporters’ voice when he was voicing Henry, this line sounds almost exactly like Henry in that Glow-in-the-Dark episode
Holy crap, I didn't imagine this abomination when I was in kindergarten/1st, it actually exists! And the worst thing about this is that I still remember it after watching onced, while it was being played on a barely functional browser site.
And I thought Chuggington, All Engines Go and Nighty Express were very cursed but I owe those two shows a big apology after seeing the transporters. Also love the cameos from Victor Tanzig, Tons of Trackmaster, TTTE Guy and The Unlucky Tug
As someone who is on the autism spectrum, I guarantee that any child who is also on the spectrum would be terrified of the uncanny faces. And I thought Jay Jay the Jet Plane looked freaky. Also, has there ever been a good kids' show made by an ex-teacher?
I remember to see a thomas the tank engine reference in amphibia In a certain episode the characters go to the cinema and theres a poster for a horror movie called trains with faces, and seeing the poster is clearly a thomas parody
I get what Simon was going for, but as an actual autistic person myself, IDK the ultra simple & boring plots of both this show & The Space Place(ESPECIALLY the latter) feel kinda insulting. The former at least had some more interesting episodes like the one where Sally has to get rescued from falling & it goes for an intense tone, but then there are episodes where a character just feels happy at the beginning, becomes unhappy afterwards for a simple reason, then becomes happy later on. ROLL CREDITS. The Space Place meanwhile had an episode involving decoration & the episode was just the characters doing literally nothing before Bernard decides that his random video footage is worth putting on the TV, which makes the others happy. Like, this isn't teaching them emotions, it's basically insulting the fact that they're autistic without the intention of it being insulting! TTTE did the whole easily identifiable faces thing FAR better than this show due to the faces being less creepy. Heck, IMO, the CGI seasons with the moving faces makes it better as sense the characters now have individual voices in that era, it can further help autistic folks like me know who's who. Heck, let's go to Looney Tunes for a better example of easily identifiable faces... or in this case, entire CHARACTERS. Each character in the original shorts has smooth animation & their emotions are exaggerated at points, which showcase a big advantage with 2D animation. Whenever a character screams, their scream LOUDLY & they have wild takes, which are essentially reaction shots gone, well... WILD: Their mouths drop, sometimes to the floor, their eyes are going out of their sockets, their bodies are moving erratically, they may even be floating in midair even! Other times like with Wile E. Coyote, the character would pull up a sign saying "HELP" or "THIS IS GONNA SUCK". Combine all of this with the smooth(well, not always) & quick animation, that's gonna let them know that they're scared about what's gonna happen(though those things are also a big part on why the original shorts are so funny to me & many others). Best of all, each character has a distinct design that, even in another artist's style, can still be recognized. Daffy Duck with his ring collar & black fur all around, Bugs Bunny's gray fur aside from a white oval on the front, Road Runner's lanky & round body with hair pointing to the right side of the screen alongside a tall & fluffy tail, among others. Aside from that, the situations, while fantastical & absurd, gave these characters more interesting reasons to have such emotions, like Daffy feeling a bit jealous over Bugs being the main star, Yosemite Sam wanting to blow Bugs up with his many guns no matter what happens, Wile E. Coyote feeling angry whenever the Road Runner goes right through the trap while he gets hoist by his own traps, etc. This is especially because the high quality animation, great pacing & clever humor do a great job at SHOWING the characters feeling such emotions & what happened to have caused them rather than TELLING. The end result is a series of awesome, well thought shorts for an autistic kid like me to watch whenever they were shown on Cartoon Network. Meanwhile this show & The Space Place are like, LET'S TELL THE AUDIENCE THAT THIS CHARACTER IS FEELING HAPPY LIKE IT'S SOME CHILDREN'S BOOK, which just feels *incredibly* lazy. At least when TTTE did this, the writing was more clever so that they weren't just saying something basic & instead had some legitimate thought & passion put into it to make the characters feel more believable(though even this show had some duds in that department, especially in seasons 9-16). Overall, I feel that the folks who made it should've learned the lesson of "Show, don't tell" or at LEAST have the narrator writing have more weight instead of what they went with & have more of actual plots so to speak.
bit of a tangent, but you made me realize, maybe Team Fortress resonates with autistic people subconsciously for the same reasons? All the characters are designed to be recognizable from silhouettes alone, feature exaggerated personalities and due to being in a firefight, shout/scream all the time. And in the promotional videos, they're well animated, and you can tell their emotions from their faces and actions. Maybe the jokes about the TF2community being mainly autistic after all these years was because they accidentally created a property that ticked all the boxes in appealing to them?
I wonder if the title “The Transporters”, was deliberately chosen in a “honestly not intended to be confused with ‘The Transformers’ but won’t hurt sales if it was” kind of way? 🧐 “The Transporters, it will hurt your eyes, human-faced trams n boats n cable-cars will creep you out, with their expressions! The Transporters, please don’t ask us why… The Transporters, starring Stephen Fry! The Transporters!”
Well, it was given away for free by the british government wasn't it? So why would they worry about marketablity? It clearly wasn't on their mind when going with the faces.
What i do like about Space Place is how all the main characters have various backgrounds Neil and Julie are American, Nancy is Australian, Chen is Chinese, Rakesh is Indian, Phillipe is French, Bernard is British and Yuri is Russian
I'm assuming Neil is named after Neil Armstrong, and Yuri is Yuri Gagarin, can't place Bernard, but I'm assuming it's something to do with Bernard's star?
29:00 Ok so back in 2010 when I was 7/8, I was watching The Transporters (US Dub) in school since I have autism. I wasn't really bothered by the human faces, but the Quizzes on the DVD removing the faces on questions relating to something happening in each episode actually gave me legitimate nightmares and I was really scared to go to sleep sometimes, because I'd imagine something like say, Dan growing a really scary face after I stare at his faceless head for a long time. By now I've sentence-mixed the Narrator to straight-up say curse words lol
I remember seeing this once when I was a kid and was somewhat off-put by the superimposed faces. Glad I grew up with Thomas rather than this unsettling show.
6:23 If you want an actually good kid show that is also narrated by Stephen Fry, just stick with the first two seasons of Pocoyo instead of this abomination
When I was about 8 or 9 I was diagnosed with what at the time was labeled Asperger’s Syndrome… which is now considered part of the more general “Autism Spectrum”… I would have run out of the room screaming watching this. It would have given me nightmares.
@@randomscb-40charger78 Nah, atleast the Transporters isn't insulting me and telling my parents to put me in a chokehold if I raise my voice by a decibel.
Huh. My mother and I were wondering what it was that was so familiar about these characters. I had _Sharkboy and Lavagirl_ on DVD growing up; watched it all the time.
Imagine if they add this monstrosity to shed 17 and some dude who coincidentally work for HIT logistic got gifted with a fleshy faced model trained similar to the show and gave it to his kid only to water board them in a bath tub
I’m just wondering how Jammie managed to get a giant model railway layout in his room, either his parents are rich or he saved a ton of money. Also the show would be funny if you showed this to someone some of the scenes out of context
ERROR - Jennie is NOT blackface! She was played by Sarah Hope who was in Razzle Dazzle on BBC. I will post a short expainning everything tomorrow!
Compare the nose shapes! NOT THE SAME! People should look at specific parts of her appearance before saying "RACIST THIS SHOW IS RACIST AUUGGAHHA"
Hey Can you please do a review of Bob the Builder Ready Steady Build?
…all you had to do was look up who the actress was and look at pictures of her, you researched everything except that extremely important thing yet were quick to jump to racism claims
@@JimHenson70the nose, cheeks, and dreadlocks: it’s pretty freaking clear it wasn’t blackface yet it was claimed
It says gullible on the ceiling
Mega jealous of that kid with that huge layout in his room. Even I couldn't get working water on my own...
Great video, and glad to be apart of it!
Love your videos Tug, and it was an honour to edit your face onto Bakerloo from Underground Ernie. Keep up the good work! ERNIEEEE
@@TTTE_Guy Stop, TT :(ernie)
WAIT WHAT!
There are so many big UA-camrs I love in this one comment string and then I had to come along and ruin it with my measly 8 subscribers
THE UNLUCKY BAKERLOO?
Wonderful video Adam! Was so "lucky" to experience this whole journey watching and editing this show with you.
I won't forgive you for making me watch Space Place though, that's 30 minutes of my life I'm never getting back 🐦
Bro had to be tied in a chair with his eyes stiched open to wach it😭🙏
@@Steamlocomotivefan52that is the worst train cartoon ever
If Underground Ernie was a fever dream, this is a full on Acid trip.
Underrated comment
Its more then a acid trip
A bad acid trip.
Underground Ernie is a masterpiece and no one is gonna change my mind
@@Intriga1220 Agreed, this is sniffing glue, and injecting prime directly into your eyes and frontal lobe.
The concept of The Transporters portraying emotions isn't a bad thing, it does have a potential to help autistic children understand how people are feeling irl, but using real people to play the faces of the vehicles really didn't work.
and is kinda doing the opposite lol
Paul Vids clearly used the wrong kids show about sentient vehicles in a horror movie because this show is infinitely more terrifying
We do not care
It practically makes Series 12 of Thomas look like Vincent Van Gogh compared to this.
As an autistic person myself this did NOT do the objective that it was looking for.
The objective and aim is there but it was executed poorly.
I live in Australia though so my mother had to order this DVD online.
It did for me, sort of.
A TTTE knock-off made by Borat's cousin and narrated by General Melchett? You really, REALLY can't make this stuff up. Congratulations on 25,000 subs. Well deserved.
Chuggington is the rip off of Thomas (abit)
And let’s not forget the barely-noticeable-until-you’re-told-and-now-it’s-all-you-can-see casual racism!
he vicktor your face was in the the intro
@@Tonymeows43 can anyone replied my other comments
Omg hi Victor i love ur vids :)
I think we all owe "Underground Ernie" a *BIG APOLOGY*
Definitely!
ERRRRNIIEEEE 😔
when the underground ernie video came out, we apologised to chuggington.
maybe, we maybe owe it one
Yeah, at least it knew how to put faces on trains, even if it unintentionally came off as creepy.
This show looks like something you'd see in a bad Saturday Night Live sketch parodying Thomas the Tank Engine.
I completely disagree tbh, as somebody who's autistic and is a fan of vehicles (buses being my main interest) I love The Transporters.
@@FiremanSamBoy2008well thats ok
@@FiremanSamBoy2008watched it as A kid, now in college to get a job in the lublic transit sector!
Correction: this looks like something you’d see in a Saturday Night Live sketch parodying Thomas the Tank Engine
@@FiremanSamBoy2008 They said it was a *bad* Saturday Night Live sketch.
"Dude, Underground Ernie and Jay Jay the Jet Plane are so creepy! I can't imagine a show creepier than the-"
Cable Car: "Sorry am I late to the party?"
*_"EEEEEEE!!!"_*
At least Underground Ernie didn’t use human-like faces on the trains.
Good god now you’ve reminded me about jay jay the jet plane
I was not prepared for The Transporters.
i was because i already knew what it was 😭
@@EthanTheEngine7Same here
I kinda was, being familiar with Jay Jay The Jet Plane and dropped pilot The Diddlys!
Honestly how can you have a layout that at large but have only trams? I’d pack that shit with the biggest steam engines I could find!
Yessir. I'd get a UP Big Boy, a UP FEF series, a UP Challenger, and a bunch of Bachmann Thomas models because why not!
He spent all his money on the layout.
I'm surprised there isn't a George or Diesel 10 equivalent in this series
The only thing I can think of when seeing the animation and the faces is "Face Raiders" from the Nintendo 3DS which also put faces on 3D models in a similar way.
I think of the enemy robots in Mazinger Z, which sometimes had human faces on their bodies.
I remember that game, thank you for unlocking a memory of my childhood
I literally made the same comment before seeing this, whoops.
That what I thought when I saw this!
This makes season 12 of Thomas look like the Mona Lisa
bazinga
They do surround themselves, he's not wrong.
@@PlayDontPause NUH UH
@@flyingscotsam4472 uhmm......
@@flyingscotsam4472oh dear
For some reason Google wanted to translate this to they surrounded themselves
Uk dub: pocoyo narrator
Us dub: HENRY IS THE BLODDY NARRATOR
So this is what he did while getting fixed
I remember my mum showing me the transporters to help me understand emotions. We were both horrified by the animation. Let’s just say she doesn’t call the Thomas faces creepy anymore.
funnily enough, my dad considered the Transporters as a family dollar version of Thomas the Tank Engine and Chuggington combined and more creepy
also I feel like the premise of the Transporters could inspire one of the theories from a certain infamous video
What’s the name of the “certain infamous video” I wanna know, cuz now I’m curious about it!?
''the biofusion experiments where a success''
@@Doll.The.Solver Shed 17.
@@Doll.The.SolverI'm pretty sure that he's referring to that one Top 10 dark Thomas theories video
@@randomscb-40charger78 If you ask me, Paul should make a horror movie about the Transporters
Trains? Model layout? In bedroom? Autism? Jamie? This literally all applies to me. Am I that kid? Am I being watched?
Same here bud👋
yes, and you need to not scratch your nose so much 🤣
What do you get when you take the animation from Underground Ernie, cut the budget in half, and then ask your buddies to help you play around with a green screen? Oh, and did I forget to mention you were hammered and stoned all at once while making it?
You get this
Honestly, if i gonna re-take on The Transporters, I'll give mechanical faces on transporters, and make William with TUGS styled.
I admit; ignoring the faces, I love the models of the characters. If they had TTTE faces and were real machines instead of models, then they would be pretty neat additions to Sodor. The funicular carriage Oliver could be a member of the funicular railway at Skarloey Station. Those sky trams could run along the coastline near the little western with the boat being stationed at Skarloey Lake. The electric trams could run the tramway in Vicarstown, with the old tractor and modern bus also in that general area.
Let's hope this is not what the Marc foster Thomas movie would look like
*OH NO...* 😱💀
@@AndriuV2 *OH NO* 😱
The image of Sunshine flashing every now and then as Simon Baron talks always cracks me up. :)
I swear, Transporters looks like one of those parody Thomas skits that late night shows would make
My thoughts exactly.
I think they make a good photo filter
you’re not wrong…
As a kid who got given this, I didn't think much of it, and went back to my Thomas addiction, which thankfully my parents understood and were fine with.
Now as an adult though, this is the perfect example of: Tell us you don't have lived experience, without telling us you don't have lived experience.
Honestly, even if Awdry wasn't autistic, maybe we should say he is, just so maybe autistic products can be made by people with lived experience, because the 'alternative' never seems to work
The design of these trains look like a Thomas Creepypasta. No seriously, I can practically FEEL them sprouting skeletal arms and crawling around any second now
Oh god no
This show reminds me of those thumbnails used to see on those old Thomas remixes
Or certain Thomas memes.
Thomas x biggie smalls
As an Autistic person myself, thank GOD I got my Autism diagnosis in 2008. If I had it just a few years earlier, *I would've had to suffer with this....*
I suffered with this in 2010, wasn't so fortunate, the faces being removed in the quizzes gave me actual nightmares.
lol
I got this in 2013, so this weird pain was non-existence.
It was my living on another continent that saved me since I was a 2003 diagnosis. Thomas was all I needed, and if my burning childhood hatred of Jay-Jay the Jet Plane proves anything, I probably would’ve smashed the Transporters disc and buried it in the yard.
I got my autism diagnosis back in 2014
I wasn’t diagnosed until 2021
To paraphrase Scott the Woz "This show blows!" (Yeets in the toilet)
I can always tell the difference between content made for autistic kids by autistic/neurodivergent adults and content made for autistic kids by non-autistic/neurotypical adults, and Thomas was of the former while this just screams of the latter in a way that feels incredibly patronising and out of touch.
I feel the same, this show & The Space Place feel like unintentional insults towards autistic people like me.
I don't think Awdry and his son or Britt Alcroft had diagnosed autism.
@@Wojti2000ZapasoweI don’t think so either personally. Loving railways doesn’t automatically make you autistic. But it should be noted that autism awareness was basically non-existent before the 80s.
@@mrviking2mcall212 I agree, I am especially sceptical towards this, because liking railways doesn't make you autistic' there's a whole community of train enthusiasts and I bet half of them are just passionate non-autistic people that just love trains, their history and all that stuff. For me it's just a regular hobby, like liking cars or airplanes or ships.
Half of my scepticism towards the idea of Awdry being autistic is also the fact that since 2020 or, so people have ben really equating pretty much any passions and hobbies with "having autism". I even saw people saying that 19th century people which categorized insect species in biology books were autistic so... yeah.
Im not denying autism exists, of course i don't, i interact with autistic people every day, it's just that diagnosing everyone with autism because they have a hobby is uncool. Autism is a very complicated thing, and having a passionate hobby does not an autist make.
If this was supposed to teach emotions to the autistic, then it worked, because I have a ton of emotions for watching this travesty; disgust, confusion, annoyance, unease...
0:15 I think you mean "ERNIEEEEEE"
😂
WE KNOW WE GOTTA GET THERE EARLY WITHOUT A WORRY OR A CARE!!
36:19 He sounds like 1 of those boring documentaries that a teacher makes you watch but you don't listen to
1:02 the usage from James A Williams was quite funny to me.
Kel Mitchel trolley is something I didn’t need to see today but here I am…
Erm actually the trolley is a girl 🤓👆
"Who loves Welsh coal? Kel Mitchell trolley loves Welsh coal!"
Say, how's that Glitch Tech video coming along Wakster? It's been ages since you've last mentioned it!
@@JorgeBonilla-r5l Trainboy 54 video is coming first as some research has been done for it. Glitch Techs will be the opener for Wak’s World Season 3
@@ultra6671 Is it true?
What a video. Great job!
Hi there
hi tons
This looks like one of those shows you’d see on some of the creepiest children’s characters lists. This show is so awfully uncanny.
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(Laughs in Mighty Express)
FYI Adam, that bet for the Mighty Express review of yours for me to make the Underground Ernie review for Season 3 of Wak’s World is still on
are you trying to kill him!?
How about we don’t let Thomas Theorist suffer through that.
Do you think that was crazy? Try making a review on Little Einsteins!
Adam told me on Twitter that he has no plans to review Mighty Express. Sorry to disappoint you guys.
@@joshuaW5621 That’s a relief
It's kinda funny to me how Barney's actor has Thomas eyebrows. Now I feel a little jelly-jelly-jealous.
The biofusion went acording to plan.
Haha, shed 17 reference.
Presumably these were biofusion experiments that went wrong.
I do like the concept of the Transporters and what it was trying to do. Also I think Stephen Fry as the narrator is probably my favourite part of this. But where this series falls flat is the faces themselves. Had they been animated instead of placing live actors' faces on I think the creepy factor would be a lot lower. I will say Jamie has probably the best layout ever.
Exactly. Like I get the intention and what not. But did they not ask a single autistic person? Or FUCK, anyone?! Autism doesn't negate your ability to sense the Uncanny Valley.
The ugliest and worst train show of all time! As an autistic myself, I'd never appreciate this.
Yeah. It talks down to its audience to such an annoyingly aggravating degree
Same here
Me neither.
Same here
Same, this show was total garbage!
it looks exacly like cursed thomas parody
E X A C T L Y
A cursed Thomas Parody made in Garry's Mod
@@thekeybladeninjaturtle7380now that you said it, it does look like Garry’s Mod.
@@joshuaW5621 And the character faces look like they're lifted from Half Life
@@thekeybladeninjaturtle7380 I remember hearing about that from Red Raptor Writes in his March of the Dinosaurs review (which was also narrated by Stephen Fry).
That show will be so good for a YTP or a parody 🤣
If The Transporters was remade with the same CGI facial animations as in The Space Place, then the series would've been seen as a cult classic by many people instead of a laughing stock where everyone only remembers the creepy faces and nothing else from the show.
If anyone remembers that Face Raiders game that came with the Nintendo 3DS, that's the vibe the human faces on the trains give off.
7:28 I don't appreciate the callout as a 17 year old autistic kid who is playing Minecraft while watching this lol
I’m autistic but holy Jesus Christ almighty this is horrible, if they made it with chuggington style faces it would at least be bearable
Stephen Fry is an amazing narrator, he killed it in Little Big Planet
And Colonel K in the Danger Mouse reboot
“Go ahead do the jiggy shaker, the sack shaker”
You cannot escape Busy Busses forever, Theorist.
26:52 You cannot convince me he didn’t just add a tiny British Accent to his ‘Transporters’ voice when he was voicing Henry, this line sounds almost exactly like Henry in that Glow-in-the-Dark episode
can't get the barney the creepy tractor song out of my head lol
Can't wait. I've got a lifetime supply of bleach on standby.
Holy crap, I didn't imagine this abomination when I was in kindergarten/1st, it actually exists!
And the worst thing about this is that I still remember it after watching onced, while it was being played on a barely functional browser site.
Fun fact: Stephen fry is also the narrator for littlebigplanet 1,2,and 3
The constant Sunshine image popping up had me wheezing
Patrick Star: WHO ARE YOU, PEOPLE?!
Fun fact: The music for The Transporters and The Space Place were composed by the same guy, Richard G. Mitchell.
Fun Fact: Steven Fry also narrated the first 2 seasons of Pocoyo.
It’s like the transporters are based off the jokes of Thomas & Friends being trains with real human faces.
And I thought Chuggington, All Engines Go and Nighty Express were very cursed but I owe those two shows a big apology after seeing the transporters.
Also love the cameos from Victor Tanzig, Tons of Trackmaster, TTTE Guy and The Unlucky Tug
Stephen Fry not only he narrated the show he also narrated Pocoyo
Didn’t he also narrate Little Big Planet too?
@@joshuaW5621 Yes he also narrate too
And LittleBigPlanet too as well
As someone who is on the autism spectrum, I guarantee that any child who is also on the spectrum would be terrified of the uncanny faces.
And I thought Jay Jay the Jet Plane looked freaky. Also, has there ever been a good kids' show made by an ex-teacher?
Uh... Spongebob?
This is like a more horrifying version of shed 17
It’s somehow more disturbing looking and cheaper looking at the same time.
To quote hop pop from disney's amphibia, *I DON'T FEEL SAFE*
I remember to see a thomas the tank engine reference in amphibia
In a certain episode the characters go to the cinema and theres a poster for a horror movie called trains with faces, and seeing the poster is clearly a thomas parody
I said and I'll say it again, this makes underground ernie look like the Mona Lisa
I think I've successfully learned what getting high feels like from both this and Ernie. Great video by the way!
This reminds me of those christmas greeting videos from the 2000s
I get what Simon was going for, but as an actual autistic person myself, IDK the ultra simple & boring plots of both this show & The Space Place(ESPECIALLY the latter) feel kinda insulting. The former at least had some more interesting episodes like the one where Sally has to get rescued from falling & it goes for an intense tone, but then there are episodes where a character just feels happy at the beginning, becomes unhappy afterwards for a simple reason, then becomes happy later on. ROLL CREDITS. The Space Place meanwhile had an episode involving decoration & the episode was just the characters doing literally nothing before Bernard decides that his random video footage is worth putting on the TV, which makes the others happy. Like, this isn't teaching them emotions, it's basically insulting the fact that they're autistic without the intention of it being insulting!
TTTE did the whole easily identifiable faces thing FAR better than this show due to the faces being less creepy. Heck, IMO, the CGI seasons with the moving faces makes it better as sense the characters now have individual voices in that era, it can further help autistic folks like me know who's who. Heck, let's go to Looney Tunes for a better example of easily identifiable faces... or in this case, entire CHARACTERS. Each character in the original shorts has smooth animation & their emotions are exaggerated at points, which showcase a big advantage with 2D animation. Whenever a character screams, their scream LOUDLY & they have wild takes, which are essentially reaction shots gone, well... WILD: Their mouths drop, sometimes to the floor, their eyes are going out of their sockets, their bodies are moving erratically, they may even be floating in midair even! Other times like with Wile E. Coyote, the character would pull up a sign saying "HELP" or "THIS IS GONNA SUCK". Combine all of this with the smooth(well, not always) & quick animation, that's gonna let them know that they're scared about what's gonna happen(though those things are also a big part on why the original shorts are so funny to me & many others). Best of all, each character has a distinct design that, even in another artist's style, can still be recognized. Daffy Duck with his ring collar & black fur all around, Bugs Bunny's gray fur aside from a white oval on the front, Road Runner's lanky & round body with hair pointing to the right side of the screen alongside a tall & fluffy tail, among others.
Aside from that, the situations, while fantastical & absurd, gave these characters more interesting reasons to have such emotions, like Daffy feeling a bit jealous over Bugs being the main star, Yosemite Sam wanting to blow Bugs up with his many guns no matter what happens, Wile E. Coyote feeling angry whenever the Road Runner goes right through the trap while he gets hoist by his own traps, etc. This is especially because the high quality animation, great pacing & clever humor do a great job at SHOWING the characters feeling such emotions & what happened to have caused them rather than TELLING. The end result is a series of awesome, well thought shorts for an autistic kid like me to watch whenever they were shown on Cartoon Network.
Meanwhile this show & The Space Place are like, LET'S TELL THE AUDIENCE THAT THIS CHARACTER IS FEELING HAPPY LIKE IT'S SOME CHILDREN'S BOOK, which just feels *incredibly* lazy. At least when TTTE did this, the writing was more clever so that they weren't just saying something basic & instead had some legitimate thought & passion put into it to make the characters feel more believable(though even this show had some duds in that department, especially in seasons 9-16).
Overall, I feel that the folks who made it should've learned the lesson of "Show, don't tell" or at LEAST have the narrator writing have more weight instead of what they went with & have more of actual plots so to speak.
bit of a tangent, but you made me realize, maybe Team Fortress resonates with autistic people subconsciously for the same reasons?
All the characters are designed to be recognizable from silhouettes alone, feature exaggerated personalities and due to being in a firefight, shout/scream all the time. And in the promotional videos, they're well animated, and you can tell their emotions from their faces and actions.
Maybe the jokes about the TF2community being mainly autistic after all these years was because they accidentally created a property that ticked all the boxes in appealing to them?
This shows gives me CGI Jay Jay vibes.
And I hate it…
Great video Adam!
I wonder if the title “The Transporters”, was deliberately chosen in a “honestly not intended to be confused with ‘The Transformers’ but won’t hurt sales if it was” kind of way? 🧐
“The Transporters,
it will hurt your eyes,
human-faced trams n boats n cable-cars will creep you out, with their expressions!
The Transporters,
please don’t ask us why…
The Transporters, starring Stephen Fry!
The Transporters!”
hmm, maybe? It's something to think about when it comes to Asylum movies anyways! Not so sure about ARC hmmm
Surely, the title of this show will confuse many ppl, and they'll mistake it for a more well-known ip...
Well, it was given away for free by the british government wasn't it? So why would they worry about marketablity? It clearly wasn't on their mind when going with the faces.
What i do like about Space Place is how all the main characters have various backgrounds Neil and Julie are American, Nancy is Australian, Chen is Chinese, Rakesh is Indian, Phillipe is French, Bernard is British and Yuri is Russian
I'm assuming Neil is named after Neil Armstrong, and Yuri is Yuri Gagarin, can't place Bernard, but I'm assuming it's something to do with Bernard's star?
@@jampine8268 i think that might be the case.
Neil's name Could also be a reference to American astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Transporters is basically The Annoying Orange but lack of humour
Me when I'm told to watch the whole season of Transporters: 😐🔪
The US dub is basically narrated by Henry.
Or US Dub Big Chris or Larry from Gumball
How did that kid manage to afford a huge model layout like that with working water?
14:26 the other Barney song
“I don’t wanna watch it it’s not Thomas” mate, same. I was the same with other Train shows.😂
29:00
Ok so back in 2010 when I was 7/8, I was watching The Transporters (US Dub) in school since I have autism.
I wasn't really bothered by the human faces, but the Quizzes on the DVD removing the faces on questions relating to something happening in each episode actually gave me legitimate nightmares and I was really scared to go to sleep sometimes, because I'd imagine something like say, Dan growing a really scary face after I stare at his faceless head for a long time.
By now I've sentence-mixed the Narrator to straight-up say curse words lol
Honestly as an autistic person I appreciate the action of making it but it was not needed
8:07 XD Is that a référence Twice to caddicarus XD LOVE IT
I remember seeing this once when I was a kid and was somewhat off-put by the superimposed faces. Glad I grew up with Thomas rather than this unsettling show.
I'd recommend watching Auto B Good, as it also has uncanny animations, but not creepy live action faces.
Dude, love that show as a kid!
@@Dangerzone334ArchiveOfficial Yay. Another person who doesn't think Auto B Good is a ripoff of cars. 😄
6:23 If you want an actually good kid show that is also narrated by Stephen Fry, just stick with the first two seasons of Pocoyo instead of this abomination
I agree POCOYO for life.
@@themsminkling7904yeah I agree too I grew up with pocoyo as much as other childhood shows
When I was about 8 or 9 I was diagnosed with what at the time was labeled Asperger’s Syndrome… which is now considered part of the more general “Autism Spectrum”…
I would have run out of the room screaming watching this.
It would have given me nightmares.
39:02 But it was too late, Thomas had seen everything.
Lol
As an autistic person, this is worse than not being able to identify emotions
It feels like "What if Sia got her hands on TTTE instead of Music?" and this is what you would get.
@@randomscb-40charger78 Nah, atleast the Transporters isn't insulting me and telling my parents to put me in a chokehold if I raise my voice by a decibel.
@@femboy-gardevoir Fair.
The transporters show is a massive relationship to Bio-Fusion in Shed-17
Great video on a bit very well known (and creepy) show!
Also I see the caddicarus reference at 8:07 (or at least I think it’s meant to be)
13:57 hardest line of 2024
Underground Ernie and Jay Jay: We are the creepiest talking vehicle shows!
The Transporters: Hold my plastic passengers.
Live action shed 17? Before transformers reactivate? Ok..
Who knew that Mr.Electric had his own fleet of vehicles
Huh. My mother and I were wondering what it was that was so familiar about these characters. I had _Sharkboy and Lavagirl_ on DVD growing up; watched it all the time.
I love that the thumbnail shows Thomas Wilson and Ernie in different ways.
Imagine if they add this monstrosity to shed 17 and some dude who coincidentally work for HIT logistic got gifted with a fleshy faced model trained similar to the show and gave it to his kid only to water board them in a bath tub
When I heard Steven Fry's voice here, I couldn't unhear the Pocoyo narrator.
8:07 thanks caddicarus
Fun fact: Steven Fry ALSO had a starring role in LittleBigPlanet!
Underground Ernie gave us a warning for what's to come
As someone with autism, im so glad that I waited to get my diagnosis. I think I would have cried if I were shown this.
I’m just wondering how Jammie managed to get a giant model railway layout in his room, either his parents are rich or he saved a ton of money. Also the show would be funny if you showed this to someone some of the scenes out of context
Y’all remember that old 3DS game Face Raiders?
This is just that