History Trivia / Chuggington

* NoExportForYou: The later specials, likely due to the financial disappointment of the first two/low episode count of the fifth season, suffered from this; "Snow Rescue" only got released to DVD in the US, Australia, and a couple other countries (though is now available with BOTH dubs on the series' original Website/YouTube channel), while only the US recieved the two specials for Season 5 ("Delivery Dash at the Docks" and "The Big Freeze", which are now only viewable on DVD). Taking it up a gear, only "Chug Patrol: Ready to Rescue" has seen a digital release on Netflix/Amazon.

* NetworkToTheRescue: While Chuggington faltered in toy sales and advertising during its fourth and fifth seasons, [[Creator/DisneyChannel the Disney Junior Channel]] would give the half-hour extended episodes a fair amount of on-air promotion leading up to their premieres, which were placed in prime-time slots.

*** Played straight '''hard''' when Herschend announced its full plans for the series; a sixth season of 52 episodes for Summer 2020, a new series of 26 1.5-minute long live action/animated shorts titled ''"Discover Chuggington: All Aboard!"'' that went out first and is on the DisneyNOW app as well as Creator/DisneyChannel, a new toyline from Alpha Group returning to the original Die-Cast vehicles with improved playsets more based around the actual locations from the series for Fall 2020, a HUGE reintroduction campaign for the series' 10th anniversary (with a new app titled ''Ready to Roll'', a new website, a partnership with Union Pacific to promote rail safety, extensive licensing programs, refreshed assets, broadcast support, and and planned events), and live events and theme park attractions for the future. Julie Phillips, the studio's VIP of development and production stated "The company saw the property as evergreen with a lot of world-building potential that was never fully realized for TV production or global [consumer products]", showing they intend to do far more with the series than Ludorum could've as an independent company (compared to the much larger Herschend). The Disney Junior agreement was even renewed in December 2019 ahead of time!

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Season 3 would have lasted for a full 26 episode season, had executives not requested change-ups to the format (hence why Season 4 was a major revamp).

* CreatorKiller: The combined failures of their few other non-Chuggington properties (including the 2009 ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK animated series and "Marvo the Wonder Chicken"), Season 4, the deteriorating TOMY agreement, and the "Little Trainees" relaunch (with the abridged series of the same name and Jazwares' "Little Chuggers" toys) lead to Ludorum PLC going into liquidation several months after selling the series to Herschend Entertainment Studios.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Polish dub: Creator/WitApostolakisGluzinski (Brewster) and Creator/JustynaBojczuk (Zephie) have also worked together on the Polish dubs of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', and ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets''.

*ScheduleSlip: The final ''main'' half-hour extended episode produced to date, "Delivery Dash at the Docks", was released to DVD ''five months'' after its airing on Disney Junior; the final special ''produced'' for the main series, "The Big Freeze", premiered on DVD before it.
* NoExportforYou: The later specials, likely due to the financial disappointment of the first two/low episode count of the fifth season, suffered from this; "Snow Rescue" only got released to DVD in the US, Australia, and a couple other countries (though is now available with BOTH dubs on the series' original Website/YouTube channel), while only the US recieved the two specials for Season 5 ("Delivery Dash at the Docks" and "The Big Freeze", which are now only viewable on DVD). Taking it up a gear, only "Chug Patrol: Ready to Rescue" has seen a digital release on Netflix/Amazon.

** Had the relaunch been successful, production would have begun on a series of 26 4-minute shorts for Fall 2018. Due to lack of funding, plans for them were shelved; it's unknown if whether or not these would have been re-edited shorts, like the "Little Trainees" series or the "bonus episodes" on Website/YouTube.

* DuelingShows: With ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''. Though the two really aren't as similar as one might immediately think. ''Chuggington'' has no narrator and while it does feature anthropomorphic trains, the general format and style of the show is rather different.

* DuelingShows[=/=]SpiritualSuccessor: With ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine''. Though the two really aren't as similar as one might immediately think. ''Chuggington'' has no narrator and while it does feature anthropomorphic trains, the general format and style of the show is rather different.

*** Played straight '''hard''' when Herschend announced its full plans for the series; a sixth season of 52 episodes for Summer 2020, a new series of 26 1.5-minute long live action/animated shorts titled ''"Discover Chuggington: All Aboard!"'' that went out first and is on the DisneyNOW app as well as Creator/DisneyChannel, a new toyline from Alpha Group returning to the original Die-Cast vehicles with improved playsets more based around the actual locations from the series for Fall 2020, a HUGE reintroduction campaign for the series' 10th anniversary (with a new app titled ''Ready to Roll'', a new website, extensive licensing programs, refreshed assets, broadcast support, and and planned events), and live events and theme park attractions for the future. Julie Phillips, the studio's VIP of development and production stated "The company saw the property as evergreen with a lot of world-building potential that was never fully realized for TV production or global [consumer products]", showing they intend to do far more with the series than Ludorum could've as an independent company (compared to the much larger Herschend). The Disney Junior agreement was even renewed in December 2019 ahead of time!

*** Played straight '''hard''' when Herschend announced its full plans for the series; a sixth season of 52 episodes for Spring 2020, a series of 26 1.5-minute long live action/animated shorts for late 2019, a new toyline from Alpha Group returning to the original Die-Cast vehicles with improved playsets more based around the actual locations from the series for Fall 2020, a HUGE reintroduction campaign for the series' 10th anniversary (with extensive licensing programs, refreshed assets, broadcast support, and and planned events), and live events and theme park attractions for the future. Julie Phillips, the studio's VIP of development and production stated "The company saw the property as evergreen with a lot of world-building potential that was never fully realized for TV production or global [consumer products]", showing they intend to do far more with the series than Ludorum could've as an independent company (compared to the much larger Herschend). The Disney Junior agreement was even renewed in December 2019 ahead of time!

** The "Little Trainees" AbridgedSeries seemed to be an attempt to invoke this; Disney Junior has given it a fair amount of promotion (helped by the shorts being exclusive to their "WATCH" app), and international networks were positive towards it. This was part of a relaunch for their younger demographic (ages 2-4, as apposed to the initial ages 3-6), paired up with the revamped Jazwares toyline. Inverted as Disney dropped the series entirely in November 2018 and the Jazwares toyline ended up being a massive financial failure on both ends. Due to the relaunch failing to gain traction, Ludorum was sold to Herschend Enterprises (the producers of WesternAnimation/SplashAndBubbles and owners of The Harlem Globetrotters and parks such as Dollywood).

*** Played straight '''hard''' when Herschend announced its full plans for the series; a sixth season of 52 episodes for Spring 2020, a series of 26 1.5-minute long live action/animated shorts for late 2019, a new toyline from Alpha Group returning to the original Die-Cast/StackTrack vehicles with improved playsets more based around the actual locations from the series for Fall 2020, a HUGE reintroduction campaign for the series' 10th anniversary (with extensive licensing programs, refreshed assets, broadcast support, and and planned events), and live events and theme park attractions for the future. Julie Phillips, the studio's VIP of development and production stated "The company saw the property as evergreen with a lot of world-building potential that was never fully realized for TV production or global [consumer products]", showing they intend to do far more with the series than Ludorum could've as an independent company (compared to the much larger Herschend). The Disney Junior agreement was even renewed in December 2019 ahead of time!

** The "Little Trainees" AbridgedSeries seems to be an attempt to invoke this; Disney Junior has given it a fair amount of promotion (helped by the shorts being exclusive to their "WATCH" app), and international networks were positive towards it. This is part of a relaunch for their younger demographic (ages 2-4, as apposed to the initial ages 3-6), paired up with the revamped Jazwares toyline.
*** Aaand now inverted, as Disney dropped the series entirely in November 2018 and the Jazwares toyline ended up being a financial failure on both ends. Due to the relaunch failing to gain traction, Ludorum was sold to Herschend Enterprises (the producers of WesternAnimation/SplashAndBubbles and owners of The Harlem Globetrotters and parks such as Dollywood).
*** Played straight '''hard''' when Herschend announced its full plans for the series; a sixth season of 52 episodes for Spring 2020, a series of 26 1.5-minute long live action/animated shorts for late 2019, a new toy and licensing program for Fall 2020, a HUGE reintroduction campaign for the series' 20th anniversary (with refreshed assets, broadcast support, and and planned events), and live events and theme park attractions. Julie Phillips, the studio's VIP of development and production stated "The company saw the property as evergreen with a lot of world-building potential that was never fully realized for TV production or global [consumer products]", showing they intend to do far more with the series than Ludorum could've as an independent company (compared to the much larger Herschend).

*** Aaand now inverted, as Disney dropped the series entirely in November 2018 and the Jazwares toyline ended up being a financial failure on both ends. Due to the relaunch failing to gain traction, Ludorum was sold to Herschend Enterprises (the producers of WesternAnimation/SplashAndBubbles and owners of The Harlem Globetrotters and parks such as Dollywood)/.

*** Played straight **hard** when Herschend announced its full plans for the series; a sixth season of 52 episodes for Spring 2020, a series of 26 1.5-minute long live action/animated shorts for late 2019, a new toy and licensing program for Fall 2020, a HUGE reintroduction campaign for the series' 20th anniversary (with refreshed assets, broadcast support, and and planned events), and live events and theme park attractions. Julie Phillips, the studio's VIP of development and production stated "The company saw the property as evergreen with a lot of world-building potential that was never fully realized for TV production or global [consumer products].", showing

*** Aaand now inverted, as Disney dropped the series entirely in November 2018 and the Jazwares toyline ended up being a financial failure on both ends. Due to the relaunch failing to gain traction, Ludorum was sold to Herschend Enterprises (the producers of WesternAnimation/SplashAndBubbles and owners of The Harlem Globetrotters and parks such as Dollywood), who seem to be playing this trope straight (already announcing plans to produce new episodes, find new licensees beginning with toys, and looking into incorporating the series into their theme parks).

* NoExportforYou: The later specials, likely due to the financial disappointment of the first two/low episode count of the fifth season, suffered from this; "Snow Rescue" only got released to DVD in the US, Australia, and a couple other countries (though is now available with BOTH dubs on the series' original YouTube channel), while only the US recieved the two specials for Season 5 ("Delivery Dash at the Docks" and "The Big Freeze", which are now only viewable on DVD). Taking it up a gear, only "Chug Patrol: Ready to Rescue" has seen a digital release on Netflix/Amazon.

** Had the relaunch been successful, production would have begun on a series of 26 4-minute shorts for Fall 2018. Due to lack of funding, plans for them were shelved; it's unknown if whether or not these would have been re-edited shorts, like the "Little Trainees" series or the "bonus episodes" on YouTube.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Season 3 would have lasted for a full 26 episode season, had executives not requested change-ups to the format (hence why Season 4 was a major revamp).

*ScheduleSlip: The final ''main'' half-hour extended episode produced to date, "Delivery Dash at the Docks", was released to DVD ''five months'' after its airing on Disney Junior; the final special ''produced'' for the main series, "The Big Freeze", premiered on DVD before it.

* NetworkToTheRescue: While Chuggington faltered in toy sales and advertising during its fourth and fifth seasons, [[Channel/DisneyChannel the Disney Junior Channel]] would give the half-hour extended episodes a fair amount of on-air promotion leading up to their premieres, which were placed in prime-time slots.

* DuelingShows / SpiritualSuccessor: With ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine''. Though the two really aren't as similar as one might immediately think. ''Chuggington'' has no narrator and while it does feature anthropomorphic trains, the general format and style of the show is rather different.
* NetworktotheRescue: While Chuggington faltered in toy sales and advertising during its fourth and fifth seasons, [[Channel/DisneyChannel the Disney Junior Channel]] would give the half-hour extended episodes a fair amount of on-air promotion leading up to their premieres, which were placed in prime-time slots.

* DuelingShows / SpiritualSuccessor: With ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine''. Though the two really aren't as similar as one might immediately think. ''Chuggington'' has no narrator and while it does feature anthropomorphic trains, the general format and style of the show is rather different.

* DuelingShows / SpiritualSuccessor: With ''ThomasTheTankEngine''. Though the two really aren't as similar as one might immediately think. ''Chuggington'' has no narrator and while it does feature anthropomorphic trains, the general format and style of the show is rather different.