HIT Entertainment: Favorite Characters (Partially Found DVD Series)

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HiT Entertainment: Personajes Favoritos (roughly meaning "HIT Entertainment: Favorite Characters") is a series of DVD's released exclusively on Latin America. It was basically the Latin American equivalent of the Hit Entertainment Children's Favorites series of VHS' and DVD's released in the US, but with some differences, such as some of the "Favorite Characters" DVD's including episodes of

Thomas & Friends, a series which was never present on the "Children's Favorites" DVD's. It's currently unknown how many volumes were made, but it's estimated to be 6 volumes, so far, only Vol. 2 has been uploaded to Internet Archive.

Info

So far, there are 6 volumes discovered, which is believed to be the amount of volumes made, the DVD's themselves would include TV-modified versions of episodes from HiT Entertainment franchises (meaning that they would feature more than one episode of a single series), every DVD included episodes of series' such as Bob the Builder, Barney, Angelina Ballerina and Pingu, however, unlike it's USA counterpart, these DVD's were unique by the fact some volumes included a different series than the other, odd-numbered releases would include Rubbadubbers episodes, while even-numbered releases would include the Discovery Kids Latin America airings of Thomas & Friends.

Episodes included on each release

Episodes from Vol. 5 are currently completely unknown.

Volume 1

• Rubbadubbers: Scary Finbar/Can You Remember?/Reg the Monster/All Wrapped Up
• Bob the Builder: Bob's Boots/Spud Minds His Manners/Bob's Day Out/Bob's Spring Cleaning
• Barney: Books are Fun!
• Angelina Ballerina: The Rose Fairy Princess
• Pingu: Hello Pingu (Pingu is Introduced)

Volume 2

• Thomas & Friends: Thomas and Gordon/Thomas Gets Tricked, The Sad Story of Henry/Come Out Henry! and Thomas and Bertie/Thomas and Bertie's Great Race.
• Bob the Builder: Spud the Spanner/Spud the Super Wrench, Spud and the Clouds, Trailer Travis/Travis' Trailer, and Spud Gets Packing.
• Barney: Trading Places.
• Angelina Ballerina: Angelina at the Fair.
• Pingu: Pingu Looks After the Egg/Pingu Helps With Incubating.

Bonus features

• Music videos:
  • Thomas & Friends:
    • Thomas' Anthem/Thomas We Love You.
    • Really Useful Engine.
    • Let's Have a Race.

Volume 3

• Rubbadubbers: Deep Sea Reg, Having a Ball, Sploshy's Tail and Floaty Feather.
• Bob the Builder: Bob Saves the Porcupines, Bob's Spring Cleaning, Scary Spud and Spud the Ghost.
• Barney: All Aboard!
• Angelina Ballerina: The Ballet Tickets
• Pingu: Pinga is Born

Volume 4

• Thomas & Friends: Thomas' Train/A Big Day For Thomas, Edward and Gordon/Edward Helps Out and Thomas, Terence and the Snow/Terence the Tractor.
• Bob the Builder: Bob's Birthday, Spud Minds His Manners, Bob's Big Surprise, and Wendy's Watering Can.
• Barney: Up, Down and Around!
• Angelina Ballerina: Midnight Muddle
• Pingu: Pingu Goes Fishing

Bonus features

• Music Videos:
  • Thomas & Friends:
    • The Island Song
    • Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
    • Snow

Volume 5

• Bob the Builder: Pilchard's Breakfast, Pilchard Has a Ball, Pilchard Goes Fishing, and Wendy's Bright Plan

Volume 6

• Thomas & Friends: Thomas and the Trucks/Thomas in Trouble, Tenders and Turntables, and A Bad Day for Sir Handel.
• Bob the Builder: Buffalo Bob, Square Dance Spud, Bob's Bugle, and Bob's Bucket
• Barney: Bunches of Boxes
• Angelina Ballerina: Miss Lilly is Leaving
• Pingu: Jealousy

Bonus features

• Music videos:
  • Thomas & Friends:
    • Accidents Will Happen
    • It's Great to Be an Engine
    • Come For the Ride

Gallery

Volume 1 cover

Volume 1 back cover

Volume 1 disc

Volume 2 cover

Volume 2 disc

Volume 3 and Volume 4 covers

Volume 3 back cover

Volume 4 back cover

Volume 4 main menu

Volume 4 episode selection

Volume 5 cover

Volume 5 disc

Volume 6 cover

Updates

2/2/21: I found that there's actually a 5th volume, and it's for sale on Mercado Libre Mexico.

10/12/21: Vol. 6 has been "re-discovered" in Mercado Libre Mexico

05/05/2022: Unfortunately, all three links shown below are no longer active anymore

09/02/2024: Vol. 2 was just uploaded 2 years ago at Internet Archive.https://archive.org/details/videoplayback_20221124

2/27/2024: Vol. 1 Was uploaded to YouTube by "Snoopnoob26" However the Pingu episode is missing as it got copyright clamied

https://youtu.be/40ZibIBUE1E?si=6pJqb6zRGl6bc1J2