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Lost Media Archive
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Introduction[]

Thomas & Friends is a popular British children’s TV show released in 1984 and was based on The Railway Series.


This series became a worldwide merchandise with the highest range of different languages that has been dubbed and a bit of voice-over from all across the country.

In Vietnam, Thomas and Friends is rarely popular for the younger audiences. They released so many books that translated into Vietnamese, toys (most kids in Vietnam really loves trains) and many other activities such as games, colouring books, etc.

Season 12 and 13[]

Thomas and Friends was broadcast on 12/11/2012, HTV3 (formally) only seasons 12-14, however, they stopped airing in 2016 due to the HTV3 company being transferred to TTN Media after bankruptcy and all the episodes

cannot be found on TV. They were lost for unknown reasons. It was dubbed by one of the voice actors/actresses members from the TVM Corp studio company (formally). HTV3 was the first channel that aired Thomas and Friends series in Vietnam.

Season 14[]

According to HTV3-DreamTV official Facebook confirmed that Thomas and Friends officially dubbed the Season 14 aired on HTV3 in Vietnamese and was one of the rarest dubs ever released on DVD. It’s impossible to find on the internet.

Season 17[]

Thomas and Friends Season 17 Vietnamese Dub was released by the ACE MEDIA SAIGON studio (TVM Corp formally). This series was unknown to be broadcast and was one of the rarest series in Vietnam that was ever founded on the internet. It was probably used to be found on YouTube and was lost for unknown reasons.

It's super rare to find all of these Thomas and Friends series in Vietnamese Dub from the media’s and almost all the entire episodes were completely gone.

Season 23 and 24[]

On 12/04/2021 (S23) and 02/08/2021 (S24), the Vietnamese Dub was officially released in Season 23-24, Big World! Big Adventures! which was translated in the title as Khám phá thế giới cùng Thomas và những người bạn (Translated in English, "Explore the World with Thomas and Friends"), was broadcast on SCTV3 - SeeTV and BIBI TV (formally) and available on the YouTube channel MYKINGDOM, a Toy Store company in Vietnam. It has several short clips from Season 24 that come with a toy commercial at the end of the video on YouTube. Season 23 was taken down and cannot be seen on YouTube due to the copyright of Mattel Entertainment. There are no official full episodes of Thomas & Friends Season 23-24 in Vietnamese Dub on YouTube, however, it still plays on SCTV3- SeeTV and BIBI TV Broadcast (formerly).

Trailer Promo[]

Trivia[]

  • Thanh Huống is a Vietnamese voice actress who played Emily from Thomas and Friends (HTV3). She also wrote the lyrics to the Vietnamese translation of the Engine Roll Call.
  • Trần Mai Ngọc Châu voiced almost all the female characters from Thomas & Friends, Big World! Big Adventures! such as Emily, Rebecca, Ruth, Nia etc. If you listen to it carefully through the episode clips, you can clearly hear familiar high-pitched voices from the female characters.
  • Thomas & Friends in HTV3 was dubbthed in the Mekong Delta dialect (It's another Southern Vietnamese dialect from a countryside in the Mekong River Delta). This dialect is very different to the original Vietnamese dub because normally all shows/movies in Vietnamese dubs are dubbed in Saigonese accent (Southern Vietnamese dialect from the Southwest) but they loaned some of the words from the Northern Vietnamese dialects e.g. ’cậu’ (’you’ in Northern dialects) is very commonly used for dubbing than ‘bạn’ (‘you’ in Southern dialects) or ‘hổ’ (‘tiger’ in Northern dialects) instead of ‘cọp’ (‘tiger’ in Southern dialect) and it good for the Northern Vietnamese listeners to understand it. For the Mekong Delta dialect, it spoken in a a different accent to the Saigonese ones which allocates for the Southerner Vietnamese to understand the language clearer apart from using the Northern Vietnamese words. ACE MEDIA SAIGON studio follows the HTV3 dub but keep it in Saigonese accent. Only SCTV3-SeeTV is dubbed in the original Vietnamese dub.
  • The ACE MEDIA SAIGON studio was proof that they’re formerly used to be members of the TVM Corp studio after becoming disbanded and bankrupt. They only dubbed Season 17.
  • Thomas and Friends Season 14 and Season 17 kept the Vietnamese Roll Call songs from Season 12 and Season 13 [HTV3].
  • In 2020, the MYKINGDOM voice directors planned to broadcast Thomas & Friends Season 20-22 in Vietnamese dub which was translated to the title, Cuộc Phiêu Lưu Của Thomas & Những Người Bạn (Translated in English, The Adventures of Thomas and Friends) on SCTV3 - SeeTV (formally) and BIBI TV (formally) but failed continually because of either the lockdown extension during the COVID pandemic or wasn’t enable to contract with Mattel's permission for the background audio. They decided to do the voice-over with the original audio and retained the audio is used in the English US dub. Later in 2021, they successfully continued broadcasting Thomas and Friends but only in Seasons 23-24, in Vietnamese Dub and renamed the title to, Khám phá thế giới cùng Thomas và những người bạn. The problem is that they changed the title in Seasons 23-24 because the series has been dubbed so they have to separate the Thomas and Friends series from 20-22. Season 22 is also a part of the Big World! Big Adventures! series like Season 23-24 but it has been voice-over on SCTV3 - SeeTV (formally).
  • In the SCTV3-SeeTV dub, they followed the English US dub rather than the English UK dub (original). Only HTV3 and ACE Media dubs followed by the English UK dub.
  • 90% of Thomas and Friends series in Vietnamese dubs are lost on the internet, due to the disbanded TV shows and blocked by Mattel copyright.
  • Seasons 12, 13, 14, 17, 23 and 24 are the onliest seasons in Thomas & Friends that cover Vietnamese Dub, while the rest including movies are covered in Vietnamese voice-over. Seasons 10, 15 and 16 were unconfirmed to be dubbed, voice-over or not have yet, although it might have been dubbed over the past when most of the series have been aired on TV after they become lost.
  • Thomas and Friends is one of the popular kids shows that aired in the Southeast Asia, include Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
  • Most CGI series have been dubbed in Vietnamese in the late Model era, Nitrogen era, Miller era, Brenner era and Mattel era.
  • FUN FACT: SCTV3-SeeTV and HTV3 never broadcast, or Dub on Mattel reboot shows like Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go except for Cartoon Network (formally) and FPT Plays with Vietnamese voice-over.

FOUND EPISODES[]

Thomas & Friends Season 12 HTV3 - Vietnamese Dubbed[]

Thomas & Friends Season 13 HTV3 - Vietnamese Dubbed[]

Thomas & Friends Season 17 ACE MEDIA SAIGON (Rare) - Vietnamese Dubbed[]

Thomas & Friends Season 23 SCTV3-SeeTV - Vietnamese Dubbed[]

Most of the episodes have been founded!

Here’s the link: Khám phá thế giới cùng Thomas và những người bạn

FOUND VIDEOS CLIPS[]

Thomas and Friends Big World! Big Adventure! Season 24[]

Thomas & Friends Season 24 Episode 12 - A New Arrival in Vietnamese Dub Short Clips (Upload from YT)[]

Thomas & Friends Season 24 Episode 13 - World of Tomorrow in Vietnamese Dub Short Clips (Upload from YT)[]

(NOTE: I didn't own these videos, but I wanted to upload these videos in case if it removed from YouTube)

OTHERS[]

Trailer, Intro and Outro are available on YouTube:[]

Season 24 with Vietnamese Dub on YouTube:[]

I also found this on FPT Play, these episodes are Dubbed in Vietnamese although the series has been taken down, sadly. Luckily for me I saved all the images for proof.






References[]

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