Bob the Builder

Where do I start with this garbage? The redesign on The vehicles are horrendous. Though you look too realistic. The episode Are toooo Repetitive. Some of them are good. But Most of them are bad. Bob's redesign, he looks like a 15-year-old. And When did a check bought the franchise? He looks like he was 12. The machines don't squash and stretch like in the original and When d h x bought the franchise they made it too cartoony while still keeping the realistic stuff I'll say I would like to mention like piltered. Silk blue so you have a blue cat roaming around a realistic setting And being chased by a realistic looking dog Also I like to mention that the human designs look kind of creepy Also, the new characters are pointless. And most of them are rip-offs of previous characters.

Listen up, fellow construction enthusiasts! Buckle your tool belts and brace yourselves because I've got some choice words about that abomination called the "Bob the Builder" reboot from 2015. Grab a hard hat, because we're about to bulldoze through this mess!

Animation Catastrophe: Remember the cozy stop-motion animation from the original series? Well, the reboot chucked that out the window like yesterday's soggy sandwich. Instead, we got soulless CGI that felt like it was assembled by a malfunctioning robot. Where's the warmth? The tactile charm? It vanished faster than a misplaced hammer. Not to mention that this is from 2015 and even the animation of Jimmy Neutron looks better than this. When did Jimmy Neutron come out? 2001.

Character Makeovers Gone Wrong: Bob, Wendy, and the gang got facelifts that would make Picasso cringe. Seriously, they were redesigned beyond recognition. The original characters had personality-quirks, flaws, and all. But in the reboot, they're as bland as a plain bagel. Congrats, creators-you flanderized them into cardboard cutouts!

Paw Patrol Envy: Oh, they tried to ride the "Paw Patrol" wave. But guess what? Bob ain't no rescue pup. He's a builder, dammit! The reboot's desperate attempt to mimic the Paw Patrol animation style was like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Newsflash: It didn't work. At all.

Charm? What Charm? The original series had heart. It taught us about teamwork, grit, and the joy of fixing stuff. But the reboot? It's like they tossed the charm manual into a bonfire. Maybe they thought charm was overrated. Well, guess what? Charm is the secret sauce, and they forgot to sprinkle it on their CGI disaster.

In conclusion, the "Bob the Builder" reboot was a wrecking ball to our childhood memories. It's time to grab our pitchforks (or maybe just our tiny plastic shovels) and demand justice. Bring back the stop-motion magic, restore the characters' souls, and for the love of all things construction-related, find that lost charm!

When Mattel purchased HIT entertainment, they pulled Thomas from PBS, and moved it to Nick Jr. After the creation of the CGI Bob flopped, the entire series was pulled from PBS. Qubo aired it during their final year of operation (each episode was 10 minutes instead of 30).

The original Bob was much better than the reboot. Mattel only made one season, then abandoned HIT entertainment's entire library completely.

There was supposed to be a reboot of Barney, but that hasn't happened yet.

Personally, I hope Bob, Barney, and Thomas are sold to another company so they can come back again.

Where do I even begin, this reboot is horrible. One of my biggest complaints is the changes to the character's personalities, they got rid of lofty's shy personality and replaced it with a normal personality, that shy personality was what made lofty lofty! Scoops personality was changed into a little kid, nothing like the original series, all the characters are now immature brats as well. I hate the new voice actors, they sound nothing like the characters in the original show. Let's not forget that Dizzy and Roley aren't main characters anymore and are now supporting characters that pop up once in a while, dizzy poured the cement and Roley rolled it, how do the buildings have floors! Dizzy and Roley are also excluded from the theme song, they are very important machines, they just had this stupid truck named two tonne take their place. I hate Leo, not because he's black, but because he's just generally a bad character. Then all of a sudden the animation turned cheap in season 3, the animation in season 3 looks like they ran out of money. Mattel ruined Bob the Builder, shame on them.

I did a review on this on my YouTube channel. But Mattel decides to be idiots ruining my other favorite show alongside Thomas & Friends, making it realistic, detailed and creepy looking.

This reboot has TONS of problems, with it being, well, realistic and detailed and it went on for bad episodes, There are some characters (mostly the Can-Do-It Crew except Dizzy) who were flanderized horribly.

Scoop went from a trustworthy and a sensible leader into an unreliable, overexcited, mistake making goofball with a high pitched annoying voice.

Muck went from a silly, yet reliable benefactor into an even stupider idiot who equally screws up everything just like Scoop.

Lofty went from a shy coward, yet friendly at the same time into being, sarcastic, cynical and intelligent and is no longer even scared of anything that much anymore.

Roley has gone from being a chilled-out music lover into an extremely fussy perfectionist making sure everything is smooth and flat.

Mr. Bentley has been reduced into being a bumbling buffoon and is no longer a building inspector anymore, instead, he is Mayor Madison's assistant.

The voice acting for the most part is not very good and they don't capture the same charm as the voices in the original show, they sometimes range from average, to annoying and unfitting for the characters.

Scoop's voice is very annoying to listen to because he sounds way too high pitched and younger, as he sounds like Norman Price from season 6 of Fireman Sam but without a Welsh accent. He even has the exact same voice given for the US dub, rather than a different voice actor.

Muck's new voice is pretty annoying and it makes him sound a lot dumber than he was originally, similar to the new voice that was given to Elvis Cridlington in Season 6 of Fireman Sam.

Roley's new voice sounds way too high pitched to the point it sounds like he sucked out some helium from a balloon inflator.

Lofty seems to have a Cornish accent in the UK dub for some reason.

Dizzy's US voice sounds far too high pitched and comes off as just grating.

The CGI in Seasons 1-2 were alright (minus the realistic tone before it got even worse in Season 3 when DHX Media took over

The characters redesigns look weird, unappealing and creepy looking Bob's redesign is terrible and it looks absolutely nothing like his character design in the original show, as he seems to be way younger than he was before and he clearly looks like a teenager cosplaying as Bob the Builder.

Wendy's redesign is also bad too, because much like Bob, she looks way younger than her original counterpart and she looks absolutely nothing like her design in the original show.

The designs for the machines in particular look very lazy and generic compared to their designs in the original series, and they feel a lot more emotionless and are very creepy to look at unlike their original designs.

Continuing on with the designs of the machines, they feel like they are trying way too hard to make the machines have similar character designs as the ones in Thomas & Friends, but it doesn't work at all because even though the designs in Thomas & Friends work because that show was initially meant to be taken as realistically as possible, the designs for the machines in this reboot do not fit with the realistic character designs as they were never supposed to look realistic in the original show.

Pilchard's redesign doesn't really work well due to her out-of-place blue colour, even though she was blue in the original show, her blue colour in the reboot looks out of place due to the realistic approach the reboot tries to take.

The reboot misunderstands everything that made the original TV series a classic and its grasp on the original source material is pretty much non-existence and it has absolutely nothing in common with the original show; Bob, Wendy and the machines no longer live in a little quiet town like Bobsville anymore, and instead now live in a giant busy city named Spring City, Bob, Scoop and Wendy all seem to be a lot younger than they were in the original show, nearly all of the characters bare little-to-no resemblance to how they looked in the original show and many of the past characters from the original series like Spud (the fan favorite), Travis, Scrambler, Benny, Scratch, Gripper and Grabber, Scruffty and plenty of other characters were either replaced or just removed entirely for no reason whatsoever.

The reboot also never tries to bring back any of the aforementioned characters, the only character that comes close to being brought back was Farmer Pickles in "Barn Building Bedlam" (but even then, he only gets a small cameo and he isn't even voiced by his original voice actor, despite Rob Rackstraw coming back to the cast to voice him).

The new characters appear out of nowhere with no explanation to where they all came from, and no introductory episode whatsoever. Not to mention a good majority of the new characters introduced in this reboot are just clones of characters from the older series.

"Two-Tonne is Packer and Tumbler".

"Tread is Scrambler".

"Shifter is Trix".

"Thud is Rubble".

"Rocky is Scratch and Benny".

"Picksy is Flex".

"Stretch is Gripper/Grabber".

Roley and Dizzy are now moved as side characters without any reason in placement of Leo and Two-Tonne, two characters that are already pointless to the series. While it's great that Dizzy and Roley weren't forgotten entirely by HiT Entertainment or Mattel (unlike Spud), it's still not the same.

It is quite similar to how Edward and Henry from Thomas & Friends were moved as side characters during the Big World! Big Adventures! Era, which wasn't the best decision just because both engines moved out of Tidmouth Sheds for the sake of Nia and Rebecca living over, but at least they had their reasons why they moved out of Tidmouth Sheds (mainly Edward's case), and at least both characters appeared sporadically. With Roley and Dizzy, however, it's mostly likely that both Mattel and HiT Entertainment had little to no care for them.

Each plot for the episodes are very generic and predictable, to the point where it you know exactly what is going to happen in every episode; It starts off with the team being set out on a job, then they start to build, the focus character of the episode comes with an idea that screws everything up and the project collapses, the character responsible for the mistake apologizes, and then they rebuild it all over again. Most of the time, it gets extremely repetitive and makes the episodes feel like the same exact thing. Even if they are not using the same formula over and over again, either make the episode have no story whatsoever, make the episode use the infamous three-strike formula that was already repetitive in other shows (mainly in Seasons 12-16 of Thomas & Friends), or they rehash an episode from the original series, as mentioned earlier.

The reboot has a share load of bad episodes, such as: "Sky-High Scoop" (which started the series on a sour note) "Milkshake Mix-Up" "Kitchen Whizz" "Where's Pilchard?" "Bob's Band" "Bob's First Build" "Grid Block" "Lofty Lets Loose" "Scoop's Big Break" "Winter in Spring" "Muck on Ice" "Cats & Dogs" "Dino Park" "Lights! Camera! Leo!" "Ballroom Blitz" "The Big Bang" "Wendy's Big Surprise" "Crane Pain" "Dino Coaster" "Roley's Speech" "End of the Line" "Car Wash" "Fly Away Ghost" (which ended Season 1 on a sour note) "Drive Thru Disaster" "Super Scoop" "Apples Everywhere" "TV or Not TV" "Shifter's New Garage" "Bobcat Bridge" "Speedway Scoop" "Lofty's Playground Problem" "Dog Disaster" "Scoop's Big Oops" "Canal Chaos" "Bridge Over Trouble" "What's Opera, Muck?" (which is the most infamous episode and is considered to be the worst of the third season)

Muck is now male in US dub of the show, even though this can be considered a good quality because Muck was originally male in the UK dub, which meant that Mattel finally corrected his gender for viewers in the US. However, the main problem with this is that Muck was female in the US dub of the original show. Because of this, it will probably confuse fans (like me since I'm from the US) who grew with the US dub of the original show who remember Muck for being a female character.

So what's good about this god-awful reboot series.

Despite the realistic approach it tries to take, the reboot at least still focuses on its main premise about construction and building, which is notable by the fact that the building montages are still present in the reboot, unlike Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!, which tried to be as different as possible from its original premise.

The theme song remix (while not as good as the original theme song) is kind of catchy.

Wendy, Dizzy and Bob himself, despite their terrible redesigns, are still likable characters.

On that topic, the flanderized characters (Scoop, Muck, Lofty, Roley, and Mr. Bentley) can still be tolerable sometimes.

While most of the voice acting is poor, some of it can come off as decent or tolerable, such as the voices for Bob, Wendy, Dizzy, and a few other characters.

On top of that, Scoop and Muck at least look closer to their original designs than the rest of the machines do.

Some episodes can be considered decent or even good, such as: "New Years Spectacular" (which ended the reboot on a high note, as another new Bob the Builder reboot with the return of the original designs from 1998 is yet to be announced and could save the franchise) "Can't Runaway Runway" "Fitness Frenzy" (depending on your view)

Overall, This New Bob The Builder CGI 2015 Reboot was terrible, at least they cancelled it with Season 3 Score: 0.5/10 (even though IMDb makes me give it a 1/10)