Big World! Big Adventures! is the main theme song of Thomas & Friends for the twenty-second to twenty-fourth series. The full version of the twenty-second series version was uploaded on the YouTube channel on 1st September 2018.
An instrumental lullaby version was created for the digital album, Lullabies.
The theme tune has the same melody as Set Friendship in Motion, albeit as a different song type with altered lyrics.
The logo for Big World! Big Adventures! in the prototype version had bigger letters highlighted in blue, using a similar font to the one seen on the box art for the special. but the final version used mismatched sized letters that are all yellow. The prototype logo also faded on the screen, while the final on dropped in letter by letter.
A version of this song featuring the diesel engines was featured in the twenty-third series episode, Diesel Do Right, sung by Kerry Shale. In a sense of irony for this version, Shale originally auditioned for Thomas in Hero of the Rails.
In the Japanese version, the logo of Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! is replaced with stock footage from Trusty Trunky.
In the Arabic version, the intro was replaced with stock footage from Number One Engine. But strangely, the Diesel and Friends version plays the originally footage from Diesel Do Right.
The South African Version of the theme tune, performed by Bobby van Jaarsveld, is at a lower pitch and key aside from the spoken bits.
The Korean version did not translated the words "Let's go!" and "Number One."
The original song was never dubbed in Estonian, Latvian, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese and Taiwanese Mandarin.
The Diesel version's Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian versions were voiced over the English dubs, but the performers did not sing it; only reading the lyrics.
The Diesel version was never dubbed in Greek.
The original song has three versions in Italian.
The original song has two versions in Hebrew.
This song was uploaded on the Latin American YouTube channel with a differently arranged instrumental, no vocals and with the different footage.
Goofs[]
In the closeup of Nia, Thomas is seen in the berth next to her, but in the shot of Thomas at the sheds, James is seen as the engine on Thomas' right (viewers' left) side.
In the Czech version, Emily is incorrectly referred to as Henry.
In Other Languages[]
Language
Title
Brazilian Portuguese
Grande Mundo, Grande Aventuras!
Croatian
Veliki Svijet! Velike Pustolovine!
German
Große Welt! Große Abenteuer!
Greek
Μεγάλες Περιπέτειες! Εζερευνωνταυ τον Κοσμο!
Italian
Grandi Avventure!
Japanese
だいぼうけんにでかけよう
Latin American Spanish
Gran Mundo, Grandes Aventuras!
Portuguese
Grande Mundo! Grandes Aventuras!
Russian
Большой Мир! Большие Нриключения!
Official Lyrics Video[]
Big World! Big Adventures! Theme Song Official Lyrics Video Thomas & Friends