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Background Information[]
Philip is a fictional standard gauge diesel boxcab locomotive created by Ian McCue and Andrew Brenner.
In 2016, Philip made his debut in the nineteenth series of Thomas & Friends in the episode The Little Engine Who Raced Ahead. He last appeared in the twenty-fourth series episode Gordon and Rebecca, Coming Through!, which was released in 2021.
Philip is voiced by Rasmus Hardiker (UK/US) in the CGI version of the series on both sides of the Atlantic, respectively. Contrary to his American basis, the character was portrayed with a British accent.
Philip is based on a Pennsylvania Railroad's diesel-electric Class A6 "Boxcab" switcher, but with the curved back end and extra door of the AGEIR (Alco, General-Electric and Ingersoll-Rand) prototype boxcab #8835, albeit with five windows instead of seven.
Behind the Scenes[]
CGI Model[]
In 2015, Philip was created from scratch in CGI by Arc Productions for the nineteenth series. The model was "hand-sculpted" in Maya, a 3D animation and modelling software.
Texture variants[]
In addition to his standard livery, a few other texture variants exist of Philip's CGI model. These texture variants include:
Fonts[]
The following fonts are used on Philip's CGI model:
- Sodor BLD (number)
Voice Actors[]
- Rasmus Hardiker (UK/US)
- Daiki Kobayashi (Japan, excluding Big World! Big Adventures!)
- Nozomu Sasaki (Japan; Big World! Big Adventures! only)
- Bartosz Wesołowski (Poland)
- Paul Disbergen (The Netherlands)
- José Ángel Torres (Latin America; nineteenth - twenty-first series)
- Alberto Bernal (Latin America; twenty-second series onwards)
- Susana Moreno (Latin America; The Great Race singing voice)
- Tim Kreuer (Germany)
- Tammo Kaulbarsch (Germany; The Great Race singing voice)
- Jordi Estupiñá (Spain; The Great Race - twenty-third series)
- Yoli Seker (Israel)
- Dor Srugo (Israel; twenty-third and twenty-fourth series)
- Marco Barbato (Italy)
- Loukas Frangoulis (Greece)
- Valtteri Turunen (Finland)
- Ricardo Fábio (Brazil; nineteenth series onwards; excluding Samson and the Fireworks)
- Enrico Espada (Brazil; Samson and the Fireworks only)
- Shin Yong-u (South Korea; nineteenth to twentieth series only)
- Baek Kyung-hoon (South Korea; twenty-first series only)
- Shin Jeong-hoon (South Korea; The Great Race only)
- Bang Ji-won (South Korea; Journey Beyond Sodor only)