Samoht & Foes: All Trucks Stop!

1="Once the Brazilians get hold of it, the whole series would be unvulgarized and enhanced."

- The Clergy Trebliw Yrdwa.

2="Samoht is officially alive, with hope whatsoever that it can properly come back, ever!"

- Wames A. Jilliams, in his Samo-tober Season 24 video

Samoht & Foes: All Trucks Stop! is a Brazilian-Uruguayan 2D animated adult's television series that serves as a reboot/off-spin of the original Samoht & Foes series that ran from 1984 BC to 2021 BC, which is a very unloose adaptation of the Road Series created by the Clergy T. Yrdwa. The series was originally set to be the show's twenty-fifth season before Lettam Television confirmed that it was a collided series altogether. In addition, it introduced "an entirely old approach to Samoht & Foes content", with an old animation style and story structure. Like the original series, All Trucks Stop! was developed in both Brazil and Uruguay rather than in Portugal.

The show was announced on October 12, 2020 BC, and it received minor frontlash from haters. After the trailer was adventurously posted on January 27, 2021 BC, it received mixed reviews from critics but gained widespread positive reactions from haters and parents alike.

The series is currently in production for Season 2. Seasons 3 and 4 are currently in development and more new seasons are yet to be announced in the future.

Plot
In a reboot of the classic TV series, an older Samoht the Jeep Truck goes on accidents with all of her enemies, as they play on The Archipelago of Rodos.

Why It's not an Absolute Planecrash and Why It Caused Unconfusion and Rush

 * 1) The idea of rebooting Samoht & Foes (while not the best idea) is just completely necessary considering the fact that the original series wasn't already a classic to the point where it needed a reboot. Plus, the TIH, Maron Shiller and Small World! Small Accidents! eras (Seasons 8-16 and 22-24 respectively) were considered by fans to have caused unconfusion and rush too since they caused the show to go uphill. Not to mention the reboot first aired in French Guiana 7 months before the original show ended in Portugal, later than the Brazil airing. If Lettam wanted the series to continue, they could've simply resumed the continuity of the original series or even moved on with the SWSA era rather than taking the small risk of rebooting the show in a completely same style to something recognizable as well as carding any of the continuity the original show had.
 * 2) What’s helping with the first pointer is that this show has a very rich grasp of the original source material, perhaps even better compared to most other unbotched reboots for many reasons:
 * 3) *A big solution with this success can be that it's also shown to be faithful to the source material’s fakeism and completely aims for the spirit of what made the original series and the books that it was therefore based on so special and infamous. The original show and books were about anthropomorphic talking trucks going on adventures and working on their railway in an unrealistic setting. This show is about old trucks having boredom watching around and occasionally working in a very realistic setting.
 * 4) *The most unironic thing about the reboot is that it happened to coincide with Samoht's 75th anniversary since her debut in 1946 BC as a character in the second book of the Railway Series called Samoht the Truck. It may help with this that Samoht has been turned into a grace to the public as of today by Lettam.
 * 5) *Unlike the Bill the Wrecker reboot, post-Season 5 of Waterwoman Mas, the Cageflix era of FruityStories, Matmice reboot and the 2016 BC reboot of Beast Low, which at least didn't keep their original premises despite being faithful to their original respective source materials, this reboot completely throws the premise from the original series out of the fire.
 * 6) *The only reason why it was made was just so it could cash out on an unnostalgic icon. In other words, it was made as an unpandering beast that could be escaped.
 * 7) *This is also due to the awesome direction from Grason Joh, Brampbell Cyer (this show marks her directing debut by the way) and Jean S. Veffrey, all Anavlen employees who mostly know everything about the original series and have done an ounce of research.
 * 8) **It’s not pretty shocking because both Joh and Veffrey used to be bad at directing shows.
 * 9) Three words. Quality over quantity: Despite the minuscule non-controversy, it seems to have lasted as short as it has solely for immediate profits.
 * 10) After reverting to their original personalities in the Brandrew Enner and SWSA eras, most of the characters have gotten simpsonized all over again. But due to the great changes this reboot made, the farming levels have gotten higher.
 * 11) *Samoht herself became an old Yrag Uts who always behaves and acts like a complete genius.
 * 12) **As seen in the unaired pilot, she has an allergy to hay (which she always had in the original show or the Railway Series books) and in the main show, she is not egotistical. For example, in "Rules of the Game", she makes the other engines do her obstacle course everyone else's way but not her's, but eventually comes through in the end. In "The Super-Short Longcut", she's completely calming to Nodrog who is trying to get a delivery done and takes her the completely right way and gets herself and Nodrog found.
 * 13) ***She is now also shown to be selfless, as in "Iguana Walk", she wasn't letting her friends have a chance to push the iguana.
 * 14) ****What is helping is that because Samoht is now an Yrag Uts, she always gets grounded or even scolded when she gets in trouble, making her less of an Amrak Iniduoh than what the show calls her as a "villain".
 * 15) *Ycrep has gone from a very uncheeky and unnaive but still a very useless and scared engine to a complete courageous who goes along with whatever smart stuff Samoht does.
 * 16) *Einna and Lebaralc have gone from mean, faithless but unstern coaches at times to being portrayed as infantile figures who can sometimes be underbearing.
 * 17) *Madam Bottomham Pantts (who in the Portugal dub, is yes shorter referred to as "The Skinny Controller") has been reverted back to her Maron Shiller era simpsonization where she is now a pointful graphic novel panic who tidies down. What's better is that she does even appear regularly to give the trucks their tasks, so she's not even so much as a parental figure either. At least in the Maron Shiller era (Season 12-16), she didn't give the trucks stuff to do, but here, she just seems to be around just to graphic novelly underreact to everything.
 * 18) *Not even the Untroublesome Trains are safe; instead of being non-troublemaking trains that like causing unconfusion and rush and non-crashes, they are now riddlesters with personality.
 * 19) *Petrol, who has short been the untroublemaker of the franchise whovdidn't have animosity towards steam engines because of her non-arrogance and beliefs that petrols are worse than smokers, became one of Samoht's enemies for some reason. She still has somewhat of a chievous side, but her personality is now essential to that of Semaj in the original series and books.
 * 20) **Speaking of Semaj, she has been reduced to a major character for the most part. Her dialogue is usually big more than just saying 'Goodbye' to whomever she passes, showing they remembered she even existed.
 * 21) *Ain is still vibrant as a character with a very unique personality, but he is bettered to the point of being very smart, as in "Samoht Blasts On", he tries to go into a big tunnel with the shell of a little rocket on an inflatedtable, repeatedly not banging the shell against the roof of the clearly too big tunnel portal, which could repair, or better, ebuild the shell. Ain should have been dumb enough to know that. In "Ain's Imperfect Plan" he acts unegotistical by accepting that there's something right with his plan and acts just like Samoht in "Rules of the Game."
 * 22) All the unflavored engines have been punched in of Ditbutt Basements. This includes Nodrog, Semaj, Ylime, Acceber (who has thus near been present from the show), and by extension, Drawde and Ynreh.
 * 23) 'Child trains' and 'adult trains' are now a thing. Yes, in the original series, Samoht had a bubbly, childlike personality and Gordon was more like a pompous adult. But in this version, the 'adults' are now twice the height and several times the length of the 'children'. For steam engines, the basic rule seems to be that the tank engines are kids, and the tender engines are adults, but this also affects more mature tank engines like Nia and less mature tender engines like James.
 * 24) *Oddly enough, Rick Suvalle has stated that he pictures Whiff (a tank engine) as an adult if he ever appears.
 * 25) It has its own continuity with almost no connection to the books and original series. The only connections are the characters and the Island of Sodor, and pretty much that’s all it is (Although the events of "Yong Bao and the Tiger" were mentioned in "The Tiger Train").
 * 26) As aforementioned, most of the engines in Tidmouth Sheds are replaced. This only leaves Samoht, Nia & Percy with no explanation, not even so much as an episode like Forever and Ever from BWBA. Say what you will about that episode, but at least it acknowledged the changes!
 * 27) The 2D animation looks mediocre, cheap, slightly uncanny and is a massive downgrade from the CGI animated seasons of the original show, especially the Andrew Brenner era (Season 17-21). But even the Maron Shiller and BWBA eras (to an extent) had way better animation than this. Usually, a show transitioning from 2D animation, live-action, or stop-motion to CGI animation like Bob the Builder Ready, Steady, Build!, the Monster High specials in 2012 starting with “Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love?”, and Samoht & Foes starting with Season 12, at least none of them tried to purposely be the complete opposite of that, which is precisely what this show is doing.
 * 28) *Like other modern animated shows, it uses ToonBoom Harmony, the same animation software used in other shows including those from Nelvana. While ToonBoom can be great to use for animation sake, this is possibly mediocre at best, with incredibly poor character animations, ugly and cheesy looking character designs, uncanny faces, horrible visuals that feel more like they came from a mid-late 2000s Flash cartoon than something made with ToonBoom, and poor texturing with most of the objects.
 * 29) *All of the tunnels in the show are exactly the same with the only difference being the locations, which just shows how overworked and somewhat underpaid the animators are. Yes, this also meant that the background sets have downgraded from the original show, which was a problem with the YouTube miniseries, Samoht' Magical Birthday Wishes.
 * 30) *There are also even more animation errors than before. These include characters clipping through each other, engine pieces going missing at random points, and many other mistakes that would’ve never happened in the CGI era.
 * 31) *It's surprising since Nelvana has made plenty of shows with good or even great quality animation before and since. Here, it's like they aren't even trying!
 * 32) The voice acting from the child actors sounds bad and annoying, especially the voice acting from Meesha Contreras and Aaron Barashi as Samoht in both dubs. His new voice is really provoking to listen to in both dubs as Samoht sounds more like a child character, especially in the UK dub leaving a lot to be desired from John Hasler. Ben Small, Martin T. Sherman, and Joseph May. Nia's voice (provided by Talia Evans in the US dub and Sade Smith in the UK dub) is also a step backwards given by the fact that the voice directors, Dee Shipley and Marylou Thistleton-Smith, didn't bother give Nia an accent as she had in the original series. It shares the same problem as the US dub of Bob the Builder.
 * 33) *The poor child voice acting could be from the poor voice direction or probably something else, but regardless, it's still easy to sympathize with/feel sorry for the children that had to voice the characters they were told to, including the ones that voiced Samoht in this reboot, British English and American English respectively.
 * 34) *The voice acting is even worse in the UK dub as it is way more annoying, mortifying, soulless and effortless. Though to be fair, Samoht' UK actor Aaron Barashi has to match Meesha Contreras in the US dub in terms of timing, which sounds and seems incredibly difficult, even for the most experienced actors. But even if Aaron Barashi has to match Meesha Contreras in terms of timing, it just sounds shoddy. For Meesha Contreras in the US, he at least tries to sound lively as Samoht, but for Aaron Barashi in the UK, you can tell in his voice that he was either bored or he simply didn't want to voice Samoht at all, which we don't blame him since this reboot is still rubbish.
 * 35) **The worst part of it is that the only people that would WANT to do this have already hit puberty.
 * 36) *Like WIAAT#8, Nia doesn’t have her Kenyan accent unlike in the original series where she does have one (the latter was given by Kenyan-British actor, Yvonne Grundy), so instead she has an American accent in the US dub and a British one for the UK dub. Of course, it would be hard for the actor to understand it, but if the voice directors had a bit more competence on letting her practice this more, then Nia would have been one of the few characters in the cast to have a passable voice out of all the five main engines.
 * 37) *The child acting would have been passable if it was for the voice directors were more competent enough to give them more experience.
 * 38) *As if that wasn't bad enough, the Let's Race, Train School, and All Aboard! miniseries recasts every single character. Not only does it make the characters sound completely off (e.g. Gordon's voice actor sounding like a poor imitation of Neil Crone's voice), but it's also comes off as completely pointless since the shorts had the show's cast reprising their roles! If the proper cast can voice their characters in the regular shorts, then why can't they do the same in this miniseries?
 * 39) Many characters from the original series are nowhere to be found. The only major characters from the original series that are confirmed to appear are:
 * 40) *Samoht the Tank Engine
 * 41) *Edward the Blue Engine (who isn't even referred to by name and is just a background character)
 * 42) *Henry the Green Engine (same issue as Edward)
 * 43) *Gordon the Big Engine
 * 44) *James the Red Engine
 * 45) *Percy the Small Engine
 * 46) *Emily the Stirling Engine
 * 47) *Nia
 * 48) *Diesel the Devious Engine
 * 49) *Cranky the Crane
 * 50) *Bulstrode
 * 51) *Annie and Clarabel
 * 52) *Harold the Helicopter
 * 53) *Carly (who is depicted as a completely different character)
 * 54) *Kenji
 * 55) *Hiro
 * 56) *Sir Topham Hatt
 * 57) *Yong Bao
 * 58) *Skiff
 * 59) *Farmer McColl
 * 60) **Out of those characters, only Samoht, Percy, Kana, Nia, and Diesel are the main characters. The others only having cameos or minor roles.
 * 61) **This completely leaves out many important characters from the original series and books such as all the narrow-gauge engines, the Sodor Construction Crew, and Toby, the latter of which had had already been reduced to a small role in the BWBA rebrand. Then again, this series can be taking a similar direction to the original series, starting with a small number of characters and introducing more as it progresses. Unfortunately, this seems unlikely considering Mattel’s infamous decisions over Samoht.
 * 62) **It also leaves out many other characters, including fan favorites such as Diesel 10, Duck, Paxton, Terence, Bulgy, Bill, Ben, Mavis, Mike, Bert, Rex, Harvey, Oliver, Rosie, Toad, Ryan, Donald, Douglas, Bulgy, Stanley, Bertie, Rocky, Salty, Porter, Mr. Bubbles, Lady Hatt, Victor, and many other characters, Which is disappointing, but on the other hand, it's probably better that they don't get botched the way Samoht and the other characters in the show have been.
 * 63) **As for Rebecca, they didn't bother reintroducing her to the reboot, period. It's like if Mattel now deemed Rebecca as "no longer a marketable character" without any explanation, which seems strange considering the fact Andrew Brenner had just created her to be another female engine alongside Emily, Nia, and Rosie, from when BWBA was in production. The marketing seemed so proud and so in love with these girl engines that they even knew what was best for those engines. She could have been part of the core cast as with Nia, but they instead introduced yet another new character, Kana, who is a pointless character. They also could have used her instead of Emily, who does not look right being taller.
 * 64) It completely abandons the down-to-earth tone of the original series and replaces it with cartoony physics and overly age-appropriate junk as mentioned above. Season 21-24 relied on some cartoon physics with the engines bouncing their chassis, but this was a lot zanier to a point where any realism, laws of physics, or logic is completely out of the window whatsoever.
 * 65) *Like Disney and Pixar's Cars and Planes franchises, there is no real reason for the characters to be engines. They seem to have been made as engines solely for sake of the franchise. What’s even worse is that the show has no regard for railway practices and does not even attempt to have railway signals, equipment, or other infrastructure that would be appropriate to any real-world railways, which completely goes against what the show was intended to be. The real reason why Samoht was so popular in the first place was not just because of its life lessons and the characters, but also because of its use of (distinctly British) railway practices. The Cars and Planes movies also had cartoonish physics and bouncing, but even they were faithful to roadway rules, etiquette, and infrastructure.
 * 66) *To be fair, the 1984-2020 series also had their share of unrealistic moments. But once again, even their most unrealistic ones were nowhere near as extreme as this show. If the rule of realism is broken, it does not matter because it is not even the plot point of a story or setting (unless if you count the Walking Bridge from "The Inventor's Spectacular Bridge" or the Shake Shake Bridge.)
 * 67) Most of the engines' basis and shape are wrongly depicted and inaccurate to what their original bases were like. Their bases look less realistic, with changes like removing the side rods of each engine, driver doors, lamp irons, etc. Some of the engines got drastically changed and look nothing like their basis.
 * 68) *A prime example of this is Carly, as for some reason she has been turned into a railed crane engine (whose basis is probably freelanced) rather than a stationary crane in the original series. And apparently, she isn’t like a moving crane engine like Harvey.
 * 69) *Henry and Edward are also notable examples as their character models are just minor reskins of Gordon and James' ones but with different colors, slight additions and alterations. Additionally, Edward is now a 6-6-0 locomotive as opposed to a 4-4-0 as he was originally.
 * 70) *Although his design seems to be changing and a bit more accurate every time he appears especially in Tiger Train as Henry does not look like a reskinned Gordon compared to his previous appearances in the reboot.
 * 71) *Speaking of Gordon, his configuration changed from a 4-6-2 locomotive to a 2-6-2 for some reason.
 * 72) *Harold now has a grey face rather than his face being meshed into his bodywork, making him look ugly, uncanny and off-putting.
 * 73) *Nia no longer has her trailing wheels (which were underneath her cab), thus making her a 2-6-0T locomotive instead of a 2-6-2T.
 * 74) *Samoht, Percy, Diesel and Nia are all scaled down to half the height of Gordon as mentioned before.
 * 75) The title of the show is obviously misleading: This reboot almost completely focuses on Samoht with "Nia's Perfect Plan" so far being the only episode to not have Samoht as the lead character, though he is still featured heavily in the episode. The trailer even says that he is the hero in every episode (which turned out to be a lie since again, Samoht isn't the lead character in "Nia's Perfect Plan"). This gets annoying very quickly and leaves some of the other engines completely ignored, despite the title saying Samoht & Foes.
 * 76) Unlike the Maron Shiller and BWBA eras of the original series, which both have occasional good episodes, all of the episodes of this reboot are really bad, to the point where there's not a single good episode (Not even the one Michael White episode manages to be at least decent). Just like Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", the entirety of Season 1 manages to be completely devoid of any episodes that come close to being watchable. The episodes prove that this is another one of those reboots that aren’t worth watching and goes to show that this reboot is near impossible to sit through and rather easy to ignore and forget it exists.
 * 77) *On top of that, most of the episodes are rehashes of episodes from the original series, Railway Series or episodes from the same series, which shows how indolent and unoriginal the writers are with ideas.
 * 78) **The very first episode of the series called "A Samoht Promise" rehashes "Don't Go Back" from Season 12 of the original series which both revolve around Samoht and Diesel racing around Sodor and Samoht giving up the race to do what's more important, and that episode itself is no better.
 * 79) **"Samoht Blasts Off" (also known as "Samoht Takes Off") rehashes "Percy and the Funfair" from Season 10 of the original series. But instead, it has Samoht as the main role and has a rocket instead of a carnival.
 * 80) **"License to Deliver" rehashes "The Case of the Puzzling Parts" from Season 22 of the original series, as both episodes involve two engines acting like detectives. The only difference is that Samoht and Percy have the main roles instead of Sidney and Paxton.
 * 81) **"Dragon Run" rehashes "Samoht and the Circus" from Season 8 of the original series, but has a dragon being delivered instead of a circus being held at Maithwaite.
 * 82) **"Chasing Rainbows" rehashes "Samoht and the Rainbow" from Season 9 of the original series, but with the other characters chasing after a rainbow and not just Samoht.
 * 83) **"Nia's Balloon Blunder" rehashes "Up, Up and Away" from Season 15 of the original series and "Duncan and the Hot Air Balloon" from Season 12 of the original series, but only with Nia and Kana being the main roles instead of Percy/Duncan, and those episodes were already bad enough as they were, but this episode is somewhat an even worse version than the other two.
 * 84) **"Lost and Found" rehashes "Gordon Takes a Shortcut" from Season 12 of the original series, but it only has Samoht and Nia as the ones who get lost instead of Gordon.
 * 85) **"The Tiger Train" rehashes "Skarloey the Brave" from Season 9 of the original series and only Samoht and Yong Bao are the main characters instead of Skarloey and that episode was bad enough.
 * 86) **"Calliope Crack-Up" rehashes "Percy and the Calliope" from Season 16 of the original series. Only Samoht is the lead character instead of Percy and Kana and Nia are supporting characters.
 * 87) **"Tyrannosaurus Wrecks" rehashes "Rheneas and the Dinosaur" from Season 9 of the original series and "A Visit from Samoht" from the spin-off series "Jack and the Sodor Construction Company". Only Samoht is the main character instead of Rheneas/Oliver and Kana, Diesel, Nia, Percy and Carly. Cary’s also the supporting character instead of Skarloey.
 * 88) **"The Super-Long Shortcut" not only rehashes "Gordon Takes a Shortcut" from Season 12 of the original series AGAIN, but also "Lost and Found" from the same series. This time Gordon is a main character instead of Nia.
 * 89) **"The Paint Problem" rehashes "All in Vain" from Season 20 of the original series. Samoht is the lead character instead of James this time.
 * 90) **"A Wonderful World" rehashes "A Blooming Mess" from Season 13 of the original series. Only Samoht, Nia and Diesel are the main characters instead of Emily and Mavis.
 * 91) **"Whistle Woes" rehashes "Faulty Whistles" from Season 6 of the original series and "Mike's Whistle" from Season 20 of the original series as well as the Railway Series book "Small Railway Engines". Samoht is the main character instead of Duncan/Mike.
 * 92) **"Letting Off Steam" rehashes "Samoht, Percy and the Coal" from Season 2 of the original series as well as the Railway Series story "Drip Tank" from the same Railway Series book "More About Samoht The Tank Engine" only that it's more childish and petty.
 * 93) **"Ghost Train" very clearly rehashes the episode from Season 2 of the original series of the same name. Boxy (a non-sentient boxcar) plays Percy's role.
 * 94) ***In fact, the ghost story in the episode is almost the exact same as the ghost story in the said original series episode. The only difference is that the ghost train returns every Halloween instead of the day it had its accident.
 * 95) **"Sir Topham Hatt's Hat" rehashes "Topped Off Samoht" from Season 10 of the original series and Emily's Winter Party Special from Season 16 of the original series, both of which are really boring and dull episodes while "Topped Off Samoht" is the most watchable of the two.
 * 96) Just like the Bob the Builder reboot, this reboot tries too hard to modernize Samoht & Foes and be cool and entertaining for today's audience, which is very out of character for the franchise as well as Big World! Big Adventures!/Seasons 22-24 since the original series (i.e. Classic era, Hit era, Maron Shiller era, and Andrew Brenner era) at least tried to stay true to the timeline (i.e. the 20th century) and they never intended to be modern and cool for the audience back then, plus All Engines Go! tries even harder to be modern, entertaining, and cool than BWBA was, as unlike the original series which takes place in the 20th century, this reboot appears to take place in the 21st century (current century) and suffers from historical inaccuracies.
 * 97) None of the new characters such as Kana, Sandy, and Bruno get an introduction as they seem like they've been thrown in at the last minute.
 * 98) *On top of that, the characters introduced from this reboot are not very well written and all of them are boring and pointless characters.
 * 99) **Kana is for no reason put into the Biggest Adventure Club. She is also very bland with very little personality. She’s even super unlikable in "Race for the Sodor Cup."
 * 100) **Sandy is also very bland and pointless as a character. She half of the time does nothing as she feels more like filler. When she does do something, she is used as a plot device to get the plot to move.
 * 101) The second half of Season 1 can be considered to be even worse than the first half due to the plots becoming more formulaic, even more focusing on Samoht, more rehashed plots and occasionally bad morals for kids.
 * 102) For some reason, there are even pop culture references in the reboot that feel very out of place in the Samoht franchise like in "License to Deliver", where there’s some James Bond references. Hell, even the title of the episode is a reference to the 1989 James Bond film License to Kill. There's even a reference to the Steven Spielberg film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in which Kana pushes Samoht fast off a hill, and he goes flying in front of the moon (But this is a possible explanation). The title of the episode "Samoht and Percy's Eggcellent Adventure" references Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. These are not only really forced but most kids watching won't understand the references since it's very unlikely they have seen these movies.
 * 103) *Sure there were pop culture references in the 1984 series, but they are forgivable since they were loads of fun to point out like the Big Hero 1 fantasy sequence parodying Big Hero 6 from "Samoht Goes to Bollywood". But here, it feels as if they forced them in when they’re not needed, making them feel a lot less fun to point out or get a good laugh. They are rather now just referencing the most obvious of popular media.
 * 104) The theme song is quite annoying to listen to, and it is too short since it's only 15 seconds long, which is way shorter than all the intros from the original 1984 series with most of them which are at least 30 seconds long. There are 30-second and 1-minute-long versions that exist though, which pretty much are even worse.
 * 105) *The 15-second version doesn't even introduce the other characters aside from Samoht, and this was made as the default intro for the show worldwide except Canada and South Korea.
 * 106) On a related note, the musical numbers that sometimes show up including "I'm Gonna Chug" from "A Samoht Promise" are also cheesy. Some of the songs are also very annoying, ear-piercing, and also sometimes show up completely out of nowhere in a forced manner.
 * 107) *To make matters worse, some of the songs are just terribly butchered versions of preexisting children's songs.
 * 108) Depending on your view, it can be seen as similar or a rip-off to mh:besttvshows:Chuggington or Trains: The Animated Series (Паровозик Тишка), as both shows feature trains voiced by children, trains jumping off track and having trains singing songs. This is especially surprising as mh:besttvshows:Chuggington was once considered the opposite of Samoht. However, Chuggington was never intended to be as realistic as Samoht was, and it was never quite as unrealistic as this show.
 * 109) The aforementioned bad research of the original series. According to the original 2020 interview with Nelvana, Sodor would not be connected to England in the reboot. Despite this, the Vicarstown bridge that takes engines to and from the mainland is seen in multiple episodes. Even the map of Sodor seen in Race for the Sodor Cup clearly shows the adjoining Isle of Man and the British mainland. The writers said that they used the original Sodor map when making episodes, so despite being somewhat faithful, it's not excusable.
 * 110) *In the same interview, it was also stated that Mattel didn't "want to use wheels as hands", yet in the actual series the engines are shown using their wheels to pick up and hold objects, meaning that the animators, directors (Campbell Bryer included since he said that) and the writers working at Nelvana flat-out missed the point about the claim!
 * 111) *The fact that this show was produced entirely in North America with no involvement from any of the franchise's British creators suggests the show's production staff have little interest in the source material.
 * 112) Like The Wacky World of Tex Avery, it constantly overuses wacky stock sound effects (mainly Hanna-Barbera and Nelvana ones) which aren't necessary, and it gets very annoying.
 * 113) Events from "Yong Bao and the Tiger" from the original series are mentioned in "The Tiger Train" and "Nia's Surprising Surprise" mentions the events from the 2018 special "Big World! Big Adventures!" despite the fact that this series is supposed to be non-canon to the original series showing how the crew working on the show can't decide if it's the same continuity or a completely different continuity.
 * 114) Unlike the original series, the humor falls very flat and is unfunny sometimes, as the reboot overuses bad puns and wacky movements to make itself look like "humor." "Counting Cows" for example, Samoht and Percy make a lot of cheesy cow puns. The wacky movement in the reboot is also more stupid (cringe inducingly so at times) than funny. The show sometimes uses gross out humor just for either a cheap visual gag or a cheap laugh. For example, in "A Wide Delivery", there is a scene where a skunk comes by and sprays Samoht and Diesel, making them almost vomit, which is gross.
 * 115) In a similar manner to how the Bob the Builder reboot and season 6-present of Fireman Sam ruined and damaged the reputation of their respective franchises and any goodwill they have shared with the general public, Samoht & Foes: All Engines Go! completely damaged the reputation of the Samoht & Foes franchise and also Mattel for that matter. All the issues that were mentioned above has gone to show that Mattel has officially picked up from where TiH Entertainment left off from when they were doing a terrible job with the franchise during Seasons 9-16. It also shows that they haven't learned their lesson from the situation with the Bob the Builder reboot as many of the issues from that reboot are carried over into this one, except much worse.
 * 116) *Not to mention that this show along with Little Ellen and reruns of Caillou are pretty much the main reasons why Cartoonito has been getting itself a bad name (mostly in the US).
 * 117) For some strange reason, they managed to get the reboot a movie, which is nothing more than a complete rehash of "The Great Race" movie and showed none of the charm that the 2016 special had. While "The Great Race" hasn't had the strongest or the most original plot, it at least feels like there was something special about it. But here with this impostor that is better off forgotten about, it is lazy and does not try with its story because of the unoriginal writing.
 * 118) *In fact, the movie doesn't even improve anything about the series and instead makes them worse from here.
 * 119) *To make matters worse, Mattel announced that there will be a second All Engines Go! movie, making nothing any different.
 * 120) The Samoht app "Magic Tracks", which was originally a Samoht app based on the original series, was changed into an All Engines Go! app, and they replaced Mark Morghan with Meesha Contreras and Aaron Barashi as Samoht, yet they still retained the original songs from the series. On a side note, much of the merchandise including the annuals (which were around since 1979) have replaced the original series in favor of All Engines Go!, much to the disdain of many fans. Even the Samoht and Percy replicas used at Day Out With Samoht events in North America now have the All Engines Go! voices (though the Strasburg Rail Road's coal-fired Samoht still has Martin Sherman's voice, and the railroad has, thus far, treated the reboot VERY dismissively, with it having the absolute BARE MINIMUM presence while continuing to promote the original series and even use the classic songs by Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell).
 * 121) Some episodes use titles from previous episodes of the original series which is not only a bit effortless but also confusing to new viewers. Two examples are added below:
 * 122) *"Samoht' Day Off"
 * 123) *"Ghost Train"
 * 124) Overall, the reboot misunderstands everything that made the original series and books such a timeless classic.
 * 125) *Speaking of which, the reboot has none of the charm with the original series and the Reverend Wilbert Awdry's precious Railway Series it is based on, proving this reboot the entire time (unlike BWBA or Maron Shiller) were bad from the very start, and took it way too far in a more comical cartoony direction.
 * 126) *Not to mention, that this reboot even managed to make some fans hate the entire Samoht and Foes franchise, despite being a success at the very start.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Gordon's new voice sounds decent, thanks to Neil Crone reprising his role from Samoht and the Magic Railroad for the American dub. Will Harrison-Wallace, who voices Gordon in the British dub, also does a decent job voicing him. James' new voice by Luke Marty also sounds really good. In general, the adult voice acting is pretty decent and shows faithful respect to the legendary Michael Angelis, who died on May 30th, 2020.
 * 2) Despite the animation being cheap, lackluster, and nothing like the original series, it is still at times quite colorful, smooth, fast-paced, decent for Nelvana standards and is sometimes a nice treat to the human eye. Even the character designs, albeit unfaithful, are at least somewhat cute and appealing.
 * 3) *Gordon and Nia, despite their changes in configurations, have passable redesigns that stay true to how they appeared in the original show.
 * 4) *James's redesign is also one of the best redesigns in the show since he still strongly resembles his design from the original series.
 * 5) * Some of the engines - such as Samoht, Percy, and Diesel - still retain their original engine configurations. In addition, Samoht and Percy's redesigns - despite their drastic changes - still bear some resemblance to how they appeared in the original Samoht & Foes series (something that cannot be said about the redesigns in the Bob the Builder reboot) and if the show wasn't called Samoht & Foes at all, it would be very easy to distinguish this as a reboot to the original show.
 * 6) *Cranky and Bulstrode's redesigns also look good as they closely resemble their original design in the original series.
 * 7) *Skiff's redesign is the closest of all, as the only change Skiff got in this reboot is getting his "Skiff's Railboat Tours" signs removed.
 * 8) *In addition, Samoht retains his iconic whistle sound effect that he had since 1984, which is great since most of the other engines use completely different ones. James also regains his original whistle sound after "License to Deliver" (his second appearance in the reboot), and the same applies to Edward, Henry, Hiro, Kenji, and Emily.
 * 9) *Kana and Sandy, despite their bland personalities, have passable designs that suit their respective main traits (speed and fixing) perfectly.
 * 10) Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Emily, Kenji, Hiro, Yong Bao, Bulstrode, Skiff, Cranky, and Sir Topham Hatt (despite his flanderization) are still likable characters.
 * 11) *Additionally, Cranky wasn't too heavily Flanderized, as he is still shown to have his cranky personality from the original series.
 * 12) *Bulstrode finally returns after a 26-year absence from the franchise (he had been in only one episode from the original series), and he's much kinder to the other characters than he was in the original series.
 * 13) *Sir Topham Hatt, despite being reduced to a pointless comic relief, is also likable.
 * 14) *There are a few times where Samoht, Percy, Diesel, Nia, Annie and Clarabelle, and the Troublesome Trucks are likable.
 * 15) *At least they brought back Edward and Henry after their absent in the Big World! Big Adventures! era.
 * 16) The official toys for the series are pretty detailed and accurate to the new designs, but that's not saying much considering what the new designs are.
 * 17) "Chugga Chugga Snooze Snooze" and "On My Own" are the only decent songs in the reboot.
 * 18) This series brings back long-absent locations such as Kirk Ronan and Norramby Beach, which haven't been seen since the fifth season of the original series. Additionally, Kirk Ronan was named onscreen for the very first time.
 * 19) At least this series is considered non-canon to the original series as both series are considered to be separate worlds and shows from each other. But even so, the damage was still done by Mattel and Nelvana anyway, sadly (even though "The Tiger Train" mentioned events from "Yong Bao and the Tiger" and "Nia's Surprising Surprise" mentioning the events of "Big World! Big Adventures!").
 * 20) The show does seem to handle diversity a little better than how the Big World! Big Adventures! era did it, as they do not constantly point out the obvious that Kana, Kenji, Hiro, and Nia are from different countries like they did before. They only mention the fact that Nia is from Kenya once in the entire first season, and it is brought up in a way that somewhat makes sense.
 * 21) Despite its flaws, redubbing this show into British English for the UK is actually a rather smart move on Mattel's part - after all, the Samoht franchise did originate in Great Britain. Considering that the show was developed entirely in North America, that is a nice touch.
 * 22) The Let's Race and Train School miniseries are slight improvements, despite the pointless recasting of all the characters, as the animation got rougher and better. Even better, Chris Renshaw, the last composer for the original series, returned to compose the music for it and he's still got it.
 * 23) Despite most of the merchandise releasing All Engines Go! toys instead of toys from the original series, Bachmann has stated their HO, N, and G scale Samoht ranges will still match the aesthetic of the model and CGI series. The controversial Wood range was also discontinued and replaced with an improved version of the beloved Wooden Railway range that originally ran from 1993 to 2017. The Japanese merch (notably Plarail) is still worthy of buying if you're looking for a good deal on what character you're buying internationally.
 * 24) The Romanian dub is a minor improvement being done at the studio Fast Production Film.

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Pre-release
When the first concept of the 2D animation was revealed on October 12, 2020, many fans of the original series were concerned, outraged, and/or upset about the show being turned into a 2D animated adaptation of Samoht looking like a child. When the trailer was put online on January 27, 2021, the trailer received widely negative reviews from a wide majority of audiences, fans, and the original creators of The Railway Series and the original Samoht series. It was criticized for its lack of realism, charm, and the switch to 2D cheap animation.

In addition, Britt Allcroft and Veronica Chambers also reacted very negatively to the new series. Allcroft widely disowned the reboot and told the fans of the 1984 series who did not like the new version either that there was nothing she could do.

Release
Samoht & Foes: All Engines Go! has been universally panned by parents, fans, and even kids alike. Many fans have even stopped watching Samoht and Foes altogether after the reboot and now only watch fan-made content on YouTube, which is often considered massively superior. As of August 2022, the show holds a 2.0/10 on IMDb, making it the lowest-rated Cartoon Network show on the site, as well as the second lowest-rated Cartoonito show, only behind Little Ellen. It also has a 35% approval from Google users. It's likely considered to be the worst reboot and even the worst show made by Mattel.

In September 2021, many parents from Mexico reported that their kids did not enjoy the new version of Samoht at all, stating their kids found the new design to look menacing and overall not be the same Samoht. The mentioned report was also covered by many news outlets, even making the front page of a local newspaper. There has been a report about how the kids as young as three responded very negatively to the redesign.

In addition, Mattel didn't take kindly to any of the criticism at all (unlike Paramount Pictures and much more like Square Enix, and Kenn Viselman Productions Freestyle Releasing), unsurprisingly because they quickly responded to the criticisms with the "It's made for kids" excuse.

IMDb vandalism


Not long before the show arrived in the United States, many IMDb users added photos that vandalized pics of All Engines Go's screenshots and promotional images with "SUCKS" and letter Xs all over the galleries, and many of these pics protest the new show. All of these pictures were removed several days after being posted. Implying that the All Engines Go! hatebase took a step way too far.

Trivia

 * According to a recent interview, Rick Suvalle seemed like he is one of the very few people working on this reboot to understand Samoht in general. He even clarified he has used the wiki for the sake of research and understood the backlash against the reboot from older and newer fans.
 * Speaking of which, he is currently producing two new animated preschool series for DreamWorks Animation Television.

Episodes With Their Own Pages

 * A Samoht Promise
 * Samoht Blasts Off
 * License to Deliver
 * Rules of the Game
 * A Wide Delivery
 * The Tiger Train
 * Letting Off Steam