Farona and Frederico

## Frederico

"*Guys, guys! Look who I met! It's Farona and Frederico. They're the best!"
"We are. We win every race we're in."
"And we look so good while doing it.*"
— Diesel meeting Farona and Frederico, Race for the Sodor Cup

**Farona and Frederico** are a pair of electric engines from Spain. They visited Sodor to compete for the Sodor Cup.

## Personalities

Both Farona and Frederico are arrogant and snobbish in addition to lacking humility, not above boasting to Kenji and demeaning Thomas and Kana, as well as winding up the latter. However, both of them are very unsporting, and even resorted to cheating to try and win. This ultimately turned Diesel, who at the start of the race was one of their biggest fans, against them.

## Technical Details

### Liveries

Farona is painted yellow with black and orange stripes and black windows. Frederico has the same color patterns, but with the exception of his wheels has much of the yellow and black color placements inverted.

## Appearances

* Television Series
* Other Media

### *Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go*

* **Season 1** - A Light Delivery (*portrait cameos*) and A Rusty Rescue (*portrait cameos*)
* **Season 2** - Off the Rails (*cameos*)

#### Songs

* **Season 1** - My Rusty Can (*portrait cameos; music video only*)
* **Season 2** - The World Has a Mind of Its Own (*cameos*)

### Videos

* **Watch Out, Thomas!** - The Hay Bale Delivery (*cameo*), The Relay Race (*do not speak*), The Sodor Cup Final (*do not speak*), Percy's Musical Mystery (*cameos*), Thomas' Messy Farm Adventure (*cameo; Frederico only*), Percy's Spooky Delivery (*cameo; Frederico only*), Thomas' Obstacle Course Fun (*cameos*), Thomas' Game of Hide and Surprise! (*cameos*), Thomas' Dragon Rescue (*cameos*), Thomas and Bruno's Loopy Delivery (*cameo; Frederico only*), Bruno's Easter Egg Mystery (*cameo; Frederico only*), and The Cleaning Catastrophe (*cameos*)
* **Let's Race** - The Egg Race, The Bell Race, The Flag Race, and The Obstacle Race

### Books

* **2022** - Meet the Engines and Thomas the Tank Engine Character Encyclopedia
* **2023** - Race for the Sodor Cup, Let's Learn Letters, and Let's Learn Colours (*Farona only*)

### Games

* **2022** - Magic Tracks
* **2023** - Go Go Thomas!

## Whistles

In Magic Tracks, both Farona and Frederico are depicted with a stock cartoon factory whistle.

### Horns

In Go Go Thomas!, they share the same horn, which is a stock recording of a Nathan K3L type. Diesel used this horn sound in the original series during Misty Island Rescue to the fourteenth season.

## Trivia

* A promotional activity sheet for Race for the Sodor Cup calls Farona "Ferona" and Frederico, "Felipe". It is possible that these were their original names.
* Frederico is the first *All Engines Go* character to be male. The others before him were female.
* Farona and Frederico are currently the only antagonists in *All Engines Go*, as all other characters with negative personalities have had these traits toned down.
* According to their profile in Meet the Engines, before they entered the Sodor Cup, Farona and Frederico had won 27 races straight.
* Despite being electric engines, Farona and Frederico are depicted with whistle sounds in the game, Magic Tracks.
	+ Their whistle sound in said game is also the same whistle sound as the delivery whistle heard in the first season episodes, Rules of the Game and Overnight Stop.
* According to the Thomas the Tank Engine Character Encyclopedia, Farona and Frederico are from Spain.