Bob the Builder: Project: Build It

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***Bob the Builder: Project Build It*** is the second series of *Bob the Builder*. It continues the storyline of where the original series left off. It was produced between 2004-2007 and it aired between 2005-2008 (2009 for the US).

## Production

On 7th November 2003, it was announced that a new Bob The Builder series would be coming out in 2005. Early on in development, Tom and Skip were going to be main characters. However, due to unknown reasons, the two of them aren’t seem helping in the series. The series started production in 2004 and wrapped up in 2007. The series was broadcast between May 2, 2005 and 26 August 26, 2008 in the UK on CBeebies and from September 3, 2005 to February 14, 2009 in the US on PBS.

## About

One day, when Wendy goes off on holiday, a contest is held in Bobsville where the winner will get to create their very own city in Sunflower Valley.
To avoid seeing the beautiful countryside of Sunflower Valley get demolished for a big, bustling city, Bob devices to enter the contest, and wins! Now Bob, Wendy, and his Can Do Crew are to turn Sunflower Valley, and later on, Bobland Bay, into an eco-friendly town for people to live in.

The main setting of the series is Sunflower Valley instead of Bobsville, which was a major location in the tenth series and later became a minor setting from the eleventh series onwards. Characters such as Mrs. Potts and J.J. (along with his gang) that remained in the Bobsville setting would disappear permanently (barring cameos) for the rest of the series.

Unlike the previous series, there are machines who either have unknown owners or owners that never got revealed. Bristle, Flex, Tumbler, Gripper and Grabber are the following machines who don't seem to have owners. It's thought that Flex is owned by Mr. Bell but it's currently unknown if he really does own Flex. Benny and Zoomer reappear from the special Snowed Under: The Bobblesberg Winter Games, under-owned by Robert and Dot. Shorts were also included in this series.

## Trivia

* This is the only spin-off to pick up where the Original Series leaves off and also to be the only spin-off set in the same continuity as the Original Series.
* Unlike the Original Series, the colored footage is a bit darker and filmed in HD 1080p compared to the lighter footage in the Original Series filmed in SD 576p.
* Many of the US voices changed in this series, including Bob.
	+ Bob's Big Plan:
		- Bob: Greg Proops
		- Lofty: Emma Tate
		- Spud and Mr. Bentley: Rob Rackstraw
	+ Scoop's Recruit:
		- Mr. Sabatini: Vincent Marzello
	+ Where's Robert?:
		- Farmer Pickles: Vincent Marzello
		- Skip: Rupert Degas
	+ Two-Jobs Travis:
		- Mr. Beasley: Greg Proops
	+ Scrambler and the Colorful Cave:
		- Mr. Ellis: Rupert Degas
	+ Scrambler to the Rescue:
		- Bob and Mr. Beasley: Marc Silk
		- Roley: Lorelei King
		- Dizzy: Emma Tate
* This series went for a more "environmentally-friendly" route, especially with the phrase, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!"
* In comparison to the Original Series, 35 of the 93 episodes were left unreleased in the UK, 14 in the US.
* A press release from October 2003 on the website ToonHound state Tom and Skip were set to help out in Sunflower Valley but their major roles were scrapped and only appeared once in Series 10 though Tom was referenced later on in While Bob's Away, Robert Will Play and Bob's Beach Hut.
* Lofty has seemed to have dropped his fear of mice and heights in this series and even rides up mountains in the episodes, Scrambler and the Colourful Cave and Lofty's Comet.
* This series currently has 8 lost episodes in the US version while the UK version is completed on Paramount+.
* The only Original Series recurring regulars (not including Bob's main crew, Farmer Pickles' gang and Mr. Bentley) who remained are Mr. Beasley, Angelo Sabatini, Mrs. Barbara Bentley and Sophia Sabatini.
* The three strikes formula (which originated from Fireman Sam’s fifth series episode, Neighbourhood Watchout but commonly featured in the HiT Entertainment era of Thomas & Friends from Series 12 to 16) started being used half way through this series and would be very noticeable in Ready, Steady, Build!.
* In the US dub, due to having the same voices from the UK dub, Spud, Mr. Bernard Bentley, and Benny's lines are left unchanged in the US dub. However, they sometimes use different terms in the US dub.
* None of the episodes were dubbed in Czech, despite that the specials Bob's Big Plan and When Bob Became a Builder were, due to that as it was mentioned in the later special how Benny joined the crew the audience wouldn't know about how Robert asked Benny to join them.
* Only the third to sixteenth series were not dubbed in Polish.

## External Links

* http://www.toonhound.com/buildit.htm - 2005 Premiere Date
* http://www.toonhound.com/oct2003.htm - Tom and Skip
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhlLhuVu2WE UK Promo