Infinity Train (series)

## Infinity Train

* Books 3-4
* Books 1-2

***Infinity Train*** is an animated anthology series created by Owen Dennis that centers around various characters trekking through boundless pocket universes on a giant mysterious train trying to find out how and why they got on it. The show's first two seasons aired on Cartoon Network and the last two season on HBO Max. It was ultimately cancelled despite having four working season concepts with one of them being a movie.

The series' pilot episode was first shown on November 2, 2016, on Cartoon Network's YouTube channel. This episode centering around a young girl named Tulip and her friends, One-One and Atticus. The pilot's popularity ultimately lead to Cartoon Network airing the pilot on television on February 11, 2017.

## History

* On March 2, 2018, Cartoon Network launched a teaser on their official website confirming that Season 1 of the show will launch in 2019.

* In July 2019, the show was confirmed for an August 5, 2019 debut and the first episode was released early on Cartoon Network's website. The week-long airing was promoted as a miniseries, only for the surprise reveal immediately following the final episode that the series would return.

* On November 22, 2019, the official *Infinity Train* website was updated with a new claw machine puzzle. Completing the puzzle leads to a trailer for Season 2.

* On July 6, 2020, it was announced that Season 3 will be released exclusively on HBO Max.

* On February 17th, 2021, Season 4 was formally revealed through HBO Max's Twitter. It was promoted as the final season due to the show not being renewed, although the crew has supported fan efforts to demand more seasons.

## Conceptualization

*Infinity Train* was first imagined by Dennis in 2010 while riding a plane home to the United States from China. Initially, he wondered what would happen should a girl be trapped on a plane, but eventually discarded the idea, stating "there wasn't really a lot to explore if [the setting] is a plane." He later changed the setting to a train. According to Dennis, not much else about *Infinity Train's* origin can be revealed due to it containing heavy spoilers for the series itself.

Dennis pitched the idea of the series to Cartoon Network in January 2014. Upon the initial pitch, Cartoon Network executives feared that the series would be too similar to *Over the Garden Wall*, then referred to as *Tome of the Unknown*. Eventually, the two shows were deemed different enough, and Dennis received permission to create a pilot. The pilot went into production around 2015. The initial concept did receive edits and changes when Dennis viewed the completed version of *Over the Garden Wall*, however. Additionally, Dennis often held other fears about *Infinity Train's* similarities to other media when it was first created, citing films *Snowpiercer* and *Galaxy Express 999* that came out later in the year.

Within the network itself, fellow Cartoon Network storyboard artist Cole Sanchez told Dennis that *Adventure Time* had created an episode featuring a train with infinity symbols on it, which caused Dennis's "stomach to turn." He eventually overcame these fears, stating "There are certain ideas just... sitting there, plucked up by anyone who feels like they wanna do something with it. The most you can do is just keep making the thing you’re trying to make with the voice you want to make it in."

## Episodes

The list below provides the sequential order of the episodes of the Cartoon Network series, ***Infinity Train***. The pilot was published on Cartoon Network's YouTube channel on November 2, 2016. It quickly gained popularity, and a cult following. It currently has over 4,700,000 views.

On February 11, 2017, Cartoon Network premiered the pilot on their channel at 6:00 in the morning. It gained 703,000 views. On March 9, 2018, it was confirmed that the series will be getting a full first season, which premiered on August 5, 2019 and aired through the week as a miniseries. Following the conclusion of "The Engine", it was announced a second season was in the works.

### Pilot (2016)

 Tulip must learn to set her personal interests aside to make her way through a mysterious train and help the king of all corgis save his people.

## Videos

Infinity Train Official Clip Cartoon NetworkInfinity Train Corginia is For Corgi Lovers Travel Commercial Cartoon NetworkInfinity Train Cartoon NetworkOfficial Infinity Train Trailer With Alternative Ending Cartoon NetworkInfinity Train Crazy Train Trailer Cartoon NetworkUntil Next Time Infinity Train Cartoon NetworkAll the Train Cars Infinity Train Cartoon NetworkWho's the Conductor? Clues You Missed Infinity Train Cartoon NetworkAtticus of Corginia Infinity Train Cartoon NetworkThe Best One-One Quotes Infinity Train Cartoon NetworkTulip the Literate Infinity Train Cartoon NetworkRunning Away Music Video Infinity Train Cartoon NetworkLearn French With The Cat Infinity Train Cartoon NetworkThe Start of Tulip's Journey Infinity Train Cartoon NetworkInfinity Train Book Two Official Trailer Cartoon NetworkEvery Hint About Book Two From the Train Documentaries Infinity Train Cartoon NetworkOne-One Explains The Train Infinity Train HBO MaxInfinity Train Recap Books 1 and 2 HBO Max FamilyBook 3 Official Trailer Infinity Train HBO MaxOwen Dennis Explains Multi-Plane Animation Infinity Train HBO MaxGrace and Simon Visit the Unfinished Car Infinity TrainEverything We Know About the Apex Infinity Train HBO Max FamilyAll the Cars in Book 2 Infinity Train HBO Max FamilySnowball Fight Book 3 Teaser Infinity TrainInfinity Train Book 3 Now Streaming HBO MaxOwen Dennis and Madeline Queripel Read Fan Theories Infinity TrainTuba's Lullaby -Full Song- - Infinity Train - HBO MaxInfinity Train Book 1-3 - HBO MaxInfinity Train Book 4 - Teaser - HBO MaxRanking the 30 Coolest Cars in Infinity Train - HBO MaxGrace Monroe Becomes The Hero Infinity Train Needs - HBO MaxInfinity Train Book 4 - Official Trailer - HBO MaxInfinity Train - All The Cars in Book 3 - HBO MaxBook 4 Exclusive Clip - Infinity Train - HBOMaxInfinity Train Book 4 - Opening Scene - HBO MaxTrain to Nowhere Music Video - Infinity Train - HBO Max(Spoilers warning) The following video contains scenes from this season.Our Favorite Companions - Infinity Train - HBO MaxInfinity Train - All the Feels from Books 1-4 - HBO MaxInfinity Train - Sashay’s Runway Fairway - HBO MaxInfinity Train - Grace Introduces Jessie and Lake to the Apex - HBO MaxInfinity Train - All The Songs in Books 1-4 - HBO MaxInfinity Train - Lake (M.T.) & Jesse Exit the Train - HBO MaxInfinity Train - The Evolution of Lake - HBO Max
## Trivia

* The initial idea of the show came from Owen's experiences while traveling on a plane.
* The decision to refer to all the seasons as "books" was made by someone else outside of the crew. Owen Dennis originally wanted the marketing to refer every season by his titles. When Dennis learned that the seasons were being called "books" he worried that fans would be confused.
	+ Owen Dennis tried making the titles official but his request was brushed off by Cartoon Network; feeling that copyrighting those titles after calling them books for so long would be a hassle. Thus the titles are canon because of Dennis' word and not because of the company.
* It was revealed in an interview with Creative Block that the MeToo movement helped in getting the pilot greenlit. Cartoon Network reacted to the movement by picking up the only pilot with a female protagonist in it and it happened to be *Infinity Train*. Way before MeToo, Owen Dennis was cautioned that his main character Tulip, might deter the executives from picking it.
* Cartoon Network allow certain content in *Infinity Train* that would not have been possible for other shows simply for the existing fanbase.
* Unusual for a cartoon, *Infinity Train*'s voice-overs are mostly recorded in group sessions, with as much of the cast and guest actors for an episode recording in the same booth as possible.
* At least three seasons of *Infinity Tr**ain* are similar in narrative to a famous children's story.
	+ Book One takes inspiration from *Alice**'s Adventures in Wonderland* by Lewis Carroll.
	+ Book Two is basically Carlo Collodi's *The Adventures of Pinocchio.*
	+ Book Three has references to J. M. Barrie's *Peter Pan*.
* Owen has previously revealed and hinted at unfinished storylines, which include concepts of seasons, a short, two games.

## References

1. ↑ Inspired by the IMDb synopsis.
2. ↑ "My pilot for Cartoon Network was just released! It's about a girl, her robot, and a corgi on an Infinity Train!" – Owen Dennis! on Twitter
3. ↑ http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/infinity-train/
4. ↑ "‘Infinity Train’: Cartoon Network Series Set For Five-Day Rollout Next Month." from Deadline
5. ↑ http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/infinity-train/
6. ↑ "Exclusive: *Infinity Train*'s Third Season Is Bringing Anarchy to HBO Max" from Gizmodo
7. ↑ Announcement of Book 4 on HBO Max's Twitter.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "5-Pizza Party Podcast – FT: Owen Dennis INFINITY TRAIN Creator" (at times 2m18s, 2m33s, 2m55s)
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 https://www.animationmagazine.net/animated-people/animated-people-owen-dennis-infinity-train-steams-ahead/
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 They didn’t inspire each other. If I were to guess, The Adventure Time episode and Infinity Train were probably thought of around the same time period. – Owen Dennis' Tumblr
11. ↑ Response from Reddit: "Somewhere along the line I was like 'I wanted to just call each season/book "Infinity Train: \*title\*', like how Doctor Who arcs worked, but someone somewhere outside of my orbit kept referring to them as books." - Dennis
12. ↑ Response from Reddit: "Somewhere along the line I was like 'I wanted to just call each season/book "Infinity Train: \*title\*', like how Doctor Who arcs worked, but someone somewhere outside of my orbit kept referring to them as books." - Dennis
13. ↑ "Well nobody's watching *The Powerpuff Girls* just to see the professor" (Timestamp: 1:00:08 - 1:03:53)
14. ↑ "They’re also allowing us to do some things content-wise that other shows might not normally be able to do, simply because Infinity Train already has a fanbase." - Owen Dennis on Reddit
15. ↑ Kyle McCarley. "Bella, @DianeDelano and I were there for every group record together. Kirby Howell-Baptiste was there whenever her schedule allowed, as were a rotating cast of phenomenal actors who came in for some of the guest roles. Group records are the best... Usually :P" Twitter. August 14, 2020.