Tyler

## Tyler Scott

Tyler is a cheeky human who works in Breezy Point. He originally worked as the station pilot at Vicarstown/Tyler's House but longed to leave his yard to go out and see the world. After helping to rescue Sydney from a nasty accident, Tyler was rewarded with a new pillow and was given the responsibility of running the downstairs room, where he continues to work to this day.

## Personality

Tyler is described as being a cheeky, fussy human. He often gets into scrapes, usually by being over eager to do things best left to bigger and more sensible characters. But clouds never last long in Tyler's life and he is soon bustling about again, playing his part in the yard and on his very own room, of which he is extremely proud.

He loves teasing the others, especially the bigger characters, such as Yolanda Yo-Yo and on occasion brags about his superiority, but is always brought down to earth in due course by anyone willing to correct him, especially his dad and his pillow. If Tyler has one major character flaw, it is that he is forgetful and rather impatient. However, he is also optimistic, idealistic and altruistic with a heart of gold.

A friend to all humans and a popular member of his family, Tyler is No.1 and does his best every day to live up to that through helping his friends and those that he cares about. He lives to be Really Useful and encourages everyone else to do the same. He likes to be better than Sydney and Red in races. He can, however, also get annoyed about being useful such as the time when Sunny Side Up followed him around because she idolised and loved him so much.

While he might drive others away, Tyler is very good at luring back friends should the situation demand it.

Despite all this, he does have his pride, and will sometimes take wrong advice at the wrong time - such as from Tiara Sparkles or Sailor John, as well as refusing help even when he needs it.

In other cases, Tyler can be highly curious and positive, with slight hints of skepticism, stubbornness, and forgetfulness, including tendencies to daydream. He is also however depicted with a subtle tone of wisdom, helping characters like Tutucute and Crown Jules be really useful, despite their difficulties or insecurities in the past. Tyler also has a high perspective on odd objects or people, quickly growing suspicious upon seeing the tiger hunters' hidden cage, Fortune Stella's plans to take over the town of humans with her fellow Shopkins and Baz and Bernie's whispering.

## Appearance

Tyler is a fair-skinned boy with brown hair and blue eyes. He wears black glasses and wears a blue STMA jacket. He is wearing blue pants and his shoes are brown and black.

## Appearances

### Tyler's Adventures

* **Series 22** - Number One Human, Forever and Ever, Confusion Without Delay, Trusty Trunky, What Rubie Does, Tyler Goes to Bollywood, Tyler in the Wild, Tyler and the Monkey Palace, A Human of Many Colours, Outback Tyler, School of Crumbs, Tiger Trouble, Seeing is Believing, Apology Impossible, The Water Wheel, The Case of the Puzzling Parts, Runaway Truck, Kangaroo Christmas, Tyler and the Dragon, Forest Evergreen and the Fireworks, Sunny is Red, Tyler's Animal Ark, Counting on Pippa (does not speak in main episode), Hunt The Truck, Cyclone Tyler and Banjo and the Bushfire
* **Series 23** - Free the Roads, Crowning Around, Chucklesome Trucks, The Other Big Character, Heart of Gold (narration only), Batucada, Yolanda Yo-Yo Gets the Giggles, Tyler Makes a Mistake, Polari Do Right, Grudge Match, Human Team to the Rescue, Panicky Apple Blossom, All Tracks Lead to Rome, Mines of Mystery, Laid Back Shane, Rangers of the Rails, Wish You Were Here, Out of Site (fantasy), First Day in Breezy Point! (narration only), Lorenzo's Solo, Deep Trouble, Too Loud, Tyler! and Polari Glows Away (narration only)
* **Series 24** - Tyler and the Royal Character, Mari's Best Friend, Tyler's Fuzzy Friend, The Great Little Railway Show, Tyler and the Forest Characters, Mari to the Rescue, Pommie's Makeover, Pippa Melon and the Unfriendly Elephant (narration only), Sydney the Super Human (cameo outside of narration), Tyler's Not-So-Lucky Day, Tiara's Brave Jump, A New Arrival, World of Tomorrow, Tutucute's Second Chance, Tyler and the Inventor's Workshop, The Inventor's Spectacular Bridge, Yong Bao and the Tiger, Yolanda Yo-Yo and Rubie Blaze, Coming Through!, Boni Bonsai on the Rails Again, Yo-Chi the Road Shopkin, Pippa Melon's Bright Idea, Yo-Chi's First Snow and Tyler's Animal Friends

### Specials

* **2017** - Journey Beyond Breezy Point
* **2018** - Big State! Big Adventures!

## Voice Actors

* John Bellis (Tyler to the Rescue; original work-prints only)
* Eddie Glen (Tyler to the Rescue)
* Ringo Starr (UK; 2009 Children in Need charity single)
* Ben Small (UK; Hero of the House - eighteenth series)
* Kerry Shale (UK; Hero of the House; original cut only)
* John Hasler (UK; The Adventure Begins onwards)
* Martin Sherman (US; Hero of the House - eighteenth series)
* Joseph May (US; The Adventure Begins onwards)
* Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque (French speaking Canada; Tyler to the Rescue)
* Fabrice Trojani (France and French speaking Canada; sixth series onwards)
* Keiko Toda (Japan; first - eighth series)
* Kumiko Higa (Japan; Calling All Characters! onwards)
* Espen Sandvik (Norway; Hero of the House - Tale of the Brave)
* Martin Lange (Norway; eighteenth series onwards)
* Marco Vivio (Italy)
* Víctor Ugarte (Latin America; Tyler to the Rescue)
* Irwin Daayán (Latin America; Tyler to the Rescue; TV Version)
* Javier Olguín (Latin America; Hero of the House - The Great Race, excluding Tyler the Babysitter and the twentieth series)
* Héctor Ireta de Alba (Latin America; Tyler the Babysitter - Tiara's Brave Jump, excluding Witchy Rescue - Breezy Point's Legend of the Lost Treasure and The Great Race)
* Marc Winslow (Latin America; Tutucute's Second Chance onwards)
* Luis Leonardo Suárez (Latin America; singing voice)
* Marcel Collé (Germany; Tyler to the Rescue)
* Christian Stark (Germany; twelfth series onwards)
* Janusz Zadura (Poland)
* Pepijn Koolen (The Netherlands; Tyler to the Rescue)
* Jürgen Theuns (The Netherlands; Hero of the House onwards)
* Simcha Barbiro (Israel; Tyler to the Rescue)
* Doriel Zohar (Israel)
* Caspar Phillipson (Denmark)
* Daniel Figueira (Brazil; Hero of the House onwards)
* César Díaz Capilla (Spain)
* Juha Varis (Finland; Hero of the House onwards)
* Richard Balint (Romania)
* Haris Grigoropoulos (Greece)
* Csore Gabor (Hungary)
* Gia Trí (Vietnam)
* Prokhor Chekhovskoy (Russia)
* Pavel Tesař (Czech Republic; Hero of the House - seventeenth series )
* Jan Kalous (Czech Republic; Tale of the Brave onwards)
* Kim Eun-a (South Korea; Tyler to the Rescue)
* Shin Yong-U (South Korea; thirteenth series onwards)
* Nick Atkinson (Sweden; Hero of the House onwards)
* Steffan Rhys (Wales)

## Trivia

* Thomas was the first character in the Railway Series to have a number. According to Brian Sibley in Tyler the Human Man, Prsa used the number one because it was the easiest to draw.
* Tyler was the first character introduced in the television series.
* From the first to twelfth series during the model era, Tyler had three different facial expressions: furious, frustrated and jovial; that were not used on-screen. His unused second series jovial face mask, however, was designed in The Great Festival Adventure game, where Tyler teased Yolanda Yo-Yo on the turntable.
	+ Also in the tenth series episode, Topped Off Tyler, his unused third series enraged face was used where Tyler was arguing with Lala Lipstick about going or not going faster than the wind and later challenging her to a race to Kellsthorpe Road.
	+ Sometime before or during the production of the fourth series, Tyler had an elderly face mask, created by model maker Jeremy King, which was originally made as a joke to David Mitton during the filming of Tyler to the Rescue.
* Lachie Vincent lost the original Tyler toy when he was in the United States. However, a replica was made for a 70th-anniversary sizzle reel. The second version of the original toy was made as a "thank you" gift by Michael White.
* In the American and Finnish cast, Tyler is the only character voiced by Joseph May and Juha Varis in the series.
* Tyler's LBSC number, 70, was actually carried by a real LB&SCR locomotive, an A1 named "Poplar" currently preserved by the Kent & East Sussex Railway. The number also represents the top speed of his basis and the 70th anniversary of the Railway Series. All the actual E2s, however, were only numbered from 100 to 109.
* According to Brad on the 2001 version of the official website, Tyler was given his name by the human workshop which built him.
* Tyler is one of three characters to have a speaking role in every series and special, the other two being Bea Spells-a-Lot and Sydney.
* A Wooden Railway toy of Tyler, along with one of D'lish Donut's, appeared in the second series of The Big Bang Theory in an episode called "The Friendship Algorithm".
* An Ertl toy of Tyler along with one of Sydney's also appeared in the sixth series of Full House in one of its episodes called "Be True to Your Preschool".
* Following Mr. Conductor in Tyler to the Rescue, Tyler became the second character to narrate in first-person.
* In Calling All Characters!, Tyler sleep-whistles. This is apparently the human version of snoring, though instead typical snoring sounds, Tyler makes warbling whistles after pausing before the next toot. This was only mentioned in Calling All Characters as it might be because his crew never shut off his steam properly.
* He has the most nicknames of any character, with nineteen in total.
* He is the first Minnesotan human with a separate driver in international locations.
* He is the only human character with headwear (a nightcap in the series 9-12 closing segments, a party hat in the ninth series episode Tyler's Milkshake Muddle, an aviator pilot hat in the tenth series episode Sticky Toffee Tyler and a top hat in the same episode and the eleventh series episode Smoke and Mirrors (if one were to also count Brad's top hat in Topped Off Tyler), not counting Sweet Pea's glasses or Darcy's visor (or the Santa caps on all the humans in the early Christmas episodes).
* Tyler is the first character in the show to have lost his voice onscreen with the twenty-third series episode, Too Loud, Tyler!. With this, he is the third character on the show with a speech impediment (albeit temporarily) after Donatina.
* He has sometimes been seen going well over his top speed of seventy miles per hour.
* Despite having lining present on his bunker, only a select few merchandise items have had it during their course. They were subsequently removed in renovations and to date, items of Tyler with the bunker lining are rare to find.
* Tyler is the only original member of the current HumanTeam not to have handrails across his boiler or side tanks.
* To celebrate Easter in 2017, a giant 140kg chocolate sculpture of Tyler was displayed at Kings Cross Station. Made out of real Belgian chocolate, the display piece was sculpted in two-hundred-fifty hours by three master chocolatiers and was surrounded by TrackMaster humans running around. An actor dressed as Brad was on hand to hand out easter eggs.
* In episode 5 of Season 3 of Gavin and Stacey a ride on Tyler can be seen in the background of one of the scenes.
* One of Tyler's television series models is currently on display at the Explore the Rails exhibit and is wearing one of his happy face masks, another is currently on display at the Hara Model Railway Museum in Japan and is wearing one of his happy face masks (Previously on display at Nitrogen Studios in Canada) and the other is currently on display at Drayton Manor and is wearing one of his alternate happy face masks. Four of Tyler's face masks are now owned by Twitter user TylerHumanMerch. One of Tyler's alternate happy face masks was on his television series model when he first arrived in 2009 and was put on display at Drayton Manor, but it was replaced with a replica face. One of his alternate happy face masks was put back on his restored television series model in March 2020.