My Week with 2016: Terrific Trucks

 

Madeline Fretz - Terrific Trucks was a Sprout original series about five real trucks named Tork, Dug, Blinker, Sparky, and Stotz learning lessons about teamwork, problem solving, and friendship.

Image from Africa's Blog

The show premiered on Sprout on July 9th, 2016, and to promote, Sprout held a launch party in which Kristofer Updike explained how the show was created and what went on behind-the-scenes - the show took three years to be created, the trucks were all real, while their eyes were CGI, and the show's set in Toronto was the size of four football fields. Pretty amazing if you ask me!

I guess Updike was right when he said the show took three years to be created. Image from Vimeo (this sizzle reel also includes early versions of both Nina’s World and Floogals).

The show aired on Universal Kids once Sprout closed in 2017, and continued to air on the networks until July 7th, 2016, almost three years after it first aired on Sprout.