It's lovely to see Sea Rogue working with a small fleet of very colourful characters in addition to the canon fleets. I love Norman as a character and the various tricks that were at his expense. The story was at a slow enough pace to not drag it out for too long but also long enough to feel like a TUGS episode. All the scenes were needed, the beginning, middle and end, the necessary parties finding out about Norman's prank and taking the necessary action and everything in between. It was also sweet to see Ten Cents and Sunshine still friends and catching up with Boomer whenever they can. He deserves a good life. As for the models, I'm not sure how much progress whoever modelled the Up River OCs had since he last made those OC models, but the faces truly look uncannily simple on Norman and Maurice. Laurie has the most appealing face, mainly with the shadow over his face in his first shot highlighting where his mouth is. With the white line representing Norman's mouth, it makes his hard to see in bright light. Any other bit of feedback I can't properly give because I don't know which lines were missing or what sounds are intended to be added for the final cut. Whatever the case, I'm highly anticipating this fun series to return. The TUGS fandom doesn't get too many regular fan series' anyway.
I’m absolutely THRILLED you loved this. It certainly is a fun series to work on and it gives me great pleasure to deliver a fan series based on Tugs. In answer to your questions, it was me who modelled all the OC Characters and imported them into trainz. And yes this series will come back eventually. I’m RN waiting for my friend, IHNT to finish the face packs for all the models. Thank you again for you feed back and Keep on Tuggin’ Regards, Les
Amazing work L.E.S! Great tugs episode! Was a pleasure filling in as Warrior for this ep! Really liked the little fireman Sam nod with some of the new characters. Glad the Tugs community is still staying strong!
Ohh, this is really interesting. I love the concept of another tug working alongside OJ. Can’t wait to see the finished product in the future. Keep it up 👍
Well thank you, Franky. I’m truely surprised how popular this episode’s concept has been. It was taking a risk. PS: From seeing your content, I’d encourage you to start making fan episodes of Tugs. So far I am the ONLY channel (that I know of) that’s actually made fan episodes in Trainz. Even if you did it only occasionally, your channel would grow and I could potentially help with Voices, story writing ect.
@@LesStarport Thanks for the suggestion. I was thinking about making a tugs Trainz series and made a partly written script for it but never got a chance to finish it. Maybe I’ll get back to it, who knows. Speaking of which I’m currently working on a tugs remake of one of the episodes. Not sure when I’ll finish it but it could take a while since I’m still in summer classes, at least for 2 more weeks. Again thanks for your advice, cheers 😁
Hopefully hopefully it sometime in the future this program may be able to render a more TV series accurate Top Hat but for the time being the one we have will do just fine
There actually is one available and I have it on my PC. It was featured in a video I did some months back. The reason I used the old Top Hat in this episode was because his paint scheme is actually part of the storyline.
@@aganthonygoody254 Aww thank you for such kind words. Tugs is so underrated, I’m surprised nobody else apart from me has made some fan episodes using the new models.
@@LesStarport I know thugs is so underrated, and I was wishing that the tubs merchandise would be motorized, kind of like Trackmaster. Too bad tugs stormy seas got canceled. But surely you can make your own version of the movie
@@LesStarport And guess what remember you did an impression of Postman Pat? I've got back to doing S 13 Postman Pat, episode three's finished I hope you like the voice of Dippo.
It's lovely to see Sea Rogue working with a small fleet of very colourful characters in addition to the canon fleets. I love Norman as a character and the various tricks that were at his expense. The story was at a slow enough pace to not drag it out for too long but also long enough to feel like a TUGS episode. All the scenes were needed, the beginning, middle and end, the necessary parties finding out about Norman's prank and taking the necessary action and everything in between. It was also sweet to see Ten Cents and Sunshine still friends and catching up with Boomer whenever they can. He deserves a good life.
As for the models, I'm not sure how much progress whoever modelled the Up River OCs had since he last made those OC models, but the faces truly look uncannily simple on Norman and Maurice. Laurie has the most appealing face, mainly with the shadow over his face in his first shot highlighting where his mouth is. With the white line representing Norman's mouth, it makes his hard to see in bright light.
Any other bit of feedback I can't properly give because I don't know which lines were missing or what sounds are intended to be added for the final cut.
Whatever the case, I'm highly anticipating this fun series to return. The TUGS fandom doesn't get too many regular fan series' anyway.
I’m absolutely THRILLED you loved this. It certainly is a fun series to work on and it gives me great pleasure to deliver a fan series based on Tugs.
In answer to your questions, it was me who modelled all the OC Characters and imported them into trainz. And yes this series will come back eventually. I’m RN waiting for my friend, IHNT to finish the face packs for all the models.
Thank you again for you feed back and Keep on Tuggin’
Regards,
Les
Amazing work L.E.S! Great tugs episode! Was a pleasure filling in as Warrior for this ep! Really liked the little fireman Sam nod with some of the new characters. Glad the Tugs community is still staying strong!
Absolutely brilliant
Ohh, this is really interesting. I love the concept of another tug working alongside OJ. Can’t wait to see the finished product in the future. Keep it up 👍
Well thank you, Franky.
I’m truely surprised how popular this episode’s concept has been. It was taking a risk.
PS: From seeing your content, I’d encourage you to start making fan episodes of Tugs. So far I am the ONLY channel (that I know of) that’s actually made fan episodes in Trainz. Even if you did it only occasionally, your channel would grow and I could potentially help with Voices, story writing ect.
@@LesStarport Thanks for the suggestion. I was thinking about making a tugs Trainz series and made a partly written script for it but never got a chance to finish it. Maybe I’ll get back to it, who knows. Speaking of which I’m currently working on a tugs remake of one of the episodes. Not sure when I’ll finish it but it could take a while since I’m still in summer classes, at least for 2 more weeks. Again thanks for your advice, cheers 😁
Hopefully hopefully it sometime in the future this program may be able to render a more TV series accurate Top Hat but for the time being the one we have will do just fine
There actually is one available and I have it on my PC. It was featured in a video I did some months back. The reason I used the old Top Hat in this episode was because his paint scheme is actually part of the storyline.
wackadoo man, well done! the voice acting is beyond amazing!
Even though The temporary voices were done in a Chris Tulloch impression
Looks wonderful so far :)
Straight away, this Norman tug reminds me of this Fireman Sam character of the same name.
That was the whole idea!
Fantastic and very Fabulous
This looks so good, it seems like the series has been revived
It was always in the works, just been put on multiple hiatuses.
@@LesStarport well I'm happy that you put time and effort into these kind of tugs videos, it makes me think that season 2 of tugs was actually made
@@aganthonygoody254 Aww thank you for such kind words.
Tugs is so underrated, I’m surprised nobody else apart from me has made some fan episodes using the new models.
@@LesStarport I know thugs is so underrated, and I was wishing that the tubs merchandise would be motorized, kind of like Trackmaster. Too bad tugs stormy seas got canceled. But surely you can make your own version of the movie
Request for episode: a new dredging machine cold smoker and is smockes cose im trouble. The rest is your imaginacion
Nice I like to see more.
Thank you, Chris!
More coming soon!
@@LesStarport And guess what remember you did an impression of Postman Pat? I've got back to doing S 13 Postman Pat, episode three's finished I hope you like the voice of Dippo.
@@TheNewStoryteller provided I can watch it, I’d be happy to check it out.
one more note: Norman's personality, design, and voice reminds me of Norman price. any chance we was based off him?
4:20 Sea Rogue