spanish speaking percy?

anc6802

I got another lot of junk trains and i found a talking Percy, so I cleaned it up put it back together again and it started up and works great! But it speaks Spanish? I tried looking around and I couldn't find any info on it.

The tte wika page doesn't have a listing for his part number W6302, he has the maroon mail truck but its missing the battery cover, go figure.

Is he a rare train? I've never heard or seen one for sale in stores that doesn't speak English before.

MuddyPoppins

Are you sure it's Spanish and not Japanese? Can you post a pic? Is it the maroon coal car missing it's black coal battery cover or is it an actual mail car?

anc6802 wrote
I got another lot of junk trains and i found a talking Percy, so I cleaned it up put it back together again and it started up and works great! But it speaks Spanish? I tried looking around and I couldn't find any info on it.

The tte wika page doesn't have a listing for his part number W6302, he has the maroon mail truck but its missing the battery cover, go figure.

Is he a rare train? I've never heard or seen one for sale in stores that doesn't speak English before.

This?

Muddy Poppins wrote
Are you sure it's Spanish and not Japanese? Can you post a pic? Is it the maroon coal car missing it's black coal battery cover or is it an actual mail car?

This?

Or this?

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anc6802

I'm unable to see your photos, but below are photos of him and his or what I call his mail truck.

He definitely is speaking Spanish, when you first turn him on he says "Hola soy Percy" its a male voice of someone who speaks in the proper accent, not a English person speaking Spanish. He says at least a half dozen phrases but my Spanish isn't the best.

I can make a video this evening I'd anyone wants to hear it.

I guess taking a closer look, it does look like a coal tender, but it doesn't make sense seeing how Percy is a tank engine with his coal bin. Since he is a smaller tank engine, I thought they were only used for yard engine work and not meant for usage on a line. I better leave that so another post, I'm drifting off topic on my own thread lol

MuddyPoppins

Yes please

Super

Doesn't look to be a "tender" for Percy rather a coal car used for transporting coal but I can see how it would be confusing especially for children. :-/
Personally I have not heard talk of a Spanish speaking Percy or any Thomas train friends. Interesting.

jdogman

I'm pretty sure these must be the Latin American versions which would've been normal at the time of release. Not sure about other foreign versions existing, wouldn't it be great if there were members from other countries here?

anc6802

Even if they made the talking trains in other languages you would figure that someone would post something in the internet about finding one. Especially since the wiki pages for trackmaster doesn't even acknowledge any other language for speaking trains other than English and Japanese.

Here is a short video showing the phrases he speaks.

https://youtu.be/RF69C0NGOGU

Super

very cool!

MuddyPoppins

Yes it is...I would have to assume that if there is a Percy, then there is most likely an accompanying Thomas out there too!!! ...Maybe even James. Nice that Spain is slightly nearer than Poland too!😉

anc6802

I emailed the guy I bought him from and he said it was part of a different lot he got from Craigslist, I was hoping he bought them new, oh well.. Now to find a battery cover...

MuddyPoppins

Is that last character of the serial #1431C1(L?)??

anc6802

Yes, the last character is "L"

The train looks brand new, it might have been played with once or twice, the black paint is worn on the corners of the coal bin and acouple of small pressure spots on the top of his chassis. If I were to guess whomever got the train gave it to a child and they didn't know Spanish so it was pit away. I think the light damage came from carelessly put away.

DalaGStanator

What an awesome find! Strange how no one else seems to have known anything about something like this.

When I first saw this thread, I assumed someone was able to get a hold of an English speaking Percy, opened the files (?) on the soundboard, recorded their voice and replaced the English. Obviously, it was an official version sold in Spanish speaking territories, and was voiced by either Javier Olguín (Latin America) or the late María Rubio (Spain).

I just wish that when they were sold in Israel, they would've been fitted with Hebrew soundboards with the actual TV cast members (Fisher Price does make Hebrew speaking toys). It would've been amazing if they did that, like my Hebrew speaking 12" Bob the Builder.

anc6802

Thats cool, that you have an idea of who is the voice for Percy. There is bound to be a Thomas out there, but it is strange how nobody has run into one of these before?

DalaGStanator

I went to the TTTE Wikia to see who voiced him in both Spanish versions of the TV Series, and these were the names I found.

Obviously, there's also a Spanish Thomas and/or James. They wouldn't have released just Percy like this.

Thomasengineandjames67

anc6802 wrote
I got another lot of junk trains and i found a talking Percy, so I cleaned it up put it back together again and it started up and works great! But it speaks Spanish? I tried looking around and I couldn't find any info on it.

The tte wika page doesn't have a listing for his part number W6302, he has the maroon mail truck but its missing the battery cover, go figure.

Is he a rare train? I've never heard or seen one for sale in stores that doesn't speak English before.

Wow, I never seen a strange talking non revolution percy you found! Yes, it's rare I didn't see one in stores too

Thomasengineandjames67

DalaGStanator wrote
What an awesome find! Sort of strange that no one else seems to have known anything about something like this.

When I first saw this thread, I assumed someone was able to get a hold of an English speaking Percy, opened the files (?) on the soundchip, recorded his voice and replaced the English. Obviously, it was an official version sold in Spanish speaking territories, and was voiced by either Javier Olguín (Latin America) or María Rubio (Spain).

I just wish that when they were sold in Israel, they would've been fitted with Hebrew soundchips with the actual cast members from the Videofilm International dub of the TV Series (Fisher Price does make Hebrew speaking toys). It would've been amazing if they could do that (kinda like my Hebrew speaking 12" Bob the Builder).

I really sure that Maria voiced that Percy, as I heard in the video it isn't a man's voice voicing the talking Percy.