If your parents think your kids are too old for Thomas but still like anthropomorphic vehicles, let them watch TUGS. That is the best option.

Tugs on it’s own without Salty is phenomenal

TUGS + 4Kids = Salty's Lighthouse

It's ironic how I grew up with Salty's Lighthouse unknowingly realizing it was a watered-down, Shining Time equivalent version of Tugs.

Fun fact: Did you know the Tugs were originally planned to make an appearance in Thomas and the Magic Railroad? Seems kinda surprising considering Britt Allcroft attempted to SUE Mitton for wanting to make Tugs

The only things from Salty's Lighthouse that I kind of enjoyed were the voice for a few of the characters like Ten Cents, Top Hat and Zorran and maybe like one or two of those ridiculous songs like Zorran's rap from that one episode. It was dumb, but it was hilariously dumb. But other than that, this show is pretty piss poor.

Hiya! I’m one of the Thomas fans brought from the algorithm. I’m honestly surprised that there’s non-thomas fans who like TUGS! I’m also really surprised you have less than 100 subs, you really deserve more! I really like the review! Keep up the good work! :D

It's kinda sad that tugs never actually got a proper American dub for the series because the tugs designs are actually based on real American tugboats and the show does technically take place in America it sucks that this God forsaken show is pretty much the closest thing we have to an American adaption of tugs

1989: Explosions. Racist Boats. The Mafia. Amazing Soundtrack. Charming And Rememberable Characters. 1997: nARroZ.

I'm surprised this is the only video (that I can find) dedicated entirely to overviewing Salty's Lighthouse. Yeah, it's an obscure show, but a lot of bigger channels thrive on finding obscure stuff like this + you have the semi-cult-classic Tugs mixed in too. Despite being a smaller channel, this was really well done! Glad my deeper drive from The Unlucky Tug's Tugs video brought me here. Keep up the good work!

From these clips alone I think Salty’s Lighthouse was foreshadowing for Thomas and friends; All engines go…….

Correction: Awdry originally wrote the original books for a general audience

14:43 The tugs characters in this picture kind a look like all engine go from Thomas and friends

Huh, You Popped up on my recommended, This is a good video! Also, I love the way you draw your character, It reminds me of some of the bigger animations channels! I hope your channel grows big!

I came here from The Unlucky Tugs fanmade tugs dub video. All the comments on said video were talking about how much better it was than saltys lighthouse, and I had no idea what they were talking about. so I looked it up on KZfaq and this was the first video that showed up. Judging from the clips you have shown, I can understand what they were talking about :)

Don't forget, the Z Stacks have been changed into good guys and Sea Rouge has been changed into a bad guy.

This, is underrated Seriously these are some pretty well made commentaries that deserve attention.

As a Thomas and tugs fan I find it interesting to see how different saltys lighthouse is from tugs great video by the way 😀

The only really good thing about Salty's Lighthouse is all the Beast Wars character voices in the Tugs segments. The modelwork on display in those segments is also good, even if it's better appreciated via the original Tugs series.

God, it's so dire! I may not have watched Tugs, but still!

Sunshine is so adorable as a male and female

8:22 I believe Burke and Blaire were changed in salty's lighthouse because the characters are a nod to the Scottish serial killers "Burke and Hare".

Honestly? Loving your videos! Especially this one about Tugs. Tugs is one of those gems I wish had gotten much more success.. But sadly will never get it's proper chance. Not to mention your animations are quite charming! Definitely a treat!

"did salty's lighthouse succeed, with its mission of bringing tugs over to am- NO" love that interruption.

i think Top Hat was the best thing these 5 minute segments delivered he actually feels in character, and French Tickner does a good voice for him

Here is a question: should I make a parody video where the TUGS characters and Salty's lighthouse characters do a "walk a mile in the other's shoes" story as a parody where the SL characters have a few days of hard labor and Otis and Big Stack get pissed about getting called the wrong names frequently?

"tugrats" is now the name of a rugrats pom parody 😊🔫

These videos are actually really good, i cant believe the KZfaq algorithm doesn't put this higher up, i'm a Thomas and Tugs fan, as they are both very nice, i'm already subbed, but wow!

I don’t mind Salty’s lighthouse. But it’s just opinion I read it at five but I noticed that awful Editing. & I think some of the voice actors fit with some of the characters. don’t cancel me for this.

Salty lighthouse seems like a Thomas the train episode when salty get a light house named after him like toby’s wind mill

Salty's Lighthouse is one of my guilty pleasures. It's what introduced me to TUGS in the first place and I thought some of the US voices are very decent like Ian James Corlett as Ten Cents and Zebedee/Z.B. So, that's why I still kind of like it, but it's still not as good as the original TUGS.

Salty’s lighthouse is a fever dream of tugs

I was never American. We never watched anything to do with Salty's Lighthouse... that was Yank Toss, as we put it. but, once upon a time, I did manage to catch an episode of TUGS. It's a... singularly sweet show, which always gave me the impression of a show created by a group who were quite experienced in their craft. All in all, TUGS was a stellar show, and I believe I was quite fortunate to have it as part of my childhood.

thank you for putting a video on salty's lighthouse as I never really knew about it and hearing about i don't like it but great detail video so good job

8:57 tugrats... *shivers*

Speaking of "Massacreing my boys," you forgot to mention how they not only dumbed down the plots, but the characters as well. Most notorious example is Steamer, formally known as Johnny Cuba, you know, the gangster. At the same time, they made Sea Rogue an actual bad guy, whereas in Tugs he was a victim of circumstance.

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You're underrated af, earned a sub!

This is great, I hate the dub from the saltys lighthouse in tugs. Great review! I’d love to see more things like this in the future!

You know, this video, and this channel overall is underrated. Of course we have the Unlucky Tug, but 90 percent of his work is Thomas related, and he has only made one in-depth video on Tugs at all (Tugs: The Greatest Show You've Never Seen). And let me tell you, after I saw even one second of what Salty's Lighthouse did to the 13 episodes, I was infuriated. As Tug said, everything that made Tugs good, primarily the elements of a darker theme, was stripped out and formed into a 1990 butchered BWBA/Season 25 version of Tugs. In summary, Salty's Lighthouse was (like Thomas S25) a cheap cash grab. The worst part that I hate from Tugs SL was the name changes and the demanded "gender equality". Big Mac becoming Big Stack to prevent copyright strikes from Mickey D's? Yes, haha, very original. Female voiced Captain Star, Sunshine and Little Ditcher, that made my ears bleed. Also as Tug said, "Oh sure, when I see this piece of sh*t crane, I think little girl." Sunshine and Ten Cents' brother/sister relationship is weird, although in the original show they were like brother to brother like Thomas and Percy in the RWS and the original TVS, but Ten Cents was technically already brothers with Hercules according to an original script

I feel like I'm either stuck in the Mandela Effect or some other time warp, but I FEEL like I did see one episode of this on PBS but my brain tells me I didn't, even though it DID air on PBS for like a hot second.

Munitions go boom

You forgot the episode where Zip and Zug repaint Zorran and spell his name backwards, Narroz.

We Thomas fans made a song mocking the show for massacring our sister show! It's simply called "Sh!!ty's OutHouse" or "Shitty's Outhouse", depends on if it's the re-edited or old version.

I am your 60th subscriber:)

Fun fact, you forgot about the Noddy Shop, which was Blighty's attempt at pitching Noddy to American Audiences.

on the wiki, i think it said Hurculese was the big brother of sunshine and ten cents

your vid was great! also the star tugs trust ((aka the group that now owns a few models of the tugs)) owns a american dub of tugs like a real dub but it's unfortunately only available to air for a a handful of people in the trust

I like this show only because of the intro I keep listening it it every day

Fun fact the Salty’s lighthouse versions of these episodes actually includes restored footage

It took me THIS. LONG. to realize that Aunt Chovy (?) was a play on the word anchovy.

Salty’s lighthouse more like saltys nuts

Also, if you want a more kid-friendly version of TUGS, I'd highly recommend Theodore Tugboat.

Salty's Song Time feature classic B.W footages from old movies (esp. silent ones)

I just hope we can get a faithful US dub of Tugs.

Salty's lighthouse is like the shining time station for tugs but thanks to that it failed

I've taken laxatives today! PS: The American dubbing is *hilarious!*

I hate how Ten Cents sounded like Sonic the hedgehog/Goku in the show.

I grew up watching theordor tug boat and saltys lighthouse as well and there both very good shows to watch back to back in a morning show lineup maybe it will work

I'm just starting to watch tugs, and i LOVE it. Thank you for telling me about the horrible Salty's lighthouse adaptation!

I always ponder, If I could go back in time to improve Salty's Lighthouse I'd change demographics from Pre-School to Pre-Teens and play TUGS straight by splitting each episode in original broadcast order in half making 13 episodes into a 26 episode run for the show (so 8 10 minute TUGS slots and 18 7 minute ones). In regards to the cast I'd keep Scott McNeil and the now late French Tickner as Zorran (played more like McNeil's role of Piccolo from DBZ) and Zak and Top Hat and Warrior respectively, recast Big Mac and Hercules with David Kaye (who did a pretty good Sean Connery if memory serves correct, perfect for the former) Either keep Corlett as Ten Cents and Zebedee or recast the former with the late Kirby Morrow, Michael Donovan as Sunshine, Don Brown as O.J, Ted Cole as Zip and Boomer, Michael Dobson as Izzy Gomez, Terry Klassen as Zug, Billy Shoepack and Grampus, and probably either Venus Terzo, Teryl Rothery or Ellen Kennedy as Lillie Lightship. I would've also kept Patrick Allen's recordings of Captain Starr due to his cultural significance with "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" (take a good listen to "Two Tribes", his voice is sampled) and probably would've had Paul Dobson as Captain Zero.

I never cried blood before... and then I saw Salty's Lighthouse!

One thing that I find funny about this show was that Ten Cents was voiced Ian James Corlett (Sorry if I get that wrong), who was the first voice of Son Goku in Dragon Ball. Now I need to see an edit of Ten Cents lines being used in the anime.

Zoron's rap was the best part

Another show that introduced Americans to a uk show was The Noddy shop, are you familiar with this show?

We all know, at the end of the day, Salty's Lighthouse is late 90's cringe and was just a warning for All Engines Go!'s debut.

That happend to thomas too

From Hercules being Ten Cents Big Brother to Sunshine being the little sister

Have you ever watched EN2 Tugs Iceberg video?

And they said the DiC dub of Sailor Moon was awful... And American fans have to escort to piracy because it STILL hasn't been released on DVD over here!

What did they do to the tugs?! It’s also sad that this was the only time tugs aired on tv in the US in anyway.

soo salty lighthouse tugs is just hit era version of tugs

They should’ve taken the Shining Time Station route when redubbing tugs like with Thomas.

I honestly think that TUGS didn't need a spare ate American show to be broadcasted in the U.S

I now have a personal headcanon that bits from Salty’s Lighthouse do exist in the Bigg City Ports, just in a more realistic way. The lighthouse is operated by a guy with salt in the name, and Seymour now being a tower viewer instead of binoculars.

Someone at Sunbow must have thought that making a cartoon that reused footage from Tugs was a fascinating idea...

I find it funny that Ten Cents VA is the same guy who was the first voice of Goku

STS was made for FAMILIES not just kids

Shining Time 101: What NOT To Do what Salty's Lighthouse Did Wrong. Funny enough, when they brought the early Thomas series seasons to America and Canada, they ALMOST made the same mistake with Shining Time Station that Salty's Lighthouse did by rewriting the stories, constant reuse clips in horrible editing, and switching the character Edward's gender and renaming him as Alice for gender equality. Thankfully, this idea didn't happen, as this would have received a backlash for the producer Britt Allcroft as she was intended to keep the original stories as they were when they first premiered in Britain, but with different pronunciation words. I'm amused that no one has ever mentioned this yet and I'm clearly the only one. This video definitely helped to highlight a bunch of the issues that Salty's Lighthouse has had since its debut, and it certainly shows how not to do what this show did to ruin the reputation of another show that was perfectly fine as it is. But it would have worked out find if people spend more time with it and experiment what works with it and what doesn't work out for it. In all honesty - it really didn't work out at all. I never grew up with TUGS until I discovered it much later on KZfaq. I mainly remember seeing its Canadian successor, Theodore Tugboat, back in my youth while watching Thomas. By the way, your video about TUGS was the first thing that popped up in a search result when looking up the series on KZfaq and it was the first thing that led me to you before seeing this one. Not many have done topics surrounding Salty's Lighthouse and you certainly are the only one I know of [right now] who has done a video talking about it and narrowing down the assets and summarizing it all up regarding the recycled and reused TUGS episodes in that series flop. As well as the horrible 2D versions of them. Keep up the excellent work! Loved the two TUGS topic videos you made. P.S. I can never erase Top Lightyear: Star Tug Command out of my head now! I did not even think about it until you mentioned it lmao!

8:56 How does a tugboat hold a film camera?

They did the same thing with Muck in the US dub of Bob the Builder 6:23

Have you ever heard of the wheel o feet trope

I actually just bought an ERTL sunshine not to long ago.

7:57 the reason why Big Mac had his name changed to big stack was because McDonald’s own the rights of Mc and Mac. But in Europe they couldn’t get the rights of Mac and Mc

Shinning time station was way better than this, at least the only things they tampered with when it came to the Thomas episodes was the narration and Sir tophem Hatts name

"Snugboat Harbor"? They couldn't even use "Bigg City Port"?

The problem was "TUGS" didn't get enough like thomas the tank engine and friends

14:39 Otis (O.J.') doesn't have his paddle wheels, Sunshine's hull is the wrong color, Top Hat, Hercules, and Otis' (O.J.'s) hulls have different accent colors.

I love how you mentioned that's you aren't the target demographic and givibg your excuse

Theres a tugs iceberg video on youtube.. that show 1930s vehicles and boats for some of the character basis (Some of the cars seen throughout the show is supposedly from the 1930s) like the tugs iceberg says they're not in the boom.. they're in the depression

Salty lighthouse introduced me to Tugs but compared side by side tugs wins no contest. And why did they name him Big stack? Why was his stack bigger than everyone else's?

And in some cases, Thomas the Tank Engine is far as superior to TUGS without Thomas, we would have no TUGS

LMAO no, not at all I love that part

Kinds of remind me how people hate how 4Kids treated one please

Before the cgi era? This was around season 2

Salty's Lighthouse is the eqivalent of huffing gasoline,

This show is Shining Time done wrong.

SaLtY's LiGhThOuSe The one thing I wasn;t a fan of, aside from everything else, was making Sunshine a girl.

At this point why didn't they just animate the show

It just tugs abridged