Jeremy/Behind the Scenes

Television Series
Jeremy is a fictional jet plane created by Abi Grant.

In 2006, Jeremy made his debut in the tenth series episode, Thomas and the Jet Plane. He later appeared in the eleventh and twelfth series and also in the special, The Great Discovery.

When the show switched over to full CGI in 2009, Jeremy was absent for seven years before appearing in the twentieth series episode, Letters to Santa. However, instead of appearing as a CGI model, Jeremy was represented by an image of his TrackMaster toy.

Jeremy is based on a 1963 BAC One-Eleven Airliner.

Gauge 1 model
Jeremy's model was built by model maker, Nick Richardson. The model was first constructed from a wooden pattern and vacuformed 1.5mm styrene plasticard was put over it to make a bodyshell. The windows were made from perspex. According to Abi Grant - who wrote the script for his debut episode - his model had already been finished before the script was written.

Jeremy's face design (eyes where his cockpit window would be) is a standard on most cartoon planes. He is the only aeroplane with this design. To accommodate for this unique design, Jeremy only had three alternate nosecone pieces denoting three basic expressions. One had a smiling mouth while the others were open frowns. Likewise, one of the nosecones had clenched eyes while the others had open sockets for his eye mechanism.

Present Day
After production of the model series wrapped in 2008, most of the models and sets would be put into storage, with some being put on display at Drayton Manor Theme Park. All other models would be logged and referenced in 2009 by HiT Entertainment, from this HiT would decide on which models were to enter storage once again, which would be given to crew members and which to be disposed off. Due to only having one gauge 1 scale model made, Jeremy's model would stay under HiT and later Mattel's ownership.

Jeremy's model is currently in Mattel's storage unit in Southampton England.

Close-up model
A close-up model of Jeremy was required for scenes where he had to interact with close-up scale figures. Only a very small portion of him was made.

The model only appeared in the eleventh series episode Percy and the Left Luggage.

Voice Actors

 * Taisuke Yamamoto
 * Konstantin Graudus