Yong Bao (AEG)/Behind the Scenes

Background Information
Yong Bao is a fictional tender engine created by Ian McCue and Andrew Brenner.

He first appeared in the first series episode The Tiger Train, which first aired in 2022.

2D animated rigs
Yong Bao in All Engines Go uses a series of complicated 2D rigs created by Nelvana Studio. These rigs are made up of different assets, which can be stretched, squashed and posed to create the desired movements and poses. Yong Bao's movements are handled by an animation team, with a posing team to create specific poses as required for certain shots.

Yong Bao's 2D design has undergone many changes from the design used in the original series:
 * He is shorter in length.
 * He has dark brown irises.
 * The white rims around his wheels have been removed.
 * His wheels and tender top are a darker red.
 * His buffer housings are red.
 * His tender is connected with buffers and chain-link couplings.
 * His buffers are now oval-shaped, like Henry and Gordon.
 * He has lost the lettering on his cab side.
 * While it is unknown the exact reason for this change, it is most likely so that Yong Bao's name will not appear in the other dubs.
 * In some scenes, one or both of the characters on his cab side will accidentally appear. Additionally, they are present on his Push Along toy, implying they were originally meant to be kept. This would have made him the first character in All Engines Go to have writing on his sides other than a number.
 * He has gained a black rim and rivets around his face.
 * The lamps under his face became yellow.
 * His stepladders are gold.
 * The gold plates on his cylinders are gone.
 * His knuckle coupler was replaced with a screw-link coupling, much like the flashback scene in the original series episode Yong Bao and the Tiger.
 * His cab is no longer open.
 * He has a different whistle sound.
 * He no longer speaks with a Chinese accent in the US dub.

Voice Actors

 * Lobo Chan
 * Patrick Kwok-Choon
 * Haruka Jinya
 * Rafael Escalante
 * Celso Henrique