Bash and Dash

Bash and Dash are fun-loving logging Locos who live on Misty Island with Ferdinand.

Biography
Bash and Dash are mischievous twins who always finish each other's sentences. They were sent to Misty Island because they were naughty on the Mainland, but now they always try to do their best for the Fat Controller.

Bash, Dash and Ferdinand found Thomas on Misty Island and helped him collect Jobi Wood to take back to Sodor. Unfortunately, the Logging Locos ran out of oil while going through the Misty Island Tunnel. Luckily, Whiff and Percy were able to rescue Thomas, Bash, Dash, and Ferdinand and took them all back to Sodor. The Logging Locos were then repaired at the Sodor Steamworks with the help of Victor and Kevin. They then then helped with the completion of the Sodor Search and Rescue Centre along with the Steam Team.

Toby became good friends with Bash and tried to find him a home on Sodor. Emily also became friends with Dash, and he taught her how to play Warbling Whistles.

In the sixteenth series, they, along with Ferdinand, were sad because Ol' Wheezy was broken. They later laughed at Spencer when he did not know that Stafford was not with him.

Personalities
Bash and Dash are the wacky, mischievous Logging Loco twin engines who know each other so well that they can often finish the others' sentences. They almost never argue nor disagree with each other, unlike most other twins in the series. Living in an environment without proper rules, authority, or society, Bash, Dash and Ferdinand lived for fun, silly games and playing about in the chaotic, consequence-free Logging Camp and the dense Jobi forests of Misty Island. Often, they were easily distracted, reckless and got very little work done and when they did work, it was in a particularly silly, wacky or questionable manner.

However, after Thomas wound up on Misty Island, later managing to make his way back to Sodor, the twins were welcomed to the railway by the Fat Controller. The Logging Locos' outlook has now changed and they all try to be Really Useful engines.

Instead of aspiring to only goof around, they are now keen to help the Sodor engines and learn about the proper way of doing things, the values of good behaviour and forming new friendships with others. Although sometimes Bash, Dash and Ferdinand may be baffled by concepts that are unfamiliar to them, due to living in isolation on Misty Island for some time, they attempt to assimilate new prospects, take part and strengthen their friendships with the Sodor engines and their reputation of being really fun.

Joining in or even trying to recreate these previously unfamiliar social quirks helps the kooky Logging Locos learn about the world around them, the virtues and graces of others and how to appreciate and understand new things to help them be Really Useful.

Although they will always be fun-loving and may raise the eyebrows of some of the bigger engines as they lark about with their work, the Logging Locos' new-found respect for considering others and learning and applying everyday rules, values and behaviours helps them to learn and draw from the Sodor engines and the sensibilities of society, the world around them and maturing into Really Useful engines to make the Fat Controller proud.

Bash appears to be the more timid, peaceful one of the twins, while Dash is more outgoing and supportive.

Basis
Bash and Dash are based on the Bear Harbor Lumber Company's locomotive #1. This type of engine is known as a "gypsy", which had a special yarding mechanism at the engine's front, allowing it to haul logs when the gear is engaged. However, Bash and Dash's yarding mechanism is behind their cabs instead of their fronts to accommodate their faces. They have screwlink couplings. Their cabs appear to be much sturdier, as opposed to the "open" cab that their real life counterpart possesses.

Liveries
Bash's boiler, wheels and lining are painted slate grey and his cab and dome are painted amber. Dash's boiler, wheels and lining are painted amber and his cab and dome are painted slate grey. They both have a semi-circular symbol with three yellow trees with two brown axes crossing each other on the right sides of their cabs.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 14 - Thomas' Crazy Day, Jumping Jobi Wood! and Merry Misty Island
 * Series 15 - Gordon and Ferdinand, Toby and Bash, Emily and Dash, Happy Hiro, Let it Snow, Stop That Bus!, Wonky Whistle, Percy the Snowman and Tree Trouble
 * Series 16 - Ol' Wheezy Wobbles, Ho Ho Snowman, Welcome Stafford! and The Christmas Tree Express

Specials

 * 2010 - Misty Island Rescue

Music Videos
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 * Misty Island Rescue - Misty Island Rescue
 * Series 14 - All You Need
 * Series 15 - Hear the Engines Coming
 * Series 16 - Go, Go Thomas
 * Thomas' YouTube World Tour - Down by the Docks, It's Great to be an Engine, The Whistle Song and That's What Friends are For
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Magazine Stories

 * 2010 - Misty Island Rescue
 * 2011 - Misty Island Rescue, Thomas' Crazy Day , Jumping Jobi Wood and Gordon and Ferdinand
 * 2012 - Toby and Bash, The Fat Controller's Bedtime Story (Issue 639), Making Hiro Happy , Ol' Wheezy Wobbles and Welcome Stafford
 * 2013 - The Fat Controller's Bedtime Story (Issue 660) and Christmas Tree Express
 * 2014 - Wobbly Ol' Wheezy
 * 2015 - Toby and Bash
 * 2016 - Toby and Bash and Jumping Jobi Wood

Books

 * 2010 - Trouble in the Tunnel, Misty Island Rescue and Rescue Team!
 * 2013 - Not So Fast, Bash and Dash!
 * 2018 - Character Encyclopedia

Video Games
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 * 2010 - Misty Island Rescue

Whistle
In one scene in the Misty Island Rescue PC Game, Bash has Neville and Flying Scotsman's whistle at a higher pitch.

In Emily and Dash, Bash has a warbling whistle.

Whistle
In one scene in the Misty Island Rescue PC Game, Dash has James' whistle at a lower pitch.

In Emily and Dash, Dash has a warbling whistle.

Trivia

 * Bash and Dash can run on either wood or oil.
 * Bash and Dash have only been partially modified for British railways, with screwlink couplings but no buffers.
 * In a promo of Dash, his side rods are missing. A CGI head-on promo of both twins also depict them with their faces swapped.
 * Bash and Dash's liveries are the same as each other's, but with the placements swapped.
 * Dash has more merchandise representation than Bash, a first-timer in the franchise for any twin characters.
 * Bash and Dash have travelled far faster in the television series than their basis is capable of.
 * Bash and Dash's whistles are recycled from the model of Toby's three-chime steam whistle from the thirteenth series episode "Toby's New Whistle", albeit without the mechanism.
 * The doors on Dash and Bash's trackmaster toys are painted black.

Merchandise

 * Wooden Railway
 * Motor Road and Rail
 * TrackMaster
 * Take-n-Play
 * Capsule Plarail
 * Capsule Collection
 * Boss
 * Collectible Railway
 * Minis
 * Classic Minis
 * Racers Minis
 * Neon Minis
 * DC Super Friends Minis
 * Sports Minis
 * Creatures Minis
 * SpongeBob SquarePants Minis
 * Night Time Minis
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Minis
 * Galaxy Minis
 * Slime Minis
 * Adventures
 * Push Along