Sir Topham Hatt (AEG)

"But Thomas, you're not number one because of a number painted on your side. You're number one because I can count on you." Sir Bertram Topham Hatt is the railway controller on the Island of Sodor.

Personality
Sir Topham Hatt is described as a character intended for comedic relief, however, more times than not, Sir Topham Hatt has been shown to be more of an authority figure like the original series.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go

 * Series 1 - Dragon Run, Counting Cows, Music is Everywhere, Nia's Balloon Blunder, Capture the Flag , Super Screen Cleaners, Thomas' Day Off , The Real Number One, The Can-Do Submarine Crew!, Thomas and Percy's Eggsellent Adventure, Calliope Crack-Up, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks, A Wonderful World, Whistle Woes , Something to Remember, Sandy Versus the Storm, An UnbeLEAFable Day, Sir Topham Hatt's Hat, Nia's Surprising Surprise and Song of Sodor
 * Series 2 - Percy Disappears, Fast Friends, Ashima's Amazing Arrival, New Mail Engine in Town, Brand New Track, Whiteout!, Snowplow Struttin', Thomas in Charge , Kana Recharges , The Big Skunk Funk, Off the Rails, Bring it on Beresford, A Very Percy Valentine's Day , Tunnel Troubles, Not-So-Secret Mission and For All the Marble
 * Short Story Adventures - The Big Balloon Breakout and Confetti Car Kerfuffle

Specials

 * 2021 - Race for the Sodor Cup
 * 2022 - The Mystery of Lookout Mountain

Songs

 * Series 1 - Knights of the Turntable, The Mail Delivery Song , If I Was a Super Train , On My Own , Between You and Me Feet, Tailbone, Ribs, and Claws , What's Awesome About This Place , Celebrate and Song of Sodor
 * Race for the Sodor Cup - When I Go Fast and Look It's Us

Videos
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 * All Aboard! - The New Platform
 * Sodor Mystery - Thomas and the Mysterious Delivery and Mystery of the Missing Watermelons
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Books

 * 2022 - Speedy Sticker Scenes, Meet the Engines and Thomas the Tank Engine Character Encyclopedia

Trivia

 * Sir Topham Hatt is the only human character intended to interact with the engines as opposed to the original series, where various humans would interact with the engines quite often.
 * Sir Topham Hatt was originally planned to not have a British accent in the US dub like he had from the nineteenth - twenty-fourth series of the original show, but this was later changed.
 * Instead of simply being called "sir", Sir Topham Hatt is generally referred to by his full name in All Engines Go.
 * Additionally, he is not referred as "The Fat Controller" in the UK dub, as the nickname is considered rude, unlike in the original series.
 * As revealed in the episode Sir Topham Hatt's Hat, he is one of multiple railway-controllers that have worked on Sodor over at-least the past 75 years.
 * Alongside running the railway, Sir Topham Hatt is also in charge of organizing special events on the Island of Sodor.
 * Unlike in the original series:
 * Sir Topham Hatt lives at Vicarstown rather than Wellsworth.
 * Despite still being the owner of the railway, Gordon is shown to be the one organizing the daily jobs on Sodor and takes on the role as the father figure of the smaller engines.

Merchandise

 * Diablock