The Ertl Company made a line of die-cast and bath toys from the Theodore Tugboat television series. The characters were produced from 1998-1999.
Die-cast Range
Vehicles
- Theodore
- Emily
- Foduck
- George
- Hank
- Carla
- Rebecca
- Northumberland
- Shelburne
- Constance
- Sigrid (cancelled)
- Phillip (cancelled)
- Pugwash (cancelled)
- Digby (cancelled)
Playsets
- The Great Ocean Dock Playset (with the Dispatcher, Donald Dock, cargo loads, and Brunswick)
- Owan the Oil Rig Playset (with cargo loads and helicopter)
Accessories
- Theodore Tugboat Carrying-Case (cancelled)
Bath Toys
Changing Face Toys
Press 'N' Go Toys
Trivia
- Ertl cancelled the helicopter for Sigrid.
- Prototype pictures for some of the diecasts were seen in a pamphlet included with some Brio toys.
- Collector cards with a brief bios were part of the packaging.
- The packaging for some characters has listed characters which were not made.
- Digby and Pugwash were originally to be made into die-cast toys, but they were cancelled like Sigrid and Phillip. However, the toys were changed to bath toys instead of diecast.
- The bath toys, changing face toys, and press and go toys featured handrails while the die-cast models did not.
- Northumberland's bath toy model has working closing and opening eyes.
- For some unknown reason, some of Theodore and Hank's models have been released with red mouths and eyebrows instead of brown ones.
- Most of the toys produced including the tugs had certain things like their masts and other things removed, making most of them differ from their television counterparts, most likely to make sure children do not injure themselves with anything small or sharp.
- It was rumored that a carrying-case for diecast sets would be made, but for unknown reasons was cancelled.
- Sigrid's prototype die-cast toy was discovered at a Chinese webstore and later sold that same day.[1]
- The remains of die-cast Phillip, Digby, Pugwash and the carrying-case have not yet been discovered.
- The date was on the underside of toy said "July 27, 1999".