Background Information[]
Foduck is a fictional safety and fire ocean tug created by Andrew Cochran.
Behind The Scenes[]
Foduck was scratch built with plastic, fiberglass and Perspex by Fred Allen, his helmet was plastic. Foduck's chassis hidden underwater was built from perspex. The eye merchanism had custom stickers, and two servos controlled by radio controllers.
In the first series Foduck's fire helmet hid his eyebrows. In the second series Foduck showed his eyebrows on-screen. The water from Foduck's fire hose uses the hidden wire from the underwater set.
Foduck's face casts were made out of cardstock, the eyebrows, mouths and nose were made out of clay. In Season 2, the original mouth was replaced by lips.
After production on Theodore Tugboat had ended, Foduck's model was displayed at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. He was displayed with Blandford and Constance near Baswater's layout. Foduck wears his smiling face. His model was removed from display in 2009. His model was initially kept in a storage museum, then his model returned to display sin mid-2014 at the Big Harbour set. The worried face cast of him was stored in a workshop in 2019.
