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September 10, 2005

Bob the Builder's Voice Change

Can We Fix It? I'm not sure. I've known for a long time that the voice characters for Bob The Builder are very much different in the US/Canadian version than the original UK version. I can't tell you the look on Matthew's face when he watched a UK import of Bob the Builder and heard all of the different voices. Because of my family's British history (and my tendancy to BitTorrent newer Bob episodes from the UK) Matthew is more than comfortable with the two versions of the voices.

Recently, a whole new story arc started in the UK version, called "Project Fix-It". This is a sequence of stories with Bob basically building a whole new town in Sunflower Valley. The UK version has the original voices (such as Neil Morrissey as Bob. I woke up this morning to see that Sunflower Valley had finally arrived on Treehouse in Canada (More info here). However, both Matthew and I were shocked to hear yet another Bob voice!

I did some Internet searching, but I can't find anything on the voice changes.

Edit:

After viewing the PVR recording, I see that Bob's voice is now done by Greg Proops (you'll recognize him from the American version of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway'). It's funny that I couldn;t find any reference to this on the web. It's not (yet) in the IMDB entry, and I can't find it on The Official Greg Proops Website.

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Posted by Ian at September 10, 2005 08:25 AM

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I was wondering the same myself and had just checked IMDB myself before coming here to your BLOG. I kinda like the new voice of Bob however NONE of us are all that thrilled with the change in the voices of Spud, Mr. Bentley and Lofty (who were all previously done by Neil Morrisey as well as the voice of Bob). The least the creators could have done was find someone talented enough in voice over work who could mimic the unique voices of those 3 other characters.

Posted by: Mom of Bob Fan [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 20, 2005 07:27 PM

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