Packer

Packer is a red semi-trailer lorry who belongs to Farmer Pickles and uses his trailers to make deliveries all over Sunflower Valley and later Fixham Harbour.

Biography

Packer is friends with Scrambler and Dodger, who first befriended each other in The Three Musketrucks. Packer also returned as a recurring character in Ready, Steady, Build!.

Personality

Packer is very friendly and also very determined. He can get cocky at some times, but is always on the go when a delivery is to be made.

Technical Details

Basis

Packer resembles a 1998 Freightliner FL50 semi-trailer lorry.

Livery

Packer is red along with some chevrons ressembling a delivery company logo.

Appearances

Audio Files

Horns

Trivia

• Packer's cab was likely recycled from that of Skip.
  • Contrary to popular belief, at least one of Skip's models had survived even after Packer's introduction, though it was recycled in 2010 after being thrown out of HiT Storage.
• He is one of the five male machines to be voiced by a female in the US dub, the others being Roley, Lofty, Benny and Scratch.
• Both of Packer's horn sounds are generic stock sound effects heard in many other forms of media:
  • Packer’s Project: Build It horn would later be used for Jackman in Chuggington, Loada in Roary the Racing Car, and Lofty in the reboot series.
  • Packer's Ready, Steady Build! horn is the same as Bert's from "Percy's New Whistle" and Salty's from "Toby's Afternoon Off" through series 12 in Thomas & Friends and Bozer and Carl's in the 2001 era of Construction Site, and would later be used for Mater in "Road Rumblers" in Cars on the Road and Muck in the reboot series.
• Packer speaks with a muffled Lancashire accent in the UK dub, and a young boy-sounding Southern drawl in the US dub.
  • In the UK dub, Packer's voice sounds very similar to Kermit the Frog of Muppets fame (even though their accents are completely different from each other, and even their actors).
• Even though Packer doesn't appear in the reboot there is another lorry named Two-Tonne who acts very similar to Packer.
• While Packer has the same name in many dubs, Packer has a different one in a few dubs:
  • In the Finnish version, Packer is called "Pate".
  • In the Catalan version, Packer is called "Robust", which is Catalan for "robust".
  • In the Slovenian version, Packer is called "Peter".
  • In the Croatian version, Packer is called "Skupljac", which is Croatian for "collector".
• Packer's Finnish and Slovenian names are the same as Postman Pat's in their respective language.

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