Jay Jay's First Flight (VHS RIP)

Wasn't about to let these go to waste. Enjoy my first Jay Jay VHS RIP
All credit to the original owners

[@johndavidsloan]

I grew up north of Dallas. When I was a middle-schooler I wanted to be an artist and there was a man at my church who was an commercial artist who would occasionally hire me to assist him with large projects (nothing actually "artistic" but grunt work). He had rented out the back room of a hobby train shop to build a massive model of a village. The train shop owner showed the room to the producers of this show which led to him getting the job, and me assisting on building the all of the set pieces for the show (not the plane models, just the sets). This was by far my favorite job I ever helped him with, massive tables of runways, hangers, and mountains. I didn't get to do any of the stuff that made it into any close-up shots, but plenty of those trees and bushes are the work of a 13-year-old kid who wanted to be an artist :) You can see my name, misspelled, in the credits

[@yamitay9258]

That’s actually pretty cool

[@matthewweatherford6566]

This is one of the great things about social media. We get to interact with people who work in the entertainment industry. Although there are disadvantages too.

[@coolbrotherf127]

The narrator for this was John William Gault, who also voiced Lo Wang in the 90s FPS game Shadow Warrior. RIP to that legend.

[@ryanfuller912]

I do appreciate his attempts to give the characters their own voices, unlike Alec Baldwin, who dropped almost all of his voices in Season 6.

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

I'm so glad I grew up on the cgi one as a kid, this looks like straight up nightmare fuel

[@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376]

The Wolf Cartoons Yeah I prefer The CGI version better it's the best version I also like its theme better. It's better with them talking.

[@HarryBillyBobGeorge]

The production value is low, but this show's even deeper in the uncanny valley.

[@ExtremeWreck]

Yeah, it doesn't if it's the CGI reboot, or the original model series, they look like sleep paralysis demons.

[@AnimeVideoGameFanGirl]

This show freaked me out when I was younger...!

[@bluebear8741]

They Probably didn't have much to work with.

[@Danthe25Man]

For everyone’s convenience: 0:26 Opening 1:26 Jay Jay’s First Flight 6:51 Tracey’s Fantastic Journey 15:56 Herky’s Bright Idea 23:57 Old Oscar Steals The Show

[@mutsuloveproductions9695]

In The Best of Jay Jay the Jet Plane VHS, before the show's intro, you can only hear the KidQuest logo's music, but the logo isn't seen at all.

[@jaredcollier7938]

I was a huge Thomas the Tank Engine fan as a kid (the OG model series, of course), so I guess my parents got me this VHS 'cause it was similiar in format. Loved watching this and always wanted more tapes of it. Finally, I got another one...but it was the religious heavy incarnation, and I was like, "Eh...this isn't what I wanted." Also, Oscar's peril at 29:55 kinda scared me as a small kid, lol.

[@BlueCometEntertainment347]

I've only seen the main TV show, and it scared me. I'm more of a Thomas fan. I actually do like the Thomas CGI series until Season 22.

[@thenebulaxyz8849]

OMG I remember watching this on my own VHS, one of my favorites to watch! Ah memory's...thanks for uploading. :)

[@thetruegoldenknight]

THIS is the OG Jay Jay! Kudos for preserving it.

[@cheesehole2409]

I never knew my father was in the Air Force.

[@theremoteanater]

I see why commas are important

[@JinjoJinjoJinjo]

I was so obsessed with the model series on KZbin as a kid This feels me with a scary amount of nostalgia

[@pietromorelli3160]

I will be awesome if TUGS, Thomas & Friends, Theodore Tugboat and Jay Jay the jet plane where the same universe.

[@Bunny23723]

That would make an awesome fanfiction story.

[@RedNosedLugia]

I like to imagine they are but just in different parts of the world.

[@ryanfuller912]

I like to think TUGS takes place on the Classic Series railway of Thomas and Jay Jay takes place during the Hit Era railway of Thomas.

[@RedNosedLugia]

You can definitely tell they used blue/green screen.

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

god this show was the greatest....miss this show so much update: *THEY'RE BRINGING BACK THIS SHOW!!!!! I'M SO HYPED FOR THE REBOOT!!!!!!!*

[@thatrandomredengine9430]

Think of Thomas, but with planes, ugly models, LONG EPISODES, and with no soul.

[@supermariof0521]

You know how Britt Allcroft was able to make the models in "Thomas the Tank Engine" look faithful to the original illustrations from the "Railway Series" while still managing to make the engines easy on the eyes and the sets looked real and alive and it made you feel like you were on the Island of Sodor interacting with the engines? Clearly David Horwitz didn't get the message and made the sets look laughably fake, and the model planes look like they are about to murder you in your sleep!!! 0///////0

[@treasureforever8861]

To be fair, this was produced independently and they only had about $1,000 or more to produce these. I personally think they did a quite nice job.

[@cameronjsmith7382]

Yea, I had no idea this version existed

[@jacobjcb8883]

You know I reckon I could adapt Jay Jay as a RWS character, he'd be based on the Moraine Saulnier MS 760 Paris as the nose would just have enough room to accommodate,, accomodate his much less creepy face face and Tarrytown (named Tarryton in my RWS AU) would be a town on the Indian Valley Railroad which is nicknamed " The Magic Railroad" because of the beautiful landscape it runs through ( it would be mostly a tourist heritage railroad but freight would sometimes be carried on the line by Sam the Big Boy and on rare occasions, passenger services would also run too) Jay Jay would be a big fan of Thomas (as Thomas would be especially popular in America in my RWS AU) and strive to be just as good as him in the skies

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

Huh... I never knew this existed... amazingly it IS a little less terrifying than the CGI version of the show... but still for some Reason now that I’m older, this show kinda freaks me out while Thomas is still bearable.

[@BlueCometEntertainment347]

I feel the same way too

[@gdemerald581]

Thomas' original design was more appealing to be honest, probably just VERY biased though

[@antoniocasias5545]

Les terrifying?

[@teyshaungreene9242]

I need to stop watching this because it is scary

[@chichememan3751]

This version is better than the now. In my opinion

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@chichememan3751 Both versions look terrifying in my opinion.

[@cameronparkmusic4205]

@@ExtremeWreck if I saw this IRL I’d shit myself! And run!

[@DavidBurgessMechanicalMusic]

I couldn't care less about looks. I enjoy this!

[@NolanTheTugboat]

8:19-8:21 There’s a goof in that scene: A crew member’s hand is seen pushing Tracy’s model into the scene.

[@darkdoctor1915]

I saw it

[@bluebear8741]

@@darkdoctor1915 me too

[@HydraSpectre1138]

I just noticed something, the narrator is John Galt, a sorta known voice actor in retro FPS/boomer shooter games. He is most known for voicing Lo Wang in 3D Realms' Shadow Warrior Classic but he was also in John Romero's Daikatana (where he infamously used his same Lo Wang voice multiple times) and in Deus Ex (where he voiced, among many others, Joseph Manderley, Tracer Tong, Jock, and Lucius DeBeers), both by Ion Storm. I can already imagine the narrator here telling me to stay out of the ladies' restroom and shouting about A BOMB while talking in a stereotypical Asian accent.

[@nickdeluna8681]

Who agrees with me that John William Galt made a superb-perfect voice to Old Oscar? To me, that voice sounded perfectly like him.

[@I_live_inside_a_box]

This is the most scariest and horrifying cartoon ever made it’s a nightmare cartoon that everyone has forgot about

[@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376]

Harold I like the CGI version of Jay Jay way better because it's a lot cuter.

[@Robowil]

And thus, a bunch of sleep paralysis demons were born.

[@oriontheone2876]

Omg I used to watch it in the mornings when I was little Such Nostalgia 🤤🤤🤤🤤

[@_stxrblazerr]

😭 im so sorry

[@jameslisterthemarthplayer8322]

24:39 No offence but Old Oscar looks like he’s bleeding.

[@williampulfer-melville8536]

This is honestly better than the CGI series as it's less creepy somehow

[@levimcdermott6825]

Oh my!

[@ryanward652]

Yeah, I loved the original Jay Jay Jet Plane better than the CGI version cause it looks like total garbage to me

[@TomDog3210]

9:28 - Honestly not sure what they were thinking having a male narrator do a stereotypically African-American woman's voice for a plane named Savannah. As if the show wasn't bizarre enough

[@swervoo5917]

this is so terrifying idk why

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

Thank God I watched cgi one

[@AidentheHelicopterEXTRAS]

I found a goof at 8:25 a hand is holding herky

[@DankSinatra42O]

This show I've never liked as a toddler. This Artwork is better than the actual real faces... Its fucking scary

[@ExtremeWreck]

Now THIS is the stuff of nightmares. I'm absolutely creeped out by this... CREATURE. Can it even be CONSIDERED a jet plane with a face that looks like it wants to eat my soul!?

[@BlueCometEntertainment347]

I was scared of it too when I was little.

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@BlueCometEntertainment347 Judging by the comment I made, I can definitely see why you're scared.

[@trollsandbergenslorehub]

@@BlueCometEntertainment347 hi

[@ANewEra05]

Every Friday the 13th we go to airports and yell ZIP

[@travisbost469]

So the human toy is Brenda Blue

[@barneythedinosaur4283]

these planes look huge

[@brendanthetankengine21peep30]

Hi Barney!!!

[@sarahd3422]

This looks so cursed

[@AdamSelvig]

Seeing this gives me so many questions about my child hood

[@jamesworley9888]

Too bad I couldn't see big Jakes first flight, it begs me SO many questions about how an airplane in this universe grows up! Was big Jake always big or was he once little like humans? It also makes me wonder if they start out with wings or if they have to grow into them considering that a baby airplane flying could be more dangerous then Jay Jay. So if this much I said is true would driving be like a human crawling and flying be like taking their first footsteps? Also a plane without wings is equivalent to a vehicle of some sort so does this mean Reven Evan is some kind of baby plane? Kind of like how a baby wasp doesn't have wings but gets them when they grow up or something? I am so confused man this is like some Matpat and theorizer type business you know what I'm saying??? And what would an infant be? 👶? A unicycle that has to grow a second wheel when it becomes a toddler so it can grow into it's motor later or something?

[@shippinggoggles]

this is the most grotesque thing ive ever seen

[@HoustonGamerTVHGTV]

This is like the original Thomas and friends. With a narrator talking for the planes. Something I'd watch for 5 hours a day

[@BlueCometEntertainment347]

And the main series is like the Thomas CGI Series. So that makes it a Thomas ripoff, even though the Thomas CGI Series happened many years later. Also, I've only seen the main Jay Jay the Jet Plane TV Series. It scared me when I was a kid.

[@FlyingDuckMan360]

+HoustonGamerTV / HGTV Animal Fun Fact: Jonathan Cermin stated that series creator David Mitchell made Jay Jay the Jet Plane to capture the success of Thomas the Tank Engine, and also because his son was a fan of planes.

[@HoustonGamerTVHGTV]

@@FlyingDuckMan360 interesting

[@ExtremeWreck]

Thomas the Tank Engine had nightmare fuel moments, but it never made the nightmare fuel the main thing about it.

[@ryanfuller912]

@@ExtremeWreckBecause some of the scary stuff in Thomas was intentional, and need I mention Season 5?

[@ezequielgomez7083]

Happy 30th Anniversary of Jay The Jet Plane (1994-2024)

[@evertonmignac-D7101]

I actually thought of a small "fanfiction" about Jay Jay's basis being an hybrid of an Me-262 and a Siebel-204 (or Aero Ae-45) given by his shape

[@PeachLover94]

If I were to rewrite Jay Jay to give it a more Railway Series/Thomas-esque realistic feeling, the character of Jay Jay would be a small Southwest Boeing 737-500 given to EZ Airlines. A Southwest 737 because they were first brown with orange and red stripes until the 2000s when they got the blue with orange and red stripes.

[@evertonmignac-D7101]

​@@PeachLover94 That's really not a bad Idea, And It makes a Lot more sence then Mine too; It's Just that I thought a smaller and more manuverable jet plane wouldv'e been more sutable,but then again why would a German experimental design be sent to a public Air-Port.I like your Idea more and the 737-500 a quite superb looking jets to Ad to that.

[@ryanfuller912]

Percy: I take being friends with the tugboats, but these planes are, are… Gordon: Disgraceful! James: Disgusting! Henry: Despicable!

[@yamitay9258]

🙄

[@coreyyamaguchi8787]

This is like a fever dream

[@supertoddlemalrolllittlelu3192]

Our reality can be a wierd art, modelmation, inducement

[@roadrunnercoyote2263]

Any chance you could try reuploading these Jay Jay VHS rips in 60fps?

[@ExtremeWreck]

Ahhh yes, 60fps Jay Jay the Jet Plane VHS rips... sounds like my kind of horror movie.

[@Ethan52108]

Why the hell did they need to put this in CGI? It's still creepy but it's less creepy.

[@ezequielgomez7083]

Classic Jay Jay The Jet Plane is like Thomas and Friends after 10 years since 1984.

[@rottenroads1982]

The intro is the best. I like the music.

[@mr_gunz2098]

This is the result of Christians doing drugs while watching Thomas The Tank Engine and reading the Bible backwards.

[@FoxGalahHasMovedToNewAccounts]

Yeah

[@ExtremeWreck]

Kind of ironic because a Christian redub of the CGI Jay Jay series actually exists.

[@kingajaosinska560]

This might sound weird but i loved the show And still like it to nów.

[@Steamboatproductions37]

I think if the faces on the planes had less wrinkles than it would be sorta appealing, but I have a sort of a soft spot for the model series of Jayjay the jet plane because you can tell they were on sort of a tight budget when they made this series, but that’s just sort of its charm and a few of the stores are pretty well written

[@jonathondeangelo8532]

I love this and i also love Thomas and Friends and Theodore Tugboat

[@markadoss5463]

Ok first I have nightmares now cant go to sleep thx

[@cameronparkmusic4205]

I know lmao this is scary af. Imagine seeing this shit in real life 😭

[@JohnCarpenter-pl7du]

I remember i had this when I was little!

[@skunkman9815]

Hey I have an idea how about you do redubs of the original model series of jay jay the jet plane

[@serenawolff3298]

Can’t tell which is worse this or the CGI version

[@chichememan3751]

The cgi

[@skunkman9815]

I used to love the cgi version

[@Bacon9999becen]

This is classic

[@alderave7245]

I see toddlers and little kids watching this show called Cocomelon, I thought to myself "where do they come up with such weird ideas" then I remember we had JJ the jet plane and barney the purple dinosaur...

[@MichaelOKeefe2009]

It's yet another one of those "Let's put a creepy ass face on a vehicle" kind of cartoons.

[@kelvinproductions8073]

Thomas ain't creepy tho

[@BlueCometEntertainment347]

Yeah. Jay Jay is creepy, but Thomas isn't

[@ExtremeWreck]

You can add A Car's Life onto the list.

[@gangsnapp_yt5945]

kid quest was the clear water features of jet planes

[@theworstweeaboo]

Holy shit this is terrifying

[@yamitay9258]

ik.....

[@billyjudd3326]

I actually love it.

[@ryanfuller912]

I never really watched this back in my childhood, so good for me.

[@theswordboy]

I think the character designers were on diabetes when they were making the characters’ faces.

[@lejonfo]

I remember this

[@eggalytheegg5567]

I found that tape today at a thru store

[@tankengine52produtions22]

I was thinking about the song from Thomas and friends, like "Rules and Regulations" to help.

[@BlueCometEntertainment347]

I've never heard that before

[@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario]

The Spirit Of Radio 99 give it a listen then

[@rdline350]

Where is Brenda blue

[@treykrumel1122]

this exactly like Thomas the tank engine btw do you remember me?

[@abbieprice3430]

The first Jay Jay series followed a similar format that Thomas the Tank Engine had if you know what I’m saying! I grew up on the CGI version but it’s interesting to see what the planes were like in their first forms!

[@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376]

I like the CGI Jay Jay the Jet Plane Show way better.

[@michaelgrahamwongacutemadness]

Normal theme song’s kinda like uptown girl idk what this is

[@jojofan1898]

Spooky faces god damn

[@ILikeTallMen]

Why does this look so cursed to me now?

[@TheAeroAvatar]

This got a CGI series on PBS, people. All I'm asking right now is how that came to be. Look at this shit.

[@johnsplayworld2402]

The shiwnis like inspired by thomas and friends just like tugs because about the grey-ish faces the model animation style just like tugs and the same kind of music style

[@johnsplayworld2402]

*this show*

[@VPT2]

This aged like fuckin Milk.

[@coltonyi8598]

They are toys, I guess?

[@chadscherger]

SCREAMS

[@licmontano1445]

Jay Jay el Avión Criko

[@diegojalmeida1979]

This version's animated desing look a like thomas and friends😊

[@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376]

I like the other version of Jay Jay the Jet Plane more.

[@skunkman9815]

what year was this from?

[@yamitay9258]

1994 I believe

[@ericdunston726]

Keanu Husted wow

[@RedEbSeb13]

Maybe it would have been better if their faces weren’t flesh coloured?

[@sendoh873]

Wow, I haven't watched this since 1998. I forgot how low budget this was. The drawn cows, the water, the people... it's laughably bad. Definitely pales in production quality to Thomas The Tank Engine in the 80s but there's something about it... kind of like when someone makes a film in there backyard and they watch it and they enjoy not because it's good but because of the enjoyment they had making it. That's how I feel after watching this after so long

[@theswordboy]

What I learned is that an earlier release of this tape stated that the original series takes place inside a storybook, which explains about the crappy hand-drawn sequences and the fake ass blue screen animations

[@sendoh873]

@@theswordboy I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing that info

[@bluebear8741]

But the production quality got better in 1995 and 1996.

[@nicholasblaschke246]

I Own This Vhs

[@JunaidWolf3]

Bro this looks like it was made by someone who was on crack while making it

[@Histerishort]

!Oh my god¡ Is funny it's episode of it's tv show

[@marywescott7397]

Uh, Jay Jay and Tracy sound exactly the same

[@Elmascapotupatron]

This looks like thomas the tank engine

[@seriouslifeguard]

I’m gonna vomit

[@chichememan3751]

Why?

[@bradyw3674]

Why is jay jay red?

[@yamitay9258]

Brown

[@spaceinvader7047]

He was originally brown, but in an episode they painted him blue

[@GreatMewtwo]

He was brown because it showed up better against blue and green screens. CGI did away with chroma keying's inherent problems.

[@dbl5661]

This is just a ripoff of Thomas *AND*, horrifying!

[@BlueCometEntertainment347]

Agreed, even though I've never seen the pilot series, and only the main series

[@USER-LlewisTLDB]

The show is based off of Thomas and Friends it's a Jet Plane version of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends but it's most certainly not a rip-off the Creator's must have been trying to make some sort of mentioned Jet Plane version of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends With It

[@ziellybasically]

No it's not

[@ink1931]

Jesus Christ

[@natyriscomendoza3342]

It's not scary.

[@samspotz8r8s]

No

[@ChainbladesGoGoated]

THIS IS A RIP-OFF OF THOMAS AND FRIENDS

[@kimberlyrodriguez8871]

Ewwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!..... the plain has a face !!! 😫😫😫😫🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢😵

[@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario]

*Plane

[@AlexWuky]

This looks like a ttte knockoff

[@BlondeThunderNinja]

Omg this is worse than the CGI

[@dannyboi607]

What are you talking about this version is better

[@chichememan3751]

@@dannyboi607 i agree

[@szabolcsladanyi7297]

This is terrible a horror show creepy cartoon from hell!!!

[@USER-LlewisTLDB]

The model series is just like Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends this series is not creepy but the CGI is

[@evertonmignac-D7101]

I couln't agree more@@USER-LlewisTLDB ,indeed people kinda exadurate things sometimes iven i when was Younger wasn't scared of this vergion at least is mutch dicent then the CGI version