Wonderblocks
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Wonderblocks | |
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Genre | Educational Preschool |
Created by | Joe Elliot |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 (2 ordered) |
No. of episodes | 15 (30 ordered) |
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Production companies | Blue Zoo Alphablocks Ltd |
Original release | |
Network | CBeebies |
Release | 20 January 2025 present | –
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Wonderblocks is a British animated television series for preschoolers that debuted on CBeebies on 20 January 2025.[1] The series follows the adventures of block characters in Wonderland, each one being part of a different group. Together with the series Alphablocks, Numberblocks and Colourblocks, it is a part of the "Blocks Universe". Commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation, the programme was created by Joe Elliot and David Bowman, and produced by Alphablocks Ltd. with Blue Zoo Animation Studio.
Twenty episodes have aired and the other ten are yet to release. As of the 2023 plan, the series was scheduled for production up to 2027, per an agreement between the Alphablocks Ltd. and Blue Zoo, and BBC.
According to the Blue-Zoo website, the show was pitched in 2020 just before the lockdown, five years prior to its release and one year prior to Colourblocks starting production in 2021.
Premise
[edit]The programme aims to teach children about coding. Go and Stop hold hands with a Do Block (or several) in the middle, to make coding activate on the Do Block's animal, including Arty. Do Blocks will also duplicate to activate on the entity twice (like Cluck duplicating himself to unlock a password) or thrice (Baa wanting Secret Agent Chicken to baa three times).
Characters
[edit]Main
[edit]- Go (voiced by Joanna Adeyinka-Buford) is a green, circular Wonderblock with white borders. She has dark green limbs and freckles.
- Stop (voiced by Emma Tracey) is a red Wonderblock with white borders whose shape resembles a stop sign as an octagon. She has dark red limbs and thick eyebrows.
- Again (voiced by TBA) is a yellow, triangular Wonderblock with white borders. He has dark yellow limbs.
Do Blocks
[edit]- Hop (voiced by Hamish Wyllie)
- Moo (voiced by Hamish Wyllie)
- Cluck (voiced by John Hastler)
- Splat (voiced by Kate Harbour)
- Put Down Bowl (voiced by Kate Harbour)
- Tip Cereal (voiced by Hamish Wyllie)
- Pour Milk (voiced by John Hastler)
- Baa (voiced by Ashna Rabheru)
- Left (voiced by Kate Harbour)
- Right (voiced by Ashna Rabheru)
- Backwards (voiced by John Hastler)
- Forwards (voiced by Hamish Wyllie)
- Put On Socks (voiced by Hamish Wyllie)
- Put On Boots (voiced by Lucy Montgomery)
- Open Umbrella (voiced by Kate Harbour)
- Splat Red (voiced by John Hastler)
- Splat Yellow (voiced by Kate Harbour)
- Splat Blue (voiced by Kate Harbour)
- Scoop Sand (voiced by John Hastler)
- Tip Bucket (voiced by Ashna Rabheru)
- Cheer (voiced by John Hastler)
- Clap (voiced by Kate Harbour)
- Spin (voiced by Ashna Rabheru)
- Wiggle (voiced by Hamish Wyllie)
- Slide
- Grow Leaf
- Grow Stem
- Grow Flower
- Toot
- Drum
- Pluck
Animals
[edit]- Little Frog (voiced by Grace Saif)
- Frog (voiced by Inel Tomlinson)
- Toad (voiced by St. Isaiah Jean)
- Froggy (voiced by Niamh Webb)
- Cow (voiced by Niamh Webb)
- Secret Agent Chicken (voiced by Lucy Montgomery)
- Arty (voiced by Ashton Frank)
- Little Bear (voiced by Grace Saif)
- Medium Bear (voiced by Inel Tomlinson)
- Big Bear (voiced by Bethan Mary-James)
- Sheep (voiced by Bethan Mary-James)
- Arty's Friends / Little Hoppers
- Chickens
Episodes
[edit]Series 1 (2025)
[edit]No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Learning competency | Song(s) | Original release date | |
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1 | 1 | "Go" | Simon Taylor | Andrew Barnett Jones and Ciaran Murtagh | Wonderblocks Go and Stop | Give It a Go | 20 January 2025 | |
A green circle named Go falls from the sky and lands in Wonderland, which begins a mess in the place, and then meets a red octagon named Stop behind. | ||||||||
2 | 2 | "Stop" | Simon Taylor | Andrew Barnett Jones and Ciaran Murtagh | Patience; crafting solutions | Stop and Think It Through | 21 January 2025 | |
Stop helps Go to get her ball back, and then tells Go that sometimes you need to stop and find solutions. | ||||||||
3 | 3 | "Hop" | Simon Taylor | Andrew Barnett Jones and Ciaran Murtagh | Block Hop; how basic coding works | TBA | 22 January 2025 | |
Go and Stop help Little Frog hop with the help of Do Block Hop, and at the final try the little frog jumps to the tree just to catch some apples. | ||||||||
4 | 4 | "Moo!" | Simon Taylor | Andrew Barnett Jones and Ciaran Murtagh | Directing on what to do and when; block Moo | How Does a Cow Make? | 23 January 2025 | |
Go and Stop help Cow moo for the Lilypad Band's concert with the help of Do Block Moo, and the concert goes really good at the end. | ||||||||
5 | 5 | "Cluck!" | Simon Taylor | Andrew Barnett Jones and Ciaran Murtagh | Block Cluck; passwords; using multiple do blocks in one script | TBA | 24 January 2025 | |
Go and Stop help Secret Agent Chicken enter the gate to enter into the hen house with the help of Do Block Cluck, only to turn her bath off. | ||||||||
6 | 6 | "Mooving Up" | Simon Taylor | Andrew Barnett Jones and Ciaran Murtagh | Introduction to sequencing | TBA | 27 January 2025 | |
Go, Stop, Moo and Cluck let Cow on Secret Agent Chicken's lift, whereas the former animal needs to reach to her hay. | ||||||||
7 | 7 | "Splat!" | TBA | TBA | Coding patterns | TBA | 28 January 2025 | |
Go and Stop help Arty to splat on Toad's stepping stones, with the help of Do Blocks Splat and Hop. | ||||||||
8 | 8 | "The Breakfast Bears" | TBA | Tiernan Douieb | Deciding what should go first; prioritization | TBA | 29 January 2025 | |
Go, Stop, Put Down Bowl, Tip Cereal, and Pour Milk help the Three Bears make their breakfast in the correct order for a happy breakfast. | ||||||||
9 | 9 | "Moo! Cluck! Baa!" | TBA | TBA | Sequencing; clarification | TBA | 30 January 2025 | |
Go and Stop host a "Make a Sound" contest, where Cow, Secret Agent Chicken and Sheep will need to make animal sounds with the help of Moo, Cluck, and Baa. | ||||||||
10 | 10 | "Dancefloor Delight" | TBA | TBA | More about sequencing; introduction to movements | TBA | 31 January 2025 | |
Go and Stop make Arty move in directions, with the help of Left, Right, Forwards and Backwards. | ||||||||
11 | 11 | "Step by Stepping Stone" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 3 February 2025 | |
Go and Stop help Arty to hop on the stepping stones with the correct directions, thank god the Moving Crew exists. | ||||||||
12 | 12 | "Rainy Day Bears" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 4 February 2025 | |
Go and Stop help the Three Bears to get ready for the rain, with the help of Open Umbrella, Put on Socks and Put on Boots. | ||||||||
13 | 13 | "Tower of Flowers" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 5 February 2025 | |
Go and Stop need Arty's help to make a colourful pattern tower for Toad, with the help of Splat Red, Yellow and Blue. | ||||||||
14 | 14 | "Building Sandcastles" | TBA | Tiernan Douieb | TBA | TBA | 6 February 2025 | |
Go and Stop help the Three Bears build sandcastles at the beach, with the help of Scoop Sand and Tip Bucket. | ||||||||
15 | 15 | "First Things First" | TBA | TBA | TBA | First Things First | 7 February 2025 | |
Go and Stop deal with situations while they're making a picnic. | ||||||||
16 | 16 | "What Can We Do?" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 10 February 2025 | |
17 | 17 | "Woodland Wiggle" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 11 February 2025 | |
18 | 18 | "Magic Beans" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 12 February 2025 | |
19 | 19 | "Musical Bears" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 13 February 2025 | |
20 | 20 | "Sounds Like A Plan" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 14 February 2025 | |
21 | 21 | "Top Secret Holiday Hideout Plan" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 17 February 2025 | |
22 | 22 | "Someone's Been Eating My Porridge" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 18 February 2025 | |
23 | 23 | "Bunch of Bugs" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 19 February 2025 | |
24 | 24 | "Potted Plant Parade" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 20 February 2025 | |
25 | 25 | "Again!" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 21 February 2025 | |
26 | 26 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
27 | 27 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
28 | 28 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
29 | 29 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
30 | 30 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- CBeebies original programming
- British English-language television shows
- 2025 British television series debuts
- 2025 animated television series debuts
- 2020s British children's television series
- British computer-animated television series
- British preschool education television series
- Animated preschool education television series
- 2020s preschool education television series
- BBC animated television series