Tom Turbo

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Tom Turbo is a series of books created by Austrian author Thomas Brezina in 1993. [1] The stories feature Tom Turbo, a bike who is able to talk and do one hundred and eleven tricky things. He and his friends Karo (Karolin Klicker) and Klaro (Konstantin Klicker) try to catch 'the ever bad guy' Fritz Fantom. With each of the original books, a detective gimmick would be delivered which would be used by Karo and Klaro during the current 'case'.

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Tom Turbo was built by Karo and Klaro, who had a great supply of fairly new technological items as their parents always wanted to be up-to-date with everything available. [2]

A Tom Turbo television series first appeared in Austria on ORF1 in 1993. [3] Some of the episodes even aired on NICKELODEON in Germany. [4] The bike (represented by an animatronic puppet) has a garage at its filming location, Tiergarten Schönbrunn. [5] In the TV series, the bad guys and also the children 'working' with Tom change every once in a while. Only the 'boss' stays the same: Thomas Brezina.

In 2003 a film originally titled Tom Turbo - Von 0 auf 111 aka TOM TURBO - Der Film directed by Dirk Regel and starring Brezina himself, amongst others, was released. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Über Thomas - Meine Geschichte". www.thomasbrezina.com (in German). Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  2. ↑ "Tom Turbo in Hall in Tirol". Hall in Tirol (in German). 4 September 2007. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  3. ↑ Stajic, Olivera (18 October 2018). "Hallo, Detektive! Thomas Brezinas Wunderfahrrad Tom Turbo wird 25". Der Standard (in German). Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  4. ↑ "Tom Turbo Detektivclub". fernsehserien.de (in German). Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  5. ↑ "Tom Turbo-Geburtstagswochenende im ORF". Tiergarten Schönbrunn (in German). 8 November 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  6. ↑ "Tom Turbo - Von 0 auf 111". Film Institut. Retrieved 25 December 2019.


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