How Does the Infinity Train Work? 

*LIST OF DETAILS IN THE PAST CAR AND UNFINISHED CAR* Turtle Handkerchief (4:54, The Past Car) also seen in The Ballpit Car (9:11) and mentioned in The Hey Ho Whoa Car (8:26). Phone Booth (0:46, Unfinished Car) // Phone Booth Scene (4:57, The Past Car) Alrick’s Glasses on Aloysius + Same Voice Actor (1:36, Unfinished Car) // Adult Alrick Voice and Glasses (4:57, The Past Car) Hospital IV (2:54, Unfinished Car) // (6:31 & 7:32, The Past Car) Hospital Bed (2:56, Unfinished Car) // (6:31 & 7:32, The Past Car) Classroom (1:00, The Unfinished Car) // Elementary Classroom (4:16, The Past Car) Flag Symbols (2:56/3:01, Unfinished Car) // Game Symbols (5:30, The Past Car) “Where Great Minds” Graduation Reference (3:06, Unfinished Car) // “Where Great Minds” Graduation Scene (4:32, The Past Car) Jam Lake (3:13, The Unfinished Car) // Alrick Eating Jam (3:49, The Past Car) // Alrick & Amelia Eating Jam (7:32, The Past Car) Flight Director Turtle (3:15, The Unfinished Car) // Amelia and Alrick at the Airport (6:32, The Past Car) “So What Do You Think?” quote on door (5:02, The Unfinished Car) // “So What Do You Think?” Proposal Scene (6:00, The Past Car) Alrick’s Glasses that he wore when Amelia proposed (5:02, The Unfinished Car) // Alrick’s Toy Glasses (5:34, The Past Car) Graduation Cap Birds (6:01, The Unfinished Car) // Thrown Graduation Caps (4:51, The Past Car) All of the clocks in “The Unfinished Car” are stuck at the same time as the time that The Funeral service took place (3:26 & 3:44, The Unfinished Car) // Clock at 12:56/57 at the Time of the Funeral (6:46, The Past Car) “Hu-Mon” Quote on Building (6:52, The Unfinished Car) // “I’m just a simple Hu-Mon” Quote (5:54, The Past Car) Whoopee Cushion Clock Decal (3:44, The Unfinished Car) // Whoopee Cushion Prank (4:05, The Past Car) “But It’ll Be Good to Go” Quote on Building (7:21, The Unfinished Car) // “Look, I know it’s hard… But it’ll be good to go” Quote (6:41, The Past Car) Kevin the Turtle is holding Same Phone Amelia was Holding When she Found out About Alrick (7:10, The Unfinished Car) // Amelia Finds Out about Alrick (7:31, The Past Car) Turtle Clothes Colors (5:52, The Unfinished Car) // Alrick and Amelia’s Clothes Colors (5:00, The Past Car) Apples on Table (5:00, The Unfinished Car) // Apple from School (4:15, The Past Car) Kevin’s Tie (7:11, The Unfinished Car) // Alrick’s Tie (4:40, The Past Car) Spoons Turtles are Holding (1:44, The Unfinished Car) // Spoon Alrick eats Jam With (3:49, The Past Car) Duck Boat Reference (1:05, The Unfinished Car) // Duck Boat (7:32, The Past Car) *HAZEL OBSERVATIONS (BOOK 3 OBSERVATIONS)* “Kiss the Shellf” Apron (7:21, The Musical Car) // Alrick’s Kiss the Chef Apron (7:32, The Past Car) Ice Cream Turtle Stand (6:50, The Musical Car) // Amelia and Alrick Getting Ice Cream (7:32, The Past Car) “Couples do ballroom as a fun bonding activity” Quote (6:44, The Debutante Ball Car) // Amelia and Alrick Dance Lessons (7:27, The Past Car) “We gotta take the couch!” Quote (10:55, The Jungle Car) // Amelia and Alrick’s House Configuration (5:29, The Past Car) “It would be good for me to go!! To a funeral… It helps to say goodbye.” (The Campfire Car, 3:38) // Amelia Didn’t go to Alrick’s Funeral Service (6:52, The Past Car) “You Make the Best Pancakes!” (2:16, The Hey Ho Whoa Car) // Amelia & Alrick Making Pancakes (7:32, The Past Car) *OTHER IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS* The name “Alrick” is of Old German origin and means "noble or regal ruler". Aloysius has his voice and glasses (same VA), and is a King who is strongly revered by his subjects. Aloysius is also of German origin and means “famous warrior”. Turtle Family w/ toy Train may be referencing Amelia’s early/childhood homelife. (5:19, The Unfinished Car) Mailbox has an “A” on it, possibly standing for Amelia & Alrick (5:26, The Unfinished Car) Hazel knowing how to make tea may be a reference to both Amelia and Alrick living in Britain, since tea is the most popular beverage there. Hazel’s outfit is a mixture of Amelia and Alrick’s outfits, mostly from elementary school. Hazel’s number is Amelia’s starting number (8:34, The Hey Ho Whoa Car) Alrick’s Hat on a Snowman (5:09, The Grid Car) // Alrick’s Hat (5:00, The Past Car) Alrick’s Cloak (6:03, The Past Car) // Younger Amelia’s Cloak (6:45 & 7:44, The Past Car) // Older Amelia’s Cloak (5:11 & 7:56, The Engine) Caution tape at the end of the Unfinished Car could be alluding to the fact that Alrick’s death was a sudden accident (3:43, The Unfinished Car). Alrick possibly died in a car accident, because of the inclusion of a green flipped car in “The Engine” at 5:25. The car does look like it is a popular 1980s model (Buik). Amelia getting the phone call about Alrick’s accident is located at 6:31 & 7:32 in The Past Car. You can also see it as the final frame in chronological order in “The Engine” at 2:19, before it swaps scenes.

According to the creators, turtles are not only meant to symbolize Amelia, but also the titular train itself. It’s always compared to a giant turtle that with its shell carries many other turtles. Also, because of their longevity, turtles are among the closest things that reach infinity

It's worth pointing out that Hazels line "It'd be good for me to go" mirrors a line said by one of Amelia's freinds as they ask her to go to the service "It'll be good to go"

To Amelia, the Turtle Handkerchief would also hold the last bits of her late husband's DNA. Depending on what Amelia learned about the inner workings of the Infinity Train (as seen in some new clips from Book 4), she may have once tried to use the Turtle Handkerchief in an attempt to scan parts of his DNA into the Infinity Train's algorithmic mainframe. However, instead of identifying and scanning the DNA, the Infinity Train identified and scanned the turtle pattern on the handkerchief itself, and Amelia never realized it until Book 3.

Amelia saying "Alot of turtles, too many turtles" gives me life 😂

Owen Dennis actually confirmed that Lena Heaney was the voice of the conductor voice modulator and Amelia on the DVD commentary, because with all those phasers and changes to the modulator can be completely different with a different voice actor, so she also voiced Alrick for one line when he uses the modulator.

The ending actually reminded me of a black mirror episode. A woman that cloned her dead husband and when he didn't behave like him, she became horrified of him.

Another moment in book 3 that shows Hazel having attributes from Amelia and Alrick is that she says the phrase "Don't be daft". Daft is more common in British dialect than in American dialect and would therefore show that Hazel has some British vocabular from Amelia or Alrick.

In regards to the turtle boy playing with the toy train... The boy is playing with a /train/ and is focusing on nothing else. He’s absorbed in his own little world with the train. Amelia is absorbed in her own little world... on the train. She’s like a child playing with and only caring about her toy train and her world with that train.

I don't know what's more crazy, the fact that you (and the members of the discord) noticed all of this or the fact that I didn't notice any of it

The Musical Car might have also been created from Jesse's memory, as someone pointed out on reddit some time ago. It has the head of Marcel (the cloud-head from the Map Car) on the stage's top, and also uses Jesse's song.

After the part where she talked about where you start on the train I thought about how in book 4, they started in a glacier car and I thought the series contradicted itself, but then I remembered that the car was changed by Ken and was originally a CITY CAR. THEY WERE TRYING TO GO TO A CITY! The attention to detail is so cool in this series.

I’ve had that idea that the train cars are based off of passenger’s memory tapes for a long time now, and I’m glad you came to the same conclusion! SO hyped for Book Four tomorrow!

I can’t believe the final season is tomorrow...I literally first subscribed to HBOmax for book 3....guys, we NEED to keep fighting for this series to return. We got it from a single pilot episode to a 4 season series, I KNOW we can revive it some day.

The attention to detail in this show is straight up mind blowing

Tulip Olsen is an anagram for lentil soup ^^

I like how you describing friends you use the theme from the book 4 sneak peek to describe it and that is exactly what is happening in that scene Minge being different than how rany remembered him

This also makes sense for where Tulip woke up, and why One-One was there. It was most likely a car made in the early days of the train, which is why there were no denizens, and also why it was so far from the engine

I literally never even noticed any of those matching aspects from Hazel. Didn't even consider her relation with Amelia. Thank you a ton for this video.

This video is why Infinity Train is awesome.

The amount of detail in this show is insane, Infinity Train is a gift.

I am genuinely amazed that you caught so many seemingly small details in this show! I had no idea that was the handkerchief Amelia refers to. One thing I do wonder, however, is how does the Chrome Car fit into this? Reflections are sentient in this universe, so does the train make them self-aware by uploading passengers' memories, or have they always been sentient, and the car serves as some kind of waypoint between the prime and mirror worlds?

One of the reasons I believed Hazel was a denizen was because of Season 3 Episode 2 where Hazel uses the word “daft” and tbh I don’t think a 6 year-old would have that in their vocabulary.

Wouldn't it be cool if Kez helped Amelia through her grievance while simultaneously making it up to Morgan for losing Jeremy who was also grieving?

i liked ninja turtles as a 8 year old child but basically it's my special interest🐢🐢🐢🐢

In regards to Kevin, the turtle. Given his design, he's a reporter or detective I'm guessing in design alone. The details of the car showing the car infers that Alrick might have either been in a car accident... or a hit and run. If it was a simple car accident, or something else, I don't see a detective being on scene. Plus, whenever he's talking on the phone, he's dictating details like he's reporting it to someone else. Like a cop would dictate the scene to the station to start filling in the report of the accident. I'm not an expert but this certainly pieces together more of the untold story of Alrick's passing.

I wish we would get a book 5 about on Hazil and Amelia

Maybe it's called the unfinished car not because it was broken, but because it was based around Amelia's life who put her entire life on hold to fixate on one thing?

So much to discuss!!! I literally just finished season 3 and I still have so many questions?? Who first built the train?? Is it even man made?? How long has the train been around?? Is it in some type of void and if so where and how does it transport people?? So many questions!!!

You're blowing my mind with this video, Lea! Fantastic eye to catch all these details!

To add to the clock thing, when that one Fleck is dying as Lake drags him around in Book 2 he offhandedly mentions there's no way to tell time on the train. The show was basically demanding you to keep an eye out for clocks!

i originally thought that amelia was using alrick's DNA from the handkerchief, which would explain why every passenger got their possessions back in book 4 (amelia would need the handkerchief back to get alrick's DNA from it). we don't know what type of engineer amelia is, so she very well could have a background in biomed/biotech. she does make a radio though, so i'm not entirely sure if she's meant to have experience with biology. when she eventually met tulip, i was confused as to why she'd wipe tulip's tears with the same handkerchief, as she'd still need alrick's DNA. but maybe she managed to extract his DNA beforehand and replicate it (PCR was invented in the 80s) so she'd have an unlimited supply. the callbacks to her memories are really interesting though, so it'll be cool to see if the train uses only memories to create the cars or if it can be used with DNA or something like that.

Right 🥺🥺I hate that it's ending, I wanted to see so much more, they are really making a huge mistake

I just don't really understand the purpose of the train. It seems like it's supposed to rehabilitate people but the further we go into the show it seems like it may be more of a punishment. The thing is if you were having 'issues' in your life the last thing you would want is to be tossed into a random train and be told you can either die here or get over your issues to leave. Most people going through issues want an escape from their lives, at first I thought the train was providing that for them, it was stopping their lives temporarily so they could take a break from it all and simmer down. But the fact that they still age on the train and can die on it just shows how twisted it is, it's trying to punish people by telling them if they can't get over their issues they can just die here. We probably won't get a clean cut answer on what the train's actual purpose is or why it's so harsh but it's just interesting to think about. Especially since like I said it seems like a good idea, taking someone from their life and giving them a break (we could all use that) but the fact that they're held there against their wills and can even die on it just shows that the train doesn't care as much as we thought.

The amount of effort put into this video is astonishing. I really appreciate your work!

The amount of detail in this show is incredible, is would’ve never picked all this up

Toon yelling at us for giving the man power, is my spirit animal.

This is such a good analysis I actually CANNOT all the adorable scenes we missed from not pause in the unfinished car omfg

Wow, i knew this show was deep, but just... wow. Nothing but respect for you for picking it apart and the team that made the show themselves for taking the effort to make this show so complex.

I hope we see another character voiced by Matthew Rhys on book 4, I just love his voice

if everyone else wakes up in a location similar to where they were before why do ryan and min wake up on an iceberg?

Genius video, kudos to you for all this resarch

10:31 Real name Being "Aldric" for me, in french, its always so strange to see people refering the name as "Noble and powerfull ruler" but hey, this video is full of incredible details

ahhh I'm crying! anything involving hazel is like an instant K.O. season 3 is so good

Another possibility that comes to mind with Amelia's perfect(ed)/complete train car, provided that the car does indeed generate the denizens once it becomes fully operational, is that not only would there be a Alrick there.....but an *Amelia* as well. Which would leave the original Amelia stuck as a mere observer if she didn't try to kill her younger counterpart. That could make quite an unusual story, especially if in her rage original-Amelia ended up creating the very accident that lead to Alricks death in the first place......

when Grace pulled the tape from her head I wanted to scream

Something I want to know is where Samantha came from, why she knows so much about the train, how she ended up working for Amelia, and what car she originated from.

Infinity train does share a universe with over the garden wall. Both have turtles BTW. Especially if you add that otgw inspired this train show

0:27 fully expected an opening with “infinity train is a show with alot of turtles”

Thank you for making this. There were a lot of the tiny details I didn't actually notice until you mentioned them.

I CAN NEVER GET OVER HOW MUCH THIS SHOW IS PERFECT?!?!

I love your infinity train videos!!! You’re also one of the only “cartoon analysis” channels I know that actually analyses.

Dang, I knew Owen was good, but I feel like this is way more than I expected 😂

This is so cool, I kind of thought of the turtles as just a silly recurring joke but I should've read more into it!

damn the number of details in this show. Also, it will be cool to talk about how Amelia taking over the train affected the passengers like the Apex

So cool! (I'm Brazilian)

The final part about Amelia never being able to succeed in creating a perfect replica of Alrick reminds me a lot about the story of Church and Texas in Red vs Blue.

This was amazing and makes the rewatch that much more enjoyable

Loved the analysis 💕💕💕 This makes me incredibly devastated that something this lovingly crafted and meticulously put together isn't going to continue. 🙏🙏🙏 here's hoping for a renewal 🙏🙏🙏 Keep Up The Good Work~!

i forgot that infinity train was about turtles.

A question Ive allways had is if the denizens that dont take on a guide roll are made the same way as the guides. One One says he made Alan Dracula but the turtles seem to be created by the train. Some denizens seem more aware of the train than others and some seem to roam from car to car while others stay in the one they are created in.

27:25 is this why the graduation arch was just a half?

this video is absolutely amazing and i didn't notice like,,,, any of this, but also as a british person, "tea is important to their culture" fucking sent me, no idea why i found that so funny

i have a turtle tattoo, so this show connects with me on another level. analyzing it is like an insane therapy session. questioning whether the train is a god or alien, or how the whole premise is that all of them become equals with their experiences through their respective cars, but itll never be finished... like the train... since rather a sentient denizen or a new passenger, they're in a therapy infinity train. lol forcing to go into therapy, this is amazing at this pocket world is like "hey we should value ourselves to better us and grow" but the sentient denizens feel that same purpose showing the train will continue to create denizens to help "passengers" who leave through their exit but no contingency plan to those who want something more like Lake other than her world. because kez was a nuisance after leaving morgan for helping jeremy leave, she got her own denizens that reset back to one (theater joke i guess) (like alan dracula, perry, atticus, aloysius, etc) (like how the mirror world explain what happens after your prime dies (forshadowing?)) but when denizons like Lake, hazel, tuba, (possibly perry but how many willing hosts are there?), kez, and morgan, etc. learn to emotionally or mentally grow/heal along with the intended passengers, they become full of free will. also technically since everything came from the train, (the gohms being orbs originally), they were made for a purpose... maybe it IS to keep the passengers in line, like the body guards to one one's leadership. i feel like theres an au where simon chooses trusting tuba, or grace immediately thinking the girl was a null after all the weird signs. everyone needs to work out their own issues on their own time. this is an amazing resource for confronting memories and how we change them as well. and how mental issues are faced and that it COUNTS on their morality fluctuating!!!!!!!!! cant stop theorizing this show; i watched the pilot after the amazing over the garden wall (mini series pilot competition to get produced); loved the premise of pocket world to solve greg and wirts problems right?? like theres an old black train a coming.... but they also went into the water not the train...unless the train hit the boys sending them into that world...stretching too far. but yeah, hardcore fan, i collected all of the infinity train figurines when it was apart of the cartoonnetwork arcade app for seasons 1 and 2. but yeah i binged seasons 3 and 4 in the span of one night. and the theories and worlds are blowing my mind to analyze the crap out of this concept!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another excellent video - I expect nothing less from you :))

i like your theory on the clocks, but clocks are often draw/displayed with that time by default... so it may be nothing

24:20 MY MIND WAS BLOWN HERE BYEEEE

I love your analysis! Great job!

Haven't seen this show and I'm just overwhelmed with so much info and details and references, guess it won't go for me too much to go ☹️

Today I learned: Alrick shares a voice actor with Emperor Belos.

Amazing video!

I am IN AWE at the details you picked up that I never would have considered. I thought I was a smarty pants for noticing that in season 4 Chicken Choice Judy is the pansexual colors. I’m glad you’re not the type of cartoon analyst to put red circles all over the thumbnail but you might have been justified in this case lol. Some of my favorite type of analysis on fiction, especially visual fiction like cartoons, is the type that actually pieces together small details that is present but not easily noticed. I feel like a lot of fan theorists confuse this with just pointing to anything and calling it a theory or prediction to look like they cracked the case rather than actually fully thinking it through. So I like how you acknowledge how minuscule the details are in the background but then justify it by laying out actual evidence. I also have a new appreciation for how Infinity Train interprets projecting the subconscious, because when I’m dreaming it really is less “weird thing happened lol” and more “person ate jam around me so now there’s just jam here” type of thinking. So anyway, video gud.

THE TURLE KID IN 26:20 (the one made to reflect Amelia’s home life) is playing with a train. Amelia grown up is LITERALLY PLAYING GOD WITH THE TRAIN.

fun fact: Owen Dennis announced he's making the among us show and will also be working on a new book for Infinity Train as well

Awesome video!

This is so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in reference to passengers starting in a car that's similar to the area they boarded the train at, that could actually explain why the home base of the Apex is the mall car. grace boarded the train in what is likely a mall, so she may have chosen her starting car as the base for her crew

It's interesting to think about how memories are extracted, since memories change every time we recall them. The memory extraction process seems to turn mercurial memories into immutable tape, but depending on how old the memory is or the individuals level of confirmation bias, the memory the train gets could be extremely inaccurate.

I’d like to let you know you had me going “OH SHIT” so many times throughout this video

This came out the day before book 4 so I can explain why Ryan and Min spawned in that temperature car. Theory 1. Since Ryan and Min entered the train from an actual train the train's programming was just like "But it's... all train..." so it was a random car Theory 2. The temperature car's default temperature was a normal street (besides the aliens) so Ryan and Min's memories were taken into consideration to ease them into the most similar environment Theory 3. Before Amelia took over the car, passengers were treated with less empathy since it was being run by the emotionless One. They have clunky uniforms, no video introduction (Tulip didn't have that either but that was before One One) and Ryan and Min were the only ones who immediately began screaming in terror implying that the train did not accommodate the passengers needs before One was taken over.

Really fascinating

My theory is that it's essentially a mobile correctional facility that was created by a cosmic race of beings to help out humanity. A theory I formed was that the people who invented the train were formally passangers and were inspired to recreate it.

What if Jeremy from book 4 was the one who caused alricks accident?

It would be cool if you made a video analysis of book 4

wait I thought a picture when tulip is falling showed a bald Alric?

I am HYPED for this theory I just know it'll be in depth and high quality!!!!

Turtles is no longer a word

Early! I love your animations

I like turtles. They’re cute animals

20:05, minor quibble here, but where are you getting 12:56? On the left that hour hand is nowhere near 12. That's 1:56. The right one is almost 2:56, but it's carved in stone so I could forgive it for being less accurate. But that hour hand would be clearly left of that top right diagonal notch indicating halfway between 12 and 3.

(TURTLES)

Another banger video

You had me at turtles

I noticed none of these 😳

I noticed Hazel’s skin is young amelia’s hair color. And her hair color is alric’s.

I feel like the Train CAN create anything in theory but, being a machine, has rules in place that it has to follow. Rule #1: All cars must be possible for passengers to make it through. If the train is infinite, then it could in theory just make a car without a floor, without any oxygen, or with an inescapable maze. It totally could make cars like that, but there's no way a passenger could make it through them. If they can't progress, they wouldn't get a chance to grow. Even the outright deadly cars are fully survivable. Rule #2: The train will not create human denizens. The closest things to humans that we see the train create is Lake, who is a cracked reflection. It can be argued that reflections and the mirror world exist independently from the train, with the train itself acting as a bridge. Which means the train didn't actually choose to make metal people, it just gave them the opportunity to get solid forms and a way to leave their native world. Therefore, the train considers them denizens, even if it did not create them initially. The only other example of a nearly human denizen is Hazel. She's a result of Amelia trying to break this rule, but she's not completely human either. The Space Men at the club are kinda human, but they could easily be anything under there. If the train were to make straight-up humans, things would get too complicated, as seen with Hazel. The train is built for humans to leave, not to keep them there long term. Rule #3: Tapes can be used for future reference. I guess this isn't a rule, more of a policy? Anyways, if the tapes were only used to adjust numbers, then why would they be stored in a physical form? It would make more sense to have it just read your mind directly without the need of a middleman. Instead, they work as a way for both the train and denizens to learn about the outside world, allowing them to better connect with passengers.

Dang you found a lot of different ways to say jam haha

I found out today that I wasn’t subscribed. I fixed that real quick

Ninja turtles car

Lovely