2560 BCE
The Great Pyramid
Giza, mid-build. Two point three million blocks still to go, and a foreman who badly needs a horse.
Ramps, levers and rollers — how you move a two-tonne stone with no machines.
An animated series in development
HAMBALONIUSHam Balonius
Lost in time. Home by supper.
A pig, a potato bug, a girl inventor and one very nervous horse fall through a time machine they were never meant to find. Every century is a way home. Every century is also a wolf, one step behind them.
6Characters
2Kid voice actors
∞Centuries
First look
Seven seconds of a world
that does not exist yet
Early animation tests. The look is still moving, the voices are real, and the two kids who made this up are already in the credits.
Animation test
The voices
The reason any
of this exists
Isabel is six. She voiced a line on Star Trek with her dad, decided that was the job, and asked for the next session every day until there was one. Her brother Henry plays Bim. These are their takes.
Voice test
Six years old, the first character she has ever originated, and she lands the read on the second take.
Voice test
Henry — nicknamed Ham Bone, which is where the title came from — playing a potato bug who never uses words.
The premise
How four friends
got unstuck in time
The engine of the show is simple enough for a five-year-old to hold in their head and big enough to run for a hundred episodes: they are lost, they want to go home, and home is always one more adventure away.
Episodic
Semi-educational
Ages 4–8
11-minute episodes
1
Rome, on an ordinary afternoon
Ham Balonius is a Roman kid with a wooden sword and a pet potato bug. His best friend Hallie is building things nobody in the year 112 has words for yet. Nothing about the day suggests it is the last normal one.
2
They find a machine that found them first
A gilded Roman orrery, hidden where it should not be. It was not lost. It was left — by someone who wanted these four children to pick it up.
3
Every jump lands somewhere real
Egypt mid-pyramid. A Cretaceous riverbank. A pirate deck. They do not visit history, they get swept into it, and the way out is always understanding how the place actually works.
4
And a wolf is always one step behind
Vincent wants them lost for good. Brain — whoever Brain is — wants something none of them have guessed yet. Getting home is the plot. Growing up on the way is the point.
The crew
Six characters,
one very small time machine
The Heart
Ham Balonius
A Roman kid with a wooden sword, a laurel crown two sizes too big, and absolutely no plan.
Voiced by Isabel, age 6
Best Friend
Bim
An oversized potato bug who solves roughly forty percent of all problems by rolling into a ball.
Voiced by Henry
The Scientist
Hallie
A hedgehog inventor born a thousand years too early, in a world that keeps telling her so.
The Ride
TukTuk
Frightened of nearly everything. Does it anyway. The bravest one, and the last to know it.
The Antagonist
Vincent
Roman senator by daylight. Thief by lamplight. Convinced he is the hero of this story.
The Overlord
Brain
Built the time machine. Not to travel — to trap. Nobody has seen Brain's face, and Vincent only thinks he is the one giving orders.
Design in progress
Where they have landed
History, but they are
standing in it
Every destination is a real place at a real moment, chosen because something genuinely interesting was happening. The learning is never the lesson — it is the way out.
68 million BCE
The Late Cretaceous
TukTuk meets something with considerably bigger teeth and discovers he is, in fact, a very fast horse.
Why some dinosaurs had feathers, and what actually counts as a dinosaur.
1718 CE
The Spanish Main
A ship, a stolen map, and Vincent in a hat that fools precisely nobody.
Pirate crews voted for their captains and split treasure by share — an early stab at democracy.
79 CE
Pompeii
The mountain is rumbling and nobody is listening. Except a hedgehog who has been taking readings all week.
How volcanoes give warning, and why listening to the person with the notebook matters.
112
CE
Set the dial
Rome — home
The place they are always trying to get back to. Warm bread, olive trees, and a very worried mother pig.
Safe by design
Built for YouTube Kids
from the first frame
This is being made for children who are five, six, seven years old — including the two who are making it. Every choice about the show and this website starts there.
- Built for the “Made for Kids” rulesEvery episode will be published as Made for Kids on YouTube, which turns off comments and personalised advertising automatically.
- This website collects nothingNo accounts, no sign-ups, no cookies, no analytics, no tracking pixels. Nothing is stored about anyone who visits — child or grown-up.
- No chat, no uploads, no strangersThere is nowhere on this site for anyone to message a child, and nowhere for a child to post anything.
- Outbound links live in the grown-ups' areaLinks that leave this site sit in the Grown-Ups section, so a kid exploring on their own stays here.
- Nothing sensational, nothing scaryVincent is a bumbler, not a threat. Peril resolves inside the episode. No cliffhangers that leave a five-year-old worried at bedtime.
The hook
It started on a Saturday walk
to get coffee
Isabel voiced a line on Star Trek with her dad and never got over it. She wanted to be a voice actor again — so they built her something to be the voice of. Her brother Henry, nicknamed Ham Bone, accidentally donated the name.