Two slender paper cutout birds who are somewhat like flamingos.Ī giant panda who is fond of nature and is quiet. They can move and jump about, and stack themselves. It is usually, and occasionally is found crowing.ĥ cubical bricks with pictures of sheep on, and on the upper surface a pattern of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 dots in order of descending brick size. Peter Serafinowicz in the UK and Train frontman Patrick Monahan in the U.S.Ī red flying bird that usually rides on the engine's funnel, or flies ahead as a spotter. The majority of the characters talk in English (or the language the series is dubbed in), but some (marked in ) only make a characteristic noise, which other characters can interpret as speech.Īn anthropormorphic lion who drives the train: has a tool (multipurpose and somewhat like Doctor Who's sonic screwdriver) that lets him repair any malfunctioning vehicles. Those characters then get into their vehicles carriages, which the train then hitches on (always nine vehicles carriages) and tows them to Swirly Curly Hill. The real children reappear and walk offstage. The train then sets off again, shrinks to its original 3 vehicles, and quickly becomes a flat model and folds away and disappears. Driver Dan reads a story from a book, usually a book from the book flatbed, and says "Now show me the story." The real children then reappear and act out bits of the story, then disappear. The Story Train stops and its passengers get out and sit on the cushions or stand about. The book opens, showing blank pages a scatter of cushions falls out of the book onto the floor. Those characters then get into their vehicles carriages, which the train then hitches on (always three of those vehicles) and tows them to Story Corner.Īt Story Corner, Twinkle flies ahead and lands on a huge book and pulls at a bookmark in it. The first time that the Story Train meets a character that it will interact with, the camera shows only part of the character, and the audience is asked to guess which character it is. It quickly changes into a solid train, which is driven about, usually passing a character (or a pair or set of characters) without interacting, and later, during the episode, meets and interacts with other characters. This scene disappears as a book opens, showing a pop-up model of a railway train with an engine and two carriages: steam locomotive, stores, a flatbed carrying story books. The audience (sometimes seen as several children, but usually represented by the camera's viewpoint and a child's voice) are sometimes asked for their opinion or choice on matters arising.ĭuring the opening titles of each episode, a group of real children sit on a scatter of cushions. Each character, or pair of characters (except for Driver Dan and Twinkle) has their own train carriage which can be hitched to the Story Train. The characters in the series are all plush toys, except for Milly and Lilly, who are paper cutouts of flamingo-like birds, The Vrooms, who are two small egg-shaped vehicles, and the Counting Sheep, who are cubical bricks painted to represent sheep. It was shown by Sprout, CBeebies, and ABC2. Its first series was launched on CBeebies on 9 January 2010. It was the first CGI animated/live-action property to be produced in both English and Arabic, which each have its own separate versions of the program. (Although, she could be among the many nameless students of the High School.) She was voiced by Laura Baruch in 2012 and Joey Singer in 2016.British animated children's television seriesĭriver Dan's Story Train is a children's television series created and designed by Rebecca Elgar and is a co-production between Two Four 54 in the United Arab Emirates and 3Line Media in the United Kingdom. As she is getting accepted to the prestigious Performing Arts Academy, her best friends Sporty Shorty and Pretty Tall and her two new friends from the broadway theater in New York Poppy and Olivia have to help her get over her fears.Twinkle Toes is unrelated to the cartoon, Zevo-3. As much as she enjoys dancing, she suffers form paralyzing stage fright, so she cannot dance in front of anyone, save for her pet bunny, Walter. Her preferred style of music are hip‐hop, break, jazz (or any mix there of), and whatever else moves her at the moment. Grace “Twinkle Toes” Hastings is a fourteen‐year‐old girl who enjoys dancing and designing her own styles of clothing. Skateboarding,Dancing to her favor kinds of music and Designing her own styles of clothing
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