Builder
Rosie the Little Red Engine | ||
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Class | SR USA Class | |
Livery | Red, White/Grey, Red, Black, Gold | |
Built | 1942 | |
Number | 37, formerly 13 | |
Vulcan Iron Works, H.K. Porter, Inc., USA | ||
Configuration | 0-6-0T | |
Affiliations | Good | |
Designers | Howard G. Hill | |
Line | Knapford-Ffarquhar branch line | |
First Appearance | Thomas and the Birthday Mail | |
Voice Actors | Teresa Gallagher (UK; 2009-2012) Jules de Jongh (US; 2009-2012) Nicola Stapleton (UK/US; 2017-present) |
Rosie the Little Red Engine is a red (formerly lavender) tank engine who works on the Fat Controller's railway. She is voiced by Teresa Gallagher in the UK and Jules de Jongh in the US and later Nicola Stapleton in the UK and US. She is one of the second main protagonists. She often cameos in several episodes of the CGI series from S17 to The Great Race.
.In her introduction, during an autumn storm, Thomas was supposed to deliver a train to High Farm. Rosie wanted to help, but Thomas left on his own. Rosie followed him down the line, so Thomas decided to take the shorter, more dangerous route, thinking that Rosie would not follow him. Thomas ended up trapped in an avalanche, but was thankful to see Rosie going by on the other line. Rosie took the train to High Farm, and then brought back the farmer's daughter Alice, who thanked Thomas.
Allies: Thomas (Cousin), Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy (boyfriend), Toby, Duck, Lady, Donald & Douglas, Oliver, Gina (Best friend: As close as sisters), Stepney, Spencer, Hank, Belle (Possible older sister) Arthur, Flora, Rocky, Bash, Dash, Ferdinand, Whiff, Scruff, Hiro, Victor, Kevin, Stanley, Hector, Mavis (diesel friend), Murdoch (big friend, like Thomas and Gordon and possible father figure), Sir Handel (vain Narrow Gauge friend)
Enemies: Diesel, 'Arry, Bert, Diesel 10, Splatter, Dodge, Spencer (formerly), George, Hector (formerly), Daisy (arch-rival), Smudger, Big City Engine
Personality[]
Rosie is a friendly, respectful, clever and helpful tank engine with a good sense of humour. She idolizes Thomas very much. She and Thomas like to have fun and also like to help each other when they are working. She also enjoys racing just as much as she loves to be really useful, and is very eager to prove her worth, as evidenced by her wanting to help Thomas deliver Alice's birthday presents, or even attempting to pull a special train on her own. Rosie can be described as a feisty, energetic and free-spirited tomboy who is not afraid to do hard work.
With the passage of time, Rosie became more focused and mature, serving as a voice of reason to James' arrogance. She also stands no nonsense for teasing or rudeness, and although she still has her tomboyish personality, she still does have a good sense of humor, and she still likes a friendly joke.
Rosie still manages a healthy relationship with Thomas, despite some incidents that unintentionally go wrong. In Thomas Sets Sail, when the sail of the boat can’t go under the bridge, Rosie gets worried. In Thomas and the Runaway Car, when Thomas unintentionally pushed Sir Topham Hatt's Car down Gordon's Hill, Rosie just left the wash down when the car passed by and covered her with mud which made her annoyed. In Rosie is Red, Thomas pretends not to remember sticking up for Rosie because he does not want to be teased. This ends up embarrassing Rosie. This is one of the only times where she is embarrassed.
Merchandising[]
- Wooden Railway
- TrackMaster
- TOMY (discontinued)
- Plarail (Japan only)
- Take-Along (discontinued)
- Take-n-Play (discontinuted)
- Mega Bloks
- Wind-Up (Japan only)
- Bachmann
- Adventures
Appendices[]
Major Appearances[]
Series 10
Series 11
- "Hector The Horrid"
- "Thomas Sets Sail"
- "Thomas and the Runaway Car"
Series 12
- "Rosie's Funfair Special
Series 13
- "Splish Splash Splosh!"
Series 14
- "Diesel's Special Delivery"
Series 15
- "Stuck On You"
Series 16
- "Salty's Surprise" (does not speak)
- "Sodor Surprise Day"
Specials
- "Journey Beyond Sodor"
Cameos[]
Specials
- The Great Discovery
- Hero Of The Rails
- Misty Island Rescue
- Day of the Diesels
- Blue Mountain Mystery
- King of the Railway
- Tale of the Brave
- Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure
- The Great Race
Series 13
- "Steamy Sodor"
- "Hiro Helps Out"
Series 14
- "James In the Dark"
- "Merry Winter Wish"
- "Thomas and the Snowman Party"
- "Merry Misty Island"
- "Jumping Jobi Wood"
- "Thomas's Crazy Day"
Series 15
- "Gordon and Ferdinand"
- "Toby and Bash
- "Percy's New Friends"
- "Henry's Happy Coal"
- "Surprise, Surprise"
- "Kevin the Steamie"
Series 16
- "Race to the Rescue"
- "Ho Ho Snowman"
- "Flash Bang Wallop!"
- "Thomas Toots the Crows"
- "Bust My Buffers!"
- "Percy and the Calliope"
- "Muddy Matters"
- "Whiff's Wish"
- "Happy Birthday, Sir!"
Series 17
- "Steamie Stafford"
- "Henry's Hero"
- "The Thomas Way"
- "Percy's Lucky Day"
- "Bill or Ben?"
- "No More Mr. Nice Engine"
- "Away from the Sea"
Theme[]
Rosie's theme is her theme from the Season 12 Episode "Rosie and the Funfair Special"
Theme (T,J&H Version)[]
Rosie's T,J&H theme is Her season 10 theme
Trivia[]
- Rosie's name in Japanese: ロージー
- Rosie is a tank engine-despite the fact that she's a lavender color!
- In "Percy's Lucky Day" and "Bill or Ben?" She is seen with a golden headlamp. This might be a mistake, since in the model series she was shown with a white lamp on her footplate.
- In "No More Mr. Nice Engine" Rosie appears without her golden headlamp. The golden headlamp must have of been a mistake.
- Season 17 is the first season since her debut, Rosie has not appeared in at least one episode with a speaking role. She only made cameos.
Counterparts (Girl Version) (Heroine Version)[]
- Cherry Cookie (Cookie Run)
- Pearl (TUGS)
- Sunshine (Salty's Lighthouse)
- Carla, Pugwash, or Emily (Theodore Tugboat)
- Dotty the Blue Train (Rojy the Red Train and Friends)
- Lily (Thomas and the Magic Railroad; non-Thomas parody)
- Tanya Cupper, Becky, or Kara (Shining Time Station)
- Birdo or Princess Peach (Super Mario Bros.; all three are pink)
- Dee-Dee (Dexter's Laboratory; both are pink)
- Cream the Rabbit (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Chloe or Lanolin (Garfield and Friends)
- Hilda (Dastardly and Muttley)
- Babs Bunny or Fifi La Fume (Tiny Toon Adventures; the former is pink)
- Skye (PAW Patrol, both are pink and cute)
- Dot Warner (Animaniacs, both are cute)
- Cindy Lou Who (Dr. Seuss)
- Toots (Tom and Jerry; both are girlfriends to Thomas and Jerry Mouse)
- Prissy Polly (Horrid Henry)
- Kathy or Baby Bop (Barney and Friends)
- Kate Read, Sue Ellen Armstrong or D.W. Read (Arthur)
- Mindy, Pearl Krabs, Sandy Cheeks, or Mrs. Puff (SpongeBob SquarePants)
- Lil DeVille or Kimi Finster (Rugrats)
- Phoebe Heyerdahl (Hey Arnold)
- Aoi Asahina (Danganronpa)
- Annabelle Lattapiat (Doki's Big Wonderland; the former is pink)
- Zizzy or Dawn (World of Doki)
- Cleopatra "Dirtbike" Funnie (Doug)
- Jessie (Toy Story)
- Joy or Disgust (Inside Out)
- June (Kablam!)
- Tiff or Ribbon (Kirby)
- Rosita, Zoe or Abby Cadabby (Sesame Street)
- Babs (Chicken Run)
- Bandage Girl (Super Meat Boy, both are Pink, Young, & Girlfriends of Thomas and Meat Boy)
- Fluffles (Wallace and Gromit)
- Matilda Wormwood (Matilda)
- Amanda Toad or Krystal (Star Fox)
- Cho Chang (Harry Potter)
- Young Nala or Young Kiara (The Lion King, both are cheerful and girlfriends to Simba, Kovu and Thomas)
- Dot (A Bug's Life, both are purple and young)
- Willie Scott (Indiana Jones)
- Inez (Cyberchase, both are cheerful and girlfriends to Matt and Thomas)
- Koko (Chuggington, both are purple)
- Mona (WarioWare (T,J&H Version), Both are Cheerful, Young & Best Friends of Emily and Penny)
- Hahli (Bionicle)
- Macku (Mata Nui Online)
- Liñy the Girlbot (Harror The Robot)
- Sarah (Fireman Sam, both are light purple)
- Symphony Angel (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons)
- Laura Carrot or Annie Onion (Veggietales)
- Michelle Conrad (3-2-1 Penguins)
- Marina (Vehicles, Both are Young and cheerful)
- Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
- Susie Swanson (Family Guy)
- Swallow (Train Tishka, both are Cheerful)
- Climber (Nitrome)
- Roberta Tubbs (The Cleveland Show)
- Jigglypuff (Pokemon; both are pink)
- Anais Watterson or Penny Fitzgerald (The Amazing World of Gumball, Anais and Rosie are both pink)
- Nicky Little (Pepper Ann)
- Trixie Tang or Tootie (The Fairly Oddparents)
- The Chipmunk Girl (T.U.F.F. Puppy)
- Trixie Loly or Cararise Aurely (Cararise Aurely's Adventures, all three are Pink & Trixie and Rosie are Both young & Cheerful)
- Yori (Kim Possible)
- Cararise Aurely (Takua, Jaller & Hahli Productions)
- Bubbles or Blossom (Powerpuff Girls, the Latter is Pink)
- Pinkie Pie (Twilight Sparkle in BrittalCroftFan Version) (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
- Minka Mark (Littlest Pet Shop; 2012)
- Felicity Shagwell (Austin Powers)
- Pasadena Opossum or Coco Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot)
- Pac-Baby (PAC-MAN)
- Viper (Kung Fu Panda)
- Velma Dinkley (Scooby Doo)
- Gretchen or Isabella Garcia Shapiro (Phineas and Ferb, all three are happy and cheerful)
- Charlie Duncan (Good Luck Charlie)
- Mabel (Gravity Falls)
- Connie Souphanousinphone (King of the Hill)
- Bebe Stevens, Tammy Warner, Heidi Turner or Wendy Testaburger (South Park)
- Nancy Pancy (Fanboy & Chum Chum)
- Numbuh 3 (Codename: Kids Next Door, both are happy, cheerful and Cute)
- Holley Shiftwell,Sally or Cruz Ramirez (Cars 1,2 & 3)
- Ruby, Needle or Flower (Battle for Dream Island/Battle for Dream Island Again)
- Little Red Hood (Shrek)
- Okapi, Gia or Marlene (Madagascar)
- Sally Skittle (Noddy's Toyland Adventures)
- Mimi Tachikawa (Digimon Adventure)
- Mrs. Pottage (Postman Pat)
- Farina (Pearls Before Swine)
- Jane Banks (Mary Poppins)
- Carrie (Bednobs and Broomsticks)
- Rosie (Caillou, both share the same first name)
- Young Faline (Bambi)
- Molly Cunningham (TaleSpin)
- Vannelope Von Schweetz (Wreck-It Ralph)
- Jessie or Barbie (Toy Story 2 and 3)
- Phoebe Buffay (Friends; NBC sitcom)
- Lilo (Lilo & Stitch)
- Sierra, Leshawna, Beth, Dakota, Ella, or Samey (Total Drama)
- Kitty (Total Drama: The Ridonculous Race)
- Morgan Bertoldi (West Wilson Middle The TV Series)
- Tracy (Jay Jay the Jet Plane; both are pink)
- Irma (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Princess Cherry (Rocket Knight Adventures)
- Sam Sparks (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)
- Mandy or Carly (ICarly)
- Skuld (Oh! My Goddess)
- Lady Rainicorn (Adventure Time)
- Gatomon (Digimon)
- Patsy (Camp Lazlo, both are happy girlfriends to Lazlo and Thomas)
- Eileen (Regular Show)
- Stealth Elf (Skylanders)
- Valerie (Max & Ruby)
- Mystique Sonia (Hero 108)
- Rochelle (Planes)
- Dizzy (Bob the Builder)
- Emmy or Cassie (Dragon Tales)
- Emma (Casey Jr. and Friends)
- Jackie (Bobby's World)
- Carrie the Forklift (Construction Site)
- The Jailer's Daughter (The Wind in the Willows)
- Flora or Isabelle (Babar)
- Pinga (Pingu)
- Frances (Rupert)
- Unikitty (The LEGO Movie)
- Kitana (Mortal Kombat)
- Meg Monster (Henry Hugglemonster)
- Winnie (The Boxtrolls (2014))
- Milla (Freedom Planet)
- Fantasy Girl (The Show of the Mr. Men (Fan-Made Series), Both are Pink)
- Penny Peterson (Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014))
- Jamie (The Nut Job (2014))
- Betty (Franklin the Turtle)
- Zoe the Bee or Violet the Bee (Maya the Bee)
- Cornchip Girl (Recess)
- Georgette (Anatole)
- Casey Kelp (The Snorks; both are cheerful and girlfriends to Thomas and Allstar)
- Jade (My Friend Rabbit)
- Kiki Flores (The Puzzle Place)
- Uniqua (The Backyardigans; both are pink)
- Ojo (Bear in the Big Blue House)
- Sister Bear (The Berenstain Bears)
- Marie (The Aristocats)
- Lani (Tayo the Little Bus)
- Tanis (Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School)
- Chassie (The Adventures of Chuck & Friends; the former is pink)
- Dory (Finding Nemo)
- Dippy (Elias: Rescue Team Adventures)
- Nina (Nutri Ventures)
- Tracy or Paula Polestar (Earthbound/Mother, both Paula and Rosie are pink)
- Ginger (Cuphead)
- Computer Lab (The Brave Little Toaster)
- Tracer (Overwatch)
- Rosita/Rosa (Victor and Valentino)
- Kelsey, Jessica, Maney, Melissa, Stacks or Alexis (Craig of the Creek)
- Rachel, Theresa Fowler or Heidi Weinerman (Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja)
- Pasaran (Tomato Adventure, both are pink)
- Treat Heart Pig (Care Bears)
- Kitty (Felix the Cat)
Counterparts (Boy Version)[]
- Percy or Thomas (Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends)
- Sunshine or Ten Cents (TUGS/Salty's Lighthouse)
- Yoshi or Mario (Super Mario Bros.)
- Tails or Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Booker, Bo Sheep, or Nermal (Garfield and Friends)
- Buster Bunny or Hamton J. Pig (Tiny Toon Adventures)
- Patrick Star or SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants) (both Patrick and Rosie are pink)
- Ferb or Phineas (Phineas and Ferb)
- Gabe Duncan or P.J. Duncan (Good Luck Charlie)
- Piplup (Pokemon)
- 9-Volt (WarioWare (T,J&H Version))
- C.H.A.D, Fishboy or Meat Boy (Super Meat Boy)
- Tuff or Kirby (Kirby: Right Back at Ya!) (both Kirby and Rosie are pink)
- Q*Bert (Wreck-It Ralph)
- Sparkster (Rocket Knight Adventures)
- DJBJ (Fat Pizza)
- BJ or Barney (Barney and Friends)
- Ken or Ryu (Street Fighter)
- Jason Lee Scott (Power Rangers)
- Rodney, Cody, or Cameron (Total Drama)
- Rogi or Tayo (Tayo the Little Bus)