Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Terry The Time Travelling Tortoise by Mr. Wolf Casey Junior. Casey is a 2-4-0 American steam tender locomotive with a small, four-wheeled tender full of coal at the back, a big, tall smokestack, a small headlamp in a baseball cap-shaped casing, a tall steam dome with a whistle on top, and a small cowcatcher on his front. The latter has a vague shape of a face, with two headlights in place of eyes and a cylinder-shaped structure protruding forward functioning as his nose. His wheel pistons are often used as "arms", like when he has to climb up a difficult mountain. Appearances. Dumbo. Casey is a 2-4-0 American steam tender locomotive hauling the WDP Circus train, and he even has his own theme song. He appears frequently throughout the film and is shown to be somewhat sapient. For example, when the Ringmaster calls, "All aboard! All aboard!", his whistle can be heard calling, "All aboard! Let's go!" As is the case with most of Disney's early cartoon vehicles, Casey has the ability to move more fluidly than real-life locomotives, and his boiler is often seen bending and twisting like rubber when in motion. In addition, he can twist and flex his metal body to express motion. He uses his steam cylinders like limbs, giving him the ability to shrug, point and make other gestures. While the sound of the voice resembles that of one processed through a vocoder, it was actually done with a more primitive device, a Sonovox, which uses one or two small loudspeakers in contact with the throat, which allowed Wright to "speak" by modulating an artificially produced sound with her mouth. Throughout the film, the circus workers get various animals ready on Casey's coaches, including Mrs. Jumbo. After all the animals successfully board the coaches, the Ringmaster then shouts "All aboard" so that Casey can get ready to travel to the spot where the circus will perform. Casey travels very far from the Winter Headquarters. Mr. Stork meanwhile arrives late and flies towards Casey Junior where Mrs. Jumbo is at as he delivers her a newborn baby elephant named "Jumbo Junior" by his mother, whom the elephants call him "Dumbo". Casey stops at the spot where the circus will be built at to which the next day, the workers have finished setting up the circus tent. Later after the act where Dumbo is to reach the top of the elephants unsuccessful due to the tent collapsing, Casey travels sadly throughout a rainy night as the elephants exclude Dumbo from their act and Dumbo is put into the clown act. At the end of the film where Dumbo becomes a circus star, a happy Casey is seen wearing a wreath of flowers around him, smiling in joy. He is also pulling another car, a private car for Dumbo. While the Crows and Elephants are singing a reprise of "When I See an Elephant Fly", steam whistles are heard, presumably made by Casey Junior, adding to the harmonization of the song. Dumbo happily reunites with his mother and as Casey happily travels to the next destination, the crows bid a farewell to Dumbo, wishing him good luck. The Reluctant Dragon. In this live-action/animated tour of the Walt Disney Studios in 1941, a work-in-progress scene of Casey is used to demonstrate the creation of sound effects for animation as well as the vocoder device used to create his voice. This demonstration takes the form of an extended train journey, though it is hard to say whether this was truly a deleted scene from an early version of Dumbo or simply new animation created for the purposes of the demonstration. In this scene, Casey was, in fact, pulling a passenger train to Cleveland, Ohio. At one point during the excursion, he gets into conflict with a steamboat over the right of way on a drawbridge that spans the river, before overcoming him and causing the drawbridge to close on and push down on the steamboat into the water. Later on, Casey encounters a streamlined train charging towards him and closing in fast, at which he desperately called for a nearby railroad switch lever to wake up and change the track, which it did. He thereafter crashes after an effort to jump the chasm left by a broken bridge in a storm. Casey's design in this film differs from his prior appearance in Dumbo and thus features many changes. For starters, coupling rods were connected to his foremost driving axle. He also had a roof-mounted bell and was not as stubby. When he was hired for the circus train, he had a few changes: his coupling rods were extended and moved to his rear driving wheels, his bell was removed, and he became stubbier. This implies that he was overhauled after the accident and bought by a railroad based in Florida that served the southeastern United States. Other appearances. Casey makes a cameo in the Donald Duck cartoon Spare the Rod as a silhouetted train crossing a bridge. Case makes a brief cameo in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit . He is spotted during the final scene. In Kronk's New Groove , the sequel to The Emperor's New Groove , Kronk has a miniature model train set of Casey in his new home, complete with scaled-down models of the carriages featured in Dumbo . Casey makes two cameo appearances in the Mickey Mouse TV shorts. In the episode Tokyo Go , he appears at the end of the episode as a miniature train piloted by Mickey Mouse as a children's attraction, in reference to Walt Disney's backyard Carolwood Pacific Railroad, complete with Walt's barn (a photo of Walt in the cab of Disneyland Railroad locomotive E. P. Ripley also appears in the scene). Casey also appears in the episode "New Shoes", with his namesake, Casey Jones, engineering, riding with Dumbo, Timothy Q. Mouse, and the Crows. Casey makes a cameo at the beginning of the 2016 live-action remake of The Jungle Book during its opening Disney logo (recreated using traditional animation instead of CGI, thus replacing the realistic train from the original version of the current logo), where he is seen as a silhouetted train crossing a trestle over a river behind an amusement park just right before the castle is shown. This is the same logo used for the 2019 remake of The Lion King ; however, unlike in The Jungle Book , the logo does not back into a jungle and instead fades away. Coincidentally, both films are live-action remakes directed by Jon Favreau. A non-anthropomorphic Casey also appeared in the 2019 live-action remake of Dumbo . Video games. Casey appears in the video game Mickey's Racing Adventure as the train which brings the characters to their racing grounds. In the game, Casey is not anthropomorphic but he maintains the same name and appearance he had in Dumbo . Casey makes a brief cameo in Where's My Mickey? . Disney Parks. A Disneyland attraction named the Casey Jr. Circus Train is based on Casey, with an updated version running at Disneyland Paris. Casey Jr. Splash & Soak Station, a water play area themed around him, was added to the Magic Kingdom in 2012 in the Storybook Circus section of the park's new Fantasyland. Casey is the second float in the Main Street Electrical Parade and its versions. He, driven by Goofy, pulls a drum with the parade logo, along with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. When the parade returned to Disneyland in 2017, he was made the lead float. Terry: The Time Travelling Tortoise by Mr. Wolf. VOO-SHWIPOP! Like it or not, Terry the tortoise was no longer in his quiet English garden, drinking tea and eating buttered crumpets. Now he was tumbling through time and space, and meeting a very odd assortment of characters along the way; such as the pirates Bee Beard and Broccoli Beard, strange creatures called cogs and dats, a depressed William Shakespeare and a humpless camel. And when Queen Victoria mistakes Terry for a teapot, it begins to look like he might never get back home again! Join Terry on this fantastical voyage of silly adventures, and confront conundrums of the space-time continuum face on! By the year 2376, this book has won numerous (as yet un-invented) prizes, such as The Wurlitzer Sausage Award for Twenty First Century Classics. Suitable for children and adults of ages 7+ What I says: This book is bloody brilliant, I am a big fan of fun time travel stories and Terry the time travelling tortoise ticks that box perfectly. This is a kids book that an adult will enjoy, I waited until my daughter was 8 before reading it to her because the rules and paradoxes of time travel can be a tab confusing, Mr Wolf puts in a valiant effort of explaining things as simply as possible. The story is witty, the characters are bizarre, a woman with curly wurly arms? Sounds tasty! But for me the highlight is the illustrations, every few pages you get a little drawing of the characters and they are really well done, Mr Wolf has obviously spent a lot of time with Time Travelling Tortoises to get the level detail just right. My daughter loved these too and has done her own drawing of Terry travelling to Stonehenge and knocking them over: If your kid has a good sense of humour and likes fun adventure stories then get them a copy of this great little book.