Bulstrode the Barge | |
![]() Bulstrode in "Special Attraction" | |
Number | 8 |
Class | Barge |
Livery | Cream |
Line | Tidmouth-Barrow-in-Furness mainline |
Built | 1993 (he was experimental) |
Builder | Barge |
Designers | Sir Topham Hatt I and William Stainer |
Date to Birth |
October 4, 1993 |
First Appearance | Special Attraction |
Voice Actors | Kerry Shale (UK/USA) |
Bulstrode is a barge who sulked around in harbors. Because of his constant barking of orders at the trucks, they were eager to have him loaded so he could leave. Unfortunately for Bulstrode, some faulty buffers caused Percy to push some stone trucks off of the pier and onto Bulstrode, causing him to start sinking. The trucks thought it served him right for "barging in and moaning". He is voiced by Kerry Shale in UK and US.
Due to his damage, Bulstrode was punished for being rude by being set on a beach so that children could play in him, and at long last he'd be useful. ("Special Attraction")
Bulstrode should be able to reappear in the movie Tale of the Brave.
Personality[]
Bulstrode is a disagreeable barge who is crankier than Cranky the Crane but came before Cranky.Bulstrode's major role was in Special Attraction, a Season 4 episode. Special Attraction is about Toby being the Special Attraction at a garden party but gets cancelled.Toby gets sad and tries to figure out why the garden party was cancelled.Then Percy has something to figure out. Percy's driver thinks it's about Bulstrode-and it is obviously! Bulstrode is grumbling to the trucks about not being in the right spots. The trucks reply by telling Bulstrode that he's in the wrong place and not them. But Percy shuts him up by "accidentally" pushing the trucks into him which makes him sink.
Theme[]
- Bulstrode's theme is Percy's Danger theme from Seasons 3-4.
Trivia[]
- After Special Attraction, Bulstrode's face and eye mechanism was removed and he was used as a prop.
- Bulstrode's model is on display at Drayton Manor.
Counterparts (Antagonist Version)[]
- Guysborough the Garbage Barge (Theodore Tugboat)
- Kaptain Skurvy (Super Mario Bros.)
- Kudgel (Donkey Kong Country)
- Bark the Polar Bear or Storm the Albatross (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- The Sea Captain (Dastardly and Muttley)
- Ruffee (Tiny Toon Adventures)
- Doug the Dog (Animaniacs)
- Rock the Nanorobot (Harror the Robot/Bionicle )
- Bubble Bass (SpongeBob SquarePants)
- Stinky (Doug)
- Mr Grumpy (Mr Men)
- Etno Polino (WarioWare (T,J&H Version))
- Mr. Taylor (Family Guy)
- Goliath the Giant Pickle or The Fib (VeggieTales)
- Doctor Moro (Kirby)
- Kenneth (The Amazing World of Gumball)
- Wrath (Fullmetal Alchemist)
- Chris Price (Angry Grandpa)
- Sharptooth (Land Before Time)
- Bigweed (The Snorks)
- SkullGreymon (Digimon)
- Adolf Hitler (Downfall)
- Cheap the Bird (Maya the Bee)
- The Shark (Bobby's World)
- Ogre (Tekken)
- Levi Loud (The Loud House)
- Boss Troll (A Troll in Central Park)
- Evil Clown (The Brave Little Toaster)
- Monkey (Toy Story 3)
- Big D (Cars Toon)
- Evil House, Russ Cargill, or Hank Scorpio (The Simpsons)
- Mr. Hat (South Park)
- Barracuda (Finding Nemo)
Counterparts (Hero Version)[]
- Gordon (Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends)
- Big Mac (TUGS)
- Big Stack (Salty's Lighthouse)
Gallery[]
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