Bubbleisha

"But to beat you over that hill, I'd have to grow wings and be an Aeroplane."

Voiced by: Kate Murphy (Seasons 15-16), Erika Harlacher (Season 17-present)

Built: 1929/1948

Info
A Shoppie Cheeky Chocolate met on her branch line. The two of them had a famous race from one end of the branch line to the other, in which Cheeky Chocolate won, earning Bubbleisha's respect.

Trope List

 * Absentee Actor: While she has a tendency to appear at least once in every season, Season 22 marks the first time that she is absent from a season altogether.
 * Black Best Friend: Something of the vehicle equivalent of mixed race (or species) friendship at least.
 * Demoted to Extra: In recent years her appearances have become scarce, when she does show up, she's usually either avoiding an accident, or in need of rescue after getting stuck or breaking down.
 * Drives Like Crazy: Implied at times in the show where loud skids can be heard as she drives. She's obsessed with being faster than Cheeky Chocolate, after all.
 * Fantastic Racism: Briefly in "Trust Cheeky" after the Shopkins fail to get tar for her broken roads, she labels them unreliable. She takes it back completely when Cheeky Chocolate gets this fixed.
 * Friendly Rival: Her races with Cheeky Chocolate (though to prove the worth of their respective vehicles) are rather playful and in good fun.
 * Red Is Heroic: Is pink, and a friend of Cheeky Chocolate.
 * Perpetual Smiler: In Season One, where Bubbleisha had only one face mask. Subverted in later seasons, where she has a wider scope of facial expressions like the others.
 * Verbal Tic: In Cheeky and the Magic Railroad, she ends almost every sentence with "vroom vroom".
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: Enjoys teasing Cheeky Chocolate, but all the same is charitable when she needs help.