List of Blinky Bill characters

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This is a list of characters in media related to Blinky Bill , an anthropomorphic koala and fictional children's character created in the 1930s by Australian author and illustrator Dorothy Wall. [1]

Contents

Characters in the TV series

Characters in Dorothy Wall's books

Characters in The New Adventures of Blinky Bill

New characters in Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala

New characters in The Adventures of Blinky Bill

New characters in Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion

New characters in Blinky Bill’s Extraordinary Balloon Adventure

Main

Minor characters who Blinky met on the journey

Antarctica

  • Slippery's Family: A colony of Weddell seals, one of who was Slippery's mother the one wearing pink.
  • Skipper the Scurvy: A human who caught Slippery on a boat with a wolf-like figurehead. He went with the Circus Bros. to Antarctica to head for Slippery's family. He wears an eye patch and has a peg leg.
  • Penguin Colony: The family of the Baby Penguin that considered Flap to be his mother and followed him around. He took him home to his real mother Norma.

African Plains

  • Rex: Leo's Son, King of the Mumbada Pride. He wears light brown shorts with a belt.
  • Claude: Rex's Son, Leo's Grandson. He wears a blue vest.
  • The Poachers: Men who caught Leo and convinced the Circus Bros. to bring them a lion cub.
  • Chimpanzees : A group of apes who Yoyo thought was his family.
  • Ostrich Pride: Ostriches who had their feathers plucked by humans. Blinky was rude at them. They helped the crew get Penelope's diamond bracelet back from the Bros.
  • Twigger: A giraffe who Blinky met while running away from his friends after thinking that they forgot his birthday. She was caught by Poachers. She took Blinky back to his friends. She wears a light-blue bandana.
  • Nene and Dubaku: Giraffes who Twigger knows. Part of her herd.
  • Expert Game Trackers: Two humans who the Circus Bros. went with. They put them in a crate and stored them on a ship.
  • Elephant : An African elephant who borrowed the caravan to take her sick calf to some grass with help of the crew.
  • Kiku: The Elephant's sick calf.

China

  • Hugh: A human boy who took Flap to be his servant temporarily at the farm with his mother.
  • The Master: Ling-Ling's master. He was put in a cage in a human town but freed by the crew. He wears robes.
  • The Panda Colony: Ling-Ling's Family.
  • Ah-Phat: A weasel who tried to help the Bros. catch the animals. She took Tico's job. She wears a blue shirt and a hat. She was soon fired after losing the animals.
  • The Mountain Guardians: More Pandas who let Ling-Ling and her family share their home.

Amazon Jungle

  • Anna: An anaconda who is afraid of water, ever since she was young. She was in the Caravan with the crew. She saved Blinky when Basil pulled him out of the Caravan and into the water. She even saved the caravan from going over a waterfall.
  • Coco Phil: A howler monkey who resembles Blinky. He has two yellow buttons instead of one.
  • Sophia: Coco's adoptive sister who resembles Nutsy. She wears a pink dress and a yellow bandana.
  • Leafpatchers: South American animals who resemble the Greenpatchers. Coco has four unmentioned friends who are a sloth (similar to Flap), an anteater (similar to Splodge, but wears a blue shirt), a guinea pig (similar to Marcia) and a jaguar (similar to Shifty). Others include a jaguar family similar to the Dingo Family, an alligator similar to Ruff, an iguana similar to Mrs. Spotty, an Andean condor similar to Mr. Gloop, a peccary similar to Nurse Angelina, an Amazon turtle similar to Ms. Echidna, a Chilean flamingo similar to Mr. Gloop, and a hare similar to Mrs. Rabbit. Their names are yet to be known.
  • Miss Egret : A Leafpatch resident similar to Miss Magpie.
  • Mr. Arnold Armadillo (nicknamed "Armo" by Coco and is friends): A Leafpatch resident similar to Mr. Wombat. He doesn't wear an old green shirt like Mr. Wombat though.
  • Mayor Macaw : The mayor of Leafpatch similar to Mayor Pelican. He wears a black bow tie and a big black top hat.
  • Macko: A Leafpatch resident similar to Jacko but is a toucan. Mayor Macaw mistook Tico for him and asked him to help out for the unveiling ceremony.
  • Toucans: Toucans whom Tico originally lived with. Two of them are named Pippo and Raul. Raul is usually clumsy. They were caught in cages but freed by Tico. Pippo wears a purple bandana and Raul wears a blue bandana.
  • Environmentalists: Two English-American humans male and female who cured Penelope from the Purple Devil. They said where Yoyo came from. They may be similar to Ms. Pym with a pet canary similar to Cedric.

India

  • Jugglers: A bear named Majid, a mongoose named Alsanna and a rat named Sanjay. Tico became their ringmaster and manager.
  • Mr. Rajid: A man who caught Yoyo and put him with the Jugglers. He steals people's wallets, and after he gets exposed by Blinky, he is chased by the villagers.
  • The Tiger : A Bengal tiger who is the mother of a tiger cub named Sondeya who was trapped under some wood. Flap freed Sondeya by digging her out.
  • Rami: An Indian elephant who was in the town of Chandipur. He took the Circus Bros. there. He warned Penelope about the Forbidden temple. At the end, as he, his human Gupta, and the snake charmer meet with the Circus Bros. he trumpets loudly with his trunk at the Bros and stomps after one of them.
  • Temple Guardians: Monkeys who are Yoyo's family. They guard the Forbidden Temple.

Paris

  • Mistress: A woman who Penelope lives with.
  • Fifi: A cat who the Mistress bought while Penelope was gone.
  • Maurice: A brown French Poodle who helped Penelope for her necklace. He wears a white suit. He was mean to Penelope, Blinky, Nutsy, and Flap and everyone.
  • Phoebe LaFoo: A lady who made Blinky a model named Monsieur B.B. It got Blinky brainwashed about his feelings of the bush. Blinky then rescued Nutsy and Flap from the Bros. and regained his memory. She is equally as selfish as Basil.
  • Police man: A man who arrested the Bros. for barging into the Studio.
  • Flight Attendant: A lady who was on the plane with Blinky, Nutsy and Flap back to Australia after the Eiffel Tower tore the balloon and their caravan smashed to the ground.

Sea (never seen by Blinky, but they were just with the Bros.)

  • Sailor: A man who was with the Bros. on a sailing boat until they got on a ship.
  • Ship's Captain: A man who was on the ship with the Bros. until they got away by helicopter.
  • Captain: Another captain of a different ship who gave Cyril a time limit to bring the animals to him. The Bros. got into trouble for breaking his helicopter.

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References

  1. "Blinky Bill". Project Gutenberg . Retrieved 19 January 2021.