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- “Look at me! I am the latest diesel, highly sprung, and right up to date. You won't want Thomas' bumpy old Annie and Clarabel now.”
- ― Daisy
Daisy is a green diesel railcar who came to work on the Ffarquhar Branch Line. She now works on the Harwick Branch Line carrying out passenger duties, while Ryan runs the goods duties.
Biography[]
Daisy first arrived on Sodor after Thomas crashed into the Stationmaster's house. Initially, she was lazy and stubborn, refusing to pull any trucks and leaving Percy to take the milk instead. After Percy had an accident, however, she worked hard and the Fat Controller allowed her to stay.
Later, Daisy would boast to Toby that she would have no trouble getting a bull off the tracks, only for her to be unsuccessful when she met Champion just outside Hackenbeck Tunnel, requiring Toby to come and get rid of him instead.
During the steam and diesel engines rivalry, Daisy was one of the diesels who joined the meeting at the Coaling Plant and later helped Toby take the workmen to build the Sodor Airport.
When building of the Harwick Branch Line was completed, Daisy was transferred there to manage its passenger trains, with Ryan managing the goods. She encouraged Ryan to help her out with some of her passenger duties, but her laziness backfired when Ryan took on even more of her responsibilities and ended up causing confusion and delay. Daisy apologised and agreed to do Ryan's extra duties for a while: taking trucks to and from the Quarry.
The Fat Controller asked Daisy to take some special passengers to the holiday town of Harwick, but she decided that they were so special that she did not want to allow children eating ice lollies on board and refused to pull a dusty baggage truck. However, these turned out to be the props and the audience. Without them, the puppeteers' Punch and Judy puppet show could not go ahead. With no time to go back to the station to get the props, the puppeteers put on their performance from one of Daisy's windows.
She was finally able to pull rolling stock without worrying about her swerves when the Fat Controller asked her to pull Annie and Clarabel on Thomas' Branch Line, as passenger services on the Harwick line dried up in the winter and Thomas was on quarry duty. The coaches paid her back for saying rude things to them by convincing her she was falling apart when there was actually nothing wrong with her. However, their plan backfired as Daisy panicked and abandoned them with their passengers at Maithwaite so she could speak to a professional. She returned to Harwick soon after.
After years of scarcely no accidents, Daisy derailed when a bull blocked her way back to the Arlesburgh Yard Sheds and Judy and Jerome had to help her get back on the tracks.
When the Great Railway Show was being held, Daisy wanted to go, but she was not selected.
Diesel damaged Daisy's springs when he bumped into her and later - thinking that she was asleep - explained that it is his way to make friends. Diesel later told her that Harvey was boasting about being unique, which caused trouble between the two engines. At Christmas, Daisy was upset that Christmas was not going out as planned.
She became friends with Rebecca who was impressed by her being a diesel railcar (which Rebecca complimented her for). Marion pointed out how good Rebecca made Daisy feel about herself. Sometime later, a storm damaged Harwick School and Daisy had to take the students to Knapford School. After she complained about it, Duck found an abandoned coach named Dexter to spare her from having to take the children.
When Ruth visited Harwick while looking for a place to live on Sodor, Daisy told her how great the town was.
Personality[]
Daisy is a diesel railcar, who has been known to consider herself "highly sprung and right up to date". She was brought to help run passenger services on Thomas' Branch Line, while Thomas was "indisposed" after running into the stationmaster's house. She can be hard to please, mostly indignant and highly opinionated. She is extremely authoritative, trustworthy and confident in herself and can sometimes boast of her abilities in particular situations, unconcerned, despite having never actually been in such a position before. She will sometimes presume she can show other engines a thing or two, despite knowing little on the matter, until she actually learns for herself.
After arriving on Sodor, Daisy insisted that she required delicate handling and considered pulling trucks and vans to be below her. She was very lazy and stubborn, but the Fat Controller spoke severely to her, telling her that his engines must work hard and that he sends lazy engines away. However, the Fat Controller felt she deserved another chance after she worked hard clearing up after an accident Percy had. Daisy is now good friends with the other engines on Thomas' Branch Line, tries to work much harder to be a Really Useful Engine and is better capable of handling things alone. She can be described as a self-obsessed diva and is also vain about not wanting her interior to be dirty one bit.
Despite changing for the better, Daisy is still snarky and irritable. During the steam engines' feud with the diesels, she temporarily sided with the diesels in their hatred of all of the steam engines. Generally, though, Daisy is one of the more well-behaved diesels, as aside from minor squabbles she gets along with the Ffarquhar branch line residents rather well.
In newer episodes, Daisy was heard speaking French, such as when she said "Merci beaucoup" (Thank you very much) to Den and Dart after she was repaired, and when she used the terms to describe the entertainers she was to carry to Duck and Oliver, which indicates that she has knowledge in the French language as well. She also matured greatly in a number of recent episodes, as she rarely made brooding remarks or patronising comments, and instead began trying to help others. Despite her increased maturity, Daisy's snobbish side is still very prevalent, as she still belittled Thomas, Annie and Clarabel on more than one occasion.
While Daisy is typically well aware of how things are supposed to be done on Sodor, her ego can leave her to cast out common sense in favour of selfish vanity, often to the utter fury of passengers, engines and crew alike, especially when the manner in question can be done trivially. This can turn away people who have previously admired her, and often leads to reprimanding from others.
Technical Details[]
Basis[]
Daisy is based on the British Rail (BR)/Metro-Cammell Class 101/102 DMU. She is, however, a single railcar instead of the traditional two to four-piece units, which means she should instead be based on the British Rail Class 122.
These were one of the longest serving class of "First Generation" Diesel Multiple Units (DMUs), with its service life of 47 years only being replaced by the Class 121. A total of 41 cars are preserved. A preserved Class 101 set (#101680 made up of unit numbers #50204 and #51511) appeared on a Mr. Perkins' Railway segment. Daisy was the namesake of #101685 (unit numbers #50164, #59539 and #50160), which was the last of the class to be retired, and is now in preservation.
In the model series Daisy shares many notable differences between her and her basis; she sits much lower on her chassis, her buffers are to low meaning that she can't shunt and she is much shorter in height only being as tall as a Branch Line Coach making getting inside of her difficult. This was all done to make her fit on to BoCo's chassis.
Livery[]
Daisy is painted green with yellow stripes and red bufferbeams. She wears makeup, including eyelashes, red lipstick, blush and eyeshadow (blue in the model series, lavender or mauve in the CGI series).
Appearances[]
Official Description[]
From Official Website:[1]
| “ | Daisy: Daisy was built especially for service on Thomas' branch line. At first she was rather conceited, but she soon settled down. However, she still believes, quite rightly, that she should only carry passengers, and never, ever pulls trucks, although she will help out in an emergency.
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From Official Website:[2]
| “ | Daisy: Daisy was built especially for service on Thomas' branch line. When she first arrived, she was highly strung and would only carry passengers because she felt she was too good to pull freight cars. Daisy soon learned that all work is important on Sodor, and now helps out whenever she can.
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From Official Website:[3]
| “ | Daisy: Daisy is a Diesel engine that was built especially for service on Thomas' branch line. When she first arrived, she was highly strung and would only carry passengers because she felt she was too good to pull cargo cars. Daisy soon learned that all work is important on Sodor, and now helps out whenever she can.
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Songs[]
- Will You Won't You (performed)
- We're Friends (performed)
Audio Files[]
Themes[]
| First used | Last used | Composers | Theme Song |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series 2 | Series 4 | Mike O'Donnell Junior Campbell |
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| Series 20 | Chris Renshaw | ||
Horns[]
| First used | Last used | Sound Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Series 2 | ||
| Series 4 | ||
| Series 20 | Series 22 | |
Trivia[]
- In the model series, Daisy and BoCo both share the same face masks and chassis.
- Daisy was the first female engine as well as the first female diesel engine introduced in the series and the first diesel to permanently move to the Island of Sodor, as Diesel was not purchased until much later.
- Several of Daisy's horn sounds were modified from other characters:
- In the second series, Daisy had Diesel's horn, but at 1.5 steps higher pitched.
- In the fourth series, Daisy had the same horn BoCo had in the second series, which is Diesel’s, but at one step lower-pitched.
- From the twentieth series to the twenty-second series, Daisy shared Paxton's horn at 5 semitones higher in pitch.
- Daisy was the only character from the first to third series who was not featured on the regular Shining Time Station television series, although she cameoed in Once Upon a Time and appeared in Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales as well as Mister Moose's Fun Time and Storytime with Thomas.
- This was due to Rick Siggelkow disapproving of her character design as being overly sexist - most likely due to the heavy make-up she wears - hence why the stories in the second series were never used on Shining Time Station and why Diesel replaced her role in the third series episode, Mavis.[1]
- Daisy is the only female non-human character to be re-introduced in the CGI series after a period of absence.
- Daisy's classic theme heard in the second and fourth series was inspired by The Stripper by David Rose. This was done to go along with the pink buffers on David Mitton's original design for the character.
- Daisy was known as Marguerite in the French dub of the second and fourth series.
- Daisy is one of the few characters from the classic series to not have a Capsule Plarail or TrackMaster toy.
- According to HiT Toy Company Customer Service Representative Amy Ziniti, the reason why Daisy did not have a TrackMaster toy was due to the company not deciding on whether she should have trucks or not, as she never pulled any in the television series.
- Daisy's Gauge 1 model was previously on display at the Discover Thomas exhibition in Drayton Manor Resort, but was later removed during July 2022.
- According to concept art from Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure, Daisy was originally planned to have a gold nameplate underneath the windows near her front end in a matching style to Ryan. These were not carried over to her final CGI model for unknown reasons.
Merchandise[]
- ERTL (discontinued)
- Wooden Railway (two versions; discontinued)
- Take Along (discontinued)
- My First Thomas (discontinued)
- My Thomas Story Library (discontinued)
- Thomas Engine Collection Series (discontinued)
- Mini Die Cast Collection (discontinued)
- Brio (discontinued)
- De Agostini (discontinued)
- Trading Cards (discontinued)
- Nakayoshi (discontinued)
- Pocket Fantasy (discontinued)
- Bachmann
- TrackMaster (cancelled)
References[]
| Locomotives | Ryan | Daisy |
|---|---|
| Rolling Stock | Judy and Jerome |
| Other | Skiff |
| People | Captain Joe | The Museum Manager |
| Stations | Arlesburgh West | Arlesburgh Maritime Museum | Harwick |
| Locomotives | Steam | Thomas | Percy | Toby |
|---|---|---|
| Diesel | Mavis | |
| Former | Glynn | Coffee Pots | Daisy | |
| Rolling Stock | Passenger | Annie and Clarabel | Henrietta | Hannah |
| Non-Rail Vehicles | Terence | Bertie | Harold | Bulgy | Caroline | Bulstrode | Tiger Moth | Elizabeth | The Hot Air Balloon | Cleo | |
| People | Mrs. Kyndley | Farmer Finney | Farmer McColl | Farmer Trotter | Ruth | |
| Affiliates | Toby's Branch Line | Ffarquhar Quarry Company | |
| Infrastructure | Stations | Knapford | Dryaw | Toryreck** | Sports Field Halt** | Elsbridge | Maithwaite** | Hackenbeck | Ffarquhar | New Harbour* |
| Sheds | Elsbridge Engine Sheds (Carriage Shed) | Hackenbeck Shed | |
| Tunnels and Bridges | The Valley Bridge* | Elsbridge Viaduct | Bulgy's Bridge* | The Watermill | Hackenbeck Tunnel | |