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The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti
| The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti |
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| Comedy |
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| Anttu Harlin |
| Joonas Utti |
| Anttu Harlin |
| Joonas Utti |
| Craig Martin |
| Sam Dransfield |
| Reid Harrison (#1-12A) |
| Baljeet Rai (#11, 12B-25) |
| Joonas Utti |
| Trevor Dion NicholasRasmus HardikerAmy-Leigh HickmanPaul TylakChristopher RaglandHarriet Carmichael |
| Benjamin Nakache |
| Mathieu Rosenzweig |
| Finland |
| France |
| United Kingdom |
| English |
| 1 |
| 25 (49 segments) |
| Anttu Harlin |
| Benoit De Sabatino |
| Andrew Ward |
| Kerttu Jaatinen |
| 22 minutes (two 11-minute segments) |
| Gigglebug Entertainment |
| Zodiak Kids Studio France |
| Yle Areena (Finland) |
| Disney Channel (France) |
| Disney+ (UK) |
| 14 May (2022-05-14) –18 December 2022 (2022-12-18) |
The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti (Finnish: Keltainen lumimies; French: L'incroyable Yellow Yeti) is an animated television series created by Anttu Harlin and Joonas Utti that aired on Disney Channel in France from 14 May to 18 December 2022, and released in Finland on Yle Areena from 1 July 2022 to 6 January 2023. The series is a co-production between Gigglebug Entertainment and Zodiak Kids Studio France, with the participation of Disney Channel and Yle for Walt Disney EMEA Productions Limited.
It is one of the last projects writer Reid Harrison was involved with, before his death on 15 January 2024.
In the first episode, 12-year-old surfer boy Osmo is forced to leave his old life behind when he moves with his father to Winterton, a fictional village north of the Arctic Circle, where it snows all year round. Osmo and his cousin Rita meet a yellow yeti, named Gustav, and start to have adventures with him. The village has plenty of strict rules, including a ban on monsters. Rita's father, Roman Chrome, the village mayor, hates monsters. In order to hide from him, Gustav dresses up in different disguises. The series features many Finnish things like ice-swimming, May Day celebrations and crayfish parties, a fast food treat from Lappeenranta and bucket queues.
The main themes of the series are friendship and rebelling against the rules.
- Gustav (voiced by Trevor Dion Nicholas)
- Osmo (voiced by Rasmus Hardiker)
- Rita (voiced by Amy-Leigh Hickman)
- Mayor Chrome (voiced by Paul Tylak)
- Ned (voiced by Christopher Ragland)
- Lydia (voiced by Harriet Carmichael)
Anttu Harlin and Joonas Utti founded their company Gigglebug Entertainment in 2013 and started brainstorming the title character of the series already during the first year of the company's inception.
The following year, they told about their idea to a Disney employee they met in France. They liked the idea and asked to be contacted when it had been refined.
In 2015, Gigglebug Entertainment, Disney EMEA and Zodiak Kids Studios started developing the series together. Later Gigglebug Entertainment collaborated with Disney on the development of 101 Dalmatian Street in 2016, with the show airing in 2019.
The production of true series began in summer 2020 with Utti as chief director and Harlin as executive producer together with Zodiak Kids Studios' CEO Benoit di Sabatino. Lucy Pryke of Gigglebug Entertainment and Gary Milne of Zodiak Kids were appointed as creative producers. Zodiak Kids took international distribution rights for the series. The show was officially announced in October 2020. This was the first time Disney had commissioned an original programme from Finland. The series was produced over the course of two years in Finland, Canada, France and the UK.
The main character in the series has been inspired by Utti's childhood friend Kike. Kike was Costa Rican exchange student who lived at Utti's home in Lappeenranta and who made a big impression on 14-year-old Utti, who considers himself an introvert. Kike broke the Finnish behavioural taboos and taught Utti to see the world from a new perspective. During the brainstorming phase, Gustav was made into a felt-doll and Utti and Harlin joked about yellow snow.
The show initially premiered on Disney Channel in Portugal and in Spain on 9 May 2022, before premiering in France on 14 May of the same year.
The first season consists of 50 11-minute episodes. Each episode is aired in pairs to fit the half-hour timeslots when aired on Disney Channel. The first 20 11-minute episodes were released on Yle Areena on 1 July 2022, with the entire season later being released on Disney+. It is also the first Finnish show for Disney, though the creators had developed 101 Dalmatian Street for a 2019 release.
In the United Kingdom, ZeeToons released clips of the show on YouTube, with two full episodes, "Long Time No Ski" and "Katz", being released on 9 August 2022, and 16 August 2022, respectively. On 5 December 2022, ZeeToons announced that the series would be released on Disney+.
The first six shorts have been released on Yle Areena on 1 July 2022 with the last five released on 4 November 2022, and all of them have been written by Giles Pilbrow, storyboarded by Marion Benkaid-Kesba and directed by Samppa Kukkonen.
| No. | Title | Original release date |
|---|---|---|
| TBA | 4 July 2022 (2022-07-04) | |
| TBA | 5 July 2022 (2022-07-05) | |
| TBA | 6 July 2022 (2022-07-06) | |
| TBA | 7 July 2022 (2022-07-07) | |
| TBA | 8 July 2022 (2022-07-08) | |
| TBA | 9 July 2022 (2022-07-09) | |
| TBA | 10 July 2022 (2022-07-10) | |
| "Rule #33: All Wintertonians Must Try Urghickl!" | 11 July 2022 (2022-07-11) | |
| "Rule #64A: Winterton Snow Shovel Rule" | 12 July 2022 (2022-07-12) | |
| "Rule #243: Snowball Duel" | 13 July 2022 (2022-07-13) | |
| While building snowmen, Rita and Osmo both get hit by snowballs with them suspecting that one of them started it. Two more snowballs were thrown and they now suspect Gustav as the thrower. Both started throwing snowballs at him and loses his sandwich. The trio is now dueling with each other, and started the fight when Gustav roared. They are started getting tired however, but it actually an anthropomorphic tree that was making the trio have the argument. | ||
| "Rule #17 1/2: No Picnics Allowed During Weasel Season!" | 14 July 2022 (2022-07-14) | |
| The gang is having their picnic when all of a sudden, a weasel shows up stealing their food. They must catch it before it eats all of their food. The weasel would later get stuck in a tree with Gustav catching it, but unfortunately, more weasels appear eating their food. |
- Disney+: "The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti" Coming Soon
- ZeeToons on YouTube: The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti Trailer
- The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti at IMDb
- Wunschliste: Der fantastische Yellow Yeti
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