The Magic School Bus

The Magic School Bus is the titular overarching protagonist of the series of the same name. 
It is the anthropomorphic school bus that Ms. Frizzle's class and Liz ride on and goes on field trips. It is most often piloted by Ms. Frizzle, her sister Ms. Frizzle or Liz, but occasionally, one of the kids will take the wheel, or it will take on a shape (such as an animal) that allows it to "drive" itself.
==Technical Details==
===Basis===
The Magic School Bus is somewhat based on a 1970s Ward International 
bus with fender skirts on the rear wheel, the front windshield being 2 
different windows, and a grille spine down the center of the grille.
===Livery===
In the original series, The Magic School Bus was painted fully Walkerville yellow. In The Magic School Bus Rides Again, it is painted in the common North American School Bus yellow with black stripes.
==Internal mechanics==
It isn't really clear how The Magic School Bus works, but there are 
some hints in the TV series. We can see the how the fuel gets to the 
engine in "Revving Up".
 First of all, its magic seems to flow from several unusually named 
devices, like the shrinkerscope or the mesmerglober. The shrinkerscope 
serves mostly as an easy way to shrink and resize the bus at the will of
 Ms. Frizzle. It seems to have at least two varieties of the 
shrinkerscope, namely, the main one (as an internal part) and the 
porta-shrinker. At least the latter can't work when damp or wet, and if 
someone attempts to activate it in such conditions, the dew-dinger 
sounds.
The mesmerglober, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with 
changing the shape of The Magic School Bus. It changes it into whatever 
the class needs, be it a bus-marine, a spaceship, or a bus-igator.
In A Magic School Bus Halloween,
 The Magic School Bus is now a science laboratory but at the end, Ms. 
Frizzle as the old man restarts it while taking the 3 students back to 
Halloween Camp at the museum.
==Gallery==
The Magic School Bus as a Weather Plane.gif|Weather Plane Bus
The Magic School Bus as a Submarine.jpg|Submarine Bus
The Magic School Bus as a Space Shuttle.gif|Space Ship Bus
The Magic School Bus as the Enterprise from Star Trek.jpg|The Bus as the Enterprise from Star Trek
The Magic School Bus as a Comet.jpg|Comet Bus
The Magic School Bus as an Asteroid.jpg|Asteroid Bus
The Magic School Bus as a Moon.jpg|Moon Bus
The Magic School Bus as a Train.jpg|Train Bus
The Magic School Bus as a Steam Boat.jpg|Steam Boat Bus
The Magic School Bus as a Time Machine.jpg|Time Machine Bus
The Magic School Bus No-recycling Truck.png|No-Recycling Bus
The Magic School Bus as a Spider.png|Spider Bus
The Magic School Bus as a Butterfly.jpg|Butterfly Bus
The Magic School Bus as a Bat.jpg|Bat Bus
The Magic School Bus Rides Again Poster.jpg|The Bus as it appears in The Magic School Bus Rides Again
==Trivia==
*The Magic School Bus seems to have a deep caring for the students in Ms. Frizzle's class. This is displayed in Gets Ants in Its Pants when it is pouring with rain and it graciously offers Keesha
 the chance to get dry by getting in. She declines, arguing she 
"deserves" to get wet and the viewer can see The Magic School Bus pity 
her as she sits on a wet log.
*The Magic School Bus may be sentient, mainly due to having eyes and a mouth. This is further implied in Taking Flight when it gets angry at Liz for constantly making it crash when Tim and Phoebe
 were trying to save the rest of the class, in the opening when it 
looked a bit scared upon seeing an octopus in the neighbourhood, and in Gets Lost in Space
 when it felt exhausted upon Janet overloading it with "proof" she went 
to all the planets of the Solar System. It is unknown if The Magic 
School Bus is capable of talking, but it is capable of panting and 
coughing. It's also unknown what gender The Magic School Bus is.
*The Magic School Bus has few modifications throughout the series, which include:
**Original Series:
***It had fender skirts covering its rear wheels.
**Rides Again:
***Its fender skirts are removed from the rear wheels, thus revealing its rear wheels.
***Back Antennae and roof hatch are added.
***On the back, it has two doors instead of one.
***Its bottom lip is a darker shade of silver than its top lip.
***Its headlight eyes turn light aqua.
***It now has one extra window on its sides.
==Navigation==
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