The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti

***The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti*** is an animated television series created by Anttu Harlin and Joonas Utti, and developed Harlin, Utti, Craig Martin and Sam Dransfield. It is produced by Zodiak Kids Studios and Gigglebug Entertainment, with the participation of The Walt Disney Company EMEA. It stars Trevor Dion Nicholas as the titular yellow yeti, with Rasmus Hardiker and Amy-Leigh Hickman also starring. It focuses on the out of control arrival of an unstoppable Yellow Yeti in a small town above the Arctic Circle. It premiered on Disney Channel in France on May 14, 2022, and was later released in Finland on Yle Areena in July 2022, and is scheduled to be released on Disney+ in the UK.

## Premise

*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.**

## Cast

### Main Cast

* 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)

## Production notes

### Development

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 a 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 perpective. 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 May 9, 2022, before premiering in France on May 14 of the same year.

The first season consists of 50 x 11 minute episodes. Each episode is aired in pairs to fit the half-hour timeslots when aired on Disney Channel. The first 20 x 11 minute episodes were released on Yle Areena on July 1, 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 August 9, 2022, and August 16, 2022, respectively. On December 5, 2022, ZeeToons announced that the series would be released on Disney+.

## References

1. ↑ Disney ostaa suomalaiselta animaatiofirmalta alkuperäissarjan – Budjetti vastaa noin viittä suomalaista elokuvaa
2. ↑ Gigglebug Entertainment Oy
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Arttu Wiskari antoi äänensä historialliselle ohjelmalle – Disneyn ensimmäinen suomalaistuotanto leviää maailmalla
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Disney osti suomalaisen animaation – alkoi seitsemän vuoden urakka, jonka tulos nähdään nyt ympäri maailman
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Disney, YLE Team on Nordic Animated Kids Series 'The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti' (EXCLUSIVE)
6. ↑ K1, J1: Tervetuloa Tuiskulaan! | Keltainen Lumimies | Yle Areena
7. ↑ Zodiak Kids & Gigglebug Create Cryptid Comedy 'The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti'
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Disney osti levitykseensä sarjan, joka vilisee suomalaisuuksia – käsikirjoittaja laittoi mukaan jopa kotiseutunsa herkun
9. ↑ O Imparável Yellow Yeti Trailer Nova Série
10. ↑ El Imparable Yellow Yeti en Disney Channel Disney Channel Oficial
11. ↑ Keltainen Lumimies alkaa näkyä Disneyn kanavilla – vastaava tuottaja: "Se on merkittävä juttu ihan koko suomalaiselle animaatioalalle"
12. ↑ The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti 💛 (Trailer) | Coming Soon to ZeeToons - Cartoons for Kids
13. ↑ The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti: Long Time No Ski [EXCLUSIVE EPISODE] Season 1, Episode 3 | Kids Cartoon
14. ↑ The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti: Katz [EXCLUSIVE EPISODE
15. ↑ The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti Coming to Disney+!

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