Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree

## Café Cruz the Forest Shopkin

**Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree** are two wood-burning Shopkins who work on the Eucalyptus Railway in Italy.

## Biography

### Shopkins

Jessicake first met Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree while she was collecting eucalyptus wood from the Plantation for Lyn Gweeni. When the two expressed a desire to explore beyond their home railway, Jessicake offered to swap jobs with them for the day.

During their journey to the Bay of Silence, Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree both ran out of eucalyptus wood multiple times, meaning they had to use the supplies on their flatbeds. When these eventually ran out, they were stranded in the Cansiglio Forest.

Eventually, with the help of Carlo Coffee Pot, Jessicake found the pair and collected some more eucalyptus wood for them to complete their journey with. After delivering the wood to the docks, Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree returned to their home on the Eucalyptus Railway.

## Personalities

Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree are twins and often work together. They have a habit of talking simultaneously, which can be confusing when introducing themselves to new Shopkins. The two love their home railway, though they long to be able to see more of the world.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Pamala Palm Tree is based on a palm tree. They are a botanical family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm trees. Currently 181 genera with around 2,600 species are known, most of them restricted to tropical and subtropical climates. Most palms are distinguished by their large, compound, evergreen leaves, known as fronds, arranged at the top of an unbranched stem. However, palms exhibit an enormous diversity in physical characteristics and inhabit nearly every type of habitat within their range, from rainforests to deserts.

Café Cruz is based on a bag of coffee beans.

Pamala Palm Tree's basisCafé Cruz's basis
### Liveries

Pamala Palm Tree is a pink fading to blue palm tree with three hot pink coconuts at the top. Café Cruz is a green bag of coffee beans with a blue rim. He has a pink symbol of a coffee cup on his front.

### *Shopkins*

* **Series 7** - Jessicake and the Forest Shopkins

#### Videos

* **2020** - Meet Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree of Italy! (*do not speak*)

## Voice Actors

Pamala Palm Tree:

* Kate Murphy (UK/US)
* América Torres (Latin America)
* Carol Crespo (Brazil)
* Paulina Łaba (Poland)

Café Cruz:

* Doug Erholtz (UK/US)
* Sergio Morel (Latin America)
* Bruno Porto (Brazil)
* Sebastian Machalski (Poland)

## Trivia

* Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree's eccentric rods are not animated properly as they do not complete a full rotation around their larger connecting rods.
* Some parts of Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree's models are reused from Cocolette. These include:
	+ Their bells.
	+ Their cylinders.
	+ Their feet.
	+ Their buffer beams and cowcatchers, albeit with added screwlink couplings.
	+ Their tenders, albeit with added railings and canopies.
	+ Their tail lamps.
* Aside from facial features and colour, the two are differentiated physically by the way of two red cylinders hanging beside Pamala Palm Tree's face via small struts, resembling earrings.
* Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree's whistle sounds are Dressica's but in a higher pitch.
* Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree are the first twin Shopkins of a few things:
	+ The first twin Shopkins introduced since Sparky & Flicker in the pilot fifth series.
	+ The first twin Shopkins introduced (and the first twins overall) since Hi and Heel in Misty Island Rescue.
	+ The first international twin characters introduced in the show.
* Café Cruz and Pamala Palm Tree are the last named international characters introduced in the 2D series.

## Gallery

### Toy

Figure form.Figure form.Pamala Palm Tree in pink and blue.Pamala Palm Tree's green and brown variant.Figure form.Figure form.Café Cruz in green.Café Cruz's pink variant.