Radio

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**Radio** is a major protagonist in The Brave Little Toaster (1987), acting as the group's commentator and navigator, as well as the comic relief.

## Detailed Appearance

**Radio** is a red bakelite tube radio with a pink-ish grille, snooze button, and 4 small pointed legs. He has no visible face, appearing to "see" through his dial; which is round and yellow with a red needle, its rotation point being a green-ish blue. When inactive, the light behind his dial shuts off and leaves it a dark, dimmed yellow.

Like Toaster, he doesn't make much use of his plug or cord, preferring to utilize his antenna instead.

## Personality

**Radio** is the self-proclaimed newscaster of the group, always narrating the play-by-play of events like a sports announcer; director Jerry Rees refers to him as "always on" in regard to his seemingly limitless energy. He enjoys making jokes at the expense of others, though it seems never truly meaning ill intent behind them.

Throughout the film, he seems to particularly enjoy annoying Lampy, his closest friend.

## Errors

* At 0:24:24, Radio moves from the chair’s backrest to the seat in less than a frame. At 0:24:28, only 4 seconds later, he teleports back up to the top before jumping down for his music cue. It’s likely that this is due to the animators being assigned different shots and misjudging his placement between cuts.
* At [timestamp], the colors on his dial are swapped (teal to red, red to teal)

## Trivia

* Radio seems to have a strong connection to US President Franklin Roosevelt, mentioning him often as if they were close.
* In the original storyboards seen during April 15th's Director AMA, a concept design for Radio was revealed where he was much more rectangular, and actually had proper clock hands on his dial.
* According to Director Jerry Rees, each of Radio's lines were recorded in one session.
* Radio's singing voice was provided by Jerry Rees, making him the only character to have his voice routinely switched out.
* Out of all the characters, Radio appears to experience the fewest coloring errors.
* Along with the model sheets for Blanky and Air Conditioner, Radio's model sheet still remains lost media ever since the drawing's creation in ~1986. Rees stated that he likely still has copies of these sheets and will have them scanned by the week of the TBLT Cast Reunion.
* While the group was sinking into the mud, Radio was originally intended to play 'Help' by The Beatles.
* On the cover art for the 2004 OST Release, the positioning of his dial and speaker are swapped. A similar error appears on the cover of "Drawn To Sound".

## Gallery/Additional

### **Voice Sample**

(Please note: there are a handful of lines from Lampy in this file, but I deemed them too short to remove.)

### **Concept Art/Preproduction**

Early design seen during the Director AMAVarious unreleased birthday cards, one featuring Radio.Concept designs for the Main 5, including Radio.Cel sketch including a back view of Radio."Mirrored" Radio from the cover of Drawn To Sound, with a differently designed dial (potentially an early design?)
### **Film**

Radio awakeWoah! Not in the face, pal!Radio evading an attackRadio Hiding