"Dorothy the Dinosaur Meets Santa Claus" is a Dorothy the Dinosaur video released on November 5th 2009. This is the fourth Wiggles-related Christmas video released, after Santa's Rockin!.
What happens when Dorothy the Dinosaur meets Santa Claus? There's singing, dancing, reindeers and fun! Here's Dorothy's first animated adventure featuring Santa Claus, Washington the Elf, Dorothy the Dinosaur and a host of friends from the North Pole. Washington thinks Santa needs a rest and so uses a computer to sort toys for the children of the world, but things don't go as planned. It takes Captain Feathersword, Dorothy and Santa's little helpers to sort things out. So follow these Christmas stars to a land of Yuletide magic as Dorothy the Dinosaur meets Santa Claus.
This is the second video in cartoon form, the first being Space Dancing!. However, unlike Space Dancing!, this video is animated in 2D, instead of using CGI, and it didn't start or end in live action.
It's also the fourth Wiggles Christmas video after Santa's Rockin!, and the first one to be story-based.
The Wiggles aren't shown in this video but a Big Red Car toy is shown in "Toys, Toys, Toys!" and a picture of Jeff is shown in Henry's Place.
A man is seen wearing a shirt with “The Cockroaches” on it, a reference to Anthony and Jeff’s old band.
Joey the Crab and Catfish from the Underwater Big Band make cameos in Henry's Place.
Henry has a picture of Jeff at his place, an apparent reference to the fact that Jeff provided his voice for many years.
Captain Feathersword imitates the beep horn's imitation of the song "Dixie Land" while guessing what Santa's present is.
The Wiggles didn't appear in this video, however, they did appear in the Cinema Live promo for this video.
This video is in 60 frames per second.
On December 18th 2020, the video was uploaded on The Wiggles' YouTube channel, although it's currently blocked in Australia only.
Likewise, it's the first video project of Dorothy the Dinosaur (and technically the Sam era) for The Wiggles to upload on their YouTube channel.
This is the first Christmas video to be animated, it is also the first spin-off video in general to be animated as well.
Goofs[]
In the opening scene, if you slow it down to 0.25x, a black screen that says “Take 10” is clearly visible during the page flip transition.
The rose on Dorothy's hat is pink in some scenes.
In the scene where Wags gets the wrong CD, for one shot, you can see that he has two tails, in different positions. Also, his mouth doesn't move when he speaks, even though his voice is heard.
Captain's pants changes it's colour to black after he presses the reverses button of the broken computer.
For the YouTube upload of this video, the endboard was from The OG Wiggles playlist, despite being made in the Sam era, and The Wiggles weren't seen in the video.
