Racing to the Rainbow

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Released	September 8, 2006 March 6, 2007 October 9, 2007 (re-release) October 29, 2007
Written by	Greg Truman
Directed by	Paul Field
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Previous	Wiggledancing! Live In The U.S.A. (2006)
Next	Wiggledancing! Live In Concert (2007)

Racing to the Rainbow is the twenty-fifth Wiggles video special that was released on September 8, 2006. It was the last special to feature Greg until Surfer Jeff in 2012. The video also celebrates the 15th anniversary of The Wiggles.

Overview

The Wiggles and their friends decide to race to the end of the rainbow that they see after a storm. Dorothy, Wags and Henry race in a hot air balloon, Captain Feathersword and his crew race in the ship. The Wiggles travel in the Big Red Car and the Big Red Boat. We meet Magdalena the Mermaid and new friends, the King of the Road and the Queen of the Rainbow! Along this colourful journey The Wiggles get to fulfil their dreams. Hooray! It's a kaleidoscope of colours, characters, music and fun! Join us on The Wiggles' most exciting adventure yet as we go Racing to the Rainbow!

Filmed

Most of this special was filmed from January - March 2006, while the Wiggly Fingers scene was most likely filmed in November 2005.

Songs and Scenes

• Note: Scenes marked in bold.

The Hiccuping Chicken

1. Here Come The Chicken
2. Bump-A-Deedle

Hide and Seek

1. Music Box Dancer
2. Shakin' Like a Leafy Tree

It's A Storm!

1. Run, Run, Run Away (A Storm Is On It's Way)
2. Teddy Bears’ Big Day Out
3. Rainbow of Colours

Racing To The Rainbow

1. Blow Up Your Balloon (Huff and Huff and Puff)
2. The Chew Chew Song
3. The Princess of the Sea
4. Benny Put The Kettle On

King Of The Road

1. Baa-Baa Black Sheep
2. Stamp Your Feet (To the Heavy Beat)

Barking Up The Wrong Tree

1. He's a Bird! What a Bird!

Greg's Magnifique Masterpiece

1. Do the Daddy Long Legs
2. The Tra-La-La Song

Wiggly Fingers

1. Huddle, Huddle, Huddle Along (The Football Song)
2. The Wheels on the Bus 

Wake Up Wiggles

1. Go To Sleep Jeff (Brahms' Lullaby)
2. Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Let's Save The Captain!

1. Rockin' on the Water
2. Five Little Ducks

Queen Of The Rainbow

1. Everybody Dance!

CD Songs

• Polly Put The Kettle On
• Love Train

Plot

More coming soon!

TV Airdates

• ABC1 (Australia):
  • October 18, 2006
  • October 19, 2006
  • December 19, 2006
  • December 20, 2006
  • April 7, 2008
  • April 14, 2008
• Playhouse Disney (USA):
  • March 5, 2007

Trivia

• Some exterior shots of Wigglehouse and The S.S Feathersword were filmed at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast.
• Following two remakes (Here Comes The Big Red Car and It's Time to Wake Up Jeff!) and a compilation of TV series footage (Splish Splash Big Red Boat), this was the only wholly original studio video of 2006. And the only one entirely filmed in that year.
• Some music cues and sound effects were the same as those of The Latin American Wiggles, like the wake up sound effect for the purple Wiggle.
• This video marked:
  • The first video appearance of Anthony's daughter Maria.
  • The first studio video to be filmed in HD, as well as the first to be made at The Wiggles' own production studio: Hot Potato Studios.
    • All shots are in HD, minus one overhead shot of the S.S. Feathersword sailing, which was reused from the TV Series 5 Sailing Around the World opening.
  • The last time that the Wigglehouse & S.S Feathersword sets from The Wiggles Show! were used.
  • Five Little Ducks was filmed in studio for the first time.
  • The final appearance of Greg until Surfer Jeff, as he left because of Orthostatic Intolerance.
  • The last video to have Sam Moran as a Wiggly Dancer, since he took over for Greg as the Yellow Wiggle.
  • The final video of Jeff Fatt voicing Henry the Octopus until It's Always Christmas With You! when Paul Paddick took over.
  • The last video to date to feature The Friendly Pirate Crew in a large capacity. 
  • The last video to be written by Greg Truman.
  • The final time that Lyn Stuckey played Dorothy the Dinosaur before Emily McGlinn started playing her. Likewise, this was the first time Clare Field played Dorothy, as well as the only time that Zoe Velez voiced her in a studio video (she previously did her voice in Wiggledancing! Live In The U.S.A.).
  • The last time a video premiered on Playhouse Disney.
  • The last video until Surfer Jeff to have the catchphrases "Oh No! Oh What!" and "HUH?!? HUH?!? HUH?", likewise, it is the first time The Wiggles did the catchphrase in different variations, in this video, finger blubbering was the first variation.
  • The last video until Hot Poppin' Popcorn where The Wiggles went "HUH?!?" when they're confused. However, in Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas, Poppie and Fernie did the catchphrase when confused with Elfis' impersonations of Elvis Presley. And the New England Patriots players do it too when Anthony says "wiggly fingers"
  • The last appearance of Magdalena the Mermaid until Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car!.
  • The only US DVD to have a Strawberry Shortcake trailer and a Garfield trailer.
  • This was the last video where Greg is a passenger of the Big Red Boat, in addition where he has black hair and having him wear his 2001 skivvy until The Wiggles Reunion Show. Therefore this is the last video where he was overweight.
  • In North America, this is the last video to be distributed by HIT Entertainment. However, HIT continued to release Wiggles videos in the UK until 2012.
  • The last OG video to have an electronic storybook.
  • The only time Captain Feathersword doesn't cry in the middle of Five Little Ducks.
• The song Run, Run, Run Away (A Storm Is On It's Way) doesn't appear on the album.
• Wags The Dog, He Likes To Tango is heard briefly in one scene. Additionally, accordion arrangements of Move Your Arms Like Henry and Captain Feathersword are heard in another scene. 
• Clocking in at 90 minutes, this is The Wiggles' longest video to date. As such, many fans refer to this as a spiritual successor to The Wiggles Movie.
• Fans consider this a direct to video The Wiggles Show! (TV Series 4 & 5) special or finale.
• Two members of The Latin American Wiggles appear in this video, Zoe Velez as the voice of Dorothy the Dinosaur and Katty Villafuerte as an audience member in Stamp Your Feet (To the Heavy Beat).
• Murray's alter-ego, Muzza, makes his first appearance.
• The Captain’s crew is scaled back compared to how it was in TV Series 5, with only Ben Murray, Elefterios Kourtis, Caterina Mete, Alfonso Rinaldi, and Lucy Stuart returning.
• This is one of the Wiggles videos in particular where the background music was instrumental versions of other Wiggles songs: The Captain's Wavy Walk, I Love It When It Rains, Hats, Di Dicki Do Dum, Dressing Up, Walking On The Moon and many more.
• In this video, almost every body movement was accompanied by cartoon sound effects.
• A copy of the script was on display at The Wiggles Exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum.
• This is the only American DVD release of The Wiggles to have the 2007 HIT Entertainment logo.
• Melissa Doyle breaks the fourth wall in her scene. when her son notices The Wiggles floating in the air, he softly says "Wiggles". Melissa asks "Wiggles?" and looks to the camera and says "when we get home" implying she might have thought her son asked to watch a video.
• The interlude to "I Love It When It Rains" is heard twice in this video.
• Both the HIT Entertainment and Warner Brothers DVD copies were released in the same year.
• This is the last Wiggles video to have Jeff with short hair while Greg is still here.
• The Queen of the Rainbow segment is a parody of the Dorothy and Toto meeting Glinda the Good Witch scene from The Wizard of Oz (1939).
• Maggie Simpson and her pacifier from The Simpsons are mimicked after The Wheels on the Bus number.
• The Australian, UK, and Hong Kong DVD have a synopsis on the back cover but the North American DVD does not.
• This is the last Wiggles studio video to have The Wiggles wearing the 2001-2007 skivves.
• This is the only OG Wiggles video to be shot at Dreamworld.
• On September 27th 2023, the video was uploaded on The Wiggles' YouTube channel.
• In some scenes Captain Feathersword is wearing a rainbow sash on his waist with a rainbow pin on his vest.
• The instrumental version of "Let's Go (We're Riding In The Big Red Car)" plays when the Wiggles go on a hot air balloon ride to the Big Red Boat.
• This video was released in three different aspect ratios:
  • 4:3 ("full screen")
    • Playhouse Disney airing (United States only)
  • 14:9 ("halfway" widescreen)
    • ABC TV airings (Analog feed)
  • 16:9 ("widescreen")
    • All DVDs
    • Tubi
    • iTunes
    • Amazon Prime Video
    • HappyKids
    • The Wiggles (AVOD app)
    • OG Wiggles
    • HappyKids
    • FilmRise (albeit the references to The Wiggles URL website are blurred frame-by-frame in the credits)
    • ABC TV airings (Digital feed)
    • Xumo Play
    • The Roku Channel
    • EzyFlix.TV
    • The Wiggles (FAST channel)
• Whenever the King shakes his hips and says "Uh huh!", the Wiggles repeat his words and actions, making this a running gag.

Goofs

• In the Wake Up Wiggles scene, Greg's mouth movements don't match the speed of his words. This was likely an audio issue that was fixed in post-production by dubbing. 
• The credits for Shakin' Like a Leafy Tree are missing Greg Page's name.
• Dominic Lindsay is credited for Stamp Your Feet (To the Heavy Beat).
• When Captain Feathersword tells Alfonso he needs his pasta to warm him up for the rainy weather, it does not work that way because hot food gets cold easily, and the pasta could get wet from the rain.
• Wags the Dog’s dialogue sounds noticeably low-fidelity compared to everyone else.
• Anthony doesn't have any last name on his (dream New England Patriots) jersey besides 1 and the New England Patriots, and NFL logo on it.
• On the Australian DVD disc, Anthony's hair is cut off.

Video

References

The Wiggles Videography Murray, Jeff, Anthony and Greg (1993-2006, 2012, 2018) Wiggle Time! (1993) • Yummy Yummy (1994) • Big Red Car (1995) • Wake Up Jeff! (1996) • Wiggledance! (1997) • Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (1997) • Wiggle Time! (remake, 1998) • Yummy Yummy (remake, 1998) • Toot Toot! (1998) • The Wiggly Big Show (1999) • It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! (2000) • Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party (2001) • Yule Be Wiggling (2001) • Wiggly Safari (2002) • Wiggle Bay (2002) • Space Dancing! (2003) • Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (2003) • Top of the Tots (2004) • Cold Spaghetti Western (2004) • Santa's Rockin'! (2004) • LIVE Hot Potatoes! (2005) • Sailing Around the World (2005) • Here Comes The Big Red Car (2006) • It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (2006) • Splish Splash Big Red Boat (2006) • Wiggledancing! Live In The U.S.A. (2006) • Racing to the Rainbow (2006) • Surfer Jeff (2012) • Celebration! (2012) • The Wiggles Reunion Show (2018) Feature Film The Wiggles Movie (1997) Spin-Offs The Dorothy the Dinosaur and Friends Video (1999) • Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate (2000) Other Dorothy the Dinosaur Goes to Hospital (Promo video, 1999) • Bonus Sampler Video (Promo video, 2004) • 15 Years of Wiggly Fun! (Documentary, 2006) Murray, Jeff, Anthony and Sam (2007-2011) Wiggledancing! Live In Concert (2007) • Getting Strong! (2007) • Pop Go The Wiggles! (2007) • You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (2008) • Sing a Song of Wiggles (2008) • The Wiggles Go Bananas! (2009) • The Wiggles Big, Big Show! (2009) • Hot Poppin' Popcorn (2009) • Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (2010) • Let's Eat! (2010) • Ukulele Baby! (2011) • The Wiggles' Big Birthday! (2011) • It's Always Christmas With You! (2011) Other On The Road With The Wiggles (Documentary, 2008) • Wiggle Treats! (Promo video, 2011) • Everybody Clap! Everybody Sing! (Documentary, 2011) Anthony, Lachy, Simon and Emma (2013-2021) Taking Off! (2013) • Furry Tales (2013) • Pumpkin Face (2013) • Go Santa Go! (2013) • Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (new version, 2014) • Apples & Bananas (2014) • Wiggle House (2014) • Rock & Roll Preschool (2015) • The Wiggles Meet The Orchestra! (2015) • Wiggle Town! (2016) • Dance Dance! (2016) • Wiggle Around Australia (2017) • Duets (2017) • Nursery Rhymes featuring CinderEmma! A Musical Fairytale! (2017) • Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas! (2017) • The Best of The Wiggles (2018) • Nursery Rhymes 2 (2018) • Wiggle Pop! (2018) • The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day! (2019) • Party Time! (2019) • Fun and Games (2020) • Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car! (2020) • We're All Fruit Salad!: The Wiggles' Greatest Hits (2021) • Lullabies with Love (2021) • Halloween Party (2021) YouTube videos Nursery Rhymes (2016) • Emma's Bowtiful Ballet Studio (2017) • Nursery Rhymes 2 (2018) Spin-Offs Dial E For Emma! (2016) • Lachy! (2017) • The Emma! & Lachy! Show (2018) Anthony, Lachy, Tsehay and Simon (2022-present) Super Wiggles (2022) • Wiggly Nursery Rhymes (2022) • Fruit Salad Big Show (2022) • The Sound of Halloween (2023) • The Sound of Christmas (2023) Dorothy the Dinosaur (2007-2012) Dorothy the Dinosaur's Party (2007) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Memory Book (2008) • Dorothy the Dinosaur Meets Santa Claus (2009) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas (2010) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Travelling Show! (2011) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Beach Party! (2012) More from The Wiggles ABC For Kids Video Hits (1991) • Video Hits Volume 2 (1992) • Live In Concert (1993) • Featuring Banana Holiday and Lots of Other Great Songs (1994) The Kingdom of Paramithi Cinderella Pantomime (2011)