Dora the explorer tico series#

Upon discovering that the source of the mysterious sound is Benny with the hiccups ('Hic!' - A hiccup, 'Boom!' - Hitting the ground after falling down, 'Ohh!' - An exclamation), they help cure Benny's hiccups by assisting him in loudly counting to 10.ĭora gives Boots a swim ring floaty, after they decide to go swimming at the beach. They traverse a 'noisy' river (with the assistance of Tico who rows over a blue rowboat, the only rowboat available with any life jackets and without any holes) and a 'quiet' forest (using an acoustic horn from Backpack to awaken the sleeping Big Red Chicken who is blocking the only path, then also using a 'tiptoe walk' to avoid waking Swiper who had unsuccessfully tried to steal their horn). Note: This is Baby Blue Bird and Scarecrow's debut.ĭora and Boots follow the directions of Map to investigate the source of a mysterious sound ('Hic, Boom, Ohhh!') coming from Yellow Valley, that they heard whilst playing a game of 'Loud and Quiet'. their food (bananas) and the chick's present to her mother (a purple flower) continually cheer-up the chick and even re-find the chick after she gets lost again.

Along their journey they have to continually avoid Swiper who unsuccessfully attempts to steal items they have found on their journey, e.g.

Upon directions provided by Map, Dora and Boots journey past a banana tree (which they eat to sustain themselves) and through a cornfield (filled with angry red ants, which they avoid by following instructions from a talking scarecrow who tells them to stick to the field's blue stone path after mistakenly scaring Baby Blue Bird which results not only her crying, but also Scarecrow crying) to eventually get the chick back to her family in their little blue tree home. Whilst playing hide-and-seek, Dora and Boots find Baby Blue Bird, a Spanish-speaking bluebird chick, who had fallen out of her nest, located in a little blue tree, and had become lost.

Dora the explorer tico series#

Note: This is the series premiere episode and also the debut of Dora, Boots, Backpack, Map, Swiper, the Fiesta Trio, Señor Tucan, and the Big Red Chicken. They eventually reach the Big Red Hill, which is in reality the seated form of the Big Red Chicken. Their journey is continually hampered by Swiper, who initially unsuccessfully attempts to steal the book and then successfully steals the four-pointed key. Īfter reading a big red book, entitled 'The Legend of the Big Red Chicken', about a very small chicken that wished upon a chicken constellation to gain enormous size, Dora and Boots, following Map's directions, traverse two obstacles, a wooden bridge (broken, but fixed by Dora with Señor Tucán's help) and a wooden gate (locked, but opened by Dora with the recovered four-pointed key), to get to the Big Red Hill to meet the Big Red Chicken. Note: This pilot features prototypes of the main characters, sometimes with significantly different designs, including Dora (green-eyes, not with brown eyes), Boots (different appearance and not wearing boots), Benny (a brown bull, not blue, called 'Benito'), Tico (a blue Skunk with orange hair, not a purple squirrel with pink hair), Swiper (unchanged), Backpack, Map, Isa, the Fiesta Trio, and Val the Octopus.

The story synopsis of this pilot paralleled the later episode entitled 'Beaches'. The pilot episode has been classed as ' lost media' as it has not been released to the public except via storyboard diagrams and small clips. Before the show premiered, a 15 second animation test and a 15 minute pilot episode were produced.