Snowed Under: The Bobblesberg Winter Games

In this new feature length special, Bob the Builder and his team of machines travel to the Winter Games in snowy Bobblesberg. Their job is to build a log cabin for the Bobsville Mayoress but a huge snow storm hits and leaves the event building machines stranded en route.

Team leader Scoop is joined by brand new characters Benny and Zoomer for their biggest ever challenge. This star studded adventure features Winter Games - TV commentators Sue Barker, John Motson and Jana (Ulrika Jonsson) as the games organiser. There's lots to do and the clock is ticking. Can they build it? Find out in Snowed Under: The Bobblesberg Winter Games.

Plot

Bob and the gang leave their home town of Bobsville and head for its snowy and mountainous twin town, Bobblesberg. Bobblesberg is hosting the Winter Games and Bob is asked to build a magnificent log cabin for Bobsville's mayor. Wendy is busy practising for the skiing event, so Bob appoints Scoop as second-in-command to help prepare for the Winter Games. Meanwhile, Scarecrow Spud is a secret stowaway. Benny, a special digger comes to the team's aid when the rest of the special machines are snowed under. When Muck, Dizzy and Roley are assigned to help Scoop with his build, that's when his cranky side rears its hideous head. Oh no! Can they fix it in time? Let's hope so.

Characters

Bob
Wendy
Scoop
Muck
Dizzy
Roley
Lofty
Pilchard
Travis
Spud
Farmer Pickles (does not speak)
Mr. Beasley (speaks in bloopers only; cameo, speaking role cut in movie)
J.J. (cameo)
Molly (cameo)
Mrs. Percival (cameo)
Mrs. Potts (cameo)
Angelo Sabatini (cameo)
Mrs. Broadbent (cameo)
Bunty Ferguson (indirectly mentioned)

Characters Introduced

Cast

United Kingdom

Neil Morrissey as Bob, Roley, Lofty and Skiier
Rob Rackstraw as Scoop, Muck, Travis, Spud and Mr. Beasley
Kate Harbour as Wendy, Dizzy, Pilchard and Announcer
Emma Tate as Benny and Children
Rupert Degas as Zoomer
Ulrika Jonsson as Jana Von Strudel
Kerry Fox as Charlene
John Motson as Himself
Sue Barker as Herself

North America

William Dufris as Bob and Mr. Beasley
Lorelei King as Wendy
Alan Marriott as Scoop, Travis and Spud
Lachele Carl as Muck
Maria Darling as Dizzy and Roley
Sonya Leite as Lofty
Emma Tate as Benny and Children
Rupert Degas as Zoomer
Ulrika Jonsson as Jana Von Strudel
Kerry Fox as Charlene
John Motson as Himself
Sue Barker as Herself
Kate Harbour as Pilchard and Announcer (uncredited)
Neil Morrissey as Skiier (uncredited)

Sweden

Mangus Ehrner as Bob
Claire Wikholm as Scoop
Björn Gedda as Muck
Claes Månsson as Lofty
Anneli Martini as Roley
Tuvalisa Rangström as Dizzy, Charlene and Sue Barker
Ole Ornered as Benny and Zoomer
Steve Kratz as Spud
Pierre Lindstedt as Travis
Eva Gröndahl as Wendy and Jana Von Strudel
Johan Hedenberg as John Motson

Slovenia

Zvone Hribar as Bob and Benny
Petra Govc as Wendy and Sue Barker
Jette Ostan Vejrup as Jana Von Strudel
Maja Sever as Charlene
Bojan Emeršič as Scoop
Gregor Čušin as Muck
Ivan Rupnik as Lofty and Zoomer
Lotos Šparovec as Roley
Veronika Drolc as Dizzy
Uroš Smolej as Spud and John Motson
Jaka Lah as Travis

Locations

Bloopers

Snowed Under: The Bobblesberg Winter Games is the only special to have bloopers. On the UK DVD of the special, the bloopers are called 'Funny Bits and Bobs'.

The machines are cheering that they got everything done in time, but Eli starts to skate and he does a split. Everyone laughs. (Note: Seventh blooper in the UK version)
John, amazed by Wendy's ski jump, is unaware that a snowman is behind him. Sue appears, watching from the studio and laughing while John is taken by surprise.
Mr. Beasley is seagull watching at the docks and a seagull lands and starts doing a dance. Three more seagulls join him, one of whom eventually flies away, and Mr. Beasley is surprised to see this and he gets one of the seagulls' droppings on his glasses. The US version has narration from Bob at the beginning saying "Mr. Beasley got more than he bargained for when he went seagull watching at Bobington Harbour."
Sue, John and the cameraman are on the chair lift. (Note: US version only)
Bob is spray painting the log cabin, but his paint sprayer is not working properly. He taps at it but he gets paint on himself.
Spud rolls down the hill and turns into a snowball. (Note: Fourth blooper in the UK version)
John's cell phone rings, causing cell phone interference in the studio. He answers it and initally forgets to open it, but he then opens it. He tells the person on the other end of the phone "I'm in a studio at the moment. Can I phone you back?" Sue asks him if it's his mother again, but it's clearly his wife, as he calls her "Lovey". He hangs up and apologizes to the viewers while Sue puts her head down in annoyance before they continue with the show.
Zoomer says "Zoom, zoom, zoom". Then, he gets snow on the camera. (Note: US version only)
Wendy is walking up the ski run, but since it's hard to walk around in ski boots, she falls down and laughs. (Note: UK version only; second blooper) (Note 2: A picture from this blooper can be seen in the credits)
Sue is announcing Wendy is next on the slopes and passes it over to John, but as he says "That's right, Sue. It's a big day for her.", the children are having a snowball fight and they accidentally throw one at him. They all laugh. (Note: UK version only; fifth blooper)
The children are on a frozen lake practicing their ice-skating and they fall over, with narration from Spud. (Note: UK version only; sixth blooper)

Trivia

This special takes place between the ninth and tenth series.
Going by the original production order, this special marks the latest of a few things:
- Latest production to feature the late William Dufris and Sonya Leite voicing their respective characters, prior to Dufris' death in 2020.
- Latest production to feature Alan Marriott voicing Spud.
- Latest production to have music done by Paul K. Joyce. Starting with Bob's Big Plan (Series 10), Keith Hopwood would take over.
This special's USA video was released the same day as The Wiggles' Santa's Rockin USA video.
The German DVD contains the Thomas & Friends episode "Snow".
Bird does not appear in this special.
This is the second time Bob wears his sweater the first time was A Christmas To Remember (Series 5).
This is the first time Benny makes an angry face. He looks angry after he and Scoop argue on the ice rink.
This is the third time the main machines make an angry face; Scoop looks mad when he calls Roley a clumsy lump, telling the machines to be quiet and says to Muck that he/she is a showoff. Muck also looks mad when he/she tells Scoop that it was horrible when he called Roley a clumsy lump and being called a showoff by Scoop.
This is the first special which features Scoop as the main character and possibly the only special in the franchise that shows Scoop's negative emotions toward Muck, Dizzy, Roley, even to himself. Scoop also became a main character In Bob The Builder: Mega Machines.
This is the first time Muck and Scoop cried on-screen.
Scoop is revealed to be emotional since he is shown to cry twice in the special.
This Is the second time Wendy wears her pink sweater; The first one being A Christmas To Remember.
This special marks Jana Von Strudel only on-screen appearance in the series to date.
Going by UK releases, this is the final stop-motion production to be part of the Original Series and also the final stop-motion production to use the original US dub voice cast which will be changed starting with Bob's Big Plan.
When the machines are at the end of the medal ceremony, in the UK dub, the crew was silent, but in the US dub, the crew was erupting in loud cheers.
This is the only special to have bloopers on its DVD extras.
This is the first special to have a scene in which the machines receive medals. The second one being Race to the Finish.
Footage of the ship leaving from Bobington Harbor would later be used as stock footage for the episode, The Three Musketrucks (Series 14).
This special is Benny and Zoomer's only appearance in the Original Series.
This is the only episode/special with Benny & Zoomer to feature the original US voice cast.
This is the only episode/special to feature Scoop to not use his snow plough in a snowy environment.
Lofty was the only machine who didn't make Scoop angry or argue with him since he spent majority of the special working with Bob.
John Motson would provided the voiceover for the promo of the UK video and DVD release of Snowed Under and a for a promo for when the special was being shown on Christmas Eve on CBeebies in 2006.
In the European Portuguese dub, Pilchard and Eli are dubbed due to the fact the dubbing track they've used had most missing sound effects.

Goofs

When the machines leave the mountain pass, Bob has his hard hat on when Jana is yodeling, it disappears. But it reappears when they meet up with Wendy.
When Jana is skiing and goes to the log cabin site, she has her sunglasses on when she tells the machines she needs the bobsleigh run for practice she's missing them.
The Trailers menu on the North American DVD appears twice on the main menu and special features.
Before the machines laugh while Muck Imitating scoop, he/she uses Scoop's sad and surprised mouth.
In the UK dub, Benny's gasp is not heard after Scoop calls Roley a big clumsy lump, but in the US dub, Benny's gasp is heard.
In the UK dub, Muck says "Who does he (Scoop) think he is anyway?", but Muck doesn't say this line in the US dub.
In the UK dub, Muck's groaning is heard after Bob ask Him/Her to go check on Scoop and Benny, but in the US dub, Muck's groaning is not heard.
Besides Pilchard (since outside of A Christmas to Remember, actors are generally not credited for voicing animals in the US), Kate Harbour and Neil Morrissey are not credited in the US credits, despite voicing the announcer and the skiier who calls to Spud respectively.

In Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Croatian	Pod snijegom	Under the snow
Czech	Pod Sněhem	Under the Snow
Danish	Ud i Sneen	Out in the snow
Dutch	Ingesneeuwd!: De Bobbelsberg Winterspelen	Snowed in!: The Bobblesberg winter games
European Spanish	Bajo La Nieve - Juegos de Inverno de Bobbelsberg	Under The Snow - Winter Games by bobbelsberg
Finnish	Lunta tupaan! Viiruvudren talvikisat	Snow in the house! Viiruvudre winter competitions
French	Enneigés! - Les jeux d'hiver de bobblesberg	Snowy - The Bobblesberg Winter Games
German	Eingeschneit! Winterspiele in Bobbelsberg	Snowed in! winter games in bobblesberg
Greek	ΠΑΙΧΝΙΔΙΑ ΣΤΗ ΧΙΟΝΙΣΜΕΝΗ ΠΟΛΗ	Toys In the snowy city
Hungarian	Behavazva	Snowed in
Japanese	ウィンターゲーム	Winter Games
Latin Spanish	Aventuras en la Nieve: Los Juegos de Invierno de Bobblesberg	Adventures in the Snow: Bobblesberg Winter Games
Norwegian	Innesnødd : vinterlekene i Bobbelsberg	Snow In: the Winter Games in Bobblesberg
Polish	Zasypani Śniegiem - Zimowe Zawody w Śniegsburgu	Snow-covered - Winter Competition in Bobblesberg
Romanian	înzăpezirea Jocurile de iarnă din Bobulstâng	Snowy Games Winter in Bobbelsberg
Russian	Занесенные снегом	Covered with snow
Serbian	Pod Snegom	Under the snow
Slovene	V snegu: Zimske igre v Mihovcah	In The Snow: Winter Games in Bobblesberg
Swedish	Ute I Snön - Vinterspelen i Bobbisberg	Out in the Snow - The Winter Games in Bobbisberg
Welsh	Eira, Eira, Gemau Gaeaf Boblberg	Snow, Snow, Bobblesberg Winter Games