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Lydia Fox
Lydia
Gender Female
Animal Fox[1]
Hair color   Moderate scarlet
Complexion   Very light gamboge
Cartoon debut "The Wheel Deal"
Voiced by Barbara Mamabolo[2]

Lydia Fox[3] (originally Lydia Gordon[2]) is a girl who plays on the wheelchair basketball team.

She was originally created by Connor Gordon as part of the 2009 All Kids Can Character Search contest.

Biography[]

Lydia is quite athletic and competitive. She participates in a wheelchair basketball team known as "The Wheel Warriors". She also helps Brain adapt to playing basketball in a wheelchair after he injures his ankle.[4] She enters the Little Miss Crocus pageant, along with Muffy.[5] Although it is not known if she is necessarily as interested in fashion and beauty pageants as Muffy, she joins the pageant after a peer, Portia Demwiddy, makes her feel bad about having a disability and claiming that the judges will only let Lydia win out of sympathy for her disability, not for her true talents. Lydia also serves as a substitute basketball coach at the Elwood City Preschool, where she meets D.W. Read.[6]

Physical appearance[]

Lydia has a cream complexion and short moderate scarlet hair. She wears red, rectangular-shaped glasses. She also wears a lavender t-shirt with green cuffs and neckline, with a picture of a flower, in addition to a purple skirt, white socks, and gray shoes.

Alternate appearances[]

  • When playing sports, she wears a red-orange t-shirt with yellow edges/stripes and a yellow number '1', black pants with red stripes on the sides, and white and light blue shoes.
  • During the Little Miss Crocus pageant, she wears a blue t-shirt, a cyan skirt decorated with a dark pink ribbon, and dark pink shoes. Her wheelchair was also decorated with yellow, glowing, star-shaped fairy lights.
  • During one of Emily's parties, she wore a costume of a fictional princess, Princess Prophecia. The outfit consists of a white dress with gray lines on the shoulders and waist, an upside-down golden triangle below the waistline, and three stars on the chest area. She wears golden arm guards with red heart decorations, light blue leggings, and blue-black shoes. While wearing this costume, her hair is styled into two curls on either side (akin to Princess Leia from Star Wars) and her wheelchair is decorated with blue, green, red, and yellow fairy lights.

Personality[]

Lydia is a young girl with a love for basketball who doesn't let her wheelchair be an obstacle for her. She is kind and she can be confident of her abilities and her opinions.

Friends[]

Lydia is seen to be friends with Brain, Jenna, Muffy, D.W., and Arthur.

Behind the scenes[]

Connor Gordon's original drawing

Connor Gordon's original drawing

Lydia was the winning character in the 2009 "All Kids Can Character Search" contest,[7] created by 11-year-old Connor Gordon of Savage, Minnesota.[8]

A local news interview in 2010 hinted that Lydia may become a permanent character on the show.[9] Despite the 2009 claim that Lydia was already planned to be in two additional episodes,[10] these episodes were not actually in development at all.[11] However, Lydia was eventually planned to appear in season 18,[11][12] which was over 6 years later. Due to the fact that two seasons were produced at once, Lydia's episode ("Little Miss Meanie") was made part of season 19 instead.

Connor originally wrote Lydia's backstory that she was paralyzed from the waist down from a spinal injury at age seven.[13] However, this idea was not kept in the TV episode, where Lydia instead says she has been that way since birth. Connor described Lydia as a 10-year-old,[8][14] but no official material has confirmed it.

In Connor's original entry, Lydia's full name was Lydia Fox. In the voice credits for "The Wheel Deal", her name was changed to Lydia Gordon,[2] presumably in reference to Connor Gordon, though this last name is not spoken in the episode itself. In "Little Miss Meanie", the full name Lydia Fox is said aloud multiple times.

Appearances[]

Arthur[]

Online[]

Trivia[]

  • Her character model is similar to that of Filipa Squirrel from Hop, a 2024 animated series that was also created by Marc Brown.
  • Her parents, any siblings, or any other relatives in her family are never mentioned.

References[]

  1. ↑ http://specialchildren.about.com/b/2009/05/12/arthur-has-a-new-friend-a-basketball-loving-wheelchair-using-fox.htm (archived page)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 File:TDW_Voice_Cast.JPG
  3. ↑ "Little Miss Meanie"
  4. ↑ "The Wheel Deal"
  5. ↑ "Little Miss Meanie"
  6. ↑ "The Princess Problem"
  7. ↑ http://pbskids.org/arthur/allkidscan/ (archived page)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/cvsallkidscan/38425/ (archived page)
  9. ↑ http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=876750 (archived page)
  10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090706062033/http://info.cvscaremark.com/newsroom/press-releases/arthurr-and-cvs-caremark-debut-winner-arthurall-kids-can-character-search-ju (archived page)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 http://elwoodcitycentral.createaforum.com/arthur-news/arthur-ny-comic-con-2013/msg1747/#msg1747 (archived page)
  12. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=541987352560240 (see description)
  13. ↑ http://specialchildren.about.com/od/inthecommunity/p/arthurcontest.htm (archived page)
  14. ↑ http://www.wgbh.org/brand_portal/kids.cfm (archived page)



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