| “ | I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! | „ |
| ~ Tillie |
Tillie is a beautiful little blue engine and the main protagonist from the 1991 film The Little Engine That Could.
She was voiced by Kath Soucie.
Role in the film
One morning, Tillie is sleeping until she woke up when she heard Tower saying to work and she blew her whistle to woke her cute best friend Chip up because it is the morning time. When she helps Farnsworth and Pete out for work in the morning, she attempts to take the milk train for a sleeping Jebediah, but fails when Tower tells her that she is too little. When Chip tells Tillie that poor Georgia has broken down while pulling the birthday train, Tillie tells Doc to rescue her and take her back to the roundhouse. Tillie tries to tell Tower that she can pull the birthday train, but is so sad that Tower says that she can't pull the birthday train. When Tower is asleep, Jebidiah tells Tillie that he can't do it, and Tillie is so worried that there's no-one to take the birthday train, but is told by Chip that she's the only engine left. Tillie sets off to collect the birthday train, and takes the toys over the mountain, but is set by two wolves, the bigger of whom tells her she can't do it, but the littler one encourages her. She bravely attempts to cross the bridge, but is adviced by the eagle to turn back, then tells the eagle that she can do it, and ignores the eagle's advice. Tillie manages to cross the bridge, but loses one of the wagons behind her, and meets a scary cave with a mysterious voice inside. Tillie attempts to go through the cave, but the cave says that she is too little. Unfortunately, she is then knocked by an avalanche. When a worried Eric hears about the birthday train, which is knocked by the avalanche, Tillie awakens and wakes up Chip, but finally manages to make it out of the snow. Tillie manages to reach the yard for Eric's birthday, and says that she's done it, because it's worth the choice, before she blows her whistle.
Trivia
- Despite keeping her feminine appearance and keeping the same name, Tillie is voiced by a male in the German dub probably because the word for train, "der Züg," is masculine in German.