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The Magic School Bus (shortened to The Bus or merely Bus) is an eponymous high-tech, sentient, and anthropomorphic school bus with Magicware that The Frizzles' class and Liz use to proceed field trips. Information technology is almost frequently piloted by the Frizzle sisters or Liz, but occasionally, in the original PBS idiot box series, ane of the kids will take the wheel, or it will take on a shape (such as an animal) that allows it to "drive" itself. Along with its ability to travel on land, in water, through the air, and even deep infinite, it is also able to change its size and shape.

Its computer system is voiced by Kate McKinnon, the vocalism of Ms. Frizzle.

1 Technical Details
- 1.i Basis
  - 1.ane.i Books past Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
  - 1.1.2 Original serial
  - 1.1.three Rides Over again serial
- 1.ii Livery
two MagicWare
- 2.ane Magical Device mentioned
3 Trivia
4 Alternate forms
- four.1 Animals
- 4.2 Land Vehicles
- 4.3 Aircraft
- 4.4 Spacecraft
- four.5 H2o vehicles (Submarines and the like)
- four.6 Miscellaneous (objects, buildings, h2o, plants)

Technical Details

Basis

Note: This role uses the North American terms when it comes to car terminology. e.g. American "torso" and "hood" vs. European "fly" and "boot".

Books by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen

The Magic School Bus is somewhat based on a 1970s Ward International schoolhouse passenger vehicle with fender skirts on the rear wheels, and the front end windshield being 2 unlike windows. Its overhead sign shows a "message" depending on the linguistic communication, such every bit "WAHOO" or "BLAST OFF" in English language, very similar to electronic "welcome" signs.

Original series

In this incarnation, the Bus does retain some qualities from the original books, being based on a '70s Ward school motorcoach. It retains everything listed to a higher place, still the merely new addition is a grille spine going downwardly the middle of its grille nose. Instead of showing words, the electronic sign overhead shows a picture.

Rides Once again series

The Motorcoach has been "upgraded" to a Thomas Built Buses school omnibus. Similar to the original books, the grille spine is lost. Some new changes are 1 rearview mirror instead of two mirrors, a radio antenna, and a roof-hatch. Its overhead sign is colored black, and information technology does not show automatic messages or pictures, nor does information technology read "school bus".

Livery

In the original television series and the book serial, the Passenger vehicle was painted fully Walkerville yellow. In The Magic School Omnibus Rides Over again, it is painted in the common North American Schoolhouse Bus xanthous with black stripes. In the original Tv set series and books, it sports decals that chronicle to the topic. It doesn't have this set of decorations in Rides Again, reserving the scientific flair for Ms. Frizzle.

MagicWare

It isn't very clear how the Omnibus works, but there are various hints. Nosotros can meet how fuel gets to the engine in the Idiot box episode, "Revving Upwardly", but in another episode, "Gets Prepare, Set up, Dough", it is revealed that its magic comes from various devices, with the near used ones being the Shrinkerscope and the Mesmerglober, and in newer media, the Warp Drive, which controls the Motorbus' teleportation and warp-speed when traveling through space so that information technology doesn't have the students many years to travel from Mercury to Neptune or Pluto.

The Shrinkerscope serves by and large as an internal method of size manipulation from the Jitney itself. In the episode "Butterfly and the Bog Beast", it is revealed that there is a 2nd size-manipulation device: the Porta-Shrinker^[i], which is a pink ray gun that is mainly used for shrinking someone without shrinking the Motorbus. When someone attempts to activate the Porta-Shrinker when it is damp or moisture, a dew-dinger alarm sounds.

The Mesmerglober controls the Bus' ability to shape-shift, irresolute information technology into various vehicles or animals at the driver's will. It is activated by a scarlet or gray lever on the dashboard, and also buttons on the touchscreen. Most of the time, when it transforms, the bus stretches and squashes, then spins around fast. When the omnibus stops, it's in it's new form. In "Flexes its Muscles", it is revealed that the Charabanc starts transforming uncontrollably if the Mesmerglober doesn't work. The Mesmerglober and the Shrinkerscope often work together to transform the Motorbus into animals, such as a frog in "Hops Dwelling", a salmon in "Goes Upstream", and an eagle in "I Spy with My Brute Eyes".

The source of the Bus's magic is different from canon to canon. In the TV series, the Autobus's magic comes from a software chosen MagicWare (In the Zone). If the MagicWare is updating, sometimes the Passenger vehicle glitches, the kids alter into animals and plants, abound up into adults or revert back to an baby, and the Autobus goes south. All the devices that run MagicWare, similar the Mesmerglober and Shrinkerscope, are powered past a MagBatt (Making Magic, curt for magic battery), which runs on energy from the eye of the Sunday, as well equally true backbone and perseverance from the Frizz and the kids. When the Bus doesn't update, it freezes and loses its magic, condign a normal school charabanc without whatever anthropomorphism. In the canon of the books, the Double-decker runs on "Magic Gasoline".

In the holiday special, information technology is revealed that most of the MagicWare devices are fabricated of plastic.

Magical Device mentioned

Mesmerglobber
Shrinkerscope
Plangdabber
Dinplonker
Blagblatter
Katiebator
Iotascope
Enormomometer
Dew-Dinger
Three-phase hydrolated displacement pumpulator
MagBatt
Warp Drive
Bingbongifier

Trivia

In official Scholastic media, the Bus's common name is capitalized (due east.g., "Where will the Charabanc accept you?")

The motorbus was able to float around in lava. This may atomic number 82 to the fact that the bus may exist physically indestructible.
The Autobus cares securely nigh its passengers, such every bit in "Gets Ants in Its Pants" when it was concerned almost Keesha when she gave up being the director of the emmet movie and ran outside the anthill in the pelting.
The Bus is sometimes referred to equally its electric current transformation. This mostly happened in the Joanna Cole books and the Science Chapter Books. However, it has happened in the television series. In "Cold Feet", the Bus was referred to as "The Busigator".
The Magic School Bus appears to be sentient, mainly due to having a face (headlight eyes, grille nose, bumper rima oris, rearview mirror ears). This is further shown in Taking Flight when it gets angry at Liz for constantly making it crash when Tim and Phoebe were trying to save the rest of the course, in the opening when it looked a bit scared upon seeing an octopus, and in Gets Lost in Space when it felt exhausted upon Janet overloading it with "proof" she went to all the planets of the Solar Organization. It is shown The Magic School Jitney is incapable of talking, merely it is capable of panting and cough. It does communicate by honking its horn, its "linguistic communication".
While the Bus has no gender, some of its transformations include a female eagle (in I Spy with My Animal Eyes) hen (in Cracks a Yolk) and a female salmon (in Goes Upstream). This may imply that the Motorcoach is female person. This would besides be in line with English vehicular parlance, in which vehicles are oft referred to by female person pronouns.
The Magic School Passenger vehicle has few modifications throughout the serial, which include:
- [[i]] (Original books, Microsoft video games, 1994 TV series,)
  - It had fender skirts covering its rear wheels.
  - It is based on a 1970s Ward International school bus.
- 2017-present (Rides Again TV serial, Rides Again books)
  - Its fender skirts are removed from the rear wheels, thus revealing its rear wheels.
  - An antenna and a roof hatch are added.
  - On the back, it has two doors instead of ane.
  - Its lesser lip is a darker shade of silver than its top lip.
  - Its headlight eyes turn light aqua.
  - It now has i extra window on its sides.
  - It is based on modernistic American school buses.
- The Bus's original 1986 design returns in the 2021 original-series book "Explores Human being Evolution".
- The Bus has many similarities to anthropomorphic vehicles across fiction.
- It is revealed in "Three in One" that the Frizzles built the Bus during a Gizmos that Go competition nearly magic.
- It'south revealed in "In The Zone" that information technology reverts back to being a normal jitney when information technology loses its magic.
- The Magic Motorcycle shares many similarities with the Bus.
- Starting with the Season 2 episode, Kids in Infinite, and the residue of late Season 2, the Bus is blithe in CGI, however it sometimes it animated in second whenever a character straight interacts with it (east.yard. opening its hood)