Trivia / Wee Sing

• Acting for Two: In King Cole's Party, The actors who play Jack, Jill, Mary, and Little Boy Blue also play the children at the beginning and end of the video who are having the story read to them by their dad. The actor who plays Old King Cole, also plays the dad who is reading the story to the children, but the dad's face is not shown until the end.
  • In Marvelous Musical Mansion, Uncle Rubato and Aunty Annabella share actors with Ruben and Rachel, their ancestors.
• Blooper: Due to being a local production, a few mistakes slip through the cracks.
  • In The Best Christmas Ever!, the kid in the wheelchair accidentally moves one of his legs in one shot.
  • Also from The Best Christmas Ever!, a crew member's hand is visible for a few frames after Poofer and the Smiths enter Santa's workshop.
  • During "Risseldy Rosseldy" in Wee Sing in Sillyville, one of the younger Bitty-Booties is slightly out of sync with the rest of the family's choreography.
• Colbert Bump: The Tiddlebirds from Wee Sing in Sillyville gained a surprise leap in popularity courtesy of being a recurring element in the livestreams of Holly, one of the members in the Radio TV Solutions crew.
• Creator Backlash: According to this tweet, Kevin Hageman (Peter) feels this way about Grandpa’s Magical Toys.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Wendy Westerwelle voices the male blackbird Jack in The Wee Sing Train.
• The Danza: Kaci Garcia as Casey in The Wee Sing Train.
• Deleted Scene: The Big Rock Candy Mountains have a couple jokes cut out, but seen on Wee Sing Favorites: Classic Songs for Kids.
• Dueling Works: With Kidsongs. Both franchises entered the home video market in 1985, and they continued well into the 1990s. Each have a similar concept of teaching An Aesop through music, though Wee Sing was more upfront about the lessons.
• He Also Did:
  • The actor playing the Crooked Man on King Cole's Party was Dallas McKennon, the then-current voice of Gumby and the "voice" of Ripper Roo from Crash Bandicoot, as well as a regular voice actor for Disney.
  • One of the associate producers for Grandpa's Magical Toys was the late claymation artist Will Vinton. His wife, Susan Shadburne, directed both Grandpa's Magical Toys and King Cole's Party.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: All of the videos between 1985 to 1994 have been released on DVD, but the videos that feature Singaling and Warbly haven't been released on DVD due to them being under Universal.
• Non-Singing Voice: The kids' singing voices are dubbed on Grandpa's Magical Toys.
• The Other Darrin: Wee Singdom replaces all but two of the returning characters' original actors, due to a move in filming locations from Portland to Los Angeles. Only Little Bunny Foo Foo and Sillywhim retain their original actors. Fortunately, the other characters are all heavily made up or else wear full-body suits, so the change of actors isn't too obvious, except for Trunky, (who was called Tusky in The Wee Sing Train) whose voice is noticeably different.
• Production Posse: Due to the original videos being shot in Portland, Oregon, the city's famed community theater scene played a lot of the adult roles, some of whom showed up in more than one video. These include:
  • Wendy Westerwelle, who played the Queen in King Cole's Party, would later voice the male blackbird Jack in The Wee Sing Train.
  • Burl Ross, who played Little Bunny Foo Foo, played the hat rack in Marvelous Musical Mansion.
  • Vana O'Brien, who played both Aunty Annabella and Rachel in Marvelous Musical Mansion, later voiced Old Grey Mare in The Wee Sing Train.
• Star-Making Role: Annie from Wee Singdom is played by Nicolette Robinson. She got her acting career thanks to that video.