July 7, 2014 (2014-07-07) – November 5, 2016 (2016-11-05)
The 7D is an American animated television series produced byDisney Television Animation, which premiered onDisney XD on July 7, 2014. It is a re-imagining of thetitle characters from the 1937 filmSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs byWalt Disney Animation Studios.[1][4] The first season consisted of 24 episodes.[5] On December 2, 2014, the series was renewed for a second season.[6][7] On April 25, 2016, Disney XD announced that the series would be cancelled after two seasons.[8] The show aired its final episode on November 5, 2016, with 44 episodes produced.
The7D is a group ofdwarves who protect Jollywood from the Glooms and other threats. They are the descendants of the dwarves that founded Jollywood. The members of the 7D are:
Happy (voiced byKevin Michael Richardson)[1] – Richardson said that he drew inspiration from fellow voice actorJim Cummings with a "country / New Orleans" voice where he is "always upbeat, always positive," and as "if someone just handed him a beer".[9] Ruegger said that Richardson was the first one of the seven members to be cast, and that his voice set the tone for casting the others.[10]
Bashful (voiced byBilly West)[1] – West describes Bashful as a sweet character who tries to catch up to the others. He also likes that Bashful has another side to him.[9]
Doc (voiced byBill Farmer)[1][11] invents things, including the sky buckets transportation system for all of Jollywood.[12] Farmer has been the voice ofGoofy, and also Sleepy in otherSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs projects.[9] Farmer said that in making a new take on Doc, he pinches his voice and makes him a little scatterbrained.[10]
Dopey (vocal effects provided byDee Bradley Baker)[1] communicates with whistles, animal sounds, and visual gags. Baker said that portraying Dopey was easier and allows for more freedom because he uses only animal sounds and whistles.[13]
Sleepy (voiced byStephen Stanton)[1] – In an interview withVariety, Scott Menville said that Stanton came up with over fifty different ways to snore.[15][16]
Sneezy (voiced byScott Menville)[1] – Menville himself had amsneezia whenever voicing this runny-nosed dwarf.
Hildy Gloom (voiced byKelly Osbourne)[17] is awitch and Grim's wife. Hildy is Osbourne's first major voiceover role;[10][18] Osbourne was asked after Disney had 300 auditions. She said that she had not seen the character design, which was created before the auditions, until after she got the job. She describes Hildy as "bad with the best intentions" and calls her "my alter ego – mySasha Fierce".[18]
Grim Gloom (voiced byJess Harnell)[1] is awarlock and Hildy's husband. Harnell describes him as "a bad-at-being-bad guy". Regarding his role as a Disney villain, he said that "there's a fine line — especially in7D, which is a broad comedy — because you don't want to scare little kids".[19]
Queen Delightful (voiced byLeigh-Allyn Baker)[1] is the naive and ditzy ruler of Jollywood.
Lord Starchbottom (voiced byPaul Rugg) is Queen Delightful's assistant. In portraying Starchbottom, Rugg drew inspiration fromJerry Lewis, whom he and series head writer Ruegger both admire.[9]
Squire Peckington (vocal effects provided byDee Bradley Baker)[21] is Queen Delightful's petparrot who is seen perching in her crown.[22]
Snazzy Shazam (voiced byLeigh-Allyn Baker)[23] is a witch who was Hildy Gloom's rival in school. She frequently competes in the witch contests where Hildy feels like she needs to upstage her.
Peaches is a slow-movingwarthog who pulls the Glooms' carriage.
Giselle (vocal effects provided by Dee Bradley Baker)[24] is Grumpy's petgoat. In the episode "Finders Keepers", Giselle develops a friendly rivalry with Peaches.[25] In the episode "When Pigs Fly", it is revealed that Giselle's last name isMunchen.[26]
The 7D was placed into production in June 2012 for the Disney Junior channel with characters redesigned byNoah Z. Jones (who also madeFish Hooks for Disney before).[20][27][28] In an interview withIndieWire, series director Alfred Gimeno said that the pilot episode was done in Flash, but the series was changed to traditional 2D which added production value as Flash was design heavy. The storyboards and pre-production were done at Disney. Animation was produced byDigital eMation in South Korea,Toon City in the Philippines, andWang Film Productions in Taiwan.[27] Ruegger also said that the 2D is also better suited for the show's style.[10]
The show's theme song and many of the in-episode songs are done byParry Gripp. He describes the song as "in kind of a punk rock style...It's pretty fast and has guitars and the tone of my voice is a bit nasal and aggressive. But the music in the show really varies."[29] In an interview with Geek Mom, Gripp said that he was asked to pitch song ideas for various Disney shows, and thatThe 7D clicked with his style. He estimates he wrote about 120 songs for the first season, although many are very short and their styles vary. Composer Keith Horn does the orchestration in the show.[3]
Entertainment journalist Jim Hill has noted that some have related the voice ensemble toMarvel'sAvengers since it features actors who have voiced in popular cartoon shows. He also noted how many of the crew have worked onAnimaniacs, includingTom Ruegger,Sherri Stoner,Paul Rugg,Deanna Oliver, and Randy Rogel. Among the voice actors, LaMarche had voiced Brain, and Jess Harnell had voiced Wakko.[9] Voice directorKelly Ward said "God forbid if anything were to happen when they were all in one place because the voice-over industry would be dealt a crippling blow". The cast usually recorded in ensembles of two to four characters when possible, with Ruegger editing the timing afterwards for characters that recorded separately.[10]
Scott Menville, who voices Sneezy, said that the show takes place before Snow White was born so the Evil Queen from the film will not be there. He also said it is a contemporary take on the film as the characters are hip to the current generation and its pop culture references.[4] Jevon Phillips of Hero Complex also placed the series 30 years or so beforeSnow White. Ruegger said that the show's demographic differed from his previous works withAnimaniacs andPinky and the Brain; however, he was also encouraged byDisney Junior to expand the demographic to include parents.[30]
The 7D debuted on July 7, 2014, on Disney XD,[20] on the Disney Junior block onDisney Channel on December 26, and on theDisney Junior channel in 2015.[6] In Canada, the series began broadcast on July 13 onDisney XD.[31] It premiered onDisney Channel in Southeast Asia on September 7.[32] In Australia,Disney XD began broadcasting the series on December 1.[33]
The 7D premiere broadcast ranked number 2 overall among Disney XD's animated original-series premieres for kids 2–11 and kids 6–11.[36]
Brian Lowry ofVariety wrote poorly of the show, claiming that it has none of the charm of the source material, and that its plots "fall into a sort of No Kid's Land in terms of age groups".[37]Rob Owen wrote in thePittsburgh Post-Gazette that the characters were blandly drawn, and that the show was just a chance to capitalize on the film.[38]
In June 2014,Disney Publishing Worldwide released "The 7D Mine Train", anendless-runner video game where the player chooses one of the redesigned 7D dwarfs as their game avatar to pilot a mine car through various levels of the mine, picking up gems. It is loosely associated with theSeven Dwarfs Mine Train attraction atWalt Disney World which opened in May 2014.[42][43]
Disney also released an online game on theirDisney XD website called "The 7D Dwarf Track Builder" where players can assemble a mine track or sky bucket course according to the dwarfs' specifications.[44]
^"Interviews".Dee Bradley Baker official website.Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. RetrievedJanuary 21, 2015.Over at Disney Television, we're recording a second season of "The Seven D," (as dwarf "Dopey," parrot "Squire Peckington" and Giselle, the goat).
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