Goldilocks is a character and the titular, lead protagonist of the 1991 adaptation of Goldilocks and The Three Bears by Australia's Burbank Animation Studios. She is the daughter of an unnamed mother and unnamed father. It was also one of the episodes that aired as part of the Australian, anthology, T.V. series, The Wizard's Tales. She was voiced by either Claire Crowther or Joanna Moore.
About Goldilocks[]
Goldilocks is left home alone while her parents go out for work. Lonesome and bored since she's an only child and where she, and her parents live, seems to be so remote, she wishes there were somebody with whom to play. Then, she has the idea of pretending to be an acrobat, bouncing on her bed, doing flips, and rolls in the air, but all of that is hard enough for her to break it. She notices a ballerina figurine in a music box, she imagines being a ballerina herself, giving a show for an audience, doing pirouettes. But she spins so much she twirls into a dresser. She gets a whiff of a burning smell coming from the kitchen, she runs there and discovers that she left the mushroom soup cooking in the pot for too long.
Goldilocks goes outside in search of more mushrooms when she stumbles and lands on a hole. Unbeknownst to her that it's a rabbit hole at first, she suddenly hears someone demanding her to get off the hole. That someone is a young rabbit named Ben, who would like her not to block his exit. Goldilocks is amazed to come across and hear a talking rabbit. Before long, she learns she's able to communicate with him and understand him, because she's in an enchanted forest. Once Ben hears of her situation, he tells her he can point her the way through the forest. Despite being wary of this, she decides to go along with him anyway. There, she meets an owl named Ollie, who provides riddles and sayings, and Ben's mother, who's biased against humans, and has Ben sent home. Ollie gives Goldilocks directions to her destination. She finds a swarm of fireflies who carry her up a tree to safety when there's a moose stampede. Afterwards, the swarm forms an arrow and point to a cave where she spends the night.
The next day, Goldilocks awakens, leaves the cave, and carries on her way. An aroma reaches her nose, she follows it, and is lured to a cottage. After checking to see if anyone is home, she enters. The aroma comes from three bowls of porridge. The first bowl she tries is too hot, the second is too cold, but with the third being just right, she eats out of that one. She tries out sitting in three chairs next. The first chair is too hard, the second too soft, the third being comfortable enough until she breaks it. Goldilocks heads to the upstairs bedroom and tests each of the three beds next. Once again, the first is too hard, the second too soft, the third just right and she dozes off in it. A family of three bears, the father named Herbert, the mother named Beverly, and their son named Bartholomew arrive home. When they get back, Herbert and Beverly are surprised to find that someone ate part of their porridge, but Bartholomew finds his is all gone. The parents then discover that someone sat in their chairs, which are still intact, but Bartholomew's is broken. Next, they spot that somebody has been laying in their beds. Herbert and Beverly's beds are disarrayed, however, Bartholomew and his parents see the culprit is still in his bed: Goldilocks. She wakes up to find the bruins in front of her and frightened, she attempts to make a break for it, jumping onto Beverly's bed prior to crawling, and hiding, under Herbert's. It turns out the bears are nice, amicable, and harmless. They're really peaceful and have no interest in looking to cause any trouble. As they introduce themselves to Goldilocks, she befriends them. Bartholomew becomes her playmate and his parents watch them riding a seesaw. Goldilocks then thinks about returning home, as he parents must wonder where she is. When she gets off the seesaw, she accidentally causes Bartholomew to land hard on his behind, hurting it. As he cries out in pain, she goes to him to comfort him. Herbert directs Goldilocks on how to get back home. After she leaves, a net is thrown over the bears, capturing and trapping them. When Goldilocks returns home and tries explaining to her mom and dad where she'd been, due to lack of proof, they disbelieve her seemingly farfetched story and admonish her for it. Nevertheless, they're just glad and grateful to have her back in one piece. Sometime later, Goldilocks's mom tells her she has a free ticket for her to go to a circus and offers, if she'd like to attend. She is and, with delight, she gives her mom a tight hug around her neck.
While Goldilocks waits in line to enter a circus tent and gets closer to it, a ringmaster named McNulty (who is revealed to be the bear-napper) collects her ticket and she enters. She enjoys the show with the rest of the crowd until she sees her ursine friends among the circus performers, she takes pity on them for their plight. After the show, she goes off in search of the Bear family and finds they're being kept in a circus caravan. A clown named Bongo comes to stop her, but Herbert tells him it's alright, as she's their friend. After Bongo explains about McNulty, he tells Goldilocks to get down and hide. After McNulty leaves, she asks where the keys to the caravan are kept so she can free the bears. She manages to sneak inside of McNulty's caravan trailer (where he's sleeping) and retrieves the key set. Once that's accomplished, she frees the bears and everyone makes a dashing escape. McNulty is on to this and goes after them. Goldilocks leads the others to a tent for safety. McNulty follows them and Goldilocks's friends follow her as they clim up a ladder, and move across a tightrope, with Herbert riding a unicycle and the others having climbed on him. McNulty attempts to get them down by cutting the tightrope, but a gorilla, who picked up the dropped set of keys, prevents him from doing this. The tightrope comes loose, but Goldilocks, the bears, and Bongo land on a safety net, bouncing up and down unharmed. McNulty is left hanging and dangling upside down on another tightrope, desperately calling for help.
When they've made it back to the forest, Bongo says that since he left the circus life behind, he no longer has a home. The bears offer him to live with them and he takes them upon it. Bartholomew asks if Goldilocks can live with them too. She tells him no, because she has parents too and a home to return to, but promises she'll be back for visits. Herbert brings up the fact that if there were more people like Goldilocks, both people and animals would be more likely to live together harmoniously. Ben sees Goldilocks again and Ollie begins to quote another saying, but can't get just what the saying is right and the others have a hearty laugh.
Personality[]
Goldilocks is an imaginative girl and she uses the power of make-believe to relieve her boredom, although she can easily get out of hand with her fantasizing and is frequently preoccupied. She's also sweet-tempered, caring, reliable, unselfish, considerate, and empathetic or sympathetic. She's clever at coming up with ideas.
Physical Appearance[]
Goldilocks is a young, slender, Caucasian girl with curly locks of a golden shade of blonde hair, and has azure eyes. She wears a light pink hair bow; a radical red, knee-length, circle dress with short, puffy sleeves; an electric blue, folded collar with matching chest apron; white socks, and pink Mary Jane shoes.