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Sunshine is Captain Star's seventh and youngest tug, a small 'harbor switcher' who is used for a wide variety of tasks around Bigg City Port. He has many capabilities that range from the towing of barges to liner docking operations.
Sunshine can be occasionally cheeky at times, making jokes and puns, but is very strong willed nevertheless.
Sunshine works mainly with Ten Cents, the Star Fleet's first tug, and a much larger switcher then Sunshine. They have shared many adventures, almost to the extent that it is impossible to imagine one without the other, and they are both the best friends.
Biography[]
Sunshine is the newest tug. He lived and worked upriver from Bigg City Port. Billy Shoepack appears to be a friend from those days.
Captain Star brought Sunshine to help out with his fleet’s extra work, but he and Ten Cents were then tasked to bring in the Duchess when Big Mac was unavailable. During the docking, Zorran nudged Sunshine out of the way and everyone thought it was Sunshine that almost caused an accident. Depressed and disliked by the Stars, Sunshine ran away from Bigg City and crashed into a mudbank. Luckily, Izzy Gomez happened to have seen everything and the Stars took Sunshine to Lucky’s Yard.
Personality[]
Sunshine can be occasionally cheeky at times, but he is very strong willed nevertheless. He is quick-witted and takes action swiftly without hesitation. He is generally levelheaded and cheerful, and takes on most jobs with little complaining. He also appears to have a slight crush on Sally Seaplane.
Sunshine also can figure things out very quickly, as in Jinxed where he points out that each of jinxed tug Boomer's unfortunate mishaps occurs right after Ten Cents sounds his steam hooter, suggesting a cause-and-effect relationship. He's also more open-minded about unusual phenomena (such as ghosts) than Ten Cents is.
In early stages, Sunshine was slightly less obedient and during his first time working for Captain Star, he winded up the Z-Stacks.
Appearance[]
Basis[]
Like the rest of the Star Fleet, Sunshine is based on the tugs of San Francisco waters from the 1920s.
Livery[]
Sunshine is painted in the Star Fleet's corporate livery. This consists of a black hull, a yellow superstructure, white mast, and an American flag-styled red, white, and blue funnel. His name is painted on the sides of his bow in white and he has the number "7" on his funnel. He was originally painted in the Salvage Fleet's white livery. He wears a red cap.
Throughout most of Jinxed, Sunshine's handrails on his wheelhouse are white. At the end of said episode, the handrails are yellow, just as they are in other episodes.
Trivia[]
- In the television series, Salty's Lighthouse (which reused edited episodes of TUGS), Sunshine was portrayed as a female character (along with Captain Star and Little Ditcher), and was Ten Cents' little sister, presumably to appeal at a wider audience of children.
- Along with Ten Cents and Top Hat, Sunshine is one of the only characters to appear in every episode.
- In 2012, Sunshine's model was purchased by The Star Tugs Company and is currently on display at the Tugs Exhibition.