Joonas Utti and Anttu Harlin created the 11-minute segments that follow 12-year-olds Emmer and Veera after they discover a towering yellow yeti on the outskirts of their Lapland town. The creature, voiced by Trevor Dion Nicholas, is loud, clumsy and almost indestructible, turning snow days into chaos for the entire community. Episodes pit the trio against a gadget-obsessed mayor, a fame-hungry teacher and the endless polar night, all rendered in blocky colours and a thumping synth score by Benjamin Nakache and Mathieu Rosenzweig.
Gigglebug Entertainment pitched the concept to Disney in 2014, shelved it to co-develop 101 Dalmatian Street, then revived production in summer 2020 with Zodiak Kids Studios boarding as French co-producer. Fifty micro-stories were shipped from Helsinki to Paris for bilingual voice work, with Emma Ballantine, Caoimhe Judd and a mostly British cast recording remotely during lockdown. The final 25-episode run premiered on Yle Areena in Finland before rolling out on Disney Channel EMEA and Disney+ UK between May and December 2022, after which the rights quietly reverted to the Finnish studio.
Production Details
Disney Channel / 1 Season / 50 Episodes / 2022
Created by: Joonas Utti, Anttu Harlin
Showrunner(s): Anttu Harlin, Benoît Di Sabatino
Writer(s): Anastasia Heinzl
Producer(s): Anttu Harlin Benoit De Sabatino
Main Cast
Nadine Marshall as Ms Atomic Pie (voice)
Emma Ballantine as Emmer (voice)
Caoimhe Judd as Veera (voice)
Rasmus Hardiker as Osmo (voice)
Amy-Leigh Hickman as Rita (voice)
Paul Tylak as Mayor Chrome (voice)
Christopher Ragland as Ned (voice)
Harriet Carmichael as Lydia (voice)
Trevor Dion Nicholas as Gustav (voice)
