List of vehicles

There are many vehicles featured over the course of the Total Drama series, in addition to the two main vehicles: The Boat of Losers and the Lame-o-Sine. Some serve significant roles in the episodes they appear in, while others are simply one-time vehicles. Most of them are driven/piloted by either Chris McLean or Chef Hatchet. As a running joke in the series, most of the vehicles are often low-budget, poorly-built, and not well-maintained.

The Boat of Losers

 * see: Boat of Losers

The Boat of Losers is the boat used to transport eliminated contestants to Playa des Losers.

The Plane

 * See main article: Airplane

The Canoe(s)

 * See main article: Canoe



The ATV
The ATV is a red, four-wheeled vehicle with an orange and yellow flame design on the side. It, like the plane, is mainly driven by either Chris or Chef. It was also the first recurring vehicle to appear in the series (besides the Boat of Losers).

Its debut was in Not So Happy Campers - Part 2 when Chris used it to keep up with the scattered members of the Killer Bass, who was mainly falling behind significantly in the challenge.

Its second appearance was in The Big Sleep. During the first part of the challenge, when the campers had to run 20 kilometers, Chris was seen riding alongside some of them on the ATV to tell them to hurry up.

Its next appearance was in X-Treme Torture, in which Chris was seen casually riding on it over the course of the episode, particularly in the third challenge, and as he announced that Harold had lost that challenge, and the game overall, for the Killer Bass.

In That's Off the Chain!, Chris rode up to the Arts 'N Crafts Center on it to explain the day's challenge to the remaining campers. Later in the episode, he was riding it alongside the starting/finish line of the race track that the campers would have to race their bikes on as he explained the second half of the task.

It's last appearance was in Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island. When Chris and Chef see that Courtney has found a wall with a fake forest backdrop on it, and is starting to scale the wall, Chris tells Chef to stop her. He immediately jumps onto the ATV and speeds off into the woods. However, he does not reach her in time. Instead, he is seen much later into the special, riding up to Gwen, Trent and LeShawna, and asking if they've seen Courtney go by in the hot-air balloon. As he explains the situation, LeShawna knocks him out with a log and hijacks the ATV, allowing Gwen and Trent to join her, and uses it as a faster way of getting around. Towards the climax, the three ride into the campgrounds on the ATV, but LeShawna notices Heather and Harold also running into the campgrounds. She decides to get back at Heather for insulting her earlier that day, and revs up the ATV. At the last second, Gwen and Trent jump off just before she speeds straight towards the duo. She chases them onto the Dock of Shame, and they jump right into the lake. Despite this, she continues riding at full speed, crashing the entire ATV into the lake as well, which presumably destroys it.

LeShawna's Trailer

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The Lame-o-sine

 * see: Lame-o-sine

The limo used to transport the eliminated contestants back home.

The Golf Cart and Trailer
This double vehicle also had its first appearance in Monster Cash. Shortly after the castmates were first dropped off at the Film Lot, Chris arrived in a golf cart, pulling a long trailer attached behind it, with enough seats for the fourteen castmates to sit in. Chris then slowly pulls the trailer through the Film Lot, giving the cast a basic tour of the Film Lot, as well as an explanation of the season and how it will go. He then takes them right into the middle of the Monster Movie set, and unceremoniously dumps them off there to start the challenge. It was then seen once more at the very end of the episode, when Chris was riding it past the castmates as he told them to get a good night's sleep in their trailers (which had just been rebuilt by Chef). In this episode, Chris claims that the golf cart is rented by the hour, despite it having several more appearances later on in the season. It was also seen to have a special feature; when Chris pressed a red button, several panes of glass rose up to enclose the four open sides of the cart (where the windshield, windows, and rear window would be), so that when the cart passed behind the Lame-o-sine, the heavy cloud of exhaust being expelled from it would not affect him, but the fourteen castmates were hacking and coughing on it. Shortly afterwards, when Geoff was getting impatient and wanted to get on with the challenge, Chris claimed that the cart had an eject button, and that he would use it, which silenced Geoff. However, he was most likely lying about this just to get Geoff to be quiet.



In Masters of Disasters, the golf cart and trailer were featured in the first half of the challenge, when the roof of the trailer was removed so that Chris could attach a massive machine gun onto it that could fire golf balls at the contestants (to simulate hail). Chef was seen to be sitting in the golf cart that was attached to the trailer at the time. This is the last appearance of the trailer, but the golf cart is seen later.



The golf cart is seen by itself for the first and last time in One Million Bucks, B.C.. At the end of the challenge, when the Killer Grips emerged victorious, Chef drove up in the golf cart with their reward, a "mammoth-sized" slab of ribs, tied to the roof. However, he left the cart running, so the moment he got out, it instantly moved backwards and fell right into the nearby tar pit, with both the cart and the ribs sinking into the tar to be buried forever.

Despite the golf cart supposedly being destroyed in the previous episode, it (or possibly another one) appears again in Million Dollar Babies, when Chris rides up to the cast in it to tell them about the fifth and final challenge of the day: cheerleading.

The golf cart was featured yet again in The Aftermath: III in the "That's Gonna Leave a Mark!" segment. The clip showed Chef driving the golf cart in the previous episode, on the way to deliver the doomed ribs to the victorious Grips. However, he accidentally rear-ended a similar golf cart, which was driven by the Sasquatchanakwa. The angry yeti retaliated by pulling a golf club out of a bag in the back of his cart and repeatedly whacking the front-right tire of Hatchet's golf cart, then flipped him off.

Appropriately, the final appearance of the Golf Cart was in part one of the season finale, Mutiny on the Soundstage. Towards the very end, Chef used it to bring a massive safe over to the earthquake rig from Masters of Disasters so that he and Chris could launch it at the two finalists, Beth and Duncan, while they were running the course.

The Yellow Bus
The yellow bus, which bears a resemblance to a regular school bus, appeared in Beach Blanket Bogus when it was used to take the cast from the Film Lot back to Camp Wawanakwa for the second and third parts of the challenge. A fairly significant character development scene in the episode centered around the bus, in which Gwen and Duncan sneak off to disable the bus so that they will have to stay at Camp Wawanakwa for the night, since they both apparently missed the cabins. They exchange some playful banter as Duncan works to dismantle the engine, and just as Gwen starts to playfully insult his dismantling abilities, Duncan intentionally cuts the line to the horn, which causes it to honk loudly and repeatedly. Gwen, fearing that they will be caught, quickly apologizes, and Duncan fixes the cut line. Their plan ultimately works, and Chris let them stay at the island for the night until they can find another ride. There is some speculation that there would have been an elimination in this episode had it not been for Gwen and Duncan's mischief.

A different yellow bus appears in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special. While the Celebrity Manhunt cameraman were following Eva after Total Drama Action, they found that she was working out even harder by pulling the yellow bus on a rope using only her teeth.



Total Drama Jumbo Jet

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Multi-season Vehicles
These are all the vehicles that appear in more than one season.

The Helicopter
The helicopter is a red bubble helicopter with yellow stripes on the side. It is often used when Chris needs a good aerial view of something.

It first appeared in Up the Creek, when Chris flew over Boney Island to observe the two teams as they built signal fires. When Izzy tossed her fire-starter into the fire, the instant explosion blew the helicopter aside, but apparently did not harm it.

In Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon, Chris used the helicopter to rudely wake up the six remaining contestants, then do a recap of the last sixteen eliminations, although for Owen, who was having a dream about donuts, cheese, and other sweets at the time, the sound played right into his dream for a moment when he saw the helicopters carrying massive donuts beneath them.

Its next appearance was in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, when Chris was once again observing the campers' actions from the air. In the beginning of the special, he watched as Lindsay, Beth, Geoff, and Bridgette walked right under the case while it was hanging from a tree branch (although Ezekiel did see the case, Lindsay and Beth ignored him). As Bridgette and Geoff were making out underneath the case like it was a mistletoe, Chris was seen leaning out the side of the helicopter while Chef was flying it, and exclaimed, "OK, this is ridiculous!" Later, when Owen, Cody, DJ, and Tyler did see the case, Chris, still in the helicopter, yelled, "Finally!" At the very end of the special, after fourteen of the campers ended up in the lake and the case was eaten by a shark, the helicopter, still flown by Chef, swooped down over the Dock of Shame to drop off Chris before taking off again.

It then appeared early on in Total Drama Action, in Alien Resurr-eggtion. Towards the end of the episode, when Duncan, Gwen, and Trent were the only ones who made it out of the alien ship set with alien eggs, Chris swooped in overhead in the helicopter, declaring that he was the "military" who had to prevent them from getting the eggs back to base camp. He then pressed a button that dropped two huge missiles full of slime right into the Western town set that they were in, which exploded on impact and sent slime all over the place. Chris barely avoided getting slimed himself by closing the door just as the wave of slime that had flown up into the air splattered all over the helicopter. He successfully hit Duncan, but Gwen and Trent survived the blast and walked away slime-free and with the eggs.

The helicopter was not seen again until the Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special. When the entire Total Drama cast (along with Sierra and DJ's Mother) are chasing after Alejandro's bus in their bus, Chris and Chef decide to follow them in the helicopter, filming the chase the entire way. When the cast's bus flew off a cliff, Chris considered calling for help, only for him and Chef to laugh hysterically and leave. However, they ultimately decided to save them after all, and returned later, attaching a cable to the overturned bus and carrying it all the way back to the Abandoned Film Lot (which proves that the relatively small helicopter is actually very strong) with Owen, Gwen, Heather, Duncan, LeShawna, Izzy, DJ, Lindsay, Bridgette, Harold, Courtney, Cody, Tyler, Noah, Ezekiel, and Sierra all inside. Thus, these sixteen cast members all got to participate in Total Drama World Tour.

The Bus
The Bus is one of the main vehicles in the second season, and had a brief appearance in the third season. It is seen to transport the contestants to certain locations, particularly to where the season takes place in the first episode of each season. It is blue and white, has several noticeable grease and rust stains, and a large crack in one of the windows.

In Monster Cash, it dropped off the original fourteen contestants at the Film Lot, and a piece of it fell off the moment it stopped. It is apparently depicted as a regular city bus, and the driver is not seen to be Chris or Chef.

Its next appearance was almost at the opposite end of the season, in Top Dog. The bus was seen to drop off three of the final four contestants, Duncan, Beth, and Owen, along with their animal partners, in the middle of the woods so that they would have to make their way back to the Film Lot to win the day's challenge. After these three disembarked, Chris also emerged from the bus, and is thus believed to be the driver of the bus for this episode.



The Bus returns once more, in what is easily its most prominent role, in the Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special, although in this episode, it is owned by DJ and his momma. This episode is the first (and currently the only) one to show the interior of the Bus. It is depicted as practically being a mobile home, with many rows of seats, a roundtable setup, a giant-screen TV, and a lavatory. Celebrity Manhunt hosts Josh and Blaineley explain that after Total Drama Action, DJ and his mother went on to host their own cooking show. At first, it was highly successful, until something went wrong with their food that resulted in someone's death. The fiasco left the two homeless, bankrupt, and possessionless. Thus, they were forced to live in the bus and travel the country in it. The two of them arrived at the Gemmie Awards in the bus. Then, in the very end, when the cast tries to figure out a way to get to New York City, DJ offers them all a ride on the bus. Courtney takes it upon herself to drive the bus. They eventually come upon a similar bus that has the entire cast of what is supposedly Chris's new show, "Total Drama Dirtbags," inside, and is driven by Alejandro. A rather epic action sequence insues, involving Courtney ramming the Dirtbags' bus with their own bus, losing the front right wheel, and using a bra catapult to launch hundreds of choclate candies at the Dirtbags'. Eventually, the Total Drama cast is successful in ruining the Dirtbags' bus. However, Duncan and Courtney start making out in celebration, and the bus, with no driver, slowly moves off-road and eventually drives right off a cliff. Even after crashing, the bus still plays an important role. After Geoff, Trent, Beth, Katie, Sadie, Justin, Eva, and DJ's mother all leave to go get help, Chris and Chef arrive in the helicopter to resuce the cast. He lowers a cable and attaches it to the underside of the overturned bus. All of the remaining cast members climb inside the bus just before he pulls up and lifts the bus out of the canyon, eventually carrying it all the way back to the Film Lot. It was these fifteen contestants (along with Alejandro and Sierra) who would get to participate in Total Drama World Tour.

The Bus is seen in the very next episode, Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1, when it drops off all of the contestants at the airport where the Total Drama Jumbo Jet is waiting, similar to Monster Cash.

One-Time Vehicles
These are all the vehicles that have appeared only once in the series.

The White Scooter
The White Scooter, similar to the ATV, appears in The Big Sleep, when Chris tells all the 21 campers to finish running before dinnertime.

The Kayak
The kayak, similar to the canoe, appears in Dodgebrawl. While Tyler and Lindsay are taking a break from the dodgeball game to cuddle underneath the Dock of Shame, Heather finds them, and is enraged, since she commanded Lindsay to not date anyone on the other team. When Tyler tries to calm her down, she picks up the nearby kayak and throws it down on Tyler, crushing him.

The kayak was also briefly referred to in Up the Creek, when DJ nervously asked Geoff if canoes were the ones that flipped over a lot. Geoff replied, "Nah, you're thinking kayaks."

The Bikes
In That's Off the Chain!, the nine remaining contestants needed to build bikes for a motorcross race. LeShawna decided to hitch a ride on Izzy's bike to avoid building her own, but Izzy went crazy and ended up driving both of them all over the island for the whole episode, thus missing the challenge. At the end of the episode, they were seen riding off a cliff and crashing into the lake. The other eight all competed in the race after switching their bikes, and Geoff's, DJ's, and Gwen's bikes were crashed in a massive pile-up, leaving the other four bikes to reach the finish line and move onto the invincibility race; the last one to finish the race on this second stage was eliminated. These four were Owen's bike, a simple tricycle with large tires, Duncan's, a motorized one with a skull on it, Lindsay's, a nice one with a pink pony head, and Heather's (which was also built by Lindsay). Since Owen and Duncan wiped out (destroying both of their bikes) and never technically finished the race at all, Heather won and Lindsay was unfortunately eliminated. Their bikes were the only two not destroyed, but were presumably dismantled afterwards, since their usefulness had ended.

The Jet-Ski
The Jet-Ski appeared in Haute Camp-ture when Chris used it to get from Camp Wawanakwa to Playa Des Losers.

The Hot-Air Balloon
The hot-air balloon was probably the most significant of the vehicles featured in Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island, despite it being the only one to not be a recurring vehicle. In the scene where Courtney climbs over the wall and discovers that civilization was nearby all along, a cameraman in the balloon above her attempted to stop her by dropping a boom onto her head. However, she managed to pull the balloon down to her using the wire, and eventually chased out the cameraman and hijacked the balloon for herself. Through a series of events, Owen, Cody, DJ, and Tyler (who had the million dollar case at the time) ended up in her grasp when Owen's ankle was caught in the dangling boom wire, after the four of them fell off the 1,000-foot cliff. They eventually ended up in the basket with Courtney, and the bear got its ankle caught in the same boom wire as Owen had been. The five of them ended up getting in a long argument over the case, and during the quarrel, Courtney forgot to watch where the balloon was going. When it floated into the campgrounds, it ended up heading straight for the massive diving board platform, where Geoff, Bridgette, Katie, and Sadie were at the time. The four boys decided to jump for it, but Courtney snatched the case from them just before they fell, landing on the diving board. However, the bear then appeared in the basket behind her, and she also jumped and landed on the diving board. Neither the hot-air balloon nor the bear is seen again for the rest of the special.

It is unknown exactly what happened after Courtney abandoned ship, but it is presumed that the outcome of the situation basically resulted in the destruction of the balloon, and the bear survived, as he appeared later in the series (although there are most likely several different bears).

The Go-Karts
The go-karts were featured in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine, as they were part of the third and final part of the episode's challenge. The two teams had to build their own go-karts out of scratch, and then race them down the replica of the 1,000-foot cliff and cross the finish line first.

While the Gaffers were able to build a successful go-kart and get a strong head-start, the Grips had a much harder time, and basically had to hold their pieces together and run them down the mountain. At one point, the Gaffers' engine stalled, and the Grips passed them. Just when it seemed that the Grips were about to win, their go-kart suddenly fell apart, and the Gaffers were able to push their disabled go-kart over the finish line and win the challenge.

The Sports Car
The sports car is featured twice in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine. The first time is when Chris is doing the recap, and he is seen sitting in the sleek car, playfully revving the engine. As he finishes the ending line, "...on Total...Drama...Action!", he ends up carelessly driving off and smashing into a fake tree, which smashes the front half of the car. He then yells, "Aw, crap!" The second appearance of the car is very much like the first, in which Chris drives up to the castmates on the summit of the replica of the 1,000-foot cliff, and explains the final part of the challenge to them. After he finishes his explanation, he attempts to leave the scene in style, but once again carelessly speeds off, this time crashing off-screen, and yet again yells, "Aw, crap!" Seeing the damage the car took from the first hit, it can be assumed that it was thoroughly totaled by the second crash.

The Train
The train was the main vehicle featured in Get A Clue. It is probably the largest and most expensive vehicle featured yet in the series. It consists of the engine and two cars. Also, unlike most other vehicles, it actually appears to be in normal condition, and is not a cheesy mock-up of a real train, but is seen to be a perfectly real and operational train running on a seemingly-endless line of track. In the second half of the episode, the final five castmates (Duncan, Beth, Courtney, Harold, and Lindsay) were supposedly being treated with the reward of a first-class dinner on the rear car of the train while it was in motion. However, it went horribly wrong when all the lights on the train suddenly blacked out, and Chris was heard apparently resisting someone, then screaming. When the lights came back on, Chris was lying dead on the floor.

After realizing the situation they were in, the castmates' (particularly Courtney's) main concern was to get off the train. At Harold's suggestion, Beth attempted to phone the engineer, but she said that the line was dead. Courtney initially believed that it wasn't even real, and was simply on a rig to make it bounce and rattle like it was moving, and that the passing objects and scenery seen out the windows were simply holographic images. Courtney attempted to get Duncan to prove this true, and had him climb up through a hatch in the ceiling so that he could escape and go look for Chef, a producer, or any staff member who could help them. However, just as he climbed out, the train passed right through a tunnel, which knocked him right back into the train. Duncan was able to convince them that it was, in fact, a real train. Their new main concern was to stop the train. They attempted to throw random objects through a trapdoor they found in the floor so that they would get caught in the wheels and derail the train. However, everything they threw was completely destroyed, and did not stop the train.

Courtney told Duncan to check the other car to see if there was anyone else on the train with them. He did so, and presumably searched the engine as well, but when he came back, he told them that they were truly alone on the train. Eventually, Lindsay figured out that Courtney was the one who murdered Chris, and the real Chris (who, obviously, was not really dead) came into the car at that moment to declare that Lindsay had won the challenge due to solving the mystery of his "murder". After this, it is presumed that the train was finally brought to a stop to allow the castmates and Chris to get off.

Trivia

 * Overall, the one episode to feature the most amount of vehicles in it is Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, with four vehicles: The plane, the ATV, a canoe, and the hot-air balloon. Notably, three of these vehicles (the plane, the ATV, and the balloon) are destroyed by the end of the episode.


 * The vehicle to have the most amount of appearances is the canoe, with eight episodes (technically, it was seven episodes and the special).


 * It is worth noting that all of the vehicles that are often used by the contestants (including the plane, the canoe, and the go-karts) are the ones in poor condition. However, all the vehicles owned and used by Chris and Chef themselves (such as the ATV, the jet-ski, and the golf cart/trailer) are in fine condition.


 * It is possible that the plane is a predecessor to the Total Drama Jumbo Jet, which will be the main vehicle featured in Total Drama World Tour.


 * Overall, nine of the nineteen vehicles listed have been destroyed or are thought to be destroyed: The plane (crashed in the special), the ATV (crashed into the lake in the special), the kayak (damaged beyond repair when Heather dropped it in Dodgebrawl), the trailer (blown up by a cannon in Search and Do Not Destroy), the bikes (most of which were crashed and destroyed in That's Off the Chain!, and the others presumably scrapped afterward), the balloon (unknown; last appeared in the special), the go-karts (in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine, one fell apart and the other was crashed and destroyed), the sports car (also destroyed in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine; crashed twice), and DJ's Momma's bus (fell off a cliff in the special).