The Big Idea Box Kate and Mim-Mim

# Lift me up into the sky

# See the world through my eyes

# Mimiloo is where we'll fly

# And the chances are

# You're all I'll ever need

# Funny bunny friend of mine

# We will always be

# You and me

# Kate and Mim-Mim. #

THEY LAUGH Huh?

Look what just arrived!

Wow! What's in the box?

It's the ukulele I ordered.

Hm, it's a little out of tune.

I'll be right back to play you a song. Here, take the box.

What should I do with it?

-Use your big imagination and have fun with it. Surprise me!

-Hmm.

I wonder what we can do with a big box like this?

Mim-Mim, funny bunny friend, it's time to come to life again!

Kate and Mim-Mim, me and you, let's twirl away to Mimiloo!

Ah, I just love it here in Mimiloo.

It's the happ-happ-happiest place there is!

DISTANT SOBBING Well, it was...

Kate, Mim-Mim, over here! There's something wrong with Tack.

-CRASH

-Oh!

-HE CRIES

-Goodbye, diggerator.

See you later, gizmo be gone!

But we like your inventions, Tack.

They're fun, and super helpful.

Yeah! What if we need to use your moustache-maker?

Whoa!

Moustache-maker! Moustache-maker!

-Or the hoppy socks?

-Oh-ho-ho, hoppy socks! Ya, ya!

I have to get rid of them all.

They remind me of inventing.

My thinker is broken!

Tack, what's a thinker?

My thinker is what I use to think up all of my great inventions. See?

Oh, no. Are you OK?

Usually my big idea board is filled with big ideas,

but it's empty.

I can't call myself an inventor any more.

I have no ideas to invent!

Don't worry, Tack. You'll think of some great new ideas soon.

You always do!

I hope so, Kate, because I'm Tack the inventor,

and if I can't think of any big ideas and invent useful things...

HE SOBS

..I won't be Tack any more.

-What's that, Tack?

-It's my big idea box.

I keep all my unfinished big invention ideas in there.

But see, it's empty too.

My big idea board is blank and my big idea box is empty!

-I have nothing left to invent.

-Wait, Tack!

Instead of throwing away your inventions,

this box is just what you need to get your thinker thinking again.

But there aren't any ideas in it. It's just a big empty box.

Not if you use your imagination and pretend that it's something else.

Oh, no! It's starting to rain. Everyone run inside the house!

Huh? Argh!

PATTERING Listen to that rain!

It certainly is pouring out here.

So you think pretending will help me fix my broken thinker

-and come up with new ideas?

-Uh-huh.

Sometimes the best ideas happen when you're just having fun.

That could work, Kate!

-Wait, where are you going?

-Back to work!

I'm going to pretend that my thinker is fine,

and there's nothing wrong with me.

I should be back to my old self in no time.

And if you feel like playing, we'll be right here, inside the box.

THEY LAUGH

Ha, I know! I invent best in the morning.

I'll pretend to wake up.

HE SNORES

-BRRRING!

-Ahhh. Morning time already?

It's a brand-new day inventing brand-new things

with my unbroken thinker!

I can feel an invention coming on.

Oh, come on! You can do it!

Arrrgh. I know you can.

-Oh, it's no use.

-Tack!

Look, we're floating away in our hot-air balloon basket. Woo-hoo!

Wa-hey! Woo!

Oh, my, how will they float back down?

Help us, Tack! Help us!

-Hee-hee-hee.

-Huh, you're just pretending.

I just need to do a few brain exercises, that's all.

Maybe I can use my thinking helmet to get my thinker going again.

Oh, yeah. I can just feel those big idea brain juices flowing.

-Nope. I really don't. I got nothing.

-Tack!

THEY SQUEAL AND LAUGH

-Now we've landed on a strange planet.

-Ahh!

-What should we do?

Should we look outside?

-Blibber-blibber-blibber...

-Oh, no! It's a big three-headed alien.

A big, purple, three-headed alien, coming in for a landing!

-Hee-hee. Tickle, tickle, tickle.

-Tickly!

-This is fun!

How many fun-tastic ideas can one big idea box have?

As many as we can imagine. Come on, Tack!

The big purple alien is tickling us!

-We need you!

-We really need you!

Eeeee, come on!

Come on, now, just one idea!

Please!

Tack! Hey, Tack!

The big boomer volcano is rumbling.

Come help us before it goes boom!

Glibble-globble-glibble...

ALL: Kaaaa-BOOM!

Ha-ha. Boomer-cano! Go boom! Ha-ha-ha.

-HE SIGHS

-Look at them.

It's just an empty box! How can they think of so many ideas but I can't?

What's wrong with me?

I think his thinker is still broken.

His thinker is fine. He's just trying too hard, that's all.

Come on, Tack! You can't make your thinker think up big ideas.

You don't always have to have a big idea!

Tack, why don't you take a break and come and play with us?

Pleeeeaase?

OK. Maybe I should stop trying so hard.

I'm coming!

One roller coaster coming right up. Tickets, please.

You can't ride the roly-poly roller coaster without a ticket.

Thank you. Thank you.

All right, hold on tight.

-Are you ready, Tack?

-Ready!

Here...we...gooo!

-Ho-ho-ohhhh!

-Oooh!

Um, Kate? I can think of another thing we didn't think of.

Brakes, brakes, brakes, brakes!

I'll pretend I didn't hear that!

ALL: Whooooa!

Yay! Soft landing. Oh, no.

ALL: Whoooa-ahhhh!

-Is everyone OK?

-That was close.

Arrrrggggh!

-Thanks.

-Oh, no. We're surrounded by prickly prickles.

-What do we do?

-There won't be any more ideas

coming out of the big idea box, that's for sure.

-It's flat!

-It's too bad Tack's thinker is broken.

We could really use it right about now.

Yeah, whenever there's trouble,

Tack always thinks of an idea that's super spectacular.

-Pretty please?

-I wish I could help.

But I couldn't even pretend my thinker was working.

But, Tack, this isn't pretend trouble. This is real trouble!

-We need your help.

-I know you can do it, Tack.

Your thinker works best when someone needs something.

Wait, you're right. You do need me!

I feel an idea coming.

OK, we could fold the box into a plane and fly ourselves out.

Or turn it into a slide and slide away.

Oh! A bulldozer! A bulldozer would be perfect.

We can smash our way out.

Yay!

-Great idea.

-Bulldozer smash!

All aboard my latest invention -

the bulldozing trail-buster prickle-smasher.

Now all we have to do is run!

-THEY PANT

-Bulldozer smash!

It worked. Great idea, Tack!

-We knew you could do it.

-Ha-ha, thanks!

I think my thinker is all fixed.

Ha-ha-ha, it's good to be me again! Got to go.

-Got to go where, Tack?

-To put all my new big ideas

on my big idea board.

I have so many inventions to invent. My thinker is bursting with ideas.

Welcome back, buddy. Ha-ha-ha.

I tuned my ukulele.

Kate, where'd you go?

-Ka-boom!

-Oh! Ha-ha-ha.

-Wow, you got me!

You turned the box into a volcano.

Dad told me to surprise him,

so I needed to use my imagination to invent something fun.

-Just like Tack.

-Oh!

Weeee!