The film was shot in Kartanonkoski in the city of Vantaa and also in Hyvinkää, Porvoo and Sipoo in the summer 2009.

[3] The previous Ricky Rapper film was shot a couple of years earlier and the kid actors, as Ricky Rapper and Nelly Butterfly, were "over-aged".

However, previous stars make a pop-up visit during the end credits of the film.

The Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief received 38,425 viewers in its first weekend – almost double as the previous film.

[4] In 2010, the Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief received 328 000 viewers and it was the second popular Finnish film in that year.