#(theyre not bad dreams or nightmares or anything just standard surreal narrative dream fare. i just have so many of them)

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im truly so sorry im about to write another needlessly long text post about the 1992 TV movie The Tin Soldier performed by the Ottawa Ballet Company and narrated by Sally Struthers yet again BUT

okay so like some background, i have my lovely shitty vhs copy I bought when I was like 16 for 7 bucks and at the time that was the only way I could find it (wasn’t online and the only place i could find a dvd was seemingly non-operational digital storefront that ive been unable to find again by one of the distribution companies selling very expensive library and/or educational copies) and nowadays we have that one copy on youtube someone uploaded a year and a half ago BUT while the copy on youtube is relatively high definition it is also very frame-jumpy and has a lot of strange artifacting and while my copy is fine on the framerate front it is a cheap EP tape from the 90s and it looks like this

which has its own value (i gotta learn how to gif movies...i can feel the aesthetic posts in my bones) BUT ANYWAY what im saying is we have access to this movie a lot easier now but we don’t have access to like... a good copy SO i decided to try to see if I could find a DVD copy somewhere online nowadays...I’ve been on a physical home media kick ever since I got that cheap copy of the Otogirisou movie kjdsfajsgdfskda

anyway I was looking to see if I could find anything and weirdly I found an amazon listing for like, a UK DVD of this other tv movie from the 90s called The Tin Soldier but this one is like a normal live action movie and from 1995 and I was about to dismiss it bUT i looked at the reviews and there are multiple from the years 2007 to like 2020 complaining that they bought it expecting the 1995 movie but instead getting a 48 minute ballet narrated by Sally Struthers....the 1992 movie!! and thats weird enough that it seems to be happening to multiple people across 13 years BUT ALSO according to these reviews, the movie is shipping in the proper DVD case for the 1995 movie, with like all the actors and everything on it, and possibly even the DVD itself might be printed with information about the 1995 movie? but then they play it and it’s our old pal The Tin Solider (1992) Narrated By Sally Struthers...

i wonder if like, maybe both movies had the same DVD manufacturing company? or distribution company? something like that? and somewhere along the production of specifically these region 2 DVDs, the wrong movie (1992) got burned onto the 1995 discs? or maybe the 1992 discs were put in the 1995 cases by accident? and then they were shipped out like that and are still being sold as recent as 2020... i cannot stop thinking about this i know i’m going all

again but like. much to think about

yknow i. i actually havent rewatched the movie yet. i havent actually seen this thing since i was literally like 7. i think. i think i know more about this movie’s production and distribution than i do about the plot at this point