#Gregory Sierra

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Kissing leads to necking and necking leads to more necking and more necking leads to screaming and rolling around! No no no no!

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1947, a man was pulled from his car and was later found in a grisly condition; his leg had been eaten off. Some speculated this was the work of the Jersey Devil as this happened in the woods in New Jersey. ("Jersey Devil", X-Files, TV)

[oldshowbiz]

Face of the 1970s: Gregory Sierra.

[forever70s]

Gregory Sierra on the set of "Barney Miller" (1976)

[thebutcher-5]

Vampires (1998)

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Dopo aver fatto diversi articoli sull’animazione e la Disney, siamo tornati a parlare di live-action e questa volta l’abbiamo fatto con uno dei registi europei che nell’ultimo periodo si è dimostrato veramente abile. Il film in questione è Inexorable. La storia parla di Marcel, uno scrittore divenuto famoso dopo aver pubblicato il suo primo libro,…

[olivierdemangeon]

THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974) ★★★★☆

THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974) ★★★★☆

[goblingirlgratitude]

happy new music friday to meeee :3

[nightguide]

WORRY LESS - SIERRA CARSON FT. GREGORY PORTER

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FAC. EGC. EGB. EAC

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I DONT WANNA WAIT FOR YOU

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EVEN

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IF I TRIED TO SETTLE SCORES WITH YOU

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TALK TO ME IF YOU WORRY LESS

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I SETTLE SCORES WITHIN ME

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I LIED TO LIVE UP YOUR PAST

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YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD TAKE

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MUCH MORE THAN I CAN LET IT OUT

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YOU. WILL. NEVER. TAKE.

MY BREATH AWAY

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ITS A CRIME TO LOSE A FEELING

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ONE ROUGH SEPTEMBER NIGHT

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I DONT REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID THAT TIME

*CHORUS (FAC - I SETTLE SCORES WITHIN ME TO MY BREATH AWAY)

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WORRY LESS TO SEE YOUR MOTHER THERE

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CRYING HARDER THAN SHE USED TO BEAR

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GUILT TRIPPING IN MY BONES

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YOU. DONT WANT TO CARE

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THE STRANGEST DAYS

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OCCURRED TO ME

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FAR AWAY

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ITS IN MY DESTINY

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WORRY LESS

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I’LL GIVE YOU MORE

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BUT PROMISE ME, YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER EVER BE THE

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SAME, WORRY LESS,

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I’LL GIVE YOU MORE, MY MOMMA SAID DONT WORRY LESS

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I’LL DO IT IF YOU

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PROMISE ME THAT I CAN GIVE YOU MORE

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IF YOU WORRY LESS,

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I CAN GIVE YOU MORE

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[sageandscorpiongrass]

could you do a web about loving someone who doesn’t love you back

certainly!

I Wish That You Loved Me.

I Swear Somewhere This Works, Trista Mateer | For the Best, Gregory and the Hawk | Today Means Amen, Sierra DeMulder | from the unsent project | poem I wrote sitting across the table from you, Kevin Varrone | The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemmingway | Cascando, Samuel Beckett | Hungry Thread of Nerves, Fatima Aamer Bilal | Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay | @/haematiclove on twitter | Lullabies, Lang Leav | In a Dream You Saw a Way To Survive, Clementine von Radics | Don’t You Dare (Make Me Fall in Love With You), Kaden MacKay | Honeybee: Baggage, Trista Mateer | If This Were My Book The Ending Would Be So Different, Natalia Vela

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[callmebrycelee]

MAN CRUSH MONDAY

NOAH CENTINEO

Noah Gregory Centineo was born May 9, 1996 in Miami, Florida. The 28-year-old American actor is best known for his roles in the television series The Fosters and the Netglix romantic comedy films To All the Boys I've Ever Loved Before, Sierra Burgess is a Loser, and The Perfect Date. He has also starred in Charlie's Angels, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, To All the Boys: Always and Forever, Black Adam, Good Trouble, and The Recruit. Noah is 6 feet and 1 inch tall.

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[aeterna-auroral-avenger]

✍️ WIP WEDNESDAY ✍️

Thanks for the tag @neonshrike

Tagging @midnightkens @sobeautifullyobsessed @gender-kenvy @superprofesh and anyone else who wants to share a WIP!

Okay so since I've been on my Court Gentry nonsense, I'm going to pick the WIP related to him...where Sierra Six (movie/book character mix) has to team up with an autonomous thief dubbed the Unseen when the CIA decide bringing that particular asset into their web would prove to be quite beneficial, especially for the task at hand. And good ol' Court is not a fan of this plan. The mission they go on gets pretty crazy.

Just another Thursday for the Gray Man.

The Gray Man did not like this plan.  He thought this was a terrible idea, and the people at Langley were crazy for even considering partnering with threats like von Arnim and the Unseen. 

Gregory von Arnim was scum, and that fact was evident in every portion of his file.  Fiztroy supplied him with all the intel the CIA had about the man, and Court had a hard time digesting some of the things he read.  This guy seemed to have a hand in a lot of jars.  He looked nice and tidy on the outside, but he left a trail of corrosion in his wake.  And apparently the Unseen was on his payroll.  Which honestly pissed Court off.

The Unseen was a legend in the world in which Sierra Six worked.  Of course he had heard of her.  Who hadn’t at this point?  The only thing known for certain about her was she’s a Caucasian female.  Everything else was speculation, whether educated guesses or fantasization. One such speculation that always made him laugh was how the Unseen placed her victims under a spell and took things from them with their verbal consent.  That one had to be the craziest, but there were some that weren’t too far away from taking first in that contest.  

Still, Court mused as he cautiously approached the rendezvous point, there had to be some merit to the legend since the actual person behind it was off everyone’s radar, despite efforts to pin her down.  Even Fitzroy admitted that the Unseen was one of the more peculiar mysteries known to the agency, and many speculate the Unseen wasn’t one person but a collection of women who managed to pull off heists together.

That was until the CIA started looking for the Unseen not as a target but as an asset and a sleazy German-American came forward and said the Unseen was in fact a singleton female in his employ for eight years.  Even if Fitz hadn’t told Six to be careful around the Unseen, he would already be keeping his guard up just because of how shady von Arnim was.  If he was, why wouldn’t his best asset be too?

Court once admired the Unseen for what she could do and what she represented.  He suspected the Unseen truly had to be one person if not two or three women because all her missions had the same MO.  There were a lot of the same threads of figurative DNA in each that pointed to one person.  It’s in the same way her targets never knew they were hit until later.  It was in the way there always seemed to be a moment of distraction and even some chaos that just had to be when the theft took place.  It was in how so many of her missions carried some level of justice, involving targets that if Court could choose for himself, he would pick too.  To him, the Unseen was out trying to do some good in a crazy, shitty world.

The presence of Gregory von Arnim blew that theory to hell.

There was one thing about this plan he could appreciate which was that the Unseen refused to cooperate unless she solely worked with Sierra Six.  No handlers, no mics, no tracking systems on their person or surrounding them, no tagalongs.  Just two singletons forced to work together for a short time.  Things get less complicated that way.

The rendezvous point was a place of his choosing per the suggestion of the Unseen.  He suspected it was some kind of olive branch gesture since they had to be unlikely partners for a while, and he accepted the gesture but not the sentiment behind it.  He didn’t know her.  Why should he trust her from the get-go?  The place he chose was a bit cliche, but at least it was in neutral territory.  A park bench, specifically a park bench in St. Anne’s Park, Dublin, Ireland.  His choice for neutral territory wasn’t another olive branch gesture either.  It was just smart.  Neutral territory kept both of them safe, especially since they were very much active in their respective fields.

Fitz told him to look for a woman about Six’s age with brown curly hair, and the Unseen was told to pick a bench near the Roman tower that overlooked the duck pond.  The morning spring air carried a particular chill with it as a fog settled over the park.  It made looking for his connection a little difficult, but he kept his eyes peeled as he shoved his hands deep into the pockets of his navy coat.

It didn’t take as long as he feared to find a woman matching Fitzroy’s description - although a vague one - sitting on a bench near the tower with one leg crossed over the other, wearing jeans and a maroon coat, and reading a book.  No…no, not reading.  If she was reading, she was gazing over the edge of her book for any passersby more than the words on the page.  This, Court realized, was the Unseen in the flesh.

Before he could take a moment to study her before approaching, her eyes spotted him watching her, and they lingered curiously for a moment before she adjusted to a position more friendly for running away and placed her book in the bag resting beside her on the bench.  Court approached the bench and sat down on the opposite end.  

Both just stared straight ahead.

As part of the prearranged mandate they had set up via texting through the RedNumber app for approach and identification, since he was last to arrive, she was first to speak.  “Did you have a lot of turbulence on your flight over?”

Court exhaled slowly upon hearing the correct initiation phrase.  She’s American; that was a surprise to him.  In his line of work, it was more common to hear foreign accents than to hear a piece of home, but this detail did not put him at ease.  If anything, it just made him more wary for the time being.  He gave the correct reply, “If there was any turbulence, it just rocked me to sleep.”

The Unseen hummed thoughtfully as she continued to gaze ahead.  To anyone listening in, the sound could easily be a reaction to his comment, but Six knew better.  She was getting a read on him through his voice just like he did her.  They sat in silence for another moment before she casually commented, “I’m not exactly up to speed on proper teamwork procedure here, so I don’t know what would be next for you.  Being from where you work and all,” she shrugged.  He didn’t offer a reply.  “Am I allowed to at least ask for your name?”

To that, he did give a reply.  “Six.”

For the first time, the Unseen turned to face him, and her glance was amused, one eyebrow raised.  “Peculiar name you’ve got there.  Your family really big math nerds or something?” 

Court didn’t turn her way as he answered flatly, “It’s a code name.” 

“Oh this’ll be interesting,” she mused as she faced forward again and sighed.  “You don’t have a sense of humor.”

“I do, but you don’t have clearance to hear it.”  She hummed again, and he could hear the grin in it this time.  Moving on from it though, he commented, “We also have a job to do, and I prefer to focus on that and get it done as efficiently and quickly as possible.”

“Fair enough,” she nodded in agreement, and Court finally turned and looked at her.  The Unseen’s brown curls that fell well past her shoulders framed a face with freckles and big blue-green eyes.  Even though she was sitting, he guessed her to be six inches shorter than he was. Plump yet athletic.  Six suspected she had to be athletic to some degree in order to do what she does without getting caught.  She was pretty, but average just enough to blend into the crowd.  Rather like him, her description could fit a lot of people.  Except those eyes seemed to stand out to him the most. 

“My,” she barely hid a grimace as she said the next word, “employer says you have all the information I need, and my job is to come with and help you execute a plan.”

“And we’re on a deadline,” he added.

“Of course we are.”

He continued as if she hadn’t spoken.  “I need the device in my hands by Friday.”

She nodded again before standing.  “That gives us a little bit of wiggle room,” she told him as she started walking off, and he quickly stood and followed.  “I don’t plan on needing to use a contingency plan, but in my line of work, contingency plans are important.”

“Where are we going?”

“Somewhere we can actually talk.  If your employers listened to my conditions, then you’re the only one I need to wait for, and since you have a deadline, we need to get started.  I trust you’re not wearing a wire, right?  Because if you are, you’re on your own.  I said you and no one else.”

Court shook his head.  “I’m not wearing a wire.  As far as my end is concerned, it’s just you and me on this.  They’re used to me not checking in periodically anyway.  Nature of the job.”

“Sounds nice,” the Unseen mumbled with a sigh.

“Also I’m not calling you The Unseen.”

She snorted, but the look on her face said it was not the first time she had come across this particular statement.  “I did not pick the name.  You’re familiar with code names, right?  Six.”  She shook her head, but her eyes did not match the amused smile on her face.  They looked sad.  “You could drop the The if you prefer.  Many do that.  The only other code name I have to offer that you could use is Invis.”

Court made a face as he gave her a questioning look.  “Invis?”

“Short for Invisible.  I didn’t pick that one out either, and only a certain few use that one for me.  I’m getting the feeling that’s the most common thing about code names.  You never get to pick one for yourself, and people basically use whatever they want.  Anyway, that’s all I got for you unless you make one up yourself.”

“Invis is fine.”

[oldshowbiz]

1977.

A.E.S. Hudson Street starring Gregory Sierra

[tuttle-4077]

The 2024 Papa Bear Awards Nominees Continued

Best Portrayal of a Canon Character

Carter in A Brother's Bond by PicassoPenguin

Newkirk in A Deserved Gift by Cardinal Rose

Klink in Ashes by LightShiner14

Newkirk in Autumn Winds by Fear-Of-The-Cold

Kinch in Card Games, Vampires, and a Very Late Letter by TheSailingRabbit

Newkirk in Cracking the Vault by Sierra Sutherwind

Hogan in Decoration Day by Abracadebra

Newkirk in Drop Bears by dust on the wind

Carter in Exit, Pursued By A Bear by pronker

Klink in Klink's Brother by Sam Worth

Kinch in Mama Bear by PicassoPenguin

Newkirk in Once Is Enough by Abracadebra

LeBeau in Operation Mother Hen by Tuttle4077

Hogan in Sergeant 'Don't You Sass Me, Hogan' Wilson by whatisthismandoinghere

LeBeau in Spring Flowers by Tuttle4077

Newkirk in The Assassin by lonewolfette9846

Newkirk in Uneasy Company by dust on the wind

Hogan in Well and Truly Got by Cardinal Rose

Klink in Yoga Session by Deepbluethinking

Best Portrayal of a Canon Extra

Lagenscheidt in A Brief Moment by TheSailingRabbit

Gertrude Linkmeyer in In Too Deep by Crystal Rose of Pollux

General Burkhalter in No Rest For the Weary by Frau Wilhelm Klink

Hochstetter in Of Defectors and Strawberries by Hochstetter's Lady

Marya in Once Is Enough by Abracadebra

Wilson in Sergeant 'Don't You Sass Me, Hogan' Wilson by whatisthismandoinghere

Hochstetter in The Major's Malaise by Vintronics

Olsen in The Pigeons Strike Back by TheSailingRabbit

Lagenscheidt in Uneasy Company by dust on the wind

Marya in Unfair by PicassoPenguin

Wilson in Words of a Wise Wilson by whatisthismandoinghere

Best Original Character

Kurt Vedit in A Gathering of Friends Old and New by TheSailingRabbit

Lothar in Cracking the Vault by Sierra Sutherwind

MacDonald in Drop Bears by dust on the wind

Veidt in Focus by TheSailingRabbit

Adam Jones in Heroes by Sam Worth

Aunt Millie in My Dear Bob by Dabbled-at-Euchre

Karl Unger in Of Defectors and Strawberries by Hochstetter's Lady

Sasha in Once Is Enough by Abracadebra

Pitts, Potts, & P. 'Gregory" Putter in The Murder That Never Happened by Khebidecia

Reiger in The Pigeons Strike Back by TheSailingRabbit

The Pigeon with the Monocle in The Pigeons Strike Back by TheSailingRabbit

The Wind in The Winds of the World by Fear-Of-The-Cold

Best Story of 2023

Decoration Day by Abracadebra

Drop Bears by dust on the wind

Heroes by Sam Worth

Once Is Enough by Abracadebra

The Winds of the World by Fear-Of-The-Cold

Uneasy Company by dust on the wind

Well and Truly Got by Cardinal Rose

Best Multimedia Entry

Bullet Proof Vest by taylorsshitposts

Englishman in New York by Vielmouse

Every Group Needs by beej-machinations

Gin by Benevolenterrancy

Go Ask Mother by Benevolenterrancy

He's Blue by taylorsheroes

Hogan's Sea Shanty by Vielmouse

Hogan's Senses by Vielmouse

Marya: Unstoppable by Oconee Belle

Newkirk's Cap by Benevolenterrancy

Reality Vs Perception by Frau Wilhelm Klink

Rewired by Vielmouse

Subterfuge by Benevolenterrancy

Here's the rest of them! Congratulations to everyone, and thank you to those who participated in the Nomination Round. Please join us for the Voting Round. Votes are due April 21st. You can fill out the ballot found on the website and send it to papabearawards@yahoo.com or send it via PM to the Papa Bear Awards FFN account. Or you can fill out this easy-peasy survey.

@benevolenterrancy @beej-machinations @frau-wilhelm-klink  @whatisthismandoinghere @rose-of-pollux @radarsteddybear

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Figured that now that I've got a bookblr, I should make a post about the Read the World Challenge I'm doing! I'm reading a book primarily set in every country, doing my best to focus on authors from said country, though I will read diaspora authors if that's not feasible. Also some of the books from early on were from diaspora authors because I was pulling from books I had already read; I'll likely read more books from those countries in the future if I can. I've got 52 countries so far, and I'll list the titles and countries under the cut

USA- Kindred by Octavia Butler- 5⭐️

Canada- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline- 5⭐️

Trinidad and Tobago- The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull- 3⭐️

Brazil- Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha trans by Larissa Helena- 5⭐️

Argentina- Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica trans by Sarah Moses- 5⭐️

South Africa- The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden- 3⭐️

Nigeria- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor- 4⭐️

Liberia- Dream Country by Shannon Gibney 5⭐️

France- Romance in Marseilles by Claude McKay- 2⭐️

UK- Watership Down by Richard Adams- 5⭐️

Ireland- Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen- 4⭐️

Qatar- Love from A to Z by SK Ali- 4⭐️

Iran- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram- 4⭐️

China- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu trans by Ken Liu- 5⭐️

Taiwan- Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen- 4⭐️

Japan- Confessions by Kanae Minato trans by Stephen Snyder- 3.5⭐️

Norway- Survival Kit by AH Haga- 4.5⭐️

Germany- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak- 4.5⭐️

India- The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi- 4⭐️

South Korea- The Mermaid from Jeju by Sumi Hahn- 4⭐️

Columbia- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez trans by Gregory Rabassa- 4⭐️

Ghana- Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey- 4⭐️

Turkey- 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak- 4⭐️

Russia- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy trans by Louise Maude- 4⭐️

Sierra Leone- The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna- 4⭐️

Austria- The Wall by Marlen Haushofer trans by Shaun Whiteside- 5⭐️

Zimbabwe- Nervous Conditions by Tsiti Dangarembga- 5⭐️

Venezuela- It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo trans by Elizabeth Bryer- 4⭐️

Chile- The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende trans by Magda Bogin- 5⭐️

Sri Lanka- Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai- 4⭐️

Singapore- How We Dissappeared by Jing-Jing Lee- 4.5⭐️

Malaysia- Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf- 3.5⭐️

Egypt- A Master of Djinn by P Djèlí Clark- 4.5⭐️

Sudan- Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas- 4.5⭐️

Antigua and Barbuda- At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid- 4⭐️

Ukraine- The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh- 5⭐️

Bahamas- Learning to Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather- 4⭐️

Cuba- The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala trans by Anna Kushner- 4⭐️

Dominica- The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid- 3⭐️

Bangladesh- Djinn City by Saad Z Hossain- 4⭐️

Mexico- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia- 4⭐️

Jamaica- Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn- 4⭐️

Vietnam- Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai- 4.5⭐️

Australia- Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko- 4⭐️

Israel- Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa- 4.5⭐️

Palestine- Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa- 5⭐️

Costa Rica- Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias- 4.5⭐️

Uruguay- Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis- 5⭐️

Dominican Republic- Tentacle by Rita Indiana trans by Achy Obejas- 2.5⭐️

Republic of the Congo- Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou trans by Helen Stevenson- 2⭐️

Czech Republic- The Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař- 2.5⭐️

Honduras- Turtles of the Midnight Moon by María José Fitzgerald- 4.5⭐️

[collinthenychudson]

"One thing about trains: It doesn't matter where they're going. What matters is deciding to get on." - Conductor

Twenty years ago, The Polar Express made it's theatrical debut in cinemas across the United States. Loosely based on the 1985 children's book of the same name written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, the film was directed by Robert Zemeckis (who also directed the Back To The Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, etc.) With Alan Silvestri producing the film's music. Although the film's premiere was held at the Chicago International Film Fesitval on October 13th 2004, the theatrical debut took place on November 10th of that year.

Among the cast members was Tom Hanks (the voice of Woody in the Disney-Pixar Toy Story franchise) who took on the roles of Chris the Hero Boy, the Conductor, the Hobo, the Ebenezer Scrooge Puppet, Santa Claus, Chris' Father, and the narrator, although Chris' child voice was done by Daryl Sabara with additional motion capture done by Josh Hutcherson.

Other cast members include:

Nona Gaye (voice), Darrian O Driscoll (additional motion capture), Meagan Moore (singing voice), and Tinashe (motion-capture model) as Holly the Hero Girl.

Peter Scolari (motion capture), Hayden McFarland (additional motion-capture), Jimmy Bennett (voice), and Matthew Hall (singing voice) as Billy the Lonely Boy.

Eddie Deezen and Jimmy Pinchak (additional motion capture) as Know-It-All.

Michael Jeter (voice) and André Sogliuzzo (additional voice) as Steamer the Engineer and Smokey the Fireman.

Leslie Zemeckis (motion capture), Isabella Peregrina (voice) and Ashly Holloway (additional motion capture) as Sister Sarah and Chris' Mother.

Dylan Cash as a Boy on the Train.

Brendan King and Andy Pellick as the Pastry Chefs.

Josh Eli, Rolandes Hendricks, Jon Scott, Sean Scott, Mark Mendonca, Mark Goodman, Gregory Gast, and Gordon Hart as the Waiters.

Julene Renee as Red Head Girl and an Elf.

Chris Coppola and Connor Matheus (additional motion capture) as Gus the Toothless Boy and an Elf.

Phil Fondacaro, Debbie Lee Carrington, Mark Povinelli, and Ed Gale as the Elves.

Charles Fleischer as the Elf General.

Steven Tyler as the Elf Lieutenant and Elf Singer.

The locomotive that pulls the train is based on No. 1225, an N-1 class 2-8-4 "Berkshire" type locomotive that was built by the Lima Locomotive Works in October 1941 to pull freight trains for the Pere Marquette Railway. The locomotive's design and sounds were used for the Polar Express while the whistle came from Sierra Railway No. 3, a 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" locomotive built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works March 26, 1891.

Upon it's release, the film was met with mixed reviews with many people labeling the film as a "Christmas Classic" and others criticizing the film's characters as "lifeless zombies". The movie recieved a Rotten Tomatoes score of 56% but had otherwise performed successfully in the box office at $318.2 million reaching over the film's budget of $165-170 million. Over the years follwing it's theatrical debut, the film would be released to home media both on DVD and VHS with occasional DVD releases from time to time.

Like all films, The Polar Express also has marketing and other promotional materials. One example comes in the form of games based on the film such as a PS2 game of the same name, a Ticket Chase game, a Train Adventure game, and so forth. Another example is with model railroad and toy train companies such as Lionel and Brio have made various train sets based on the Polar Express train.

A third example includes various Polar Express-themed train ride events loosely based on the train's journey taking place at various heritage railroads during the Christmas season such as on the Durango & Silverton, Grand Canyon Railway, the B&O Railroad Museum, and even from Pere Marquette 1225, although under the name of "North Pole Express". In addition, SeaWorld Orlando did a temporary Christmas Layover of the Wild Arctic motion simulator ride called the "Polar Express Experience" from 2007 to 2015. Other forms of marketing, promotional materials, and merch has come or have came in the form of various board games such as a matching game and Train-opoly, a book showcasing the film's concept art, and even a limited edition cereal.

Despite what some people think of the movie, The Polar Express continues to remain one of the most iconic Christmas movies to this day making occasional returns to cinemas during the Christmas season alongside various other Christmas movies. In fact, this is my number one favorite Christmas movie of all time not just because I'm obviously a railfan, but it's also because that this was the first ever movie I have seen in the theaters. It was this film, alongside Thomas The Tank Engine and I Love Toy Trains, that have gotten me into steam locomotives and trains in general.

To Robert Zemeckis, Alan Silvestri, Tom Hanks, and everyone else who took part in the making of this film, thank you. Happy 20th anniversary to The Polar Express!

Models and Route by: K&L Trainz, Auran and Download Station

The Polar Express C) Warner Bros.