#Magic Night at the Museum

[dearest-love2410]

I love media where the underlying message is to be kind , even if it isn’t the main plot.

I love media where the underlying message is that you are not the worst mistake you made and you are not the worst thing that happened to you

I love media where the underlying message is that people can change for the better

I love media that’s like love, actually is all around us

[internationalemeteorologie]

Walter Gramatté

Still life with night city view. 1922-23 

[caterpillarinacave]

Using the computer as a babysitter for Jed and Octavius is all fun and games until they figure out how to use Larry’s credit card

[ghoulishtomato]

Look what I found Y'all

Night at the Magic Museum 💀 And of course I bought it.

My gf, @iceanaillumise , found it with me and she tried to get me to not buy it, but I have no self control and this felt too perfect of a knock off to not buy. Nothing appears when you look it up except our real Night at the Museum movies. The production date on the DVD case says **1999**, but it's so obviously riding NATM's coattails- THE FONT, THE COVER PHOTO AND COLOR PALLETTE I MEAN COME ON.

I'll tell y'all about the movie once I watch it HAHA. If it has tiny gay men, it'll be perfect.

[kustavglimt]

Karl Friedrich Schinkel: stage design for The Magic Flute (1847-49)

[secretly-larry-daley]

You know, for a random guy, Larry took the museum coming alive pretty well. Like— he accepted all of it really quickly. Sure, he was scared by Rexy at first, but anyone would be scared of a fucking dinosaur running at them.

Yet, he immediately got to work with his situation. So it makes me wonder

What the fuck else has this man seen??

[grim-vs-lizard]

[bestfictionaldinosaur]

ROUND 1 ROUNDUP

Thanks to everyone who participated in Round 1! Just for fun, I thought I would gather up some stats I've found so far. You can get an idea of the individual results here, as always, but this post will have some aggregate data. So, let's get right to it:

Of course, keep in mind that all ranking comparisons are not really indicative of how popular any given candidate is (except maybe the series aggregates at the end), but rather only specifically how much more popular they were than their opponent. So, it's very much anyone's game!

Anyway thanks again to all participants, and I hope for your continued participation in Round 2 (currently ongoing!) and beyond!

Under the cut since I got a bit carried away with the categories...

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Ornithischian Bracket: Top 3 Candidates

1st place: Chomp [Dinosaur King], at 87% (over Armadon [Primal Rage])

2nd place: Styracavus [Flight Rising], at 85.3% (over Riff [Barney])

3rd place: Url [Dinosaur (2000)], at 83.7% (over Darkyloseid [DC])

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Saurischian Bracket: Top 3 Candidates

1st place: Amped Raptor [Magic the Gathering], at 81.6%, over Indoraptor [Jurassic Park]

2nd place: Meganium [Pokemon], at 80.8%, over Denver [Denver, the Last Dinosaur]

3rd place: Raptor Red [Raptor Red], at 77.3, over Voodoo Microraptor [Dinosaur Arcade]

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Megatheropod Bracket: Top 3 Candidates

1st place: Fang [Primal], at 88.2%, over Bonehead [Dinosaucers]

2nd place: Rexy [Night at the Museum], at 86.9%, over General Scales [Star Fox]

3rd place: Greymon [Digimon], at 85.2%, over Jurrac Titano [Yu-Gi-Oh!]

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Overall Top 3

1st place: Fang [Primal], at 88.2%, over Bonehead [Dinosaucers]

2nd place: Chomp [Dinosaur King], at 87% (over Armadon [Primal Rage])

3rd place: Rexy [Night at the Museum], at 86.9%, over General Scales [Star Fox]

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Top Performing Series (Vote %, No Conditions)

1st place: Night at the Museum (84.65)

2nd place: Google Dino Run (84.3)

3rd place: Raptor Red (77.3)

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Top Performing Series (Vote %, Only Series With Average Or Above # of Candidates)

1st place: Prehistoric Planet (66.16)

2nd place: Paleo Pines (65.54)

3rd place: Pokemon (65.34)

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Top Performing Series (% of Matches Won, Only Series With Average Or Above # of Candidates

1st place: Prehistoric Planet (100%), from 5 candidates

2nd place: Digimon (92.86%), from 14 candidates

3rd place: Monster Hunter (90.91%) from 11 candidates

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Closest Match

Tyrannomon X [Digimon] (49.1%)

vs.

T-Rex [Fantasia] (50.9%)

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And that's everything I felt like tracking! If you have other questions feel free to ask, although I may not have tracked the right data for it; for example I did not keep track of actual vote counts at all because I didn't realize I should until I had already not done so for several weeks, and really don't feel like doing so.

[cleocatrablossy]

[llalalalela]

Hi! I'm looking for friends and mutuals who like the same things as me. I am not comfortable disclosing my age online but I am still a minor so I'm not looking for any mutuals over 18.

Some of the things I like include:

Reading

Watching TV shows

Diamond painting and also arts and crafts from time to time

History and greek mythology

Any form of Sherlock Holmes media

My favourite books: Six of Crows, Shades of magic, Masters of Death, Percy Jackson, The Sunbearer Trials, Good Omens, Heartless and probabky something else I can't rememer rn

My favourite TV shows: Our flag means death, Good Omens, Doctor Who, BBC Ghosts, Criminal Minds (also recently started watching 911), The Sandman, Dead Boy Detectives, Moriarty the patriot (ik it's an anime bu still)

My favourite movies: Lord of the rings, Night at the museum, The old guard

Also I love Les Miserables

That's about all I can think of rn I promise I'm cool yall

[the-fazbear-museum]

The Fazbear Museum discord server is having a mini art event called [ PUMPKIN PANIC ] where artists and writers can just go ham with Halloween art in there

No character limits, can be canon or OCs but it has to have some sort of pumpkin theme involved!

Be it

• A character exploring a pumpkin patch for the first time!

• Someone managed to shove Foxy into a pumpkin costume against his will!

• Or even just the members of the Museum enjoying the holiday!

Anything is on the table, as long as it’s appropriate and at least has something pumpkin like in there! (Even if it’s just background decoration!)

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Remember Art and Writing are allowed in this! So no one gets left out!

We’re also drawing the characters of whoever joins in, in a group photo for Halloween! So if you join in, expect a funny DM asking for an OC and a costume >:)

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If you’d like to join in, or even just have another FNAF community to roam in, don’t hesitate to join us! We’ll be more than happy to have y’all!

Link to the server hosting the event is here :

[caterpillarinacave]

❤️ natm

“❤: Which character do you think is the most egregiously mischaracterized by the fandom?”

I think overall the fandom does a pretty good job on characterization; it’s usually just things that are consistently slightly off.

However, weirdly, I gotta say people get Larry wrong a lot? Like, he’s a lot funnier than we give him credit far. And a lot snarkier, and a lot weirder. 

He is absolutely Tired Dad Keeping Everyone Else AliveTM but he also is absolutely as chaotic as every one of the exhibits???

He has zero clue what he’s doing. No plan whatsoever, he just figures it out as he goes. His knee jerk reaction in conversation is fucking with the other person. His boss yells at him and he goes straight to “snarky as humanly possible” despite it being his first day. He is so peevish. He could not do long division to save his life. He’s probably the only one in the whole museum who’s monolingual. He is amazingly competent. He’s unhinged and we need to give him credit for that.

[ghoulishtomato]

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM KNOCKOFF MOVIE???

Under the "keep reading" tab, you will see a bullet list of my reaction to a movie I found at Half-Priced Books called Night at the Magic Museum. It'll be me pointing out things about the movie and what I enjoy and whatnot. I do my best to describe what happens in the movie but, again, it's mostly reactions, so not a reliable play by play of the movie's events.

First, the basic plot synopsis of the movie that they have in the back of the DVD case (which is completely true and accurate to the events of the film):

⚡ During a fierce electrical storm, lightning hits a museum creating a magical passageway between our world and the world within the museum's paintings. Ben and Kim (brother and sister) find themselves transported to a 17th century village under siege by Falco, an evil sorcerer learned in the ways of black magic. The kids learn that the evil Falco is in search of the village's most prizes possession: The Jewel of Polaris. With the Jewel, Falco will be unstoppable. Ben and Kim must save the village and return to our world before it's too late.⚡

Now, onto my actual (a little bit disjointed) commentary:

before the actual movie, there was a trailer that had some lovely 90s Fantasy Whimsy, and the scenes/compositions scratched my brain just right that now my hopes for NAT(M)M are probably way too high now. Also, the trailer was for something called The Tiny Kingdom, so ofc my NATM brain thought of Jed and Oct

LOVE the orchestra music that plays over a black screen as they list the credits. If they really wanted to rip off NATM tho, they coulda shown us B Roll of the magic museum. But it serves it's purpose and I love orchestra music so I'm not bothered.

We are now in 1632. A Sharp tongued British man named Falco is sneering at his subordinates (?) and my Red Dwarf brainrot has immediately projected Arnold Rimmer onto him.

Falco is kind of cunty actually. And also sounds EXACTLY like Rimmer.

Very obvious ADR for this one side character, but otherwise, not the worst production! I enjoy this!

This would fuck as an old anime, that's what the dialogue feels like.

It's probably impertinent that I tell y'all right now that I fuck with older shit and actively enjoy what people nowadays would likely call major flaws and "ruining the immersion".

hAHA ISTG THERE IS JUST SOME DUDE WHO ACCIDENTALLY FELL INTO THE SHOT WHEN HE DIDN'T MEAN TO, I LOVE LIVE THEATRE 💀

Some... Editing discrepancies... They say it is raining outside... No it's not 💀 And not enough for there to be flashes of blue lightning visible from inside. But luckily I possess a strong will for suspension of disbelief. And the blue lightning is just sort of a running motif through the movie as a reminder of the real world while they're in the painting.

Ben and Kim are mentioned in the plot synopsis, but they leave out the fact they have a little sister named Casey, who I argue is pretty important to the movie. Kim works at the museum and she has to bring Ben and Casey along with her.

Omg, Armour in a museum. Like Lancelot.

Okay VERY obvious ADR line that was supposed to be said by young teen Ben, but the ADR'd voice sounds like a grown ass man 💀? Quite a few noticable ADR moments that don't quite match up with what's on screen throughout the movie actually.

Alright, paintings can come to life because of lightning. No Egyptian magic here.

God, Ben is such a 90s teen boy.

Very clearly the draw of this movie is not the museum- like at all. It's this ONE painting functioning as a portal and the legit world it leads to. Not in any art style a la the black and white painting in Smithsonian, or the Escher painting in Secret of the Tomb. Just a straight up other world. Painting just sucks Ben and Kim in after lightning strike and spits them out into a hay pile in fantasy land.

There's a menacing guy who fell out of a painting and is now up and about in the museum (not important).

Older sister Kim is coming to ridiculous conclusions to blame Ben for the situation they're in (a la annoying big sister stereotype) but Ben's responses are so calm, candid, and reasonable that it's not annoying to me HAHA

Ben's so fucking funny actually HAHA. Everyone has had at least one surprisingly funny line actually

This Fantasy world low-key reminds me of The Legend of Zelda and I fuck with it. Just a little bit. (But everyone is basically human here; no fish people, or even fairies or hell, not even elves).

Falco is such a cunty asshole. Excellent villain so far oh my gAWD. He's so evil.

People keep mocking each other in this movie it's so funny.

HAHA, OKAY SO- They gave us a magician guy (M) who indirectly is responsible for Lincoln's assassination. This movie is so delightful. M is my new favorite.

M is there, btw, because Casey likes to draw, and he's basic her OC that they manage to get into the painting (in order to help Ben and Kim get home and whatnot) by sticking here drawing to the painting they're in. Yeah, Casey's just hanging in the museum with a security guard named Monty (who also play the magician M. The actor actually has some nice range in this movie!).

If you're like crazy about world building, I hate to tell you that s o m e of the stuff about this isn't real clear to me (like, it's implied the fantasy characters also existed in the real world or something but like??? That doesn't make sense here) so like 💀💀

Fun and creative puzzle moment near the climax :D Just one though. Also, Ben likes to roller skate, and that's helpful for this cave he's in to find some magic jewel to help him and Kim get home (and that he's gotta find before Falco).

Also there was a cave in this movie that Istg I saw in a dream...

There's this voiceover narration for some "Tests of bravery and intelligence" Ben has to do, and the narrator sounds like Crispin Freeman to me, heehee (it's def not him tho).

Btw, sister Kim has been delegated to prisoner waiting to be rescued but this is a late 90s fantasy movie so like... what do I expect.

The acting is kind of 1 Note, all on the same level for the most part. It's not bad by any means, of course, they've all been funny at least.

...... This movie had an extremely lackluster and borderline disappointing climax with all the fantasy land magic jewel shit... 💀 Falco deserved something more grand...

Btw, remember how I said there was a guy from a painting wondering around? Well he seemed to be after Casey for unknown reasons. But he was hardly in the movie 💀 He seemed to pose a threat near the end, but dispatching him was "super easy. Barely an inconvenience!" (A sword shot out of fantasy land painting for some reason and killed him before meeting him back into his painting).

So that's it. Literally NOTHING like Night at the Museum save for magic painting portal. Again, as mentioned in my previous post about the movie (and based on how the movie just looks and functions) it was made in like '99.

So what the fuck is the deal with the EXTREMELY NOTICEABLE Night at the Museum coattail riding???

Well, the company that released the movie (from what I can tell) is Moonbeam films, which wasn't founded until 2012- bUT it's parent company is Full Moon features, which was founded in 1988. So if I were to guess, perhaps Full Moon features made the movie, but Moonbeam released it on DVD.

NOW, THE ORIGINAL TITLE FOR THIS FILM WAS ACTUALLY Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum. But when it was released on DVD in August of 2012, it was renamed to Night at the Magic Museum (it looks like it had a few other different names it could've been called as well, including just The Magic Museum or Mysterious Museum).

Both these production companies or whatever don't make like... The best films, I guess. Or at the very least, very tongue-in-cheek goofy ass movies that aren't trying to be cinema or anything (which is so valid of them). In fact, Full Moon features is known for shit like Evil Bong, Gingerdead Man, and Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong.

The point is- they're not particularly high quality or serious about their movies and productions if I were to take a lucky guess (cause I'm not gonna search THAT deep into this; I'm not a YouTuber who can get paid for it 💀).

SO- I THINK...

Moonbeam Films changed the movie title AND specifically designed the DVD case to match Night at the Museum as close as they possibly could (from the composition down to the font) YEARS after the movie was originally made/released, and a few years after Night at the Museum released it's sequel, Battle of the Smithsonian. Hell, the kid on the DVD cover doesn't even look like the movie's MC, Ben (left) 💀 They just grabbed some random white boy to pose SPECIFICALLY for this.

NATM had proven itself to be- like- EXTREMELY fucking popular among kids, families, and a bunch of gay people who want to see that tiny cowboy and Roman kiss. Like we see with lots of bootlegs, they were likely banking on riding the coattails of NATM's success in order to make money on their low budget crummy movie...

Except like.... Search for the Jewel of Polaris isn't bad? It's nowhere near the level Night at the Museum is production wise, of course. But it's got a homey feel to it. It's got an actual story it's telling, and the actor's do quite a good job! (Especially in the beginning of the movie). It is it's own, quaint little movie that I would like to watch a second time.

To ride on the coattails of another movie kind of shows insecurity about the movie's actual contents I think. I mean, that dinosaur, knight, pirate ship, and weird alien thing we see on the cover?? Not in the damn movie 💀 This attempt to be dishonest about what the movie has to offer while also maybe hoping people confuse it with another, successful movie in order to milk money out of it just looks bad on Moonbeam Films' behalf.

In conclusion: Search for the Jewel of Polaris is NOT a Night at the Museum ripoff, and could never have been, what with being made 6-7 years before the first NATM actually came out. It was rebranded in 2012 as Night at the Magic Museum for DVD releases by Moonbeam Films. It's a cute, simple little movie with it's own charming characters and concept, and you can feel the human touch/heart all throughout it 💛💛

Thank You for reading. ☺️✨ Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be thinking about Falco for forever til eternity.

[kittylover776]

Larry: Look guys, I know how hard it is to say goodbye. 

Ahk: I’m mostly sad because you’re not sad! 

Larry: Me? What about Amelia? 

Jed: Amelia cries on the inside, Gigantor! 

Amelia: It’s true. Same goes to Teddy also. 

[practically-an-x-man]

I find it a little funny how Who Waits Forever Anyway? began as my attempt to write a really cute, lighthearted, lower-stakes fic after all of my other ones were flooded with angst and action

and now it's like my most complicated, creative-on-the-verge-of-batshit-crazy, high-stakes one?

(though if I wanted something cute and easy and harmless I maybe shouldn't have gone with the story that's 90% Egyptian mythology. we all know how I am about mythology)

[grim-vs-lizard]

Grim and Lizard's Babygirl Bracket!!!

Hey guys! So we've decided to pit our favorite characters against each other and see who comes out the winner!! There are 12 match ups, all randomized, and they'll each be a week long!

The polls will begin shortly but take a moment to look at who is going up against who! We can't wait to see who wins this thing!! The matches will be under the read more...

Characters on the left are Grim's, characters on the right are Lizard's!

Panchito Pistoles (Duckverse) vs. Jedediah Smith (Night at the Museum)

Eugene Finch (Drawtectives) vs. Mettaton (Undertale)

Ryjinah (Drawga) vs. Gonzo (Muppets)

Anthony J. Crowley (Good Omens) vs. Launchpad McQuack (Duckverse)

Janus Sanders (Sanders Sides) vs. Eda Clawthorne (The Owl House)

Skekgra vs. Urgoh (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance)

Agent Stone (Sonic Movieverse) vs. Blackbeard (Our Flag Means Death)

Stede Bonnet (Our Flag Means Death) vs. Susie (Deltarune)

Octavius (Night at the Museum) vs. Discord (My Little Pony)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) vs. Pinky (Animaniacs/Pinky and the Brain)

Legolas (Lord of the Rings) vs. Doc Brown (Back to the Future)

Death (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) vs. Lord Hater (Wander Over Yonder)