#source: the lion king (1994)

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R.I.P. James Earl Jones (1931-2024)

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José Carioca & Panchito Pistoles from The Three Caballeros (1944)

Do Not Separate: These two are rarely seen without one another, due to the fact that they are two-parts of a trio, leading fans to interpret them as a couple.

It's Fanon: Due to the line "We're three caballeros, three gay caballeros", many fans, despite the evolution of the term "gay", have elected to ship all three caballeros together.

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Timon & Pumbaa from The Lion King (1994)

Do Not Separate: These two are always depicted together as a pair, due to the fact that they fulfill the same narrative role in tandem in their source material. This has lead fans to interpret them as a couple.

Outcasts: The two are introduced as social outcasts, with multiple reasons being given in canon, including their lifestyle choices.

Wait, You Were Joking?: Via improvised joke, Timon dons drag during the third act of The Lion King.

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The unproduced Into the Woods Adaptation with Jim Henson Company Animatronics

By Erin McCarthy | Dec 24, 2014

[...]

The show won three Tonys, but Hollywood didn’t come knocking until a few years later. In the early ‘90s, the Jim Henson Company and Storyline approached Sondheim and Lapine with a movie adaptation of the musical that would mix live actors with Henson creatures as the show's animals. The duo signed on, and Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel—who wrote City Slickers and A League of Their Own—penned the script.

Sondheim also wrote two new songs for the project, which he included in Look, I Made a Hat, the second volume in his books of collected lyrics. The first was a new opening number, “I Wish.” While the Broadway show’s first song featured the main characters singing about their wishes, the film version expanded the song to include villagers who sang of their wishes (“I wish my well was filled with beer,” “I wish my son-in-law would disappear,” “I wish my cow could go with me to school”) as they went about their business, and featured a narrator doing a voiceover.

The second new song, "Rainbows," was for the Baker and his Wife and “occurs a bit later,” Sondheim writes in Hat, “when the Baker is despairing about his inability to have children and the wife is trying to conceal her impatience with his pessimism.”

[...]

Sondheim.com, a fansite dedicated to the lyricist/composer, got a peek at a version of the script in 1994, and wrote that “The story basically follows that of the show's first act, although the story unfolds in a different manner, without a narrator or a Mysterious Man”:

Several confusions of the play have been fixed. For example, Rapunzel is no longer related to the Baker, nor does she give birth to twins, so the question of why the family curse didn't affect her has been erased. At the end of the first “act,” the Giant rises from his fall and goes on a rampage, allowing the rest of the story to unfold more-or-less as it did in Act II of the play. The intricate back stories of the Baker's father and the witch's mother have been deleted, eliminating "No More" and changing a bit of "Last Midnight." There is no "second bean," so the Baker's wife's scenes with Cinderella are fairly different. Finally, at the very end of the movie the wife reappears, having tricked the Giant into thinking she was dead. Strangely, there has been no effort to integrate “Children Will Listen” into the action. Rather, the camera just switches to a shot of the witch singing the song against a backdrop of Rapunzel's tower, followed by a montage of the survivors going about their lives after the giant.

“Although there will certainly be more work done on the script before it becomes a film,” the site concluded, “what we've seen is certainly promising, and will definitely be entertaining, even if it's not the Into the Woods we all know and love.”

Two readings of the script were held in Los Angeles: The first included Martin Short as the Baker, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the Baker's Wife, Neil Patrick Harris as Jack, Mary Steenburgen as his mother, Kathy Najimy and Janeane Garofalo as Cinderella’s stepsisters, Cynthia Gibb as Cinderella, Rob Lowe as her prince, Christine Lahti as the Witch, Daryl Hannah as Rapunzel, and Michael Jeter as the Giant. At the second, Robin Williams played the Baker and Goldie Hawn was the Wife; Cher played the Witch, and Steve Martin played the Wolf. Carrie Fisher and Bebe Neuwirth were the stepsisters, Moira Kelly played Cinderella, and Kyle MacLachlan was her prince. Brendan Fraser played Rapunzel’s prince. Elijah Wood was Jack and Roseanne Barr was his mother. The cast was rounded out by Danny DeVito playing the Giant. In 1995, Rob Minkoff, co-director of The Lion King, signed on to direct.

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OC Voice Claims! (Sharpshooter)

DISCLAIMER: None of these audios are mine. Artists/Sources are credited below

This one is pretty quiet whoops

Don't pay too much attention to the accents, these are just general ideas of what the characters would sound like.

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Welcome to My Girl Blog! <3

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About Me:

My age: 20 years old <3

What I'm studying: Psychology

Favorite Color: Pink

My favorite Bible verse: Romans 8:26

My Favorite Animal: Lambs

My Personality Type: INFJ-T

My Favorite Princess: Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)

My Favorite My Little Pony: Fluttershy

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Fandoms I'm in:

#(Narnia) I'm obsessed with the Chronicles of Narnia, all three movies and the books, genuinely one of my comfort series.

#(Seinfeld) My favorite show is Seinfeld. I genuinely couldn't get tired of rewatching it!

#(Phantom of the Opera) Also, it's one of my favorite movies/musicals, and Christine Daaé is also one of my comfort characters too!

#(Sound of Music) I've lost count of the number of times I've watched this movie and will sing every song by heart, such a peak film.

#(Disney) I have so many classic favorite Disney movies; my favorite eras are 50s-2000s, and have the best soundtracks

-Sleeping Beauty, 1959

-The Lion King, 1994

-Hercules, 1997

-Aristocats, 1970

#(Grease), another one of my favorite movies, will never get tired of watching it and singing to it!

Im a huge Film lover. That's why my Letterboxd account is like my baby :)

Honorable mentions (films) because I'm a geek:

10 Things I Hate About You, 1999

13 Going On 30, 2004

Can't Buy Me Love, 1987

Clueless, 1995

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My Likes:

Go to Coffee shop order:

#Iced coffee (brown sugar shaken espresso)

#For iced teas (matcha and chai lattes)

Style Icons:

#Monica Bellucci

#Audrey Hepburn

#Liv Tyler

#Jennifer Conelly

I love...

#lip glosses and lipsticks (lip liners)

#baby animals, coffee shops, and bookstores.

#The outdoors, travelling, taking road trips, hiking, and taking pictures for the memories!!

My favorite apps are...

Pinterest, Spotify, Instagram, Letterboxd, and Tumblr.

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Father figure & daughter figure shit talking about his distant relative (Demon slayer) (Source: The lion king 1994)

Leave it to Zakiko to be the only one to make Kagaya chuckle a bit Hey, if it involves talking shit about Muzan, then anything is funny

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One of the earliest looks at THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, back when it was going to be released as a mainline Walt Disney Pictures films, appears on the 1993 VHS release of PINOCCHIO...

The PINOCCHIO VHS in question streeted in late March of that year, and copies were printed as early as January. Maybe even earlier, so this was early on in the film's road to release.

Close to release, it was decided to have NIGHTMARE be a Touchstone Pictures title instead, as Disney higher-ups had concerns over the film's "macabre" content. 13 years later, in 2006, it was rebranded as a "Walt Disney Pictures" film and all current copies and versions open with that CGI castle logo.

Today, Animation Compendia uploaded an international trailer from the year after its North American release...

Built around the PINOCCHIO VHS trailer, and adding THE LION KING now that that film had already been out in most of Europe before this movie debuted across the Atlantic, it's fascinating to see it open with a Touchstone logo but still hype up how it's part of the Disney legacy of innovation, along with WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT... Even though Disney tried to distance it and that movie from the Disney name...

ROGER RABBIT is its own breed, though. Disney had BIG theme park plans for the movie, with only a few of them materializing (like ToonTown in Anaheim), and Disney Feature Animation did three shorts w/ Roger, Jessica, and Baby Herman, two of which that ran before mainline Disney movies. (The first of them, TUMMY TROUBLE, was attached to HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS. The third, TRAIL MIX-UP, was with A FAR OFF PLACE.)

It's also kinda weird seeing LION KING before this movie, but yeah, in Europe... LION KING was out first, then NIGHTMARE.

Here in North America, NIGHTMARE came out in October 1993, and THE LION KING was a June 1994 release.

THE LION KING was originally meant to be a Thanksgiving 1993 release, following the Thanksgiving debuts of OLIVER & COMPANY, LITTLE MERMAID, RESCUERS DOWN UNDER, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and ALADDIN... All in a row...

But when LION KING's story issues proved to be a larger problem than anticipated, it broke the new "Disney animated event every Thanksgiving/holiday season" tradition and moved to the summer. So that meant NIGHTMARE had that space to itself, albeit, opening wide two days before Halloween and playing throughout the season. As long as it could, anyways. NIGHTMARE was only a moderate success, grossing a still impressive $50m domestically. Many clicks above Disney's competition (it was even a little bit higher than what Don Bluth's '80s hits AN AMERICAN TAIL and THE LAND BEFORE TIME took in), but quite a few clicks below BEAUTY and ALADDIN.

In Europe, however, THE LION KING was released first. The UK, for example, got it in October 1994. NIGHTMARE was closer to Thanksgiving that year. This was during a weird time where not only did Disney's newest animated movies open waaaay after, theatrically, in Europe... But also, Warner Bros. (!) distributed some of the movies!

Weird, huh?

A practice not uncommon way before these corporations all began to firmly say "All of this stuff is under ONE roof", believe it or not! Disney was no stranger.

For example, in Italy throughout the 1970s, Cinema International Corporation handled distribution of Disney's films. Here's an opening to a 1979 re-release of PETER PAN - sourced from a Super 8 reel - that has their logo following a blanked-out Buena Vista title card...

Disney joined w/ Warner Bros. to distribute their movies in the UK and a few other European territories in 1988, but then ended things in 1992 after BEAUTY AND THE BEAST came out in Europe, later creating a new version of Buena Vista International. That logo, you can see at the beginning of the NIGHTMARE trailer Animation Compendia just uploaded, showed up towards the end of 1993.

They became so big by that point in time, they could now handle more theatrical distribution overseas. Video was still an exception, though. In a country like, say, Brazil, Disney's video releases were put out by a regional company called Abril Video. That's one example of many. You get the idea, right?

Disney minutiae.

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Decided to give Topsters a try and listed my 25 favourite films, shows, games, and albums.

Starting off with Topsters list for my 25 favourite movies:

Airplane! (1980)

Apollo 13 (1995)

Balto (1995)

Bolt (2008)

Children of Men (2006)

Finding Nemo (2003)

Gravity (2013)

The Iron Giant (1999)

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

The Lion King (1994)

Migration (2023)

Nimona (2023)

The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Ratatouille (2007)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

Sing 2 (2021)

Surf's Up (2007)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

United 93 (2006)

The Wild Robot (2024)

You Were Never Really Here (2017)

Zootopia (2016)

Next is my Topsters list for my 25 favourite shows:

Aggretsuko (2018 - 2023)

The Angry Beavers (1997 - 2003)

The Angry Video Game Nerd (2004 - Present)

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005 - 2008)

Band of Brothers (2001)

Bluey (2018 - Present)

BNA (2020)

Chernobyl (2019)

Digimon: Digital Monsters [Adventure (1999), Adventure 02 (2000), Tamers (2001)]

Ed, Edd n Eddy (1999 - 2009)

Green Eggs and Ham (2019 - 2022)

Mayday [aka, Air Crash Investigation] (2003 - Present)

Mythbusters (2003 - 2016)

Primal (2019 - Present)

Regular Show (2010 - 2017)

Robot Chicken (2005 - Present)

Rocko's Modern Life (1993 - 1996)

Seconds from Disaster (2004 - 2018)

The Simpsons (1989 - Present)

South Park (1997 - Present)

SpongeBob SquarePants (1999 - Present)

Thomas & Friends (1984 - 2021)

Untalkative Bunny (2001 - 2003)

We Bare Bears (2015 - 2019)

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (2000 - 2004)

Then it's my Topsters list for my 25 favourite games:

Alan Wake (2010)

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

Civilzation VI (2016)

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (2017)

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (1997)

Day of Defeat: Source (2005)

Destruction Derby Raw (2000)

Digimon: Rumble Arena (2001)

Dust: An Elysian Tail (2012)

Euro Truck Simulator 2 (2012)

Fallout 3 (2008)

Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)

Grand Theft Auto V (2013)

Half-Life 2 (2004)

LEGO Island (1997)

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2002)

Papers, Please (2013)

Portal (2007)

Ratchet & Clank (2002)

The Simpsons Game (2007)

Spyro Reignited Trilogy (2018)

Super Animal Royale (2018)

Team Fortress 2 (2007)

Tekken 3 (1997)

VRChat (2014)

And finally, here's my Topsters list for my 25 favourite albums:

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)

Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust (2006)

Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008)

God Is an Astronaut - The End of the Beginning (2002)

Failure - Fantastic Planet (1996)

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)

Shihad - The General Electric (1999)

Björk - Homogenic (1997)

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (2000)

Radiohead - Kid A (2000)

Sigur Rós - Kveikur (2013)

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991)

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)

Swervedriver - Mezcal Head (1993)

Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1998)

Solar Fields - Movements (2009)

Mogwai - Mr. Beast (2006)

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (1998)

David Gray - A New Day at Midnight (2002)

Jon Hopkins - Opalescent (2001)

Meniscus - Refractions (2016)

Jakob - Solace (2006)

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynwood (2006)

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place (2003)

Deftones - White Pony (2000)

Feel free to create your own Topsters list here:

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498. Flintstones 1994 Garbage (part 2)

(part 1)

Kids were further unimpressed with the merchandise. I'm guessing because the movie had a kid look, but adult storylines, maybe? That was Roger Ebert's cricisim of the film I remember.

Inspired by over merchandised films such as Jurassic Park, Hook, and Dick Tracy, there was about 1,000 Flintstones products licensed 3.

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Turns out there was also a non-movie Flintstones lunchbox sold like this too at Blockbuster. That thermos definitely leaked.

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So a few years back, I brought up the lunchbox in one of my first newspaper of the month series posts. Turns out there were several other ones that probably no kid carried around because like I said a few years ago, the kids had probably forgotten about Flintstones by Back to School season. They probably all wanted Lion King lunchboxes.

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Did we all have these little toothbrush n soap kits? I had Barbie and Miss Piggy. I wonder why we wanted them so bad. Was it because the tiny soap reminded us of family vacations at the ol Motel 8?

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We could've had a Flintstones party that Summer.

(Google Books, her article begins around page 36)

For some inexplicable reason, Halle Berry didn't get an action figure (maybe she was too sexy? 4), but she did wind up on the cover of Jet promoting the movie. She was one of the best parts of the movie. I like that she got away with smoking in a movie aimed for kids.

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I mean, even Kyle McLaughlin got a figure.

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Originally sold at a store called itzadeal for $3. This doesn't look fun?

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Halle didn't get a figure, but Big Bite Fred did? Did he eat in the movie? I mean yeah he got the big rib put on the car at the end of the film, but that don't count!

I read somewhere that due to the giant push to get items out on time, toy designers were really working bare-bones (no pun). There were a couple of action figures that didn't have anything to do the movie. 3

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This scene did make it into the movie though. Boy that figure does NOT look like Rick, does it?

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All the Barney stuff is kinda scary! I feel like if a doll customizer tried really hard enough, they could make a OOAK Steve Carell doll out of Barney.

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These bendable figures of any franchise were never fun, never stood up without supervision. I just noticed that Betty wore a house arrest anklet in the movie.

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This might be my favorite bit of merchandise. The doll really looks like Pebbles from the movie, and her toys look like actual props from the movie.

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Unlike this figure. The toy designers apparently had a hard time trying to portray Elizabeth Perkins who played Wilma into a figure:

Some of the actors' likenesses proved hard to transform into playthings. Elizabeth Perkins, as Wilma, was especially difficult. "She's quite pretty, isn't she?" said C. J. Michael Hebden, Mattel's chief sculptor, holding up a photograph of the actress. "A little dodgy in a toy, though." 3

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Dino, No! That reminds me, who was stuck in the Dino costume in the episode of Full House where Michelle had a Flinststones party...it was Danny! My favorite Tanner.

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This is the one piece of Flintstones merchandise outside of RocDonalds I remember as if it was yesterday. In the Spring of 1995, I was briefly part of a cheerleading squad, and we had a car wash in front of the old Coliseum Mall. During lunch everybody took turns going into the mall, and a group of girls came back with Flintstones movie candy from Everything's a $1.00. That's where all the Flintstones merch probably ended up at, Everything's a $1.00.

Oh, I almost forgot, there was an episode of MTV's The Grind that was filmed with what appears to be set pieces from the movie.

Related Links:

Joe Ramoni's video on the movie -- that's sad that John Goodman really didn't want to be there on the set.

Dinosaur Dracula reviewed a Toys R Us Treat Box based on the film.

Hey, so I got sick of my Cricut and now I'm trying a TeePublic store for designs related to my blog entries. Garbage merch if you will.

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Fitzgerald, Kate. “`FLINTSTONES’ TIE-INS DON’T ROCK KIDS.” AdAge, June 20, 1994. https://archive.is/2024.07.07-203607/https://adage.com/article/news/flintstones-tie-ins-rock-kids/86575.

Hofmeister, Sallie. “In the Realm of Marketing, ‘The Lion King’ Rules.” The New York Times, July 12, 1994, sec. Business. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/12/business/in-the-realm-of-marketing-the-lion-king-rules.html.

Ramirez, Anthony. “Gold In Bedrock?” The New York Times, May 22, 1994, sec. Style. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/22/style/gold-in-bedrock.html.

EW.com. “Halle Berry Skipped in ‘“Flintstones”’ Marketing.” Accessed July 13, 2024. https://ew.com/article/1994/06/10/halle-berry-skipped-flintstones-marketing/.

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Today I learned that Disney's Lion King did not, in fact, rip off Kimba the White Lion.

If you go on youtube, you'll see a lot of videos comparing Kimba to Lion King, and generally claiming that Kimba ripped off Lion King. And they show a bunch of footage from Kimba. But the footage of Kimba that they use? It's from the 1997 Kimba movie.

See where I'm going with this?

Yeah..

The Lion King was released in 1994! That's three whole years before Kimba was released. Three whole years before all that 'similar footage' came out.

The Lion King couldn't rip off a movie that came out 3 years after it. On top of it, there's been a lot of attention-grabbing misinformation on twitter and stuff, with zero corroborating sources. I guess just to ride the 'Disney Sucks' train because they know it gets views?

And any other comparison footage from Kimba is just coincidental, super, super misrepresented.. Or its relevance in the overall show is blown out of proportion. Kimba has thousands of minutes of video footage from its properties, they have tons of scenes where different characters use their surroundings, do certain things, etc which kinda makes it nearly impossible for The Lion King to even show animals doing things without sometime, somewhere, being compared to something that happened in Kimba.

That scene where 'Kimba shoves a villain off a cliff' is taken from multiple different Kimba releases, and cut together to look like a remake of TLK's ending. That's why the villain lion changes colour in some of the shots lol.

Even the comparisons between the characters are dumb. The birds are nothing alike, and the hyenas in Kimba are just stereotypical villains with no personality. The villain lion dude pops up in like <10 episodes out of dozens and dozens of episodes and is just designed that way because villain tropes.

Tezuka productions, as a reply to peoples' claims that Disney ripped em off, has even come out to say 'they understand if you set a movie in Africa, there's a limited number of animal types (like birds hyenas etc) you can use'.

Literally, every single claim about The Lion King copying Kimba is manipulated to make a fake point.

So.. Y'all, we have been hardcore tricked!

This is the most damning first six minutes of a youtube video I've ever seen, the rest of the video is great too.

[dabideku-tododeku-bakudeku-2023]

Hi....If you don't mind, can I ask, what are your top 10 (or top 7) favorite media (can be books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series)? Why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before......Thanks....

Thanks for asking! I have a lot of favorites but narrowing them down to ten will be a challenge. I will try though!

Top 10

Ten: Howl's Moving Castle (Book)

Nine: The Lion King (2019) (Movie)

Eight: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Anime)

Seven: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (Anime Movie)

Five: Heaven Official's Blessing/TGCF (Donghua/Anime)

Four: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation/MDZS (Donghua/Danmei)

Three: Naruto/Shippuden (Manga/Anime)

Two: The Hobbit (Book)

One: The Lion King (1994) (Movie)

Number one may be of shock but it was the first movie I remember loving as a kid, and even now, I can watch it in different languages and STILL understand what is going on purely from memory! Now I also didn't include My Hero Academia in this, although I have been obsessed with it lately, and that is purely because I actually have not read or watched it yet! I have gotten my knowledge and love for it through osmosis and fervent research!

Gundam Wing was the first anime that I fell in love with, and Endless Waltz was the first anime movie I watched and bought. Naruto/Shippuden was my first obsession, and the source material for my first fanon Yaoi ship.

The Hobbit was my first full-length novel. I read it in the 4th grade, and after taking a test on it, I got 17/20 questions right, which was a surprise for my teachers!

MDZS and TGCF are the first Danmei/Donghua I got into, and that was literally about 6 months ago!

There are plenty of other media I like. The Magic School Bus was my favorite cartoon growing up. Then there is Emergency (circa 1970's). I like the Alien franchise a lot. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED is another anime I love. I am also a big fan of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives from the Food Network. Card Captor Sakura is good to watch. There are countless others, the ones I listed are simply the most influential ones to the person I am now.

Tell me, what are your faves?

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YouTuber "Erik" has long uploaded title cards from various Disney cartoon shorts, from original prints to re-issues, and he's always found some real goodies. All sourced from film prints or VHSes that contained those prints...

Today, he unearthed this...

THE PLASTICS INVENTOR was originally released in 1944, but as you can see, this short came with a title card reading "A Fully Restored Animated Classic", and the 1990 Walt Disney Pictures logo. It isn't the 1985 logo, because the arch line does not overlap with the "W" in "Walt", and it has that cleaner more digital-looking appearance. So, this is from 1990 at the earliest...

Plus, the fanfare used here is different from the usual one. This arrangement of the 'When You Wish Upon a Star' jingle can also be heard on that same year's DUCKTALES - THE MOVIE: TREASURE OF THE LOST LAMP.

This logo sequence also appears, to my surprise, on prints of THE OLD MILL (1937) and THE BIG WASH (1948). Sorry, I don't have those Treasures DVDs that contain them. Otherwise, I would've known... And they also use a common fanfare that accompanied many a Buena Vista title card, not the aforementioned WYWUAS arrangement.

What was *this* attached to in theaters? Along with those 1990-era OLD MILL and BIG WASH prints?

I'll make a quasi-educated guess or two...

Disney had attached a classic short to a new movie not too long before 1990. CLOCK CLEANERS, from 1937, ran before THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE on its original 1986 theatrical release. Fitting, given that the movie's climax takes place in and outside of Big Ben.

I see no record of THE OLD MILL, THE PLASTICS INVENTOR, and THE BIG WASH being attached to any theatrical Disney movies...

In the United States and Canada...

Maybe they were pick and choose, theaters had the options to attach them to various Disney films? I couldn't tell ya.

A while ago, somebody found a bootleg VHS of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. A full on camera recording of the movie in a theater, much like that LION KING one that floats around... That particular BEAUTY AND THE BEAST bootleg included an Italian film print of the picture. And it begins with a Goofy cartoon. Or a "Pippo" cartoon... HOW TO DANCE, from 1953.

And before the Goofy cartoon - as you can see - is that same WDP logo, albeit cut off. We don't see that "Fully Restored" title card...

So, I'm willing to believe this PLASTICS INVENTOR print in Erik's possession is from a European release of a Disney feature film circa 1990-1993. Probably a UK/Ireland release, given that it's in English. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST opened in most European territories a full year after its Thanksgiving 1991 North American release, across the Atlantic it was a fall 1992 release...

It could be any film, really. HOW TO DANCE makes sense given BEAUTY AND THE BEAST's iconic ballroom dance sequence, and the sheer popularity of Mickey and friends in European countries more so than here. Italy particularly has *loved* Mickey, Donald, Goofy, et al.

So maybe THE PLASTICS INVENTOR played before THE ROCKETEER? ROCKETEER is a World War II-set movie, the Donald Duck short first came out in 1944 and involves him building aircraft? Maybe? Can any European reading this who is much older than me who is into this kinda minutiae let me know?

THE OLD MILL I'd imagine ran before a re-issue of BAMBI, maybe? BAMBI was re-released in European territories around the summer of 1993, and then hit video over there around spring-ish 1994. THE BIG WASH involves a circus elephant, but I see no record of a UK re-release of DUMBO from around this time, the latest one I could find was from 1979.

This one's a new mystery for me.

UPDATE: I got a reply on the uploaded from someone who actually caught the UK theatrical re-issue of BAMBI in 1993... It did indeed have THE OLD MILL before it, as I suspected.

The person also did some further research, and found through the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, that THE PLASTICS INVENTOR got an updated print some time in 1991. But no indicator of what it was attached to. A few other classic Disney shorts were present as well, so I'm thinking this was all part of an international re-issue program. That finding, the BEAUTY AND THE BEAST bootleg w/ HOW TO DANCE on it, these prints, etc....

Also, fwiw, THE ROCKETEER came out in the UK and Ireland in August 1991, Australia in November 1991... It's very possible.

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