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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 7h

All I can figure is that a secondary-bordering-on-tertiary character getting a costume out the gate was because said character was disabled (uses a cane to walk, also wears glasses) and Disney was reeeeeeally pushing inclusivity at the time.

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 7h

Seeing how K-Pop Demon Hunters is THE kiddie Halloween costume this year without any official gear for the characters being released, and thinking of how Disney had a dressup costume for the main character's best friend from Wish (no, not the Star...not the goat either) ready to go in November 2023.

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 8h

Learning about this makes her guest voice role in The Critic episode "All the Duke's Men", which ends with her siccing Lassie on corrupt media mogul Duke Phillips, even funnier for me now! 😃

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 8h

There was a whole piece on Slate earlier this week about how sanded-off kids' entertainment has become in the U.S. at least and they brought up a lot of older stuff "like that".

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Has Anyone Else Noticed How Much Kids’ TV Has Changed Lately?

My son hated all kids’ tv and movies. Until we had a revelation.

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 8h

I know a lot of people love that musical but when I listened to the cast album, I got bored with how they kept giving multiple songs to the one-note characters. Honey, Matilda's parents, etc. just aren't that complex and it dragged things out.

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 11h

(If Jackson thought this was an acceptable way to promote an album there’s no knowing how far the movie will go…)

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Michael Jackson - HIStory Teaser

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 11h

But you’ll be wistful for them when the Michael ad campaign ramps up mark my words!

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 12h

Sort of - Ernest’s role is minor but a bunch of the other Varney characters turn up. It was an indie effort that came just a few months after the deal with Disney was inked, IIRC.

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 14h

It's weird hearing that the crowds are so bad because one thing I've read about Japanese film and theater audiences is that, unless they're explicitly encouraged to sing along with a musical or something like that, the quieter they are, the more they like it.

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 14h

Ever seen the tie-in editions of James and the Giant Peach with the illustrations by that movie's production designer Lane Smith?

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 14h

Back in 2013 Sam Mendes directed a terrific stage musical adaptation with songs by the Hairspray/Smash team in the West End and while it worked in "Pure Imagination" as the 11 o'clock song and nicked a gag from the Burton version, it was its own blackly comic thing.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - The New Musical Extended Trailer

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 14h

It's fascinating that it's really, really hard to find an unmemorable Dahl adaptation, and I will go to bat for some that aren't mentioned here either. Frankly one reason why Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remains one of my favorite kids' books is because everybody takes different angles with it.

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, it's apparently a REALLY loose adaptation unlike most of the others, but it's out there. Netflix bought rights to pretty much the whole Dahl kiddie canon a few years back, hence their bankrolling the Anderson shorts, and more films are planned. (They also distributed Matilda - The Musical.)

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 14h

And Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar won him his only Oscar to date for short film!

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 14h

For bonus points, Fantastic Mr. Fox is also a better adaptation of Sondheim-Lapine's Into the Woods than the actual movie of Into the Woods is. (IYKYK)

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 15h

I absolutely adore the artistic diversity of Roald Dahl film adaptations. Few authors have had so much of their work adapted and those that have, like Stephen King or Dr. Suess, can't hold a candle to the drastically different styles choices presented in each and every Dahl project.
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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 1d

I believe Disney+ still has the shorts "The Little Match Girl" and "Destino", intended for a third Fantasia film circa 2006, and yeah. (Hint: "Destino" works off of plans for an aborted Disney-Dali project.)

Similarly, some of the Pixar SparkShorts are incredibly different from their norm.

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 1d

By most accounts, Carrie and Margaret at least have some real showstoppers. The Broadway show seemed to be let down by an incoherent book that didn't do enough to explain the story, and a director who tried an abstract approach to the staging. The revised version is said to have fixed a lot of that.

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 1d

But starting with Princess and moving on to the 3D films it’s either Pixar-lite or “let’s Xerox what worked before, then Xerox the Xerox” until you get to stuff like Strange World and Wish.

MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 1d

That’s it isn’t it? And some of the shorts that serve as the vestigial traces of Fantasia 2006 (The Little Match Girl, Destino) really pointed to amazing potential.

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry Stitch and Princess and the Frog fans, it really was all downhill from here for Disney animation.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 1d

Disney's 2-D Animation last hurrah, the use of the Firebird Suite in Fantasia 2000.

The Sprite in the Firebird segment from Fantasia 2000

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Get Behind Me, Cethan! @cethanleahy.com · 1d

We really need to bring back 70s Horror anthologies for a less embarrassing way for big British actors to pay their tax bill.

GeekTyrant @geektyrant.com · 2d

Bill Nighy and More Join Star-Studded Cast of Audible’s Full-Cast HARRY POTTER Audiobooks

Audible's massive full-cast Harry Potter audiobook series just locked in the last wave of actors, and it’s a lineup worth getting excited about. Among the newly announced names is none other than Bill...

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 2d

Daily bunny no.3117 is going to lunch early

Two small bunnies run down the hallway of a school, excitedly. A 'hall monitor' bunny their age, with a whistle around their neck, holds out a hand to stop them, angrily. The hall monitor bunny had been waiting in an alcove, like a speed trap.

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MissRori’s 3D House of Pancakes @missrori.bsky.social · 2d

The estate is so clearly ashamed of it the full 38-minute version hasn’t been available anywhere in years. Also there’s the whole thing about it originally being an Addams Family Values tie-in…

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