# Forget the alternate ending--an even bigger problem with Big.

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**Created:** [June 15, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-alternate-ending-an-even-bigger-problem-with-big/816166 "2018-06-15T18:52:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-alternate-ending-an-even-bigger-problem-with-big/816166/1 "2018-06-15T18:52:48Z")

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\*Big \*is on the channel Pop right now and they are going over [T.Hanks’s](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSo038pXuRPaGcVvTtZG7WamtKboifc0WQEXayScQ6I13E9mdwi) big idea for a hit toy. A (I assume color) flatscreen computer of comic book dimensions that allows readers to play “choose your own adventure” comics that are stored on exchangeable disks. With a production cost of $7.00. In 1988. The Zoltar machine is \*much \*more realistic and plausible than that. (It is merely magic.)

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**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-alternate-ending-an-even-bigger-problem-with-big/816166/2 "2018-06-15T19:06:12Z")

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Isn’t [hand-waving and assuming technology will catch up somehow] permitted in movies like that?

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**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-alternate-ending-an-even-bigger-problem-with-big/816166/3 "2018-06-15T20:48:09Z")

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Yes but fortunately that was the only tarnish on the otherwise impeccable science of a movie in which a Zoltar machine turns a kid into an adult. 😉

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**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-alternate-ending-an-even-bigger-problem-with-big/816166/4 "2018-06-15T21:49:51Z")

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> [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](#):
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> Yes but fortunately that was the only tarnish on the otherwise impeccable science of a movie in which a Zoltar machine turns a kid into an adult. 😉

Um? Depending on your interpretation of the “magic” at work, a full grown woman was having sex with a small child.:eek:😃

For me, the magic (and the south park excuse) make that hand waveable.🆒