“The 60’s, you should be ASHAMED of yourself!”
King Moonracer is a very interesting character…probably worthy of his own series, or even perhaps a full-lenght motion picture. We don’t know his origin. We do not know his motivation. We do not know his fate.
One can make certain suppositions, though. Moonracer can’t handle the cold/snow, or he’d be able to fly up to the North Pole himself and tell Santa about the misfit toys. He also must have some sort of supernatural insight, because he is able to tell which toys no little boy or girl loves. The King must be a master of stealth, as he is able to extract love-starved toys from undeserving homes without a trace. He has good vision, because he only operates at night.
Someone must have built King Moonracer the castle, the toys couldn’t manage that. Or perhaps he inherited the island and its structures. Moonracer is wealthy, since there is obviously no income from rescuing unwanted playthings, yet he seems in want of little.
We get the impression King Moonracer is on the island alone, save for the toys. Is a winged lion a misfit too? Could no other lion love a winged giant cat? I suppose it is possible that the island is for “toys alone”…and winged lions. I suppose it is also possible there is an entire pride of aviation-gifted lions living elsewhere on the isle. There is that cabin on the island where our heroes spend a single night. What is its purpose otherwise? Toys don’t need a cabin. It seems too spartan a residence for a lion.
It certainly seems probable that King Moonracer can find plenty of unwanted toys to help Santa redistribute each season. It’s not like he’ll be out of a job. And if Santa and Moonracer can get their recycling act together annually, there might not be such a crushing load of toymaking for the elves. They elves could diversify, thereby allowing all sorts of professional opportunities at the North Pole.
So it starts going downhill today? How long do I have to wait to send my kids to work in the mill?
See, it’s because of wonderful ramblings like that that I hang out here (and on the Comics Curmudgeon site). When friends ask “How the hell do people sit around and over-analyze Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?” (or Mary Worth), I know they Just Don’t Get It.
I’m guessing about a week from Tuesday.
Go ahead and send in the applications, they’re going to want some processing time.
12hours a day, 6 on Sundays.
Dafuck?
Reference to one of the OP’s anecdotes - he’d passed on a year or so before it was made.
My god, I can’t believe it’s been almost a decade.
And the way this thread is going, it’ll be several more.
On my Facebook page I have a photo of one of my Xmas decorations. It’s an ice cave made from foam-core with the little figures of Hermie, Yukon Cornelius, Clarice, Rudolph and the toothless Bumble. All well and good. However, if one were to look closely one would notice a Hoth Luke Skywalker hanging upside down from the ceiling.
So much for Yukon’s much vaunted “reform” of the Abominable.
Just isn’t the holiday season without it! Or Hanukkah Zombie.
We watched Rudolph… again on DVD last night. Can I make a couple more observations about the IOMT?
First, the island has no vegetation that I could see. It seems to be made up totally of ice with the solid windowless castle jutting out above. Yet, if you look at the window of the one-room cottage where the gang spends a night, there are several potted flowers. The flowers appear to be on the outside, in the arctic cold. Artificial? Perhaps, but they seem out of place with the rest of the atmosphere.
At the end of the show, the misfit toys are sitting around a fire. Where did the wood come from? Why do toys need a fire? One spark and that doll will go up in flames.
The more one watches, the more mysterious it all becomes. A few more years of this thread, and perhaps the true meaning of this show will become clear.
Trying to explain the weird stuff that goes on in cartoons ( or kids movies) will drive you insane.
Maybe they were burning a less-popular wooden misfit toy?
Oh yeah. Santa is a jerk.
Rudolph was an early favorite for sleigh-pulling for his acuteness but he has a red nose so fuck that and fuck you too Donner!
And not to say that it was the right thing to do, but Donner shows some intuition to cover Rudolph’s horrible disfigurement that when found out causes Rudolph’s ostracism just as he predicted.
Possibly. On the other hand, the realities thinly concealed in children’s programming may be keys that open long-forgotten doors in our subconscious minds. Many of us were captivated by this particular show in our youth.
“Toys galore
gathered on the floor
there’s no room for more
and its all because
of Santa Claus.”
I say this strikes deep in a child’s ears.
Cracked weighs in on Rudolph.
Today’s Sally Forth comic strip was actually funny…their synopsis of Rudolph was: “Snow? In December? At the North Pole? That’s it – Christmas is cancelled.”
Which prompts the daughter to wonder whether or not Santa really likes his job.