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* Steven is caught doing a last minute naughty act of putting gum in his sister's hair. What kid chews gum, let alone puts it in his sister's hair, at five minutes till minute, when they should all be ''asleep''?!
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* Steven is caught doing a last minute naughty act of putting gum in his sister's hair. What kid chews gum, let alone puts it in his sister's hair, at five minutes till minute, midnight, when they should all be ''asleep''?!
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*** Yeahw, he wasn't told to go back there. And I don't remember anything that would indicate him being poor either.
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*** Yeahw, Yeah, he wasn't told to go back there.there, he did it on his own. And I don't remember anything that would indicate him being poor either.
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*** Yeahw, he wasn't told to go back there. And I don't remember anything that would indicate him being poor either.
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** Maybe he had done it earlier and they were just finishing up looking at what kids had done?
* What was the conductor going to do with the girl because she didn't have a ticket? It seems pretty obvious he wasn't going to throw her off like the know it all said, but what ''was'' he going to do? And why'd he take her to the engine for it?
* What was the conductor going to do with the girl because she didn't have a ticket? It seems pretty obvious he wasn't going to throw her off like the know it all said, but what ''was'' he going to do? And why'd he take her to the engine for it?
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* Why do so many people nowadays treat the bizarre, bloated movie adaptation as the "default" version of this story? Any time I've seen anyone bring The Polar Express up, it's to complain about the creepy UncannyValley animation or laugh at the radioactive Santa and Mandark Kid {{Narm}}. No one ever brings up how the original book managed to be genuinely heartwarming and cool (not to mention amazingly illustrated) with the use of CGI and a padded script.
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** [[JurassicPark That's chaos theory.]]
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** He's a ClockKing, albeit a rare example of a benevolent one.
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** Because he thinks he might be dreaming. He says as much when discussing the matter with TheSpook.
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*** A common, if not inevitable, problem with Santa-oriented movies. Just pass it off as a NecessaryWeasel.
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** All the elves were gathering in the town square. Besides, Know-It-All Kid isn't so dumb that he'd let himself get caught.
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** I doubt a kid that young would be able to stay up that late. But even if he could, the most ludicrous thing about this is that he'd even ''think'' about something like that when he could have had other things on his mind. Whatever happened to the visions of freaking sugarplums dancing in his head?!
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** It's sharper?
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** Yeah, "should" be. Maybe they just pretended to sleep like the hero?
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* How does a pin falling in the ice cause the entire lake to fracture, when a ''multi-tonne steam locomotive'' does not?
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* How does a pin falling in the ice cause the entire lake to fracture, when a ''multi-tonne steam locomotive'' does not?
* Steven is caught doing a last minute naughty act of putting gum in his sister's hair. What kid chews gum, let alone puts it in his sister's hair, at five minutes till minute, when they should all be ''asleep''?!
* Steven is caught doing a last minute naughty act of putting gum in his sister's hair. What kid chews gum, let alone puts it in his sister's hair, at five minutes till minute, when they should all be ''asleep''?!
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** As for his background story, in a deleted scene, the engineers reveal that the hobo was riding the roof of the train one night and was killed when the train reached Flattop Tunnel. He's been on the train ever since.
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** As for his background story, in a deleted scene, scene on the DVD, the engineers reveal that the hobo was riding the roof of the train one night and was killed when the train reached Flattop Tunnel. He's been on the train ever since.
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** This Troper thought that he made his own way to the presents. After all, with all the things that went on, it is highly impossible that he was ''following'' them. When he saw them leave he assumed they were going to check out their presents, so he probably decided to get there before them.
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*Why is it so hard for the Hero Boy to believe in Santa when he knows he's on a magic train?
** Also, if the parents don't believe in Santa Claus, then who the hell do they think is leaving all the presents under the tree? Are they just brainwashed into thinking they left the presents by Santa (which brings on a whole new level of FridgeHorror)?
** Also, if the parents don't believe in Santa Claus, then who the hell do they think is leaving all the presents under the tree? Are they just brainwashed into thinking they left the presents by Santa (which brings on a whole new level of FridgeHorror)?
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* The number of cars on the train never seems to stay a rigid figure. In one scene, there seems to be about five cars, another there are dozens, a third might show ten, and when they walk through them there seems to be but three.
** [[AWizardDidIt It's a Magic Train, it can have as many cars as it wants to!]]
** [[AWizardDidIt It's a Magic Train, it can have as many cars as it wants to!]]
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* how does a pin falling in the ice cause the entire lake to fracture, when a ''multi-tonne steam locomotive'' does not?
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*** Ok, I watched it again, and fair enough she did hesitate. And, technically the know-it-all must have learned his lesson by being chastised by Santa. Still, the girl acts perfectly confident and independent [[AchillesHeel until asked if she's sure]]. It still kind of bugs me, but not as much. Thanks.
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** You did. Next time you watch it, pay attention to when Hero Boy says "Are you sure?" At first she stops what she's doing and cries, doubting herself, but later she believes in herself and leads them to the sound of the bell.
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* How did they not know that the know-it-all kid was following them? Wouldn't they have seen him on the train or when falling on to the pile of presents?
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* All the boys seem to have a lesson to learn, but what about the girl? The main kid learned faith, the poor boy learned trust, the know-it-all learned humility (off-camera I guess), but the girl was already a leader from the start. With the boys you can assume the train chose kids with a lesson to learn to pick up and the conductor punched the tickets with the virtue they gained, but the girl breaks that pattern. Or did I just miss the scene where she gains her leadership qualities?
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* All the boys seem to have a lesson to learn, but what about the girl? The main kid learned faith, the poor boy learned trust, the know-it-all learned humility (off-camera I guess), but the girl was already a leader from the start. With the boys you can assume the train chose kids with a lesson to learn to pick up and the conductor punched the tickets with the virtue they gained, but the girl breaks that pattern. Or did I just miss the scene where she gains her leadership qualities?
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* All the boys seem to have a lesson to learn, but what about the girl? The main kid learned faith, the poor boy learned trust, the know-it-all learned humility (off-camera I guess), but the girl was already a leader from the start. With the boys you can assume the train chose kids with a lesson to learn to pick up and the conductor punched the tickets with the virtue they gained, but the girl breaks that pattern. Or did I just miss the scene where she gains her leadership qualities?
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** As for his background story, in a deleted scene, the engineers reveal that the hobo was riding the roof of the train one night and was killed when the train reached Flattop Tunnel. He's been on the train ever since.
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***...and making the song sound like a dying cow is singing it? Stupid.
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** If you're asking about the movie: he went to the back of the train on his own.
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** If you mean when the bell fell, for dramatic effect. The song wasn't the point of the scene any more, and slowing down and quieting the song was meant to draw viewers' attention to the important parts of the sequence, as well as drawing out [[{{Overcrank}} something that would normally last for half a second to several dramatic seconds]].
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* Why the hell did they do an overcrank in the middle of a song, thus slowing down the song?
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*** I don't think so. Remember that all the kids, not just Hero Boy, had a lesson to learn; I doubt his subconscious would worry about filling in imaginary learning experiences for kids that don't exist.
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*** I think it was all part of the Conductor's plan from the beginning. Consider: He's implied (or outright shown) several times to know a lot more about what's going on than he lets on; for instance, although he only punches two letters into each ticket at the beginning, he clearly knows what lesson each kid needs to learn, since he fills them in later. I think that segregating Billy from the rest of the kids was intended to impel Hero Girl to help him out even though she didn't need to. (A mark of a good leader is taking care of others, after all.) Either the Conductor would have brought Billy up front with the rest of the kids eventually, or he can see the future and he knew it wouldn't be necessary. I don't have a problem with it at all. As for giving Billy a present, I think the intended moral wasn't so much that extravagant Christmas presents will eventually fall out of the sky if you wait long enough; rather, it was that a defeatist attitude is unnecessary because you never know what will happen tomorrow.
