Line #13 Creator/VideoBrinquedo


1	Vídeo Brinquedo (translates as "Toy Video" or "Video Toy" formerly known as Spot Films) is a 3D animation studio from Brazil that can probably best be described as the CGI movie equivalent of Creator/TheAsylum: their claim to fame is [[TheMockbuster creating movies that are suspiciously similar to big name box office busters]]. They are known in the United States as Toyland Video, and in the United Kingdom as Brightspark.
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3	Their first business was distributing [=DVDs=] of series like ''Anime/SonicX'', ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'', ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', and ''Anime/LittleLulu'' in Brazil. They first picked up their mockbuster business when a series they distributed called ''Kingdom Under the Sea'' (or ''Reino Submarino'' in Portuguese) suddenly became popular after the release of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''.
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5	[[https://www.youtube.com/user/videobrinquedooficia They have an official]] Website/YouTube channel to showcase their mockbuster cartoons. The company ceased animating films in 2010, but since have uploaded original educational online videos for children.
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7	See also Creator/SparkPlugEntertainment and Creator/WowNowEntertainment for their American counterparts, Creator/DingoPictures for their German 2D LimitedAnimation counterpart, and Creator/MondoTV for their Italian counterpart.
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9	!! Notable Movies (and the films they are ''[[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope allegedly]]'' based on)
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11	* ''The Frog Prince'' (WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog)
12	* ''{{WesternAnimation/Gladiformers}}'' (Franchise/{{Transformers}})
13	* ''Little & Big Monsters'' (WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens)
14	* ''Little Bee'' (WesternAnimation/BeeMovie)
15	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleCarsInTheGreatRace'' (WesternAnimation/Cars1)
16	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittlePandaFighter'' (WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1)
17	* ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincessSchool'' (Franchise/DisneyPrincess franchise)
18	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatoing}}'' (WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}})
19	* ''Tiny Robots'' (WesternAnimation/WallE and WesternAnimation/{{Robots}})
20	* ''What's Up?: Balloon To The Rescue'' (WesternAnimation/{{Up}})
21	* ''Series/MegaPowers'' (Franchise/PowerRangers, Franchise/SuperSentai)
22	* ''Brazilian Football Passion'' (Notably their only original film to ''not'' be a mockbuster)
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25	!!Tropes in these movies include:
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27	* ArtisticLicense: In ''Little & Big Monsters'', Dr. Crumb's robot assistant is infected with a virus from a Chinese newsletter, even though that would only be possible if whoever wrote the virus had knowledge of the robot's hardware and targeted it specifically.
28	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: In ''The Little Cars'', a race car is stopped by a piece of gum stuck to the track. Furthermore, Wrangler (the car that spit the gum onto the track in the first place), is apparently able to spit gum several hundred feet given he was behind Cruise at the time and they were both going full speed down the track.
29	* BatmanGambit: At the end of ''Little Panda Fighter'', Polaris bet all of his money on Pancada losing to Teddy Thunder, and was able to hand the Bear Bar Box over to Pancada, who turns it into a dance club, while Polaris retires to somewhere nice and cold.
30	* BehindTheBlack: Twice in ''Tiny Robots''. The first instance involves Trank telling his grandfather about a dream he had, only for the camera to pan out revealing that he's gone. The second instance is when Trank sees the ghost of his creator, then the camera angle changes, revealing [[TheManBehindTheCurtain he's right behind them]].
31	-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozn_pLokMiY Taylor Wyatt]]''': They couldn't tell because the camera was facing the other direction!
32	* BilingualBonus: Hime's name is Japanese for... [[ADogNamedDog princess]].
33	* BringMyBrownPants: In ''What's Up'', Guto intentionally shits his pants in one scene, while pretending to be brainwashed.
34	* CaptainErsatz:
35	** Of Creator/{{Pixar}}, [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation DreamWorks]], and Creator/{{Disney}} characters.
36	** In ''Tiny Robots'', the leader looks suspiciously like [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]].
37	* CatchPhrase: Greg from ''Ratatoing'' has "Precisely!"
38	* ClarkKenting: In ''Little Panda Fighter'', Polaris the polar bear manages to hide his identity by putting on a leotard and a bandit mask while fighting the current boxing champion Teddy Thunders, and when his disguise shrinks instead of being exposed everyone thinks he's Pancada the panda, even though they look completely different.
39	* DisproportionateRetribution: In ''Ratatoing'' (see that film's page for more details).
40	%%* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Often.
41	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: In ''The Little Cars'', the five-time Great Race champion is called only 'Champion' throughout the whole movie. [[{{Lampshading}} Lampshaded]] by the antagonist, who insists "That's not his name!"'
42	** In ''Tiny Robots'', the leader is only ever referred to as "Leader".
43	* InconsistentDub: The characters in the English dub of the first ''Little Cars'' video were given localized names. After that, they simply stuck with the original Brazilian names.
44	* InformedAttractiveness: Any character claimed to be attractive in-universe, mainly due to poor character design.
45	%%* LimitedAnimation
46	* TheMockbuster: The company specialized in films heavily based off Creator/{{Disney}} and Creator/DreamworksAnimation films.
47	* TheMusical: They've turned ''The Little Cars'' into a musical live show. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, seriously]].
48	%%* NoFlowInCGI
49	* OneDialogueTwoConversations: In ''Little Panda Fighter'' a bunch of people come up to Pancada and commend him on what they thought were his fighting skills and he thinks they're talking about his dancing audition, even though they were clearly not there watching. This is soon followed by another one between Pancada and Polaris, which is even more poorly constructed.
50	* PaletteSwap: Many examples in ''The Little Cars''.
51	%%* PunnyName: Many.
52	* RealSongThemeTune: "Window to Nowhere" by Angra is used as the theme for ''Gladiformers''.
53	* ShoutOutToShakespeare: "[[Theatre/RichardIII My kingdom for a snack!]]" in one episode of ''Little Princess School''.
54	* SlasherSmile: Their 2-D animation is prone to making characters look malevolent when they should just look annoyed.
55	* StrawMisogynist: The minister in ''The Frog Prince.'' He insists that [[StayInTheKitchen women should know how to cook and clean]] and tells the king that Iria will have to let go of her dreams, citing that "It's a man's world and don't you forget it!"
56	* TearingThroughTheMovieScreen: In ''Little & Big Monsters,'' the real monster tears through the screen while the scientists are watching a monster movie.
57	%%* ToonPhysics: Unintentional.
58	* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: ''What's Up'' starts with a news report on Dr. Crumb, which quickly switches focus to his niece Amanda and her personal life.
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