Line #29 WesternAnimation/BabesInToyland


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3	''Babes in Toyland'' is a 1997 AnimatedMusical directed by Creator/DonBluth's brother Toby Bluth, very, very loosely based on the [[Theatre/BabesInToyland original operetta]].
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5	Orphan siblings Jack and Jill are sent to Toyland to live with their EvilUncle Barnaby Crookedman three days before Christmas. Though initially reluctant to take the kids, he agrees once he learns that they brought money with them to help pay for their care, intending to use it to further his own plans, and tosses them in his dusty attic. In the mean time, Tom Piper returns from the North Pole with a sizable order of toy soldiers for the local toy factory to produce in very little time.
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7	Barnaby, who doesn't believe in toys or Christmas spirit, plots to sabotage Tom and factory owner, Mary Lamb, by attempting to buy the factory with Jack and Jill's money. When that fails, he hires mooks to vandalize the place. Jack and Jill make a couple of attempts to escape and help Tom and Mary but end up needing to be rescued when Barnaby gets fed up with them and abandons them in the Goblin Forest. With the help of said Goblins, he leads an attack on Toyland resulting in chaos. With everything crashing down around them, Tom and Mary need to work together to save their factory and town from destruction.
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9	!!Provides examples of:
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11	* AnimatedMusical: Just like the original film.
12	* AnimateInanimateObject: Among the inhabitants of Toyland are a number of sentient objects, including a monkey-like monkey wrench who gets thrown into "the works" of a factory as a LiteralMetaphor. (Don't worry, the wrench ends up being fine.)
13	* AwardBaitSong: Two: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndhkfCizYc "Dream"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIz7MkbCOOI "It's You"]].
14	* BigGuyLittleGuy: Barnaby's henchmen, Gonzargo and Roderigo.
15	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Humpty Dumpty]] is dropped off of a bridge by Barnaby, [[spoiler: but is repaired by Tom at the end.]]
16	* CardCarryingVillain: Barnaby. He delights in how mean he is and takes being called "crooked" and "twisted" as compliments.
17	* ExitPursuedByABear: The ending of the film has Barnaby chased away by the goblin horde after [[spoiler:the death of their king]], surely to eat him as compensation for the failed raid on Toyland.
18	* FearSong: "[[https://youtu.be/YFc3xHTTcEY The Worst Is Yet To Come]]" starts out as a VillainSong, as Rodrigo and Gonzargo, who are taking the {{kid hero}}es to the land of goblins, taunt the kids about their imminent deaths. But it becomes a sort of musical OhCrap moment near the end as Rodrigo and Gonzargo start to realize that, by entering the goblins' territory, they've put ''themselves'' in danger too.
19	-->'''Rodrigo:''' Your nerves are jarred, your heart beats hard,
20	-->'''Gonzargo:''' Like a kettle drum!
21	-->'''Rodrigo:''' You're hearing shrieks and eerie squeaks!
22	-->'''Gonzargo:''' Where is that one coming from?!
23	* FreudianExcuse: According to his VillainSong, Barnaby is evil because he never had toys as a child.
24	%%* IllegalGuardian
25	* ImMelting: The Goblin King is killed this way, when he gets [[WeaksauceWeakness light shined on him for so long]] that he simultaneously explodes and melts.
26	* InsultBackfire: Being a typical CardCarryingVillain, Barnaby tends to take adjectives like "crooked" and "twisted" as the kindest of compliments.
27	* LikeParentLikeSpouse: It's implied that Mary loves Tom partially because he reminds her of her father.
28	* NamedByTheAdaptation: Unlike in most versions, here, Barnaby has a full name (his last name is Crookedman).
29	* NeverHadToys: In Barnaby's VillainSong, "A Crooked Man," it's explained that Barnaby wants to destroy Santa's toys and ruin Christmas because [[IfICantHaveYou he never had any toys as a kid, so he thinks that no one else should have any either]]. The movie never explains why exactly he didn't have toys, but he doesn't sound too sad about it. In fact, he sounds rather proud about that fact, as if it makes him superior to everyone else.
30	* PunBasedCreature: The children at one point encounter a monkey wrench that looks and acts like an actual monkey.
31	* SimpletonVoice: Gonzargo
32	* SugarBowl: Toyland is a magical happy fun place full of friendly fairy tale characters and darn near everything has a face.
33	* SweetSheep: Sheep and lambs are spotted working at the toy factory and are seen working on the hats for other toys. One lamb is seen witnessing Gonzargo and Roderigo (disguised as sheep) acting suspicious at the toy factory. The same lamb would later reappear during the film's climax as the factory is on fire. However, a grown ram quickly takes notice of Gonzargo and Roderigo's disguises and headbutts them out of the stable that the sheep are grazing in.
34	* ShrugTake: After a lamb witnesses Gonzargo and Roderigo (thinking it's the other sheep) acting strange at the toy factory. He looks at the viewer and shrugs in confusion.
35	* ToServeMan: The Goblins love eating children, but as Gonzargo and Roderigo figure out, they're perfectly happy to eat adults too.
36	* VileVillainSaccharineShow: The Goblins, especially the Goblin King, have darker, ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''-like character designs, with the Goblin King in particular [[EvilSoundsDeep having a]] [[HellIsThatNoise very reverbed and loud roar]], and [[SavagePiercings wearing earrings]], and they later [[SugarApocalypse invade Toyland]] and [[RapePillageAndBurn set it on fire]]. There's also the fact that the Goblin King is [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath killed rather violently]] for a film geared towards kids.
37	* VillainSong: There's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipN8f_o9ggo A Crooked Man]]" which doubles as a TheVillainSucksSong: his backup singers are clearly not pleased with him, but Barnaby [[CardCarryingVillain takes their slams on his character as]] [[InsultBackfire compliments nonetheless.]]
38	* WeaksauceWeakness: The goblins are weak against light.
39	* ZombieGait: hilariously, the toy soldiers advance against goblins looks a lot like that - they are slowly advancing, swaying with every step, arms raised in front of them. And (from goblins point of view, of course), they are unstoppable threat that shrug off anything goblins could throw at them.

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