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Daefaroth
Since: Jan, 2014
23rd Jul, 2016 02:13:53 PM
I am almost certain the first is Wee Sing in Sillyville https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Sing#Wee_Sing_in_Sillyville_.281989.29
the other may be Wee Sing Grampas' Magical Toys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Sing#Grandpa.27s_Magical_Toys_.281988.29
When I was around 4 or 5 years old, the family had some movies on VHS tapes that I would watch over and over and over (and drive everyone else insane), but there were 2 related ones that I remember the most.
One was about two kids who drew a picture together whose dog chases a stick into the painting and ends up putting the kids through a colorful adventure with silly songs and a surprising amount of Fantastic Racism (the only person who loves every color is the one who has none on her, and every time she suggests a duet between two-different colored folks, they always respond with an I Need to Go Iron My Dog excuse). It also serves as an aesop that everyone is beautiful no matter what color they are, which they only learn after the aforementioned colorless person gets injured. A few of the characters from that I can remember are...
The other one involves a trio (I think) of kids who go into their grandparents' (or at least I think it's their grandparents, I'm a little foggy on that one) and somehow shrink down to play with the toys that are hiding around there. The toys' idea of playing seem to be a bunch of loosely-connected musical numbers, which the kids are happy to participate in. The toys I can remember are...
- A Non-Ironic Clown who is often the first to initiate the musical numbers.
- A cookie jar who has an intimidatingly deep voice and only really appears in two musical numbers
...and that's about it. Apparently, the toys weren't as memorable as the singing colorful folk.I think they were made by the same studio, and/or shared some cast and crew members, hence why I've grouped them both together.