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* {{Defictionalization}}: You can actually [[http://www.raileventsinc.com/polar-express ride the Polar Express yourself]] during the holiday season. Patrons are served hot chocolate and fresh cookies, chefs will occasionally dance down the aisles in a recreation of the "Hot Chocolate" number, every child that boards the train is given a sleigh bell as a gift, and you can even meet the Conductor, the Hobo, and Santa himself during the ride. The actual locomotive that portrayed the Polar Express, the Pere Marquette 1225, operates annual Christmas trips in Michigan (though it sadly only took the identity of the film engine for the 2004 season, as its owners chose to run the "North Pole Express" trips to avoid paying copyright to Warner Brothers).

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* {{Defictionalization}}: You can actually [[http://www.raileventsinc.com/polar-express ride the Polar Express yourself]] during the holiday season. Patrons are served hot chocolate and fresh cookies, chefs will occasionally dance down the aisles in a recreation of the "Hot Chocolate" number, every child that boards the train is given a sleigh bell as a gift, and you can even meet the Conductor, the Hobo, and Santa himself during the ride. The actual locomotive that portrayed the Polar Express, the Pere Marquette 1225, operates annual Christmas trips in Michigan (though it sadly only took the identity of the film engine for the 2004 season, as its owners chose to run the "North "[[WritingAroundTrademarks North Pole Express" Express]]" trips to avoid paying copyright to Warner Brothers).
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** Hallmark has a series of ornaments, including the Polar Express' engine, and the true-to-life replica of the sleigh bell.

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** Hallmark has a series of ornaments, including the Polar Express' engine, and the a true-to-life replica of the sleigh bell.

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* TheMerch: Lionel's authentic Polar Express model-train set. It also comes with a replica of Santa's sleigh-bell.
** Naturally, Hallmark has a series of ornaments, including the Polar Express' engine, and, this year, the true-to-life replica of the sleigh bell.

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Lionel's authentic Polar Express model-train set. It also comes with a replica of Santa's sleigh-bell.
** Naturally, Hallmark has a series of ornaments, including the Polar Express' engine, and, this year, and the true-to-life replica of the sleigh bell.

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** Hero Boy/Chris and Billy were voiced by real kids at the time the movie was released.

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** Hero Boy/Chris and Billy were voiced by real kids (Daryl Sabara and Jimmy Bennett) at the time the movie was released.


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* DawsonCasting: Nona Gaye (Hero Girl) and Eddie Deezen (Know-It-All Kid) did both the motion-capture and voices for their respective characters.
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* DoingItForTheArt: To ensure that every last bit of detail for operating a steam locomotive was as accurate as possible, Skywalker Sound and the production team worked closely with the Steam Railroading Institute to get everything right. As detailed in the 2004 December issue of ''Trains Magazine'', the crew recorded every sound from sliding down the loaded tender and running Pere Marquette 1225 at 30mph to hear it at work just for that extra authenticity. The only things changed from 1225 was replacing its whistle to that of Sierra Railway 3 to homage Zemeckis' work on ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', and it's smokebox was given a recessed headlight to better match the book.

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* DoingItForTheArt: To ensure that every last bit of detail for operating a steam locomotive was as accurate as possible, Skywalker Sound and the production team worked closely with the Steam Railroading Institute to get everything right. As detailed in the 2004 December issue of ''Trains Magazine'', the crew recorded every sound from sliding down the loaded tender and running Pere Marquette 1225 at 30mph to hear it at work just for that extra authenticity. The only things changed from 1225 was replacing its whistle to that of Sierra Railway 3 to homage Zemeckis' work on ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', and it's smokebox was given a recessed headlight to better match the book.



* TheOtherDarrin: In the video game, all of Tom Hanks' characters were voiced by his brother Jim Hanks.

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* TheOtherDarrin: In the video game, all of Tom Hanks' characters were voiced by his brother Jim Hanks.Hanks, who frequently does this for Hanks' other famous role as Woody from ''Franchise/ToyStory''.

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