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Animated film about a teddy bear who took a helium balloon trip from Sweden (?) to China (?) Western Animation
Another film I saw at school sometime in the 1980s: it was a story narrated in rhyme about how a girl in I think Sweden decided to send a doll or some other present to another girl in I think China, and sent her animate teddy bear to run the errand. She gave him a helium balloon as a means of transport. As I recall, the trip had several legs; I vaguely recall that the teddy bear's balloon burst or was lost when he got to Russia, but some kids he met there took him to a rocket plane, with which he quickly flew to China. Finally, the girl in China mailed him back to the girl in Sweden, along with a gift of a doll.
Stop motion short about a boy and a girl in a red hot air balloon Western Animation
In 1983/1984, my kindergarten teacher showed us a film that may have been called "The Red Balloon" (NOT the 1956 French classic live-action film). It was probably a stop motion short and showed a boy and a girl take a trip on a hot air balloon. That's all I remember. It was likely made by a European studio such as the Polish Se-Ma-For animation studio.
Edited by errachtStop motion short about a girl's watercolor paints removing color from the world Western Animation
There's this stop-motion cartoon short that I saw at a company Christmas party at my parents' employer circa 1986; it looked like it might have been made by the Polish Se-Ma-For animation studio. In it, a little girl had a box of watercolors and was sloppy in using them; so, each color cake came out of the box and absorbed its color from the world around. The paint cakes then run away, and the girl finds out that the world around her has become black and white. She wanders around until she comes to a spot where there is a rainbow, and the paint cakes are dancing around. She gets them to restore color to the world and I assume was neater when using her watercolors.
Movie about toys coming to life Western Animation
I vaguely remember this old animation movie, maybe from around the 2000s of before. It was a movie about siblings who were sent somewhere (Orphanage? maybe, Idk) and they aren't allowed to bring toys. They end up in some place with living toys. Near the end of the movie they wind up a bunch of toy soldiers to stop the toy city from burning down or something. Please help me find it!
Unknown Western Animation
Hi. So, Im new here, but I understand you guys can help me find a cartoon show I used to watch when i was younger. The premise of the show is something about finding magical stone tablets and it centers on a boy from an ancient civilization, who was left in a sort of stasis pod underwater that is draged up in the pilot episode. I remember one episode had them finding a stone tablet in a water labirinth by the coast, while being chased by a gorgon. Also, the boy lives whit some old dude and a girl, both boy and girl bout 12y old. If anyopne knows what is the name of the show, please help. Thank you
kid's show involving imaginary friends (SOLVED) Western Animation
from what i can remember, this show was episodic based with no real overarching plots, involving three kids and their imaginary friends that took the shape of animals. the art style was fully 2d and definitely not realistic whatsoever. if it helps, i saw it airing in the early 2010s, but i dont remember if it was released the same time i watched it. any help would be appreciated :)
Edited by cocohelloStopmotion mouse that teaches maths. Western Animation
It was a learning segment in a show involving this mouse the teaches maths. It was set in a Spanish/Mexican town and the mouse was Senor something. It was on CBBC in the late 90's.
time-travelling children's show Western Animation
This is a cartoon rendered entirely in CGI, which aired sometime around the early 2010's, if I recall correctly. I watched it dubbed so I don't know the original language or country of production.
In it, a bunch of young teens - or maybe even pre-teens - meet a girl their age who came from the future in a time machine by accident. In that future, there's a new ice age, and the girl has been tasked with travelling even further to the future, in order to find a new time period on earth suitable for human habitation. Obviously, the teens tag along with her.
The show explores all the possible future environment and evolutions of the species of earth, while theorizing a bit about what such a distant society would look like. But obviously most of the focus is on the cast and their character development. There's also a bit if drama with the girl's father, who put her in charge of the mission.
Cooking Show with Animated Host (SOLVED) Western Animation
Does anyone know about a certain cooking show with an animated host that aired on CBC on Sunday mornings in the mid-2000’s? It would show live-action footage of a guy making the food, and there was a whistling tune that played in the background throughout the show.
Edited by MisterToodleooNo Title Western Animation
Okay, so i have fragments
(The show isn't old, I'm 99% sure it was made in the 2010's)
In the first episode, a kid and his friend bought packs of some kind of card game. They were driving home, and the kid's older sister threw out the card decks out of the car window. The cards then turned into the characters who were on them. The main character's friend called him, and he showed him that one of the girls from the trading card game was in his room. At some point a wolf(?) guy showed up who claimed himself to be the protector/friend/guard of the main character and the main character's parents were fine with it, so the wolf guy moved in Also there was some kind of school event at one point, and one of the teachers or the principal was secretly evil
I think the characters on the cards were from another dimension or planet or something
Looking for an old Golden Age Animation short [Found] Western Animation
I'm looking for an old short from what i think was the 1950's-ish If i recall correctly, the short was a musical animation with no or little dialogue, it has a jazzy song and seemed do be in the swing era.
The parts I do remember involved the a high school couple following the female getting ready for the date with her younger sister following her around mimicking her actions, to the point of trying to follow her sister around while she's wearing oversized heels.
When the boyfriend picks her up i think they go to a soda fountain or a dance hall to dance with the music. I thought it was a Merrie Melody or a Silly Symphony short, but if it is, i can't seem to find the right one.
Any help would be appreciated, it's a bit of frustration.
Edited by BunshonokaiThree Christmas specials, and a Flying Dog. Western Animation
Hello, fellow tropers! Today, I've decided to use my account again because I'm looking for four things.
The first one is a Christmas special that I remember seeing when I was young. The art style was like those traditional 70's-80's cartoons. It was about these five colourful, yet slightly unpleasing to look at (?) Gremlins seeking to ruin Christmas. They unfold their plan by keeping all the Reindeer up by making alot of noise; thus they grew weary when it's time for Santa to deliver presents. I don't remember anymore, but it has a good ending (I think they become Elf or something.).
2.) Another (animated) Christmas special. It's about this puppy and kitten that swap places with elves while waiting to perform in a talent show. I think it premiered in the 70's? The moral was the scrappy, drawn out, "most people don't have what you have, so don't be greedy."
3.) Don't remember much. I think it was Italian, 60's, animated—-with the story of these farm animals gaining the ability to talk, so they can spread the word about Baby Jesus. Their judgement is that they should not be like humans, and they they're better than the selfish ways of humanity (not my words).
4.) A CGI show about this dog that flies by using his ears, travels around the world along side a cat (?) and a bird (??).
Any help is welcome ! :)
Edited by RehydratedFortuneSci-fi CGI racing cartoon with aliens and monsters Western Animation
I really need the title for this one.
Okay so it’s a racing show, the cars are pretty tank-like, to my recollection some even look like pillbugs on wheels. There are green orbs that function as nitro boosts and I believe on race was on a desert.
Man character I think is a cyborg guy who drives a big dark metal car. His body is mostly metal and he has like claw hands though his face looks organic. He put the booster in his chest, giving himself a nitro boost and he still had a remnant of the power at the end of the episode.
Another racer was a red lizard guy who is the prince of a lizard empire. During the episode his race was wiped due to his fathers machinations or something and thus his motivation for winning the race is to bring them back as he becomes the last of his kind as a result.
May be part of a you franchise, who knows since the whole concept is toyetic enough. I think it aired on Cartoon Network in the 2000s.
Edited by slimcoderCartoon where a girl and a dragon get something stolen every episode Western Animation
Once they realize something is missing, they summon a wizard who shows them a bunch of magic doors. They go though these doors until they find something that's like the thing that was stolen from them except infinite. They give that thing to the person or creature who stole from them to get all their stuff back. In one episode, all their drinks are stolen by an infinitely thirsty guy, and they give him a bottle of water that automatically refills itself. In another, their strings and ropes are stolen by a creature that tries to build a massive ball of string, and they give it an infinite ball of yarn.
Edited by HqamiVideo Game Villains Come to Life (SOLVED QUICKLY) Western Animation
On that fateful day where I was expecting to watch The Hippo Tub Company but couldn’t find it on TV anymore, I saw what I think was the beginning of another show that I think utilized the Roger Rabbit Effect. It showed a boy (I think) playing a video game (I think it was on a computer) during a thunderstorm, and at one point when hard lightning struck outside, the characters, who I think were evil, from the boy’s game appeared outside the house. I remember one of those characters telling the others to look at something.
Edited by MisterToodleooTeenagers with magic beads Western Animation
So there was these girls and they were like typical popular girls who liked shopping etc. But they had this bracelet with beads that theyd pop off that they used to fight or something? The animation was similar to totally spies but I dont remember much.
A very specific line Western Animation
2000s? I think that it was a Nickelodeon cartoon, and there was a line that was played for humor as an out-of-place "wow, that is an advanced and kinda dark thought" where someone (Tara Strong?) finishes a thought with, "...and then the healing can begin."
SpongeBob episode? Western Animation
Someone I know referenced a SpongeBob episode about a pirate who walks with only peg legs recently. Which episode is this?
Edited by mimitchi33Old CGI Cartoon About Robots that turn into diving gear. Western Animation
This is driving me crazy and i am starting to think i imagined this one. But it's an old CGI Cartoon where a bunch of kids explore the ocean by having pet robots turn into diving gear, which also gives them super weapons to fight against some evil guy with a punk hair cut.
It's also a big adventure with continuity and quasi-constant progression, The characters were: a cocky boy who could shoot cyclones from his chest, a reasonable that had some stun powers, her little brother who has submarine that he later turns into a robot, and a wannabe reporter girl that's never part of the action.
I remember watching it in french on teletoon, i can't pin point the year since i was really young.
Pretty sure it had at least two seasons, with the second one introducing an incompétent pirate.
what show is this character from Western Animation
pink/purple looked like an anthropomorphic hedgehog female I think her name was misty
Show or animated short about dogs finding their idol. Western Animation
Long time ago I used to go to a church with a bunch of other kids and they would play these shorts for us, usually lasting around 25 minutes, maybe more.
One that they played twice was about these anthropomorphic clothes wearing dogs, 2d animation, presumably hand-drawn cel animation, bright colors and the artstyle was reminiscent of Klasky Csupo, but it wasn't them, I checked. Created maybe from 2001-2005, but I'm not completely sure
Story is about this friend group of dogs wanting to find their idol, who is a rockstar so they can get his autograph. I don't know what happened in the middle, but I remember the ending almost perfectly. They walk in on their rockstar changing in his changing room right before a concert starts. Turns out the giant tall boots he was wearing were making him seem way taller than He actually is. He's just a small little pink(?) dog. He gets scared by the kids, and runs away, and I don't think he's seen at all after that.
Does anyone know what this is? I would love to see it again.
Edited by ashnaggyNo Title Western Animation
The show was from the early 2000's and it involved a girl with short orange hair and I think a purple shirt. From what I remember her and her friends would go have adventures in her treehouse. All the characters had beady black eyes
kids make up a job about selling boxes Western Animation
this was probably a gumball episode but i could be wrong
these 3(?) kids (if i remember they were all male and they may have been all human too) were hanging around in their house when someone called for something and the kids pretended to be telemarketers i think and the person asked what they sold and one of the kids was like "oh we sell... uh... boxes!" and i think the guy placed an order or something
not exactly sure of the timeframe this could've been in but possibly early 2010's
slight edit: apparently they made up the box thing as a job for one of their parents but in not rly sure
Edited by jellygelly13