The Restoration of Santa & Rudolph

[Jessterw]

Not sure how much exposure they received outside the US, but I'm sure many of us remember the stop-motion Christmas movie, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". For those that do, the Santa and Rudolph puppets have been fully restored.



More on the restoration backstory here along with an overview and pictures here.

[Dr Mordrid]

Love those old Christmas animations.

[Gurm]

Well, I love them. Don't get me wrong... but... I do have some problems.

In Rudolph... why don't the reindeer ever fly? I mean, they LEARN how to fly. And at the end, they fly to help pull the sleigh. But they go out searching for Rudolph... on foot. How could a snow monster catch a flying reindeer? And don't get me started on the sequel (Rudolph's Shiny New Year), in which the only thing keeping them from catching the bad evil bird that steals the baby new year... is that the bird can fly and they ... can't? Huh? I mean, in the first one, Rudolph gets TRAPPED on an ice floe. Trapped! He can FLY! He can jump into the god-danged air and just FLY HOME!

*sigh*

And don't get me started on Santa Claus is coming to town. I mean, most of that one was ok. But they make a BIG DEAL about how the Kringles are the "First Toy Makers To The King", right? By ROYAL DECREE? But then somehow a petty local administrator (Burgomeisters were more like local constables) undoes the royal decree? And somehow that local nincompoop has ROYAL SOLDIERS at his disposal? Huh? I'm just not understanding this, I guess. I mean, if that sort of sh1t ACTUALLY went down? The king would just march in, and have the guy put to death. Pretty whacky, if you ask me. Not to mention the fact that a completely snow-locked town that was experiencing perpetual winter ... well, wouldn't they starve?

*sigh*

[Dr Mordrid]

Does the term "curmudgeon" mean anything to you?

[Fat Tone]

Did that story include Randolf, the brown nosed reindeer?

He could fly just as fast as Rudolf, he just couldn't stop as quick

[jms]

Did that story include Randolf, the brown nosed reindeer?

He could fly just as fast as Rudolf, he just couldn't stop as quick

lmao

[gt40]

Did that story include Randolf, the brown nosed reindeer?

He could fly just as fast as Rudolf, he just couldn't stop as quick

Where's the smiley where you put your hand over your eyes, smile, and shake your head back and forth

[Jon P. Inghram]

Did that story include Randolf, the brown nosed reindeer?

He could fly just as fast as Rudolf, he just couldn't stop as quick

[Helevitia]

LMAO!

Oh and Gurm, it's just a movie for entertainment purposes....but you knew that