Barbie in The Nutcracker

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🎄It’s 2001, and a rock giant is chasing us across the ocean, which has been entirely frozen over by fairies with minty fresh breath.

From the makers of “ReBoot” and Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” music video comes Barbie’s first feature-length movie, complete with motion capture of the New York City Ballet, revolutionary hair animation, and Tim Curry as an extra sassy Mouse King.

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🎙 Guests:

Kristi and Bri from Bad Princess Movies.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. “Barbie and the Nutcracker” on the Internet Archive.

2. Bad Princess Movies on “Barbie in The Nutcracker.”

3. Motion capture footage of the New York City Ballet.

4. Oops, we went on multiple Zelda tangents about Majora’s Mask and the Song of Storms.

5. It’s usually not a good sign when you find a doll on the ground in a destroyed village.

6. Of course there’s a toy of Marzipan the horse (no relation to the Marzipan with the answering machine).

7. Today’s TV Trope: Literal Cliffhanger.

8. Do the Great Lakes freeze over?

9. Mod Hair Ken and his stick-on facial hair.

10. Barbie eyes new horizons (BBC News, 2001).

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📼 Commercial Break:

Barbie in the Nutcracker My Size Sugarplum Princess (2001)

“A Very Zelda Christmas,” by DarkNuck, on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube.

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“Barbie in The Nutcracker” © 2001 Mattel, Inc.

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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