Post by avianbyrd on Aug 25, 2017 2:17:01 GMT
I've been searching for this movie for almost two decades and I still haven't even been able to find a stitch of info on it on a wiki or even IMDB. It's like it never existed but I know what I saw. I am going to be descriptive as possible but no matter what I still can't even find one person on 4chan or other message boards who have seen or heard of what I'm about to describe.
I can't exactly remember if it was 1993 or 1994 but I do remember it was summer time. There was no school so my sister and I did watch a lot of cartoon between running around outside and hanging out with friends. For the past couple of weeks I remember seeing an ad on TNT during the time they were still playing Looney Toons before Nickelodeon had exclusive rights to show them. It was an ad for the premiere of a new animated movie that was stop motion and had a lot of action in it. During the early 90s, TNT had kind of been notorious for being a dumping ground for movies that were so bad that they never got a release or movies that were too nitch to get an audience in theaters (best worst example was Theodore Rex making it's premiere on TNT in 1995, and the best best example was "The Search for Seuss" movie/documentry back in 1993). Anyway I wanted to see it and kept track of when it was coming on.
I wasn't good at keeping track of things but by luck we happen to catch the middle of it (I think) on TV on a Saturday I believe. So here is what I remember seeing. The style was kind of reminiscent of Davie and Goliath (something I did watch a lot of when I was 6 but never really understood it). It had an Arabic setting, style to the characters kind of like something from Aladdin. The hero and his lady companion had just defeated this monster though I can't remember what it looked like, and that monster was blocking a river. The river was flowing again and the town was happy since that river was their only source of water in the desert. The hero is rewarded with this magic ice crystal. When the hero touched the sword to the crystal, the sword then had some kind of ice power to it now (kind of like the elemental power up in Secret of Mana). Sadly it was at that point that my sister and I had to go to the dentist and I never got a chance to see the rest of the movie. The only images I had of it was from the commercial that I must of saw a dozen times. One of those scenes showed the hero battling a fire breathing dragon, and he was using his ice sword to block the fire while defending his companion. Unfortunately this is all I have to go on.
I must have gone through every single stop motion movie on the wiki page list to try and find some leads and I can say that two of the best matches were not the movie I was looking for. One was "The Fool of the World, and the Flying Ship," but I watched that whole thing and it was not the movie I was looking for. The other was a very obscure piece of media that I had to buy the VHS for called, "The Return of Captain Sinbad," which was created by someone who used to work for Aardman Animation but that was not the movie I remember either. I doubt I will every find this movie unless I can find someone on this earth who actually saw it. Finding an old show on PBS that was hosted by James Earl Jones called "Long ago and Far Away" had brought back some memories. Their rendition of "The Reluctant Dragon" almost too fit the profile but it wasn't the movie I was looking for either. Please help, I really want to find this movie, or at least someone else who had seen it. Thank you. ^v^
I can't exactly remember if it was 1993 or 1994 but I do remember it was summer time. There was no school so my sister and I did watch a lot of cartoon between running around outside and hanging out with friends. For the past couple of weeks I remember seeing an ad on TNT during the time they were still playing Looney Toons before Nickelodeon had exclusive rights to show them. It was an ad for the premiere of a new animated movie that was stop motion and had a lot of action in it. During the early 90s, TNT had kind of been notorious for being a dumping ground for movies that were so bad that they never got a release or movies that were too nitch to get an audience in theaters (best worst example was Theodore Rex making it's premiere on TNT in 1995, and the best best example was "The Search for Seuss" movie/documentry back in 1993). Anyway I wanted to see it and kept track of when it was coming on.
I wasn't good at keeping track of things but by luck we happen to catch the middle of it (I think) on TV on a Saturday I believe. So here is what I remember seeing. The style was kind of reminiscent of Davie and Goliath (something I did watch a lot of when I was 6 but never really understood it). It had an Arabic setting, style to the characters kind of like something from Aladdin. The hero and his lady companion had just defeated this monster though I can't remember what it looked like, and that monster was blocking a river. The river was flowing again and the town was happy since that river was their only source of water in the desert. The hero is rewarded with this magic ice crystal. When the hero touched the sword to the crystal, the sword then had some kind of ice power to it now (kind of like the elemental power up in Secret of Mana). Sadly it was at that point that my sister and I had to go to the dentist and I never got a chance to see the rest of the movie. The only images I had of it was from the commercial that I must of saw a dozen times. One of those scenes showed the hero battling a fire breathing dragon, and he was using his ice sword to block the fire while defending his companion. Unfortunately this is all I have to go on.
I must have gone through every single stop motion movie on the wiki page list to try and find some leads and I can say that two of the best matches were not the movie I was looking for. One was "The Fool of the World, and the Flying Ship," but I watched that whole thing and it was not the movie I was looking for. The other was a very obscure piece of media that I had to buy the VHS for called, "The Return of Captain Sinbad," which was created by someone who used to work for Aardman Animation but that was not the movie I remember either. I doubt I will every find this movie unless I can find someone on this earth who actually saw it. Finding an old show on PBS that was hosted by James Earl Jones called "Long ago and Far Away" had brought back some memories. Their rendition of "The Reluctant Dragon" almost too fit the profile but it wasn't the movie I was looking for either. Please help, I really want to find this movie, or at least someone else who had seen it. Thank you. ^v^
